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- Terror Town®, Disaster City®, and now MoD City
[An aerial of what is called Disaster City, near College Station, TX]
A playground for military and urban search-and-rescue teams called Disaster City® is located in College Station, Texas. At 52 acres, the mock community contains full-scale, collapsible structures designed to simulate various levels of disaster and wreckage which can be customized for specific training needs.
It [...]
- Cubiclopia
[Johnson Wax Headquarters\' Great Workroom.]
In a 2006 article on the decline of the cubicle, Julie Schlosser, reminds us of Robert Propst's earnest regret at having invented the cubicled workspace. Propst, just before his death in 2000, called the modern cubicled office "monolithic insanity."
David Franz in the New Atlantis picks up on this critique citing the [...]
- Edible Village
[The increase of grain prices and the decrease of crop yields as displayed in a recent feature in the Economist.]
With the recent food crisis, one need look no further than Vancouver … and Cuba for responses.
Vancouver's Olympic Village is set to include urban agriculture; rainwater management systems; green roofs; and neighbourhood energy system. The urban [...]
