http://www.wikio.com/search=Urbanism Wikio - Urbanism http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69353338 From National Geographic: Ancient Urban Network Mapped in Amazon Forests. Dozens of densely packed, pre-Columbian towns, villages, and hamlets arranged in an organized pattern have been mapped in the Brazilian Amazon, anthropologists announced today. The finding suggests that vast swathes of "pristine" rain forest may actually have been sophisticated urban landscapes prior to the arrival of European [...] Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:46:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69353338 2008-08-29T00:46:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69348008 Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish farming. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:12:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69348008 2008-08-29T00:12:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69353291 A 1500-year-old Amazonian city, full of artificial lakes, large public plazas, and agricultural regions (including fish farms), is being excavated and mapped for the first time in modern memory.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:09:36 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69353291 2008-08-28T23:09:36Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69337269 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite images of the region. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:08:59 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69337269 2008-08-28T22:08:59Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69337474 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite images of the region. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:55:48 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69337474 2008-08-28T21:55:48Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69338569 Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A vast region of the Amazon forest in Brazil was home to a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived, according to scientists assisted by satellite ... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:55:29 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69338569 2008-08-28T21:55:29Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69333237 Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish farming. The place: the now-overgrown jungles of Brazil. The time: centuries before... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:57:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69333237 2008-08-28T20:57:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69330742 WASHINGTON -- Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish farming. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:56:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69330742 2008-08-28T20:56:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69323228 Recently-discovered Amazonian settlements could be a new type metropolis, unseen elsewhere in the world and hidden until recently in the Kuikuro jungle, say anthropologists. Revealed by overgrown earthworks, the 100 sqaure-mile urban units consist of clusters of interconnected villages ranging... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:24:07 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69323228 2008-08-28T19:24:07Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69300607 HUSOS is an agency of architecture and urbanism dedicated both to the development of research projects and to the realization of direct spatial interventions. Based in Madrid (Spain) and thanks to the use of new technologies, Husos operates regularly between this city and Cali (Colombia). From a transdisciplinary perspective, our work explores the possibilities and limits of architecture and urbanism facing the preservation of social and biologically diverse forms of life, related to plural models of globalization. It is an open initiative promoted by Diego Barajas and Camilo Garc�a. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:04:07 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69300607 2008-08-28T16:04:07Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69228686 Delray Beach developer Anthony V. Pugliese III is envisioning a greener future, one where people can live and work without ever having to get in their car. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69228686 2008-08-28T04:00:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69327023 Vast swathes of "pristine" Amazon rain forest may actually have been sophisticated urban landscapes prior to the arrival of European colonists, anthropologists say. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69327023 2008-08-28T00:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69178148 “Do what they did, you’ll get what they got.” I am not sure that Tampa Bay needs to reinvent the wheel on its way to urban viability, but… Many of the cities that have truly come back from the edge and become centers of creative post-industrial life are very different from the Tampa/St Pete metro area. They [...] Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:13:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69178148 2008-08-27T17:13:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69176913 The new issue of Monu magazine on 'exotic urbanism' looks fun, and has stuff by Owen and everything. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:18:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69176913 2008-08-27T15:18:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69162043 MONU - a magazine on urbanism - is a unique bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics. Each issue collects essays, projects and photographs from contributors from all over the world to a given topic. In the latest issue In this issue the nice people behind Monu have taken the deliberate risk of making ourselves look ridiculous by focusing its theme on "the exotic", which is often seen as some sort of worn out, utterly out of date topic, immediately evoking images of colonialism and imperialism. Its got us intrigued and we are going to wander down to Art Data, 12 Bell Industrial Estate, 50 Cunnington Street, London W4 5 HB to pick up a copy. Take a look at http://www.monu-magazine.com/ for more info and international stockists ... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:50:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69162043 2008-08-27T13:50:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69232485 It grew quickly from a small burg by the railroad tracks to a sprawling Indianapolis suburb. Now, Indiana's largest town is on the cusp of another evolution. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69232485 2008-08-27T02:21:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69044409 The fine folks at MONU have just released issue #9 (!) on the theme of Exotic Urbanism . ( available here ) Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:54:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69044409 2008-08-26T17:54:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69106337 Plan of Dreamland, watercolor by Rem Koolhaas In the evolution of the 20th-century city, New York played a crucial role. Gotham haunted the imagination of everyone from John Dos Passos and H.G. Wells to Le Corbusier and the German Expressionist director Fritz Lang. A man-made colossus, it embodied in its concrete grid and in the tidal [...] Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:22:15 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=69106337 2008-08-26T13:22:15Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=68944247 At the risk of sounding like a bad stand-up comedian, what's with parking garage architecture? A somewhat necessary part of our ever-expanding urbanism, do they have to look so unattractive? Join th Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:24:21 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=68944247 2008-08-25T23:24:21Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Urbanism?rinfoid=68921859 ONE REACTION TO MY POST BELOW is to portray it as reactionary and anti-modern, as though the current architectural fashion for Starchitecture and a self-proclaimed avant-garde (with a long-expired sell-by date, imo) is somehow more progressive. It's not. Politically, I vary, depending on the issue, between a social leftist and... 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