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The age of average

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire most in a work of art.

Written on: 19/09/23:
Filed under: design graphic Urban Behaviour

Atlas

Atlas of Places is a public educational collection of Academia, Architecture, Cartography, Cinema, Essays, Painting, Photography, Research.

Written on: 25/07/23:
Filed under: architecture creative design resources Urban Books

hafencity

Europe’s largest inner-city urban development project as a blueprint for the new European city on the waterfront

architecture design Urban

the-point-of-parking-garages?

For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better.

Written on: 05/02/23:
Filed under: design Urban

99% of big projects fail

An economist who spent decades studying ’megaprojects’ has some advice for getting them right: Think slow, act fast and build brick by tiny plastic brick.

Written on: 04/02/23:
Filed under: design product Urban economics

Papanek – Big Character Poster No. 1

Victor J. Papanek's Big Character Poster No. 1: Work Chart for Designers (1973, drafted in 1969).

Written on: 07/01/23:
Filed under: design furniture graphic product resources Urban

Repeal Robert Moses

Highways are a racist legacy. It is time to tear them down. And for once, let communities decide what gets built in their place.

Written on: 30/11/22:
Filed under: design Urban politics

Traffic in Towns

Traffic in Towns was an influential report and popular book on urban and transport planning policy published 25 November 1963 for the UK Ministry of Transport by a team headed by the architect, civil engineer and planner Colin Buchanan.

Written on: 26/07/22:
Filed under: design Urban Behaviour

How Parking Ate an American Metropolis

We still, however, haven't tackled one of the biggest transformations that Kansas City's total embrace of the automotive, commuter culture wrought upon the city's historic fabric. And that is parking.

Written on: 15/09/20:
Filed under: design Urban

The social ideology of the motorcar

The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people.

Written on: 17/10/19:
Filed under: design Urban

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