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- The Transparent Removal Chain
[Overflowing Trash Cans in Toronto, Summer 2009 via blogto]
While the garbage workers strike in Toronto this past year promoted less tourism and flourishing populations of fruit flies, it also made most Torontonians aware of the amount of garbage they produce in a short amount of time. Researchers at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab are embarking on [...]
- Petropolis
[A tailings pond is a toxic lake so dangerous that air cannon and scarecrows are used to deter wildlife. © Greenpeace / Eamon Mac Mahon]
One of my favorite films from this year’s TIFF has to be Peter Mettler’s Petrolis. Mettler, who was the cinematographer for Edward Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes, takes on a directorial role on [...]
- Pamphlet Architecture #30
[Pamphlet Architecture 30: Coupling. Here, the table of contents serves as a systems chart bundling actions to generate architectural byproducts.]
We are excited to announce that InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office has been selected to author the forthcoming issue of the Pamphlet Architecture series. It will be issue #30 and is expected for release in 2011. [...]
- Clean Urbanism / Dirty Realism
[Cover of issue #11 from Rotterdam-based MONU.]
The output of MONU (Magazine on Urbanism) continues to impress, and with issue #11, Bernd Upmeyer and company raise the bar. This issue is dedicated to clean urbanism and a range of responses, mostly antagonizing or shoring up sustainability and its discontents, come pouring in. An initial browse reminds [...]
- WPA 2.0 phase 1
[WPA 2.0 competition is hosted by cityLAB.]
We are excited about the results from the recently hosted WPA 2.0 competition, and its enticing tagline: “Whoever Rules the Sewers Rules the City.” The six selected projects look fantastic and we are honored to be among those included in the second phase developments.
Our project is titled Coupling Infrastructures: [...]
