Branding the boroughs
Last week I popped along to the exhibition 'London's Towns'
[http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/londonstowns/] at the Building Centre in
London. Subtitled "Shaping the Polycentric City", (download
City of Signs 7
This has been around now for a while, but is still worth revisiting. The Eureka
Car Park, in Melbourne, features a signage system created by Axel Peemoeller
[https://newsfeed.kosmograd.com/kosmograd/2008/
Madin Men
image by Flickr user manicstreetpreacher
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher]
Thanks to Rob over at No. 2 Self
[http://no2self.net/2008/05/19/john-madin-architect/], we can enjoy a remarkable
TV programme,
The Eco-town of Tomorrow and Its Planning.
Gordon Brown's "legacy" project of building 10 eco-towns in the South East of
England is an endeavour of specious rhetoric, of mobilised Nimbyism, and
unfettered hyperbole.
There seems to
Recently at SuperSpatial
Over at sister blog SuperSpatial [http://superspatial.blogspot.com], you'll find
a calvacade of inanity, including:
016. Reimagining Robin Hood Gardens
[http://www.superspatial.com/2008/07/016-reimagining-robin-hood-gardens.html]
> Robin