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...limitless funding Abu Dhabi can pour into Masdar, however, success is not guaranteed. Some urban-design experts question just how sustainable Masdar City will really be. The settlement is being built miles outside Abu Dhabi, contributing to the energy-intensive sprawl growing throughout the emirate. And while Masdar City promises to use the greenest technologies on the market, that won't make it livable. "It looks a bit like a prison to me," says Steffen Lehmann, an urban-design professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia who spoke at WFES. "It's going to be a 1% token-green...
...course of the last 20 years, Fairey’s experiment has grown into Obey—a large company based out of Los Angeles that comprises a clothing line and a design studio. The clothing line has become more mainstream (it’s being sold locally in Urban Outfitters), and his design studio, Studio Number One, has contributed to advertising campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue and Toyota. For these disenfranchised fans, Obey is taking on the unsavory glow of “radical chic...
...Carribino ’85, Duncan remained focused on the social issues that he witnessed growing up in Chicago. In 1986 he took a year off to return to his hometown to write his sociology thesis, eventually titled “The values, aspirations, and opportunities of the urban underclass...
...black leather jacket and yellow athletics pants, his short dreadlocks covered by a furry ushanka hat, British musician Tricky - the one responsible for this scene - is beaming. "It's wicked," he says. "People just come in and chill out. It's like a clubhouse." (See pictures of an urban adventure in Paris...
...goal is to offer at least five General Education courses and five freshman seminars next year that involve arts practice. The History of Art and Architecture concentration is planning a new track for students interested in architecture, with courses on design as well as the theory and practice of urban planning.She also said that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will begin to explore an undergraduate concentration in the dramatic arts and that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will look into how a graduate Master of Fine Arts programs might be created. In addition, Harvard students will...