Engaging with ideas of Singaporean literary theorist Rajeev Patke through his montage essay, Benjamin’s Arcades Project and the Postcolonial City, this article explores how the techniques of montag...
Presentation made by me to 'Industrial Zone 2.0', Design Zavod-Flacon, Moscow, 25 October 2009 on the interdependent value of small local development projects and large real estate schemes in urban...
In 2007, Portland City Council and the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners adopted resolutions directing staff to design a strategy to reduce local carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Achie...
Originally published in “Common Knowledge”
Volume 13 Issue 1, Winter 2007, pp. 50-66
by Duke University Press. Republished in The Urban Reinventors Paper Series.
Climate change has always played a vital role in the evolution and history of humanity. The ending of the last glacial period and the subsequent Holocene warming, rising sea levels and the changing...
This presentation discusses the role that architects and planners can have in improving urban conditions: socially, politically and environmentally. It highlights areas needing urgent attention and...
Dubai is a double-edged sword. At once there is an encounter with tarnished terrain – a lucid, lagoon of baroness propagated into hard-scaped, impenetrable reality of unprecedented scales. The othe...
With the amazing breakthroughs taking place in the neurological and cognitive sciences, we are on verge of a vital revolution in a number of related fields, such as urbanism, architecture, linguist...