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Posted by on Apr 27th, 2006 | 0 comments

The secret F.A.D.

The City of Toronto’s Festival of Architecture and Design (A.K.A: F.A.D. …no joke!) got underway this week with little or no fanfare. The hype machine seems to have fallen asleep on this one as promotion is sorely lacking. It will run until June but you’ll have to take some initiative to discover all about it since apparently they couldn’t even bother to run quality control on the website....
Posted by on Apr 26th, 2006 | 0 comments

A new look at urban sprawl.

Matthew Turner and Diego Puga from the University of Toronto along with Henry Overman from the London School of economics and Marcy Burchfield are going to be publishing the results of their research next month . They have findings which do a good job of forcing a longer look at the nature and causes of urban sprawl by challenging existing thought on the subject. It turns out , amongst other things, that people...
Posted by on Apr 25th, 2006 | 0 comments

Not your mother’s drawings

Sigmund Freud used to draw. This is unknown to most. He drew what he saw happening in his microscope as he studied the science of brains. The New York Academy of Medicine is arranging an exhibition of Freud’s early illustration work showing a rarely seen side of the man and his processes. Sharing:
Posted by on Apr 25th, 2006 | 0 comments

We will miss Jane Jacobs

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message She Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. She was my North, my South, my East and...
Posted by on Apr 24th, 2006 | 0 comments

Advertisment augmented animals

Doreen Carvajal has a peice in the New York Times regarding that new trend of advertising on animals. Apparently the folks doing it have been fined by the town of Skarsterlan for violating ad-creep policy. The work seemed to be more of a publicity move than anything else. Yes, we are aware that this post makes us complicit in the publicity scheme. Advertising a hotel on sheep in the countryside seems like a flawed...
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