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- Urban Incubators: Xiamen
[Xiamen, China: London Met, Unit 8-CHORA’s site of enquiry on large-scale carbon emission reduction.]
Increasingly, carbon emission issues will need to be addressed at a very large, even regional and urban, scale to offset a downward spiral. And nowhere is this more pressing than in parts of rapidly-developing China. London Metropolitan University’s Unit 8, led by [...]
- Commingled Economies
No Market for Rubbish: Jodi Hilton for The New York Times
By now we all know that the slowing global economy is affecting numerous markets and industries. Automotive, real estate, export markets, and financial services are all in heaps of trouble. Among the biggest losers, somewhat surprisingly, are exporters focused on providing China [...]
- Trash Vortex: sea-based landfilling?
08-12-03: Trash Vortex
The world’s largest garbage dump is located thousands of miles from land. Also known as The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Pacific Trash Vortex is an area of marine debris floating in the Pacific Ocean. This collection of trash is characterized as a plastic-soup due the high concentrations of suspended disposable plastics that [...]
- Student Works: Convergent Species
[A map of select territories which have been impacted by a complex collision on the natural and the industrial.]
We will regularly be publishing student projects and thesis research titled Student Works that is an extension of themes related to infrastructures and networks of habitats and resources. The first is a project by Vivian Chin, a [...]
