Wave Garden v5.0.0
No doubt you’ve seen the HypoSurface at technology fairs and architecture biennales and gadget blogs and advertising industry conventions everywhere. It’s the “world’s first display system where the screen surface physically moves,” according to its developers. [...] Read
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WTO & ETC Study — Future challenges for city tourism and culture in Europe
from Perfect City

While doing some research for our different factors in the current poll on “Economic Environment”, we found an interesting study on tourism. “City Tourism & Culture: The European Experience” is a report commissioned jointly by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and European Travel Commission (ETC) and provides insights into the expansion of European cities as cultural tourism destinations. [...] Read

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“A disposition of the urban condition.”

website: http://agentsofurbanism.com

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MONU

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR MONU - magazine on urbanism #9 - EXOTIC URBANISM

” Ever since our cities became areas of continuous interaction and ever-expanding exchange the term “exotic” - understood as counterpart to the “local”, the “native” or even the “authentic” - has become a rather vague term. Who - in actual fact - is still able to distinguish between the one and the other, between the exotic and the local? Who would be interested anyway? Yet, once again, there seems to be an increasing fascination with, and interest in, importing and seeing certain urban elements from other parts of the world in our own cities. There are, apparently, more Japanese people visiting the fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas than the original in Paris. What makes this displacement so interesting today? Read the full story

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