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(Italian) Torino Città che Impara

Friday, March 12, 2010 15:33 No Comments

Un rapporto che illustra i risultati di uno studio sul campo della durata di un mese sull’apprendimento da parte della città di Torino

‘Torino Citta che Impara’ è la versione in Italiano della relazione ‘Torino as a Learning City‘ di Tim Campbell, Senior Fellow, Comparative Domestic Policy Program. Il Politiche Interne Comparate
(CDP – Comparative Domestic Policy) [...]

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Lessons in Learning for the Future Prosperity of Cities

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 13:32 No Comments

Marcia Caines

artwork Mario Suarez, image Cluster
Today cities are home to over half of the world’s population, and according to The United Nations Habitat report, this figure is set to reach 75% by 2050. The success or failure, growth or decline, of cities directly contributes to the overall condition of the planet and the wellbeing of [...]

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Rising Currents: an exhibit of ’soft’ proposals for New York’s waterfront at MoMa

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 12:03 No Comments

What: Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront
Where: Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York
When: March 24 – August 9 2010
Who: P.S.1 and MoMa. Barry Bergdoll chief curator of architecture and design MoMa
On March 24 the Rising Currents exhibition will open at the MoMa of New York, it is the last phase of the [...]

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Metropolis: 70 Years of a city’s development in 9 mins 30 secs

Friday, March 5, 2010 18:12 No Comments

Metropolis by Rob Carter - Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo.
Above is the last 3 minutes of Metropolis a stop-motion animation movie by Rob Carter made from images printed on paper. In the time-lapse video Carter physically manipulates aerial still images of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina (both real and fictional) to [...]

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Silent Borders: a workshop of Experimental Architecture

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:07 No Comments

Image from sci-fi thriller DISTRICT 9 via Yukon Science fiction Writer
What: A Workshop of Experimental Architecture on the urban border-conditions
Where: Johannesburg (SA)
When: Aug 23 – Sept 10 , 2010
Who: RIEA.ch Research Institute for Experimental Architecture
In a rapidly growing urban world, slums and informal settlements provide shelter for a sixth of the planet’s population [...]

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