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/ Can ideas inspired by ecology and biology create a different kind of city experience – one that can adapt to changing circumstances? Introducing a series of posts guest-edited by Rachel Armstrong and leading thinkers and proponents for change in the field of architecture and urban design.
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How can we avert the impending environmental catastrophe? How can we stop the current avalanche of extinctions (including us), now that atmospheric CO2 levels have exceeded the much-feared ‘tipping point’ of 350ppm?
Judging by the...
Reflecting on the surprising, delightful breadth...
It’s been an exhilarating month working...
Nature and cities can live together successfully...
Innovation is critical to economic growth, progress, and the fate of the planet. Although innovation may seem to happen at random, planners and politicians could take advantage of patterns that emerge to encourage innovation and growth.
One...
I love it when people take ownership of the places they inhabit, co-evolving them with their native environment in the same way that nature creates all its niches. So in this short piece I want to share what I think will shape the future of places,...
In this post I’m going to present a new...
Could our children be equally happy, or even...
Designers and engineers dream of creating highly responsive building façades that mimic nature and change in response to their environment. Like flowers, they would open and close in relation to the light.
This is a new field of research but...
Around the world, algae are being cultivated...
Little by little we are turning our lives over to...
This article was co-authored by Markus Schmidt...
For some early twentieth century commentators, the twenty-first century was going to be about electronic mediation of space. For others it was about speed and vectors of movement. But fundamentally people often believed that the same urban paradigms...
Many of us are accustomed to observing our world...
I’m writing this from Belgrade – a...
Although many people have tried to improve our...
Using the efficiency of the natural world to...
Wouldn’t it be better if people were...
If it were possible to make a time-lapse film of...
