Thursday, June 12, 2008

Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

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Richard Longworth, an international correspondent for the Chicago Tribune , traveled for thousands of miles across the Midwest to understa...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

City Lights from Space

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The photographs of Earth taken by the Apollo astronauts, which framed the Earth as a whole in the lonely context of space, helped foster an ...
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Women in the City

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"Women in the City" is a viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles that began in February 2008.

Double One Way Communication

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Given the density of the city and advances in communication technology, it is unsurprising that the environment we live in is being saturate...
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White Art

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White art, the use of bacon fat back, is one of the less well known urban communication media. This book is titled, White Art in the Meat Fo...
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Massive Investment in Urban Communication

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Toronto is investing $1 billion dollars over the next twenty years in street furniture. Street furniture include a variety of things: We...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Type City

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The Web has created fascinating new communication spaces, as passionate designers deploy specialized talents to delight and inspire new audi...
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Happy May 1

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Washington's Other Monuments

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Washington is both the public face of America and a city without Congressional representation. The formal landscape of public Washington is...

Banksy was Here

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The British grafitti artist Bansky encapsulates all of the ironies associated with the postmodern city. He is both famous and anonymous, hi...
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Nomads at Last

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The Economist recently wrote an article about the impact of wireless communication and urban nomadism. The term nomad is deeply misleading...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Urban Abstract

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Skateboard graphics are one urban communication medium this blog has failed to adequately examine. Evan Hecox, previously known for his wor...
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Ghost Signs

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Ghost Signs is a website developed by Nicole Donohoe, MS candidate in Historic Preservation at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Th...
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The Endless City

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The Endless City , a new book edited by the London School of Economics' Ricky Burdett and design curator Deyan Sudjic, presents the work...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

VISUALIZING GREEN: COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS THROUGH PRODUCT DESIGN AND APPEARANCE - Artek Culturelab

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Finnish industrial designer Pekka Kumpula offers three concepts developed at Artek Culturelab to Visualize Green through the design of prod...
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Bricoleurbanism� Urban Fabric & Form Comparison

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The Bricoleurbanism blog recently posted a story about urban form that is important to urban communication. Jane Jacobs always emphasized ...
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Urban Typography Workshop

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Mediamatic.net - On the Urban Typography workshop Urban Typography: what does your city say to you and what do you say to your city? This wo...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Shack/Slum Dwellers International

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The "digital divide" has been a topic of concern for more than a decade. But having a voice in decisions that matter in a global,...
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Nokia Morph Concept

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Cellphones have an obvious connection to urban communication networks via wireless connections. But increasingly objects are designed so th...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

IXDA Interaction 08

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The urban and the virtual are brought together more tightly everyday, creating the social spaces we now live in. Can the interactions among...
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Conceptions of the Desireable

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130 acres in Graz, Austria are being redeveloped--one of the last chunks of open space left to develop in Europe. Unhappy with top down app...
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