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Global / Local
10.17.11: Cynthia E. Smith
Design with the Other 90%: CitiesOn Places, Cynthia Smith, curator of the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES," offers an in-depth look at her research into socially responsive urban design in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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09.16.11: Barry Bergdoll
The Art of Advocacy: The Museum as Design LaboratoryOn Places, MoMA's curator of architecture and design, Barry Bergdoll, describes his efforts to expand the museum's role to support experimentation and advocacy.
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06.06.11: Karen Piper
"We Just Want To Be Tourists"On Places, Karen Piper describes a recent trip to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, where upscale adventure tourism confronted local political protest.
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04.18.11: Timothy Beatley
Blue Urbanism: The City and the OceanOn Places, planning professor Tim Beatley makes a case for blue urbanism — a new planning focus on how the design of cities affects the health of the planet's oceans.
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09.23.10: Mabel O. Wilson & Peter Tolkin
Listening There: Scenes from GhanaOn Places, architects Mabel Wilson and Peter Tolkin curate a slideshow based on their research into the complex legacy of tropical modernism in Ghana.
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07.22.10: Lawrence Vale
Shanghai's Avenue QueueOn Places, MIT urban historian Lawrence Vale reports on the Shanghai Expo, from the national pavilions to the media restrictions to the record-breaking queues.
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01.25.10: Gavin Browning & Michelle Fornabai
inkOn Places, a gallery of images from "ink," an exhibition of the work of Michelle Fornabai now at Columbia's downtown Studio-X.
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10.20.09: William L. Fox
Las VegasWriter and critic William L. Fox reviews Las Vegas, by Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern, probing the improbable success of the gambling-entertainment world-city constructed in the midst of the Mojave.
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10.10.09: Timothy Beatley
The 100-Mile ThanksgivingTimothy Beatley describes a new tradition in the planning department at the University of Virginia: the 100-Mile Thanksgiving, for which students prepare the annual feast, trying to use food produced within 100 miles of the Charlottesville campus.
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07.05.07: Alexandra Lange
Don't Call David Adjaye A StarchitectLauded and pilloried (well, by one client), the U.K. sensation, David Adjaye, heads to our shores.
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