Broader View
Reality Bytes: THE DigitalLY-MEDIATED Urban REVOLUTIONS
Digital media plays an important role in the galvanisation of social movements, says social scientist Merlyna Lim, but can it ever supplant urban space?
An Ecology of Mind
In the 20th century, the diverse work of Gregory Bateson was hugely influential in many fields. Now his thinking and writing could offer an essential guide to the future of architecture and urbanism
Psychology of urban neighbourhoods
Clinical psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove advocates mending the fracture between rich and poor communities
Liberating Science from pervading materialism
Today’s architectural practice is profoundly shaped by dogma that has dominated science since the late 19th Century and yet this influence remains largely unquestioned within the profession.
Prehistoric buildings hold an overlooked social complexity
The discovery of the oldest known wooden stairway in Europe, preserved in an Alpine saltmine, revealed astonishing levels of design sophistication among some of our distant ancestors. Timothy Taylor muses on Bronze Age construction and placemaking and the effects that prehistoric architecture may have had on social control.
Designs for life in Humanity 2.0
As the technological revolution creates growing interactivity between our lives and the things around us, philosopher-turned-sociology professor Steve Fuller considers the social and spatial implications of a world in the near future where everyone and everything is seamlessly interconnected
THE ONLY WAY IS UP
Harvard economist and author of The Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser makes the economic and environmental case for building denser, higher cities
Reputations
AUGUSTUS PUGIN
Assessing the legacy of Big Ben’s creator on the bicentennial of the architect’s birth
Reputations: Pancho Guedes
To his friends, colleagues and pupils Pancho Guedes is a unique source of creative inspiration and wisdom
Reputations: Alison and Peter Smithson
Steve Parnell elaborates on the extraordinary lives of The Smithsons
