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Archive for August, 2010

Cities as contested space(s) of theory

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Continuing from yesterday’s post about Urban agriculture readings, here’s another interesting FastCompany article about cities: David Harvey’s Urban Manifesto: Down With Suburbia; Down With Bloomberg’s New York. This one deals with what could perhaps be called a kind of reverse urbanization – turning the city into a glossier, less heterogeneous place – one that, shorn […]

Urban agriculture readings

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Not sure what to make of this: New Urbanism for the Apocalypse (in FastCompany, a mag perhaps better known for technology and bright & shiny things, not for in-depth urbanism or for agriculture…). Not a new article (published May 2010), but focused on Andrés Duany, a founder of New Urbanism, who is fed up by […]

The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Kickstartup — Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tokyo — Craig Mod Fascinating proposal: QUOTE Where is publishing heading? We have Kindles and iPads, iPhones and Androids. Print on demand is cheap — and good. Everyone shops at Amazon.com. Most books are a click away. Contemporary publishing is engulfed by a […]

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