- East Africa goes faster now thanks to its new fiber-optic link to the rest of the www
- If university essays can now be written in the form of blogs, it’s not surprising that schools are changing shape too
- Bob Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s “Learning from las Vegas” video footage, not quite new but always interesting
- Vice Magazine’s Brazilian Issue seems to have got it right, check out their article about squatting skyscrapers in Sao Paulo here
- At 101, there still is a lot to learn from Oscar Niemeyer
- Does Africa need Bono and Geldof? now pardon me but..do we?
- Even though it might look all shiny and glittered sometimes it could be useful to take a look also at the Dark Side of Dubai
- Democracy in Nigeria? Don’t fix it! Rebrand it!
- City of Cairo starts to clean up
- J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Postcard from..Nigeria
- 1989-2009 – and in Rio de Janeiro walls are being built, that’s what I’d call learning from history
- As the crisis goes on many people think about spending more time at school, Yale wouldn’t be a bad option but..
- An architecture of excess vs. an architecture of relevance
- Swine flu ..Buu! Mike Davis tries to point out what our real fears should be
- Reinventing America’s cities ?
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