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Open Agenda. Exhibition opening Wednesday 20th October at Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney.

Useful Strategies: How book designers get their favourite covers over the line. Via @ArchitectureAU

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…

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…

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.

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…