Tag: urbanization
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In many countries of East and Southeast Asia, rice plays a very significant role in society, typically accounting for the largest single share of food calories and food expenditure, playing an important role in the agrarian system and livelihoods of a majority of farmers, being a leading user of land and water resources, and featuring…
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In what sense is the 21st century world urban? (Neil) Brenner excavates Henri Lefebvre’s (1970) notion of generalized urbanization for conceptual and methodological insights into the 21st century planetary urban condition. He argues that the geographies of urbanization can no longer be conceptualized with reference to cities, metropolitan regions or even megalopolises, but today encompass…
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The Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization announced in May 2014 that the World Council on City Data (WCCD) has pioneered the first international standard for sustainable cities, ISO 37120: Sustainable development of communities — Indicators for city services and quality of life. For the first time ever, urban policymakers will have objective, verified measures to…
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It can’t anymore be denied that this side of the Mount Santo Tomas range is being overtaken by development, irrational by the sight of it. Before we can finish uttering “A Buick Chop Jolted My Sexy Frozen Wives” and if folks at City Hall continue to sit on the land use plan, this area will…
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Laperal Building is one of the City’s commercial buildings that survived the 1991 earthquake. Preserving the old design, it’s facade recently received a much needed face lift i.e. new paint in keeping with renovations in this area of Session Road. Majority of it’s spaces are still let out as offices, many of which have been…
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Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies: Announcing: International Competition “Planetary Urbanism – Critique of the Present in the Medium of Information Design” The competition is intended for Designers from the fields of architecture, urban and regional planning, environmental planning, graphic, product and media design, statistics, cartography, photography, film and the visual arts as well as for Scientists…
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In January, the World Bank released a report on the rise of urban East Asia. Between 2000 and 2010, the international financial institution reported, nearly 200 million people moved to East Asia’s urban places. These sorts of gigantic numbers can be difficult to comprehend. So the World Bank set up a contest, with first prize…
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There’s an article in the March 2013 issue of SAGE Publications’ Journal of Environment and Urbanization Asia entitled Street Vendors, their Contested Spaces, and the Policy Environment: A View from Caloocan, Metro Manila that MMDA and urban planners in Metro Manila will find useful. Rationale In developing states of Southeast Asia, street vendors play a significant…
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Paris-based Chinese artist Du Zhenjun has reimagined the biblical ‘tower of Babel’ in various different contexts. These contexts are some examples of things that are a threat to human existence even in this day and age. They include: huge winds, snow, conflict of law, destruction, and many more. This series of work is full of…
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Urbanized, the third documentary in a series by director Gary Hustwit aggregates trends from the kaleidoscopic field of urban design, with flashes of economics, transportation, architecture, engineering, demographics, politics, and philosophy.