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bifurcaciones issue 7

Sunday, November 9, 2008

 Photo: Praga Anca Moanta, in bifurcaciones 7
bifurcaciones, an online review of urban cultural studies, has released its much anticipated issue 7.
This project of Ricardo Greene, LorenaPérez, Diego Campos and Tomas Errazuriz synthesizes the atmospheres of Santiago-Sao Paulo-Buenos Aires-London-New York. We have already remarked ont he quality and significance of Spanish language urban and cultural [...]

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Book Review: Chinese Cities’ Suburban Futures: The Chinese Dream

Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Chinese Dream Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby, and Saskia Vendel (project management) 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2008 .  704pp+79pp magazine.  ISBN 97864506529 [Amazon.ca]

The Chinese Dream surveys scenarios of possible Chinese urban development over the dozen years to 2020. Using graphics and text, the book explores the urban implications of current plans, population [...]

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Water, Like Traffic

Friday, September 19, 2008

Waterfall off Edmonton’s High Level Bridge to mark the Centennial of the University of Alberta September 19 2008.   Mobility, Flow, Prairie Bigness, liquid fireworks, a free car wash.
-Rob

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The Ballardosphere rises in the London Orbital

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Here is a wonderful post from a fantastic blog.  Reality follows fiction with the case of the development of ‘Ebbsfleet’, a suburb centred ‘Bluewater’ on the exurban super mall just Southeast of London.  My gosh, I thought, they’re trying to build Edmonton.  Already living in the Ballardosphere, I can affirm that Bluewater is a descendant [...]

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Liquid London and its Watery Future

Monday, July 7, 2008

To mark the London Festival of Architecture, The Guardian’s Jonathan Glancey explores in a short video whether the capital’s waterlogged past holds the key to its wet and wild future.

- Matthew

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