Tag: Architecture

The Architecture of Sharing

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Architecture can both dictate, and facilitate, our behaviors. Christopher Alexander’s influential A Pattern Language illustrates the concept best. His book explores the under

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Can a City Build a Better Version of Itself?

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San Franciscans tend to view the artificial Treasure Island as a blur on the bridge to the East Bay: the 400 acres have been semi-abandoned since the Navy shut down its base in 1997.

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Work and the Open Source City

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One chilly Wednesday afternoon in late May, I joined a small group of technologists, researchers, architects and urban planners on a field trip through Lower Manhattan and three distinct neighborhoods in Brooklyn to get a glimpse of the future of

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The Third Economy: Allison Arieff talks with Stephanie Smith

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The dictionary may narrowly define “commune” as just a community that shares resources, but for Stephanie Smith, a Harvard-trained entrepreneur and designer, the c

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A Shareable Vision for Housing

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I just stumbled across this local news article from Wisconsin: 

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Real People, Real Places

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Ah, North Beach—San Francisco birthplace of the Beats. Historical hotspot of American intellectual counterculture. Home of jaunty staircase alleyways, Barbary Coast burlesques, walk-up crash pads, radical bookstores, postwar-era Italian cafe

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Five Shareable Solutions to the Foreclosure Crisis

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Last year, banks foreclosed on almost three million homes. Five million more homeowners now owe more than their houses are worth. As a result, Americans have lost billions of dollars of personal wealth, seen their credit scores sink, and experienc

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Terraformed Rooftops

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From the New Urbanism video series: "Terreform, a nonprofit architecture collective transforms the rooftop of a building in downtown Brooklyn into a shelter and farm for urban refugees--people

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Augmented Reality Architecture Videos

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Augmented reality allows our electronic devices to superimpose digital information on physical spaces. If that seems like a hard concept to get your head around, these two videos might help.

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Unhappy Hipsters

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I like Dwell magazine; it's what I buy in airports, where the cool, rigorous solitude of the photo spreads seems to suit the terminal mood. But when I was ponder

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