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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Oct 6th, 2010 | Topic: Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Jun 16th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
Josh Leon’s second blog post from the World Expo in Shanghai, in which he looks at the many different urban utopias on display. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Apr 22nd, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York |
In a week, Shanghai’s World Expo will begin ushering in daily crowds larger than the population of Boston. They will pack into a 2.5-square-mile wonderland of fantastical pavilions that extol the capitalist-driven smart growth consensus. (
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Katherine Don | Apr 8th, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York, San Francisco |
A look back on Broadacre City, the great architect’s unrealized legacy. (
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Street Science | Jeanne Haffner | Mar 25th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Boston |
In the latest entry of her column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner looks to history—and her readers—to determine whether, even in an age of computer modeling, hand drawing remains indispensable. (
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Lee Shaker | Jan 21st, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Central, East Coast | Cities: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco |
A media scholar explains why the local news sites of national publications like the
New York Times and the
Wall Street Journal might be far less threatening to city newspapers than national news organizations’ forays into local sports coverage. (
keep reading…)
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Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (keep reading…)
Josh Leon’s second blog post from the World Expo in Shanghai, in which he looks at the many different urban utopias on display. (keep reading…)
In a week, Shanghai’s World Expo will begin ushering in daily crowds larger than the population of Boston. They will pack into a 2.5-square-mile wonderland of fantastical pavilions that extol the capitalist-driven smart growth consensus. (keep reading…)
A look back on Broadacre City, the great architect’s unrealized legacy. (keep reading…)
In the latest entry of her column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner looks to history—and her readers—to determine whether, even in an age of computer modeling, hand drawing remains indispensable. (keep reading…)
A media scholar explains why the local news sites of national publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal might be far less threatening to city newspapers than national news organizations’ forays into local sports coverage. (keep reading…)
