Architecture & Design

World's cheapest car: Progress or eco-nightmare for India?

polymeme — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:58:04 -0400

HARD DRIVE: A COMMUTING BLOG - OREGONLIVE.COM : After years of promising the world's cheapest car, India's Tata Motors finally unveiled the $2,200 Nano on Monday... READ MORE

As they did Ozymandias, the dunes will reclaim the soaring folly of Dubai

polymeme — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:40:08 -0400

GUARDIAN : Hovering over Dubai is a cloud called nemesis. The first time I saw the place two years ago through a plane window, its towers were hovering in the heat over the desert... READ MORE

Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet

polymeme — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:10:25 -0400

TECHCRUNCH : The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania... READ MORE

Why 3D Printers Will Go Mainstream

polymeme — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:30:19 -0400

SOLIDSMACK.COM : OOOOOhhhhh, it is ON. SolidSmack has been challenged… and when I say challenged, I mean we are pickin’ fights with anything or anyone... READ MORE

HUD, DOT Teaming Up to Promote Sustainable Communities

polymeme — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:30:19 -0400

MATTHEW YGLESIAS : The federal government isn’t really set up, institutionally, to think in a comprehensive way about how transportation and land use issues fit together and determine the kind of communities we live in... READ MORE

Rethinking Postwar Design in London

polymeme — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:30:18 -0400

NEW YORK TIMES : The most polarizing issue in architecture today is no longer whether celebrity architects are ruining the profession. It’s what to do with the leftovers of postwar Brutalism... READ MORE

Streams, affordances, Facebook, and rounding errors

polymeme — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:30:18 -0400

LAUGHING MEME : I’m not really a Facebook user, but it is impossible to be a serious practitioner of the rough craft of building social software without being at least somewhat a Facebook watcher... READ MORE

Man on the Street

polymeme — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:50:06 -0400

NEW YORKER : A few summers ago, on upper Fifth Avenue, Bill Cunningham spied a remarkable creature: a woman, in her seventies, with a corona of blue hair... READ MORE

The Costs of Owning a Car

polymeme — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:50:06 -0400

WHEELS : How much does it cost to own a car? Wheels readers debated that question after I posted an article about how the recession has helped to decrease driving... READ MORE

The 7 Most Ridiculous New Roads Being Built With Stimulus Money

polymeme — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:36:54 -0400

INFRASTRUCTURIST : At a White House gathering last week, both Barack Obama and Joe Biden warned America’s governors not to squander stimulus funds on ill-conceived infrastructure projects. “Six months from now... READ MORE