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Topic: Architecture

May 9, 2016

UN Habitat Lecture Series: Steffen Lehmann, University of Portsmouth

Urban Lectures The UN Habitat urban lectures are a free resource of video lectures, including synopsis, biographies and additional reading materials, open to use…

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May 3, 2016

Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR)

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR) was established in 2008 as a horizontally structured institution within the Faculty of Architecture…

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April 6, 2016

ArchDaily & Strelka Institute Partner on Commentary on Russian Urbanism

Arch Daily announced a new content partnership between ArchDaily and Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design to publish critical essays, interviews and articles on urban events,…

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March 22, 2016

HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition Finalists

  This competition was designed to encourage research and innovation in affordable housing, to raise practitioner and future practitioner capacity, and to foster cross-cutting…

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March 14, 2016

 The Urban Age Project at the Architecture Biennale

For over a decade, the Urban Age, a joint research investigation by LSE Cities and the Aldred Herrhausen Society, has investigated the relationship between…

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February 26, 2016

A new Journal of Design and Science (JoDS) from MIT Media Lab

  PubPub is a platform for totally transparent publishing. Read, Write, Publish, Review. Launched in early 2016, the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS)…

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January 28, 2016

New Urbanization Guidelines For China’s Cities

A new set of guidelines titled “Green and Smart Urban Development Guidelines” have been published through a collaborative effort by the China Development Bank Capital, the biggest source…

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January 19, 2016

Season 3 of UN-Habitat Urban Lectures launches

  UPCOMING URBAN LECTURE RELEASES: 29 January: Steffen Lehmann, architect and urban designer 12 February: Ana Falu, National University of Argentina, Cordoba 26 February:…

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January 6, 2016

An Urban Fairytale by Saskia Sassen

After she likened the growth of modern cities to a monster devouring traditional neighbourhoods, The Guardian challenged the author and her son, artist Hilary…

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January 2, 2016

Becoming Jane Jacobs, a new book by Peter L. Laurence

Penn Press, January, 2016 Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and…

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