Chicken vs Egg: Does Suburban Sprawl Represent the Free Market or Over-Regulation? Neither.

Postwar suburban sprawl, courtesy of George Bailey and his Savings and Loan A lot of the Libertarian types think that those of us promoting higher densities and urban life are trying to limit freedom of choice. Joe Mysak wrote in Bloomberg about us: The notion appeals especially to people who like to think they’ll be in charge after the revolution.

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Dubai Skyscraper Is One Giant Wind and Solar Generator

Images: Studied Impact It’s hard to fathom much of the news from Dubai, especially when it comes to architecture. Then again, this city of excess has delivered some astonishing structures, including, of course, the world’s tallest building . So it with a mixture of cynicism and excitement that we greet news of projects such as this

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Book Review: Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging

A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better than recycling, so when the consumer gives a packaging a second life before eventually recycling it wherever possible, he saves resources. The object he or she reused has gained the value of the item he or she would have had to buy otherwise

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Winners of the Brit Insurance Design Awards, 2010

Image from minkyu.co.uk . Last week we wrote an idiosyncratic view of the candidates for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards

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eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2010 Is Full of Great Ideas

The eVolo Skyscraper competition is always one of the most spectacular speculative ideafests of architecture, with entries from all over the world, this year from 42 different countries. There are always some entries that just pop out, that demonstrate a different way of looking at buildings. They are rarely the winners though; the jury usually is as eccentric as the entries.

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Postcarden: Postcard Grows Into Mini-Garden

A postcard can brighten up your normal mail, but then it just sits there, commonplace and static. That’s why A Studio for Design developed the Postcarden, “created to be more playful, curious and interactive. It encourages you to bond, live and grow the greeting on day by day basis

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Core77 Design Contest Winners Tend To Tents

The results of Core77’s One hour design challenge are in , and I am pleased to note that I called it, picking the Lifetent for our earlier post. I was really hoping that none of the many container versions would make it into the finals; as Cameron Sinclair noted three years ago in ICON: “Every designer in design school wants to do these sorts of projects, and there’s no benc…

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Core77 Design Contest Winners Tend To Tents

Core77 Design Contest Winners Tend To Tents

The results of Core77’s One hour design challenge are in , and I am pleased to note that I called it, picking the Lifetent for our earlier post. I was really hoping that none of the many container versions would make it into the finals; as Cameron Sinclair noted three years ago in ICON: “Every designer in design school wants to do these sorts of projects, and there’s no benc…

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Core77 Design Contest Winners Tend To Tents

Chairs from the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Show

Images by B. Alter The Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Show, held in association with the Design Museum in London, is an exhibition of the best of international design.

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Awesome Biomimicry: Leaf Veins Inspire New Model for Water and Electricity Distribution Networks

Lemon leaf with interconnected loops. Photo: RU A team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters about a new way to design distribution networks based on the veins that carry water and nutrients in most tree leaves.

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