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Designing a "Droneproof" City →
“Asher J. Kohn, an American law student profiled by The Atlantic Cities website this week, imagines architects using the same principle to outsmart a very 21st-century form of warfare: the unmanned drone. Shura City is Kohn’s proposal for a theoretical “droneproof” community. Patterned netting is just one of the devices Kohn imagines; minarets and badgirs confuse flight paths, and a precise...
January 2013
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November 2012
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October 2012
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Gary Sick on Argo →
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The Middle East news service Al-Monitor publishes my review of Ben Affleck’s new film, Argo:
The American embassy in Tehran was attacked and its residents imprisoned almost exactly 33 years ago, November 4, 1979. The 444-day ordeal of the hostage crisis burned itself into the American collective consciousness. It was America’s first contact with radical Islam. It was our first...
@blakehounshell the nuclear issue is a symptom of a strategic conflict, not its cause
— Tony Karon (@TonyKaron) October 5, 2012
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September 2012
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May 2012
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Watch: New Documentary Short Explores Northern... →
“The Story of Invisible Water,” produced by Asia Society’s China Green project, heads to the North China Plain to shed light on “of the world’s worst environmental crises.”
Mapping Global Water Stress →
Creative Agency Grows Fruits Into Box Shapes, To... →
April 2012
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The Paris-ification of Hanoi →
December 2011
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URBANISTAN →
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Final Exam: Networking Art, Politics and History
“In the last two weeks Mazen Kerbaj’s drawings have been one of the strongest most vivid expressions of the whole mess that is unfolding in lebanon that i came across”, wrote Amsterdam based blogger Paul Keller on his blog referring to Lebanese artist Mazen Kerbaj’s artwork that he posted to his blog since the beginning of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. While Kerbaj’s drawings are very striking...
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Engadget: Apple just arrived at Grand Central... →
“For many New Yorkers, Grand Central Station is where you go to escape the island — not to leisurely browse aisles of iPhone accessories, or pop in for a Genius Bar appointment. But apparently Apple has a slightly different vision for the city’s transportation hub, opening its fifth NYC store along the main hall’s 23,000 square foot east balcony. We dropped by for the...
