1.29.2012 | news, links
Ali Madad's latest assortment of featured links, including "The Turgot Map of Paris," "Train to Always," "Homeless Signs," "Island of Montecristo to Be Bombed With Poison After Rat Infestation," "Making Sense of the Data," "Dude, Where's My Bike?" and the video above...
1.28.2012 | space, maps, quotes
"How many maps, in the descriptive or geographical sense, might be needed to deal exhaustively with a given space, to code...
1.27.2012 | dance, film, wuppertal
In riveting scenes from Wim Wenders' 2012 Oscar-nominated 3-D dance film, "Pina," dancers for the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch...
1.26.2012 | housing, gentrification, são paulo
Brazil has become known for innovative urban initiatives, including the noted 2001 Statute of the City, which aimed to affirm the social...
1.25.2012 | architecture, quotes
"I want projects in the Biennale to look seriously at the spaces made by buildings: the political, social, and public realms of which...
1.24.2012 | art, quito
Since my arrival in Quito two years ago, one of my most exciting discoveries has been Oswaldo Guayasamín. This iconic Latin American...
1.23.2012 | urbanism, design, africa
It has been nearly four months since we breathed a huge sigh of relief. After more than a year of meetings, informal conversations, exorbitant...
1.22.2012 | architecture, resilience, haiti
Last week marked the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The devastation — more than 315,000 people dead, 1.5 million...
1.21.2012 | architecture, peacebuilding
There is no question that architecture and planning have been crucial components of conflicts taking place in cities. But...
1.20.2012 | architecture, activism, detroit
The Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) is not content with the status quo when it comes to built environment professionals...
1.19.2012 | ecology, development, featured place
There used to be direct physical and visual access to the Sasaki Garden in New York City's Washington Square Village, but New York...
1.18.2012 | water, quotes
"In a dusty office of the municipal buildings in K-West ward in northwest Mumbai there is a detailed map of the Paris water supply...
1.17.2012 | art, events
Wandering through satellite images captured by Google Earth, artist Marco Cadioli uncovered manmade landscapes resembling...
1.16.2012 | tourism, kenya
On the red dirt roads of southern Kenya, a few hours from Malindi, kids chase and hail streams of Jeeps and Land Rovers hauling...
1.15.2012 | cartography, slums, links
Ali Madad presents his latest assortment of online serendipity, from visualizing slumlords to Libera's 'Lego' Concentration Camp...
1.15.2012 | media, development
Last Wednesday, the Institute of Development Studies in the U.K. released a short film exploring how the British media depict...
1.14.2012 | politics, video
UC Berkeley sociologists Claude Fischer and Michael Burawoy went tête-à-tête in an incisive debate at the peak of the Occupy fervor last...
1.13.2012 | planning, public space
Rosalie Genevro's article "Starrett City: A Home of One’s Own — With Party Walls" traces the history of a beloved modernist housing...
1.12.2012 | technology, community
The American Internet is atwitter after Microsoft announced last week that it had patented a mobile application technology giving...
1.11.2012 | architecture, mapping, research
While we've previously mused on the agency of mapping in reconfiguring information vital to the production of the urban realm, the Mapping...
1.10.2012 | technology, development
Escalators are usually associated with the internal workings of multi-level buildings. On notable occasions, moving staircases appear...
1.9.2012 | housing, politics, spain
More than three years after the beginning of the global economic crisis, Spain continues to fall without a visible end. One of the most...
1.8.2012 | events, picks
With the new year under way, many events on architecture, planning and urbanism await. As traveling abroad takes a bit of planning...
1.7.2012 | travel, picks
Now that the holidays are over, you may be looking forward to your next vacation. Consider a trip to one of the "10 Best Ethical Destinations"...
1.6.2012 | planning, podcast
The connections between faith and city planning are undeniable. Faith-based groups rebuild areas after disasters, they develop affordable...
1.5.2012 | housing, hanoi
Before Vietnam moved toward a market-driven economy in the mid-1980s, the state heavily regulated the housing sector and was the...
1.4.2012 | architecture, public space
In looking forward to the coming year in architecture, Polis chose the top 10 architectural projects of 2011. Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou...
1.3.2012 | hacking, prague, video
Billboards are ubiquitous sights in urban settings. As conduits for advertising, they are often viewed as eyesores and and ignored...
1.2.2012 | architecture, picks
In selecting our list of the 10 best works of architecture and landscape architecture in 2011, we at Polis have focused on a number of...
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