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Creative Surveillance
In Manchester, a local band has utilized the Big Brother era to overcome the financial burden of music videos. As an unsigned band, The Get Out Clause, wanted to create an impressive video without having to pony up for the proper crew and equipment. In order to do this they thought of an […]
Socially Engineering the City of Masdar
A couple weeks ago Edwin Gardner, of prss release and Volume Magazine, asked me to expand upon my post on Masdar for the forthcoming issue of Volume on social engineering. In response, my article set out to contemplate the role of Masdar in a new wave of designer cities.
[Image: Volume #15: Destination Library. Courtesy […]
Sustainable Architecture and Sustainable Cities
It wasn’t necessarily my intention to immediately continue the discussion of sustainable cities and how we define them, because I wanted to spend some time on my other interests. However, considering this issue has some urgency for many people, I keep finding great articles. Today, I came across two fantastic pieces that I […]
Ecocity World Summit 2008
It is always nice when current events and discourse compliment the content of one’s blog. Today is one of those days.
Tonight an environmental photographer, Gary Braasch, opens the Ecocity World Summit with his presentation “World View of Global Warming and How Cities Can Save the Earth.” The main conference begins Wednesday, April 23rd […]
Sustainable City Race, Part 3: Dongtan
The final part in this series will take us to Dongtan, on Chongming Island outside of Shanghai in China. This eco-city is of a vastly different scale than Masdar, which we examined in part 2.
For their motivation, China has similar reasons to Masdar for investing in sustainable cities. They lay claim to 16 […]
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