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RESEARCH ARCHITECTURE: A Laboratory for Critical Spatial Practices Paradoxically perhaps, the Centre for Research Architecture sets out to question the two separate terms that make up its given title. It seeks to open up the discipline and praxis of 'architecture' - understood as the production of rarefied buildings and urban structures - into shifting network of 'spatial practices' that includes various other forms of intervention. It contests as well the utilitarian, applied, means-to-ends relation between knowledge and action that is evoked by the term 'research' and the artificial opposition between theory and practice it implies. Drawing on the vocabularies of urbanism, architecture, art, media, politics and philosophy the centre's mode of operation seeks to use spatial practices for an open ended form of critical inquiry. The centre has brought together a group of leading international practitioners - architects, artists, activists, urbanists, filmmakers and curators - to work collectively in a roundtable mode on individual projects. This network of global practitioners engage in a unique and robust set of critical interventions in the fields of spatial and cultural politics; they look for enhanced political impact using critical theory and aesthetics startegies, dealing with the built environment through documentary filmmaking, media activism, art and curating in various places worldwide; as such the centre is a horizontal platform to develop ideas and projects among peers. It is an experimental form of pedagogy that capitalises on the knowledge-basis of the group member themselves as well as on guest seminars by leading thinkers and practitioners. The programmes recruit graduates of a range of fields as well as non-academic practitioners of distinctions wishing to pursue critical spatial practice in the context of theoretical work. http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/architecture

Money, it's a gas: Smart ways to finance redevelopment Blog post by Howard Blackson on 13 Feb 2012 Howard Blackson, Better! Cities & Towns In startling alignment with James Howard Kunstler's stark predictions, ULI's 2012 Report, "What's Next: Real Estate in the New Economy," bubbly concludes: "The real estate world is hurtling into a different place and time. Change is coming at a faster pace with more uncertain consequences. Success will take on different forms and risks will increase. Standing pat or ignoring new realities is not possible. Notably, investment will gravitate to places that welcome business and view public investments - in education, infrastructure, and innovation - as prerequisites for progress and economic sustainability." I interpret ULI's analysis as:

Art VULUPS (Art as a Vehicle to Understand Land Use Planning and Sustainability) is a collaborative project in which knowledge, creativity and artistic expression are harnessed to promote sustainable land use development choices through curiosity and civic dialog engagement.   Urban planners, artists, educators and civic, educational and cultural institutions have come together to participate in this unprecedented philanthropic call to make a difference by giving back to the community.  Art VULUPS is made possible by the Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association (IES/APA) and the generous in kind support of various community-based organizations and non-profit associations.

"Density," is a poem inspired by Urban Planning Classes at UCLA during my undergraduate years. I enjoyed classes I took with Mike Davis and Professor Brian Taylor in the mid-90s. The vocabulary of Urban Studies and architecture excited me. My studies began to overlap with my poetry. After graduating I continued to explore Los Angeles nonstop. I drove around specific neighborhoods like the Rampart, West Adams and Koreatown. Frequently I rode public transportation with my close comrade Phillip Martin, aka PhiLLHarmonic. We made it a daily ritual to find poetry in the streets. Phill rhymes on the last verse of "Density" and gives a shout out to the man who produced the track, DJ Dave aka David Wittman. DJ Dave is like Pete Rock, an amazing producer that rhymes with great skill, but he doesn't rhyme as much as he produces. The three of us attended UCLA together and spent a lot of time listening to music, travelling around the city to see live music and eventually performing our own music. Dave recently has made several video-songs, most notably, "Whole Foods Parking Lot." The three of us all lived together at different points and still collaborate two decades after we met. Here's to artistic friendships and longevity. Bringing you back in the dense mosaic. 

The papers you write for this class are supposed to function as the equivalent of take-home exams for which you choose the questions. The point is to show that you have thoroughly read the assigned material, worked closely with the study guides, and can explain and interpret the material as a result. Your grade will be based primarily on how thoroughly you would seem to have done this work.

Syllabus This course will consist of twenty sections. As the course proceeds, I will fill in the descriptions of the topics and put in readings. Section 1: Introduction: Why Model? In these lectures, I describe some of the reasons why a person would want to take a modeling course. These reasons fall into four broad categories: To be an intelligent citizen of the world To be a clearer thinker To understand and use data To better decide, strategize, and design There are two readings for this section. These should be read either after the first video or at the completion of all of the videos. The Model Thinker: Prologue, Introduction and Chapter 1 Why Model? by Joshua Epstein Section 2: Sorting and Peer Effects We now jump directly into some models. We contrast two types of models that explain a single phenomenon, namely that people tend to live and interact with people who look, think, and act like themselves. After an introductory lecture, we cover famous models by Schelling and Granovetter that cover these phenomena. We follows those with a fun model about standing ovations that I wrote with my friend John Miller. In this second section, I show a computational version of Schelling's Segregation Model using NetLogo. Netlogo is free software authored by Uri Wilensky or Northwestern University. I will be using NetLogo several times during the course. It can be downloaded here: NetLogo The Schelling Model that I use can be found by clicking on the "File" tab, then going to "Models Library". In the Models Library directory, click on the arrow next to the Social Science folder and then scroll down and click on the model called Segregation. The readings for this section include some brief notes on Schelling's model and then the academic papers of Granovetter and Miller and Page. I'm not expecting you to read those papers from start to end, but I strongly encourage you to peruse them so that you can see how social scientists frame and interpret models. Notes on S

Food hitting our plates with who knows what pumped into it and growing economic uncertainty. We took the seeds in our pockets and every square foot we owned and went about like mad scientists testing out innovative ideas from all around world and making them work in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the US. Everything from urban fish farming to alternate energy. Now let's pass it on... to our neighborhoods and the nations. We believe you are part of the solution

