Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  Dec 16, 2007	Lagos la Vida Loca
By next year, more than half the world’s population will for the first time in history be living in cities. Current’s Mariana van Zeller tours Lagos, Nigeria, the world’s fastest-growing “Megacity”, creating a thought-provoking vision of one of...... [view]

Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  Oct 15, 2007	Stuffed and Starved
You know a book is good when not one, but three different friends write to you unprompted to recommend it. And you know it’s a masterpiece when it spawns a Facebook fanclub group ! So today I bought Stuffed and Starved , Raj Patel’s new study on the absurdities and political...... [view]

Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  Oct 9, 2007	Claudio Ethos in Grottaglie
Paintalicious writes about Claudio Ethos, the talented graffiti artist who was recently filmed (above) while working in Grottaglie, Italy: We are entering into an incredibly productive phase of urban street art, where talented artists like Brazilian Claudio Ethos are creating...... [view]

Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  Jul 19, 2007	Peripheral Landscapes
Last post of the day, I promise. Via Juan’s awe-inspiring blog , I came across this video, which offers a brilliant visualisation of Mexico City’s formal and informal expansion through photographic and digital media: The video is a close relation to the Tate...... [view]

Posted By:  isnaypmedia Posted On:  Jul 19, 2007	Green Guerillas
The Green Guerillas is a film written and directed by Rod Prosser in 1996 about the New People's Army Mindanao in their campaign for the protection of the environment and the culture of the indigenous people. Ka Paking (now a revolutionary martyr) talked about the participation of the tribal...... [view]

Posted By:  albertomz Posted On:  May 22, 2007	Ruleless: on the self-organisation of road traffic
Juan Freire posts two interesting videos on the subject of self-organising systems . In particular, these videos deal with traffic self-regulation based on crowd behaviour in two very different contexts, India and Russia. He had previously presented similar scenarios in Vietnam. ...... [view]

Submitted By:   mazharpasha Event Date:  Feb 20, 2010 Event Location:  ATW, liberty [view]

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