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NPR Cities: Urban Life In The 21st Century

“What do we want our cities to be in the Urban Century? The NPR Cities Project aims to capture the vibrancy of urban life today.”

in  United States   Last verified 12 years ago.
 

The Elegant Shed - The Extroverts

An Wellington-focused episode from the important 1984 documentary series on New Zealand architecture, hosted by David Mitchell. Included are interviews with Wellington architects Ian Athfield and Roger Walker. Includes footage of John Scott’s Futuna Chapel and Ernst Plischke’s Massey House.

in  New Zealand   Wellington   Wellington City   Last verified 13 years ago.
 

Hometown Boomtown

This TV documentary from 1983 guides us through the rapid changes in Wellington in the 1970s to earthquake proof the city, and build a motorway through it. Aside from the cheesy music, it’s pretty darn interesting for anyone with an association with the city.

in  New Zealand   Wellington   Wellington   Last verified 5 years ago.
 

Time and Place

This Philip Mark Law film for the Australian Film Commission in 1970 could be a KOYAANISQATSI for the Australian city. A slow beginning pans through tumbledown Victorian buildings. Steadily the modern world is juxtaposed, with jarring musical shifts to suit. After a race through a car park building and a look at what residential architects were up to at the time, the film ends in the new frontier, with a couple emerging from their wedding into an empty treeless subdivision. Sci-fi soundtrack by Leslie Dempsey.

in  Australia   Last verified 11 years ago.
 

Polis

“Polis is a collaborative blog about cities, with a global scope. It is a space for regular contributors and readers to share ideas and information about anything and everything urban, from multiple lenses. Our contributors come from a range of perspectives – from planning to art to architecture to social science. We have lived in cities as far-flung as Barcelona, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, London, Moscow, Mumbai, and New York. We have worked in places like Bogota, Dhaka and San Salvador. We have walked the streets of Bangkok, Istanbul, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tehran.”

in  United States   Last verified 13 years ago.
 

Ecological Urbanism vs. New Urbanism

An intelligent review of a 2010 debate at Harvard GSD, at Urban Omnibus.

in  United States   Last verified 14 years ago.
 

The Future of the City

An Atlantic special report in May 2010 on American cities – though Wellington NZ does get its own review.

in  United States   Last verified 14 years ago.
 

Auckland

New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland nestles between tens of dormant volcanoes and is home to the world’s biggest polynesian population. The weather is temperate, public transport is a joke, and the houses are wooden.

Auckland from the water

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in  New Zealand   Auckland   Auckland   Last verified 15 years ago.
 

Future City

Essay by Frederic Jameson (2003).

Last verified 15 years ago.
 

Bad Subjects: The Congestion Coalition?

A debunking of a Washington Post article in 2007 that suggested that suburbs and their cars are good.

Last verified 16 years ago.
 

Passageways of Paris

By Christopher Rollason. Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project draft did not get an English translation until 1999. Rollason walks us through the arcades and places Benjamin’s work in the context of the day. He also traces the effects the text has had on current thought.[04/04]

in  France   Paris   Paris   Last verified 16 years ago.
 

New Plymouth streets

Some photos of the local architecture I took in November 2007, while at the local NZIA awards .

clock tower

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in  New Zealand   Taranaki   New Plymouth   Last verified 14 years ago.
 
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