SXSWi: Living in an App City
After checking in at the Austin Convention Center using the location-based app Foursquare, it told me the place was “swarming.” I read a little more and discovered that I was there with 377 other …
Many New Yorkers know about Chashama, the arts organization Anita Durst founded in 1995 to help artists and curators find underused spaces to house temporary exhibitions, performance spaces and studios. The organization relies heavily on the Durst family’s history in New York City real estate, and acts as a diplomatic Robin Hood of real estate. Based on the idea that empty property does not always serve the interests of landlords and developers, some have been willing to donate their…
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In the ninth installment of A Country of Cities, Vishaan examines the protests unfolding across the Middle East in terms of how urban space can enhance or prohibit social change. |
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Carol Coletta and Jake Barton discuss an interactive project that seeks to reinvent public participation in America for the 21st century. |
Burning Man has a reputation: an accumulation of expectations and stereotypes that for some are inspiring and others bizarre. This year’s theme, Metropolis: The Life of Cities, clearly offered a particular relevance to the urban planning and design communities and I expected to be captivated by the participants’ explorations of the subject. But what struck me most…
As I recover from the intense heat and severe foot-pounding of the XIIth Venice Biennale of Architecture, I’m at something of a loss as to what to make of it. Trying to use the theme this year, “People Meet …
Last week Mayor Bloomberg appointed David Bragdon, former president of the Oregon Metro Council — an elected regional planning agency — and a rumored mayoral candidate in Portland, to head up the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, …
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Nicola Twilley recently asked designers, farmers, health officials, activists and CEOs in NYC and Toronto to discuss how we feed our cities. Find out what she’s learned. |
Despite the impulse to marvel at Hong Kong’s sophisticated planning for and investment in infrastructure and urban density, might people there welcome some New York-style urbanism? Norman Oder, author of the watchdog blog Atlantic Yards Report, recaps two conferences that …
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Sarah Ichioka and Moira Lascelles discuss the benefits of public assembly and a shared sense of possibility, offering lessons for a similar event in NYC. |
