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Hosted by the Arid Lands Institute in partnership with UCLA’s Institute of the environment and Sustainability (IoES) is a half-day seminar and briefing for designers on the critical water challenges facing...

While searching for some information on the Cradle To Cradle certification I came across this is article by William McDonough in Nature and reviewed in Scientific American and summarised on his website William...

From the Urban Age Electric City Conference Richard Sennet’s talk on the different ways a “Smart City” might be performed gives forth alternative ways technology might in fact make opportunities for citizens...

From ASLA Dirt recently at the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities conference in Philadelphia, the intricacies of practicing integrated design reveal that even in the USA it is difficult to justify and implement...

In contrast to the apparent teething problems of London’s Bike Sharing program,  Washington seems to be succeeding according to  Kaid Benfield  on Sustainable Cities Collective Capital Bikeshare, Washington’s...

  Melanie Friedrichs with members of Wa Nak Jariioo, in the neighborhood of Grand Dakar, in Dakar, Senegal. For years, the majority of first-world academics, politicians, and practitioners have viewed...

A timely essay by  MITCHELL SCHWARZER in Places  on the history of container architecture and urbanism – In South Africa various uses have been made using the ubiquitous shipping container – emblem of...

From HUFFPOST New York  and other sources as credited  -Mitchell Joachim’s crazy vision of an biomorphic future    Fab Tree Hab Architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim hates the idea of a lower-pollution...

‘Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an aging Society via Dwelling in the Golden Years: Experiments in Senior Living | Features | Archinect Its going to happen to all of us – “Done got Old – can’t do the things...

Those of you who have read this site know my admiration for Bjarke Ingels of BIG architects – here is run down of his lat years winnings from METROPOLISMAG.COM BIG’s proposal for Greenland’s National Gallery...