These are all images of social housing projects in Europe…discuss (both the images and the history, execution and success of such projects)…
Tag Archives: Urbanism
Blog Exercise Five
Usual rules; reblog, 500 word commentary, remember to actually reference the images in your response…
Unexpected homes – photographs by Iwan Baan
Micro Housing for the Homeless
Micro Housing for the Homeless
Interesting article about micro-housing for the homeless in Olympia, Washington.
Mapping urban blight…
Take a look at the way in which cartography and GIS is being used to map decayed buildings in Detroit in an effort to speed up urban regeneration
Blog Exercise Four
Usual rules…500 words…discuss…
The Day We Lost Atlanta
An excellent article in Politico about why the 2 inches of snow in Atlanta was so disastrous….
The impact of civil war on the urban landscape…
The impact of civil war on the urban landscape…
This is an article from The Guardian on the impact of Syria’s civil war on it’s urban infrastructure over the last two years…when you look at it, remember to think about the human cost that accompanies this kind of destruction
Blog Exercise Two
As last week, please reblog and write at least 500 words about how these representations of the baroque period of European urban development relate to our lectures from this week.
Blog Exercise One
Please reblog this and write 500 words of discussion about what you see and how it relates to the lecture we had on classical and ancient cities last week. Your thoughts should be posted by midnight on Sunday January 26th. Feel free to comment on each others’ posts…
All the bairns o' Adam 