Caixa de ferramentas para tradutores A lista de recursos on-line apresentada a seguir foi compilada por Fabiano Medeiros, do editorial da Ed. Mundo Cristão, com base em sugestões de vários tradutores. Many thanks ao Fabiano por autorizar a publicação dessas dicas tão úteis. Você tem sugestões para acrescentar à lista? Deixe um comentário. DICAS DE DICIONÁRIOS E FONTES DE CONSULTA 1. A primeira dica é a seguinte. Descobri por acaso... No Google, você digita a palavra ou expressão seguida de DIC. Ex: overwhelming DIC. O resultado são as definições fornecidas pelos dicionários mais importantes... 2. Para quem prefere algo mais profissional, basta acessar o www.onelook.com e digitar ali a palavra ou expressão. O Onelook é uma espécie de portal dos melhores dicionários online, técnicos ou não. 3. Alguns endereços específicos (eu mantenho o ícone dos melhores na minha barra do IE, para fácil acesso): Monolíngues inglês Cambridge http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ (há uma versão americana também) Chamo a atenção de vocês para este dicionário por ser altamente prático. Como veem no exemplo abaixo, a Cambrige criou esse negócio de "apor" uma ETIQUETA em versal logo no início do verbete, já indicando o(s vários) campo(s) semântico(s). Isso facilita muito a consulta, porque remete você para o contexto imediato em que está trabalhando e reduz a perda de tempo na consulta por significados. Claro que isso não é possível em todos os verbetes... E não é algo que resolve todos os problemas. Mas ajuda muito em muitos casos! Ex: get was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below. · get verb OBTAIN · get verb REACH · get verb BECOME ILL WITH · get verb START TO BE · get verb CAUSE · get verb BE · get verb MOVE · get verb TRAVEL · get verb DEAL WITH · get verb HAVE CHANCE · get verb UNDERSTAND/HEAR · get verb PREPARE · get verb PAY · get verb CONFUSE · get verb ANNOY · get ver

What Americans Build and Why: Psychological Perspectives Ann Sloan Devlin 0 Resenhas Cambridge University Press, 31/05/2010 - 301 páginas What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans' built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping environments. Synthesizing information from both academic journals and the popular press, the book looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives and how their way of life is fundamentally shaped by the highway system, cheap land, and incentives. This book is timely because although Americans say they crave community, they continue to construct buildings, such as McMansions and big box stores, that make creating community a challenge. Furthermore, in many ways the movement toward teleworking, discussed in the chapter on office environments, also challenges the traditional place-based formation of community. Although focused on the United States, the book also includes reference to other parts of the world, especially regarding the retail environment.

The new urbanism: toward an architecture of community Peter Katz 7 Resenhas McGraw-Hill Professional, 1994 - 245 páginas The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today! « Menos    Ver uma prévia deste livro » O que estão dizendo - Escrever uma resenha Avaliações de usuários 5 estrelas 6 4 estrelas 2 3 estrelas 0 2 estrelas 1 1 estrela 1 Review: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Comentário do usuário  - Chris Watkins - Goodreads Loved the clear examples, the photographs and plans, and the introductions to key thinkers like Peter Calthorpe. Ler resenha completa Review: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Comentário do usuário  - Grace - Goodreads I want to live in a TOD! Ler resenha completa Todas as 7 resenhas » Livros relacionados ‹ Suburban nation Andrès Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck Home from nowhere James Howard Kunstler The next American metropolis Peter Calthorpe The Regional City Peter Calthorpe, William B. Fulton New urbanism Peter Calthorpe, Robert Fishman, Lars Lerup A Better Place to Live Philip Langdon The geography of nowhere James Howard Kunstler The death and life of great American cities Jane Jacobs › Páginas selecionadas Página 1 Página 60 Página 30 Página 126 Pági

Transforming traditional university structures for the knowledge economy through multidisciplinary institutes Simon Mosey, Mike Wright and Bart Clarysse* + Author Affiliations *Nottingham University Business School (SM) and Imperial College Business School, London (MW and BC) Address for correspondence: Simon Mosey, Nottingham University Business School, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK; email:simon.mosey@nottingham.ac.uk Received November 24, 2010. Accepted November 9, 2011. Abstract Within the UK considerable policy support has been provided to create multidisciplinary institutes that encourage academics to develop new knowledge for industry and societal problems. We consider four large traditional UK universities that have gained significant funding for such activities. We examine the changes in institutional structures necessary to enable universities to transform from single-discipline-based schools to multidisciplinary institutes. New incentives for working across schools, the cross-subsidy transfer of industry-funded research and teaching income, and senior role models are observed to enable the development of a multidisciplinary research capability. Yet, this capability is not easily sustained. It appears that for institutes to survive beyond the initial funding round, they regress towards traditional school activities of peer-reviewed research and teaching. We conclude that to transform academic behaviour, a fundamental shift in promotion procedures, which remain heavily weighted towards peer-reviewed journal publication within single disciplines, is required. Key words Universities Research Knowledge Institutional theory Evolutionary theory JEL codes H5 I2 M1 © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved.

Eis o texto central de Harvey na nossa discussão sobre a relação entre a crise financeira e a crise urbana. 

Este é o primeiro texto que vamos ler do David Harvey. É uma entrevista leve, mas que associa a crise financeira ​não apenas ao mercado de hipotecea, mas principalmente a dinâmica urbana.  Aponta para o segundo texto O Direito a Cidade que será discutido na sequencia