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Best Statler Hilton Option: Student Housing
3 hours ago
by Peter Simek
We’ve wondered before in this space about what we need downtown, and my old online haunt once ran a piece with a similar mental exercise. It always struck me that many of the small ideas – bookshops, cafes, grocery stores, laundry – would follow if one big idea was brought into the downtown mix: a u ...
FrontBurner - frontburner.dmagazine.com · Rank: 4,210 · 334 references
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Berlinnit?
6 hours ago
by karl.whitney
Just back from Berlin, where I wandered around staring goggle-eyed at the truly strange landscape of meticulously reconstructed 18th Century buildings and the postwar apartment blocks that line the streets of both East and West. Because I spent a day at a conference in the Schloss Charlottenburg, I ...
Dumb Riffs - karlwhitney.com/dumbriffs · Rank: 198,585 · 4 references
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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2
10 hours ago
by Jeroen Beekmans
“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main production facilities in a highly selective group of ‘global media cities’.” As I explained previous ...
The Pop-Up City - popupcity.net · Rank: 4,806 · 70 references
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ville quebec qc ca
12 hours ago
by admin
Election municipale Ville de Québec Ville De Quebec City $39.54 Ville De Quebec City Vintage QC Quebec Sweatshirt $30 Show your pride in La Belle Province with the Vintage version of the QC Québec oval sticker design based on Québec license plates from the 1960's...on apparel and merchandise. Vintag ...
Travel & Vacation Now - visitquebecnow.com
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institute landscape architecture
15 hours ago
by Scott
Architect student at Pratt who wish to enter landscape architecture? The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) $19.54 In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the drama ...
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A NOTE ON ISAMU NOGUCHI’S PLAYGROUNDS
19 hours ago
by Off Modern
Architecture exists, or more correctly it is design to exist, which is why it is interesting when an architectural design is never realised and is instead left to float unsuspended through history. An exemplar of this is Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, which exists now as a mo ...
OFF MODERN - offmodern.com/news · 7 references
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The Next Chapter Begins
1 day ago
by aandh
Rochester, New York. Photo from Wiki. What better way to get to know a new home place than to imagine it as a case study for examining the next city? Here we are in our new neighborhood, and in between fresh paint, endless trips to the hardware store, and nearly daily (but very enjoyable) snow shove ...
A Town Square - heckeranddecker.wordpress.com · 3 references
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More Signs of the Apocalypse - Paris is the new Dubai
1 day ago
by John Massengale
Quoting myself: One century ago, technology was threatening Paris with changes that already had them talking about the "Manhattanization" of Paris. Elevators and steel frames made it possible to build higher than before, railroads, subways and buses changed the concept of the neighborhood, the elect ...
Veritas et Venustas - massengale.typepad.com/venustas · Rank: 88,334 · 57 references
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SAFETEA-LU extended to September 2010
1 day ago
by Beata Bujalska
The US House of Representatives passed a jobs bill yesterday that will affect transportation spending significantly – at least for the next year. First, the bill will provide $36 billion for roads and rails if signed into law as it stands currently, Second, it will extend the current transportation ...
Crossroads - renewlv.wordpress.com · Rank: 161,504 · 1 reference
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Steve Semes - The Future of the Past
1 day ago
by John Massengale
The general public has never forgotten that the purpose of architecture and planning is to design beautiful buildings and places that offer joy in utility, or that the purpose of historic preservation is to preserve them — not as artifacts in a museum but as living examples of the way architects and ...
Veritas et Venustas - massengale.typepad.com/venustas · Rank: 88,334 · 57 references
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