
Whatever Happened to Urbanism?

Whatever Happened to Urbanism?
The link is to a site that has many images of the infrastructure built for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The images show the conditions of the structures as they existed for the games and as they exist now. The stadium has gone through a few phases of redevelopment, but most of the buildings only […]
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http://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/17/passing-cloud-by-tiago-barros/ If you’re not worried about where you go or how fast you get there, this enormous inflatable cloud is the mode of transport for you. Predominant winds would determine the routes and speed of the hovering cloud, which would move from place to place without any fixed destinations. Passengers would board the cloud […]
The 1972 Olympic Games were overshadowed by what is now referred to as the Munich Massacre. On September 5th, eight Palestinian guerrillas kidnapped eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials and held them hostage in their Olympic Village apartments. Two of the hostages initially resisted and were killed. Later that evening, the terrorists and their hostages […]
http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30004252/2011/05/2011-05-27-16-35-56-10-tiger-woods-choked-up-after-winning-the-2006-briti.jpeg Sports journalism seems to be the journalism which accepts its story-telling roles and partnerships with advertising and entertainment. Yet it still suggest that cultural and moral values are alluded in sports reporting. The implication that sports reporting emphasizes storytelling and plot over impartial truth telling isparticularly interesting in contrast to other forms of journalistic endeavors . For sports […]
http://www.urbandesignweek.org/ Check the Competition “For the City/By the City” and other event along this week and next, including weekend.
International environmental watchdogs, such as Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme have become more vocal on large scale sporting events trying to get the respective organizing committees to think about all issues that encompass an event from pre-event planning to post-event reuse and recycling. Greenpeace has created Olympic Environmental Guidelines that outline 34 guidelines […]
“We offer a range of multi-rotor systems, which can carry payloads up to 500 grams. Beginning with sizes from very small and compact to the very large we can build in your required onboard hardware. The hardware options that are available can be: an Atom Processor board, different cameras, laser scanners and other accessories.” Link
http://sustainablecities.dk/en/city-projects/cases/rio-de-janeiro-the-gondola-opens-up-the-favela In terms of public transportation, Rio de Janeiro is facing the same problems as many other Latin-American metropolises. The city is served by a comprehensive public transit system, including a modern metro, suburban trains and a large bus fleet. But transportation services are sometimes unable to keep pace with rampant urbanization, especially […]
A series of articles on The Economist journal regarding the assessment of economic impact on the London 2012 Olympics. http://www.economist.com/topics/2012-olympics and http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/15/london-2012-olympics-the-economist
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