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Ecology

Floating Farms on Inner City Waterways

A novel solution to the lack of space for food cultivation in modern cities.

Choking the Ocean: The Pacific Trash Vortex

For quite some time, I've been hearing rumors and stories about a giant Texas-sized ball of garbage floating around the Pacific Ocean. Now this story pops up in Vice Magazine, of all places, which…

Bifurcation and Biodiversity

Entries from the Dictionary of Human Geography Abbreviation of "biological diversity"... conservation of patterns and complexity... Generally understood as persistance…

Prospects for Paper Architecture

The future for architects is not the future of architecture.

A Utopia Without Ideals

The implications of Pig City by MVRDV are a sensory and ethical challenge - architecture that tests the fine line between social criticism and gritty realism. If meat consumption was to stay…

Becoming Cyclic

Humans lack cohesive understanding of the cultural and environmental flow-on effects of industrial and consumerist technology.

Can Human Development be Agile?

There is an interesting case for agile development of infrastructure, applying lessons learned from the software world to civil engineering projects. This is a useful metaphor, but there is an…