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Manhattan-ization

13 years ago 3 min read Architecture Cities Disurbanism Books New York

> "How do I get to Broadway? ...I want to get to the center of things" "Walk east a block and turn down Broadway and you'll find the

Red Mars 2

13 years ago 12 min read Cities Disurbanism Utopias Books Space

> "In the bottomless night, glowing brightly out there, Is Mars, my native red star. But the pull of the Earth is heavy to bear And its atmosphere weighs on my heart.

Rotterdam hexagon urban identity

13 years ago 2 min read Cities Graphic design Books Urban theory Rotterdam

In 1972, Wim Crouwel and his Total Design company created an identity system for the Municipality of Rotterdam. The Gemeente Rotterdam identity used a hexagon grid to visually represent the city in an

Het Nieuwe Bouwen

14 years ago 2 min read Architecture Design Graphic design Books Art

Back in the day, I probably knew more about the modern movement in Dutch architecture, Het Nieuwe Bouwen, than just about anything else. Had I been asked to select a specialist subject to

Unit: Design/Research 02: Space and structure

14 years ago 1 min read Architecture Books Art

Recently I picked up the second issue of the design newspaper Unit: Design/ Research from Unit Editions [http://www.uniteditions.com/], edited by Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy. The second issue, titled '