Author: Marcus Trimble
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AD Post Traumatic Urbanism
The latest edition of AD, titled Post Traumatic Urbanism and edited by UTS staff Charles Rice, Anthony Burke and Adrian Lahoud has been released: Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities…
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Pay to Click Get Rich Quick Urbanism and the Ideal SimCity
I came across the video below a while ago and just rediscovered it in my drafts folder. It charts the construction of Magnasanti, an example of a kind of extreme urbanism and what it perhaps the perfect SimCity, or at the very least the most densely populated SimCity to date. Magnasanti, built in SimCity3 has…
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Opt-In Emergency Services
The Fire Department is an opt-in emergency service in Obion County, Tennessee. If residents of the county want fire protection, they must pay an annual fee. Recently, the Canick family watched their house burn to the ground with fire fighters standing alongside them doing nothing to stop the blaze because they had not paid their…
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1933 Slaughterhouse
1933 Slaughterhouse by C.H. Stableford 1933. Once a slaughterhouse, now an upmarket mixed use development complete with design bookstore. Photo by l-l-l-l-l.
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New Forests
Robert Sullivan, writing for the NYMag on how cities and forests may not be as mutually exclusive as previously imagined. That the assumption that urbanism is inherently detrimental to natural systems is being rethought as we observe new natural landscapes developing within urban environments: Recently, however, scientists have come to suspect that urban forests have…
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Finlandia
Dan Hill visits Finlandia and finds a couple of intriguing ‘benign errors’ on the building. Firstly, that the subtle bowing of the marble panels on the facade is in fact a defect resulting from the extreme weather differential in Helsinki, a ‘mistake’ that the building is all the better for. And secondly, that seen across…