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Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network

San Diego State intergenerational housing project will bring 250 homes for older adults to campus - San Diego State intergenerational housing project will bring 250 homes for older adults to campus Diana Ionescu Thu, 08/13/2026 - 08:00 Primary Image [imag...
1 hour ago
The Guardian: Art & Design

‘I wanted to capture the range of British culture at the time’: the photographer who documented late nights on the 90s London tube - In the 1990s, the photographer took portraits of punks, partiers and late-night lovers on the underground. His images show city life before smartphones –...
9 hours ago
McSweeney's

Release Notes: Woman™ Version 51.0 - Thank you for updating to Woman 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned rela...
23 hours ago
ArchDaily

Hotel Casa de las Abuelas / LANZA Atelier - Located in the historic center of Guanajuato, Hotel Casa de las Abuelas transforms an old residence into a six-room boutique hotel with a street-facing c...
1 day ago
Brain Pickings

How to Hold What Harrows You - We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English roo...
6 days ago
Information Is Beautiful

NEW: An Unofficial Dictionary of AI-Induced Mental Habits & Disorders - A field guide to potential AI-induced mental habits, compulsions and behavioural quirks that may be emerging in the age of AI. » See the charticle Do you r...
2 weeks ago
Tumblr Staff Picks

In case you’re looking for a blog that’s gone missing on Tumblr and didn’t see this recent update. - changes: Deleted accounts can now be recovered up to 30 days later We’re making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and we’re really e...
4 weeks ago
Ian Bogost

The Wonder of Everyday Life - Welcome to Ordinary Extraordinary, our new, eight-week newsletter series.
5 weeks ago
Urban Demographics

Assorted publications - I haven’t been posting on the website as much as I would like to due to reasons of travelling, working and parenting (mostly parenting 🥰) . But I’ve fo...
5 weeks ago
Henri Fanthome Office for Architecture

WHEN BUYING A NEW FLAT - ALWAYS VISIT THE LOCAL FIRE STATION - THANK ME LATER! - The next time you are thinking of buying a new flat for your family please visit your local fire station first. I know that sounds a little wild, but le...
1 month ago
thinkwhere

3D time enabled historical streetscapes re.city Kartta Labs with Google Research - Kartta Labs and re.city was a Google Research project that I was involved in a few years ago. It enabled users to view, interact and contribute to historic...
2 months ago
Jean-Etienne's blog

Notes en passant: how AI could unlearn in HEOR Modelling - In a recent paper, Tinglong Dai, Risa Wolf, and Haiyang Yang wrote about unlearning in Medical AI. With more and more CPU and storage thrown at Large Langu...
11 months ago
A Daily Dose of Architecture

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack - I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things: 1. Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title *A...
1 year ago
Chris Blattman: Development, Policy, Conflict

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...
3 years ago
The Archaeology News Network

North 'plaza' in Cahokia was likely inundated year-round, study finds - The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, ...
4 years ago
Death by Architecture

Competition / IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2021 // Applications Open! / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is glad to launch another edition of the Global Summer School (GSS21), the 14th edition of the ...
4 years ago
The Urbanophile

For New Urbanism Posts, Follow Me at Heartland Intelligence - Moving forward, new posts on urbanism and public policy will appear on my Substack site Heartland Intelligence. So please click over and subscribe if you...
6 years ago
Aid Thoughts

The Importance of Being Earnest - There are a couple of things to be excited about. The first is that Ranil has made his Youtube debut. Above you can watch him present on of his PhD papers ...
6 years ago
Urban Planning Blog

What is Stopping Poor People From Moving? - Why have people stopped moving? The reason, economists believe, is that while there are good wages in economically vibrant cities like New York and San Fra...
8 years ago
Charneira

In E - Back in late 2014, Datarock (a norwegian electro rock band) were invited by their friends at Bergen based computer game company Turbo Tape Games to writ...
9 years ago
Sustainable Cities Collective

Starting Young: 4 Tips For Reducing Waste In Schools - In order to reduce the amount of waste produced by our schools, we need to emphasize sustainability from a young age. This can be accomplished through stud...
9 years ago
Time Tells

The Future of Heritage Conservation - Well, it finally started to happen, and in Houston of all places. PastForward, the National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Pre...
9 years ago
airoots/eirut

Utopian Futures vs. the Fictional Present - This is the summary of a talk given at Oris – House of architecture, Zagreb, Croatia on June 16th 2016, which was part of the the Future Architecture Platf...
10 years ago
visualcomplexity.com

Digital City Portrait Boston - [image: Digital City Portrait Boston] For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, EE commissioned Brendan Dawes to create a digital portrait for e...
10 years ago
Datavisualization.ch

A Note From Your Editor - We will no longer actively publish on Datavisualization.ch, as our focus has shifted from collecting visualizations to building them. I'd like to share the...
10 years ago
anArchitecture

Alt Erlaa - content by anArchitecture
10 years ago
Travelling Tonito's Adventures

Tonito Returns… Albeit briefly! - It has been a very long time since I last blogged. Too long in fact, but over the last year changing circumstances in my life has made blogging very, very ...
11 years ago
Six Word Story Every Day

499 - 05.14.11 Don't forget which is the brake. Writer: Katelyn Regenscheid Designer: Mary Arneson
11 years ago
Code & form

Work: Absolut Cracking - New work for the ongoing Absolut Art Exchange project, by way of invitation from Filip Visnjic of the famous Creative Applications blog. You can find my co...
11 years ago
information aesthetics

Visualizing Publicly Available US Government Data Online - [image: political_us.jpg] Brightpoint Consulting recently released a small collection of interactive visualizations based on open, publicly available data...
11 years ago
polis

A Space That Is Not the Battlefield - *by Patrick Sykes* The dust is settling on Shura City, yet not a single brick has been laid. Since this proposal for a drone-proof city emerged, its creato...
12 years ago
Places from Design Observer: Forum of Design for the Public Realm

Timothy M. Rohan: Scenographic Urbanism: Paul Rudolph and the Public Realm - On Places, Timothy Rohan offers a detailed look at Paul Rudolph's masterful — and dramatic — public projects of the early 1960s.
12 years ago
(New) Babylon Reloaded

Just a house - Hiroshi Sugimoto's reconstructed Chashitsu teahouse. Japan seems to be a place where housing, the very notion of "the house", is being constantly questione...
13 years ago
Javierest - Architecture, Geography, Cartography

The Rise of the Darists - At long last, Rice University School of Architecture’s Plat 2.5 is out. Actually, it’s been out for the last few months. I have an essay called “The Rise o...
13 years ago
Generator.x: Generative strategies in art & design

Generator.x 3.0: Documentation and aftermath - Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms (slideshow of “gx30″ tag on Flickr) Generator.x 3.0: From Code to Atoms Feb 18-26, 2012 at iMal, Brussels http://www.im...
14 years ago
GisellaVecchiB.Log | environment, politics&India

Is the Jasmine Revolution stepping back - It seems just yesterday when Tunisians took the streets in protests for the transition government mainly formed by members of the old and obsolete establis...
14 years ago
Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine

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