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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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- High Speed Rail in America
[A Siemens built Velaro high-speed train for service in Spain – anticipated to be the model for California’s fleet.]
By announcing $13 billion stimulus package aimed at the development of the groundwork for a high-speed rail (HSR) network, President Obama has catapulted intercity transportation to the front of infrastructural spending.
After peaking during the Second World War, [...]
- Strategies Against Desertification
[Installation view at the LWR Gallery, University of Toronto. Photo by John Howarth.]
Colleagues of ours, Aziza Chaouni and Liat Margolis, recently mounted a fantastic exhibition here at the Daniels Faulty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. The exhibition is titled Out of Water: Innovative Technologies in Arid Climates. It is a survey of technologies and proposals [...]
- Breathing Earth
[Breathing Earth Interface via www.breathingearth.net]
Multimedia artist David Bleja has created an interesting simulation entitled "Breathing Earth". Breathing Earth catalogues and projects birth and death rates for the globe as well as the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere… all in real time. As such, it is a simulation, but based on pretty realistic sources [...]
- Water Economy and Liquid Assets
[Zoning future underground waterbanks for a new liquid sub-urbanism.]
Scientists and economists predict that the wars of the 21st century will be waged over water rights. Some cities live under the threat of eradication through rising sea water levels, and others, under the threat of desertification. Counties in arid Arizona, whose main cities of Phoenix and [...]
- Weatherizing
[Jumeriah Beach, Dubai. via: wiki commons]
You have no doubt heard that even the luxury goods industry is smarting from the economic woes that surfaced prominently in 2008. And the development equivalent of this, the luxury urbanism across the Middle East, has now also decided to shelve a few projects. How odd in fact that a [...]
