February 2012
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Retrofitting Suburbia Ellen Dunham-Jones is a professor of Architecture and Urban Design on the Georgia Tech University. In the 2009 she published as a co-author with June Williamson the book “Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs” The book also received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning from the American Association of...
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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January 2012
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Jan 18th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 5th
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Guerilla Gardening and Street Art—Turning Torn Ads Into Street Planters How turn old ads into a new street art? Artists Sean Martindale and Eric Cheung are going through and taking old ripped advertising billboards in their home city of Toronto and making them into unique little pocket planters. More about this project
Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Megacities is a documentary directed by Michael Glawogger. Twelve Stories about the surviving in a Megalopolis like Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow or New York.
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 9th
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Basic lecture about Urban Planning and the issue of Walkability in a community by Robert Voigt. Also watch the video about active transportation
Dec 8th
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Dec 6th
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The documentary “Radiant City” is about the suburban sprawl and the fictional Moss family who live in the suburbs. The documentary is directed by Gary Burns and Jim Brown. The movie is openly critical towards suburban sprawl and its negative effects, being at the same time amusing and ironic.
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Jan Gehl is an urban designer and architect based in Copenhagen/Denmark. Starting with his first book “Life between buildings” published first in 1971 in Danish (English Version 1987). He was one major key driver to change Copenhagen from a car orientated to a pedestrian/bike orientated city. He published in 2011 a new book called “Cities for people”. If you are able to...
Dec 5th
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