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The Omnibus Roundup – Traffic Haiku, Delancey Underground, Suburban Dunescapes, Dream Cities, Designer Scaffolding and the AIDS Memorial Competition
by Urban Omnibus • December 2nd, 2011
HAIKU TRAFFIC SAFETY With ubiquity comes invisibility. And words can be arranged with the same economy and elegance as high quality graphic design. These two precepts are the inspiration behind the DOT’s latest spate of traffic signs. By combining a little bit of poetry with…
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On Criticism 8: Critiquing Critics
by Diana Lind • March 14th, 2011
Last week at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a panel of six notable writers, editors, and curators spoke about...
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On Criticism 7: Authority and Responsibility
by Diana Lind • November 23rd, 2010
In the past two weeks, a minor kerfuffle, the kind in which the Internet specializes, has erupted over the direction...
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On Criticism 6: On Bias in Criticism
by Stephen Rustow • January 29th, 2010
Every building, indeed every project of urban or landscape design, is a response to a multitude of questions, some intrinsic...
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On Criticism 5: Criticism as Feedback Loop
by FASLANYC • January 18th, 2010
Landscape/architectural criticism today is often conservative and superficial. I attribute this to two main causes; the modern insecurity of the...
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Let’s Talk About Maps 3
by Sarah Slobin • August 25th, 2009
Sarah Slobin: So you’ve seen mapping go from pencil on paper to the digital, interactive versions we have today. Tell...
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The Post-Postopolis Post
by Rachel Abrams and Alissa Walker • April 9th, 2009
This year, Postopolis was a five-day event, where bloggers of the built environment came back out from behind their keyboards, convening in a real, live urban environment. For me, this trip out west was a follow up to the first Postopolis that...
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Let’s Talk About Maps 2
by Sarah Slobin • March 25th, 2009
Visual journalist Sarah Slobin talks to longtime Time Magazine cartographer Joe Lertola and looks at some examples from his body of work.
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On Criticism 4: People Over Metaphor
by William Bostwick • March 24th, 2009
How should architecture criticism change? I say: more profiles, not fewer. When we write about architecture, yes, we should write...
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On Criticism 3: What’s at Stake in Criticism
by Alec Appelbaum • March 18th, 2009
One night recently I took my three-year-old daughter to Cypress Hills, Brooklyn for a Dept. of Ed. hearing in a...
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