February 2009
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“In various lectures Rem Koolhaas has stated his resentment of iconic architecture and his love for the ‘background’ architecture of cities like Tokyo. In that light it would be a bold statement to actually start building that architecture.”
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“The fact is learning is uniquely idiosyncratic and resists quantification. An...”
– Educator, heal thyself of faulty premises
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Dharavi: User-Generated City →
“What fascinates so many people is no longer the misery of Dharavi, but its incredible capacity to develop and evolve in spite of all odds. Dharavi has emerged through the collective intelligence, skills and efforts of its residents. To use the language of the net generation, it is the ultimate user-generated city.”
“He [Roberto Bolaño] was a geographically obsessed writer, especially when it...”
– A translator’s task – to disappear | csmonitor.com
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The Loaves And The Fishes (And The Ducks) : NPR... →
“Linesville’s star attraction brings as many as 500,000 visitors a year to the small community, where they might buy gas, a burger or day-old Wonder Bread from one of the bread shanties that line local streets. But this year, the place where ducks walk on fish has been threatened by a policy change that has locals worried about a giant sucking sound of a different kind: the clatter of...
