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The Brilliant, Unhinged Spectacle of Megalopolis. 10.02.2024. By Josh Stephens. A rare film that celebrates design and urban planning, Coppola’s latest epic is a mishmash of architectural, cinematic, and literary history. More.
Who Are We? – Common Edge
Common Edge is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting architecture and design with the public that it’s meant to serve. To get there we will need more authentic public engagement and the rediscovery of some timeless design resources.
Our Top 10 Posts for 2021 - Common Edge
Dec 30, 2021 · Common Edge had its best year in 2021: Readership grew by more than 66%! Thank you to everyone who visited the site, whether for the first time or the hundredth.
What Makes a City Resilient? – Common Edge
Sep 23, 2024 · About a decade ago, the term “resilience planning” became ubiquitous in climate circles. That shift, in the wake of increasingly unpredictable events, was shaped in part by the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program, a six-year, $160 million effort to establish chief resilience officers in cities all over the world. Out of …
The Shape of Our Existing Buildings – Common Edge
Jul 20, 2021 · There is a unique opportunity in existing buildings to embrace, reflect, and encourage our current values. In each technical deficiency, we should see not only the opportunity to reshape the value of a single layer, but of all the layers. And we must also acknowledge that sometimes the unfitness between a building and its cultural context needs ...
How Design Can Help Ensure All Communities Benefit From …
Jul 18, 2022 · The urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has never been greater, and getting there is going to require bold steps for buildings, infrastructure, and communities. Incremental reductions are not enough; we need to focus on full decarbonization, which means removing carbon emissions caused by our built environment.
How Buildings Shape Us - Common Edge
Sep 21, 2020 · In other words, we experience architecture through the “lens” of ourselves, the “us” that buildings can go on to “shape.”. And the physiological shaping processes that take place are essentially in the patterns of neural networks in a brain and body. The structure of those networks is continually changing over a lifetime because ...
Technology’s Siren Song – Common Edge
5 days ago · Ivan Sutherland developed the world’s first computer-aided drawing (CAD) program in 1963 as part of his Ph.D. thesis at MIT. His “ Sketchpad ” allowed users to drag a light pen across a cathode ray tube to create and manipulate two- and three-dimