In a syndicated news story by Rukmini Callimachi, (viewable here
[http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/07/19/846146-kids-in-guinea-study-under-airport-lamps]
), we learn that each night, children in Conkary, Guinea head to the car park
While the timing may differ, everyone is agreed that imminently, more than half
the population of the Earth will live in cities. Thoraya Obaid, executive
director of the UN Population Fund, proclaims that
(image from Flickr user Jonny2005)
FlyTower [http://www.nt-online.org/?lid=23452], by Heather Ackroyd and Dan
Harvey is an art project to grow grass on two faces of the Flytower of the
The story of these home-owner holdouts reminds me of the infamous house that
sits in the middle of the M62, the motorway that crosses the Penines between
Manchester and Leeds. At Stott Hall
As part of an investigation of new urban typologies I am undertaking as part of
TeamHelsinki [http://teamhelsinki.blogspot.com/] for the Greater Helsinki
Vision
2050 [http://www.greaterhelsinkivision.fi/] competition, I came
