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Open House Lecture
Bill McKibben “A Fresh Start for Our Cities”
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Jaqueline Tyrwhitt Urban Design Lecture
Deborah N. Archer “Transportation, Infrastructure, and Race in American Cities”
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Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture
Nancy Fraser “Against the Environmentalism of the Rich”
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John Hejduk Soundings Lecture
Jacques Herzog In Conversation with Grace La
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Cambridge Talks
Surfacing
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HDM 53
Obsolescence
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What Might Become of Detroit’s Vacant Public Schools?
In 1561, one thousand years after the Diocletian bathhouse fell into ruin under the Roman Empire, the pope directed Michelangelo to reinvent the building as a church—an early example, says Graduate School of Design (GSD) design critic in architecture Angelo Lunati, of the power of transformation. The Santa Maria degli Angeli is the earliest example of a […]
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Resourceful Urbanism: Dan Stubbergaard’s Adaptive Reuse of Cities
Even before the last flight had taken off from Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, in 2008, the future of the historic airport’s 355-hectare site was the subject of intense dispute. Competing plans to transform the area into new residential neighborhoods and commercial areas, integrating the vast airfield into the surrounding urban fabric, stalled amid protests against development. […]
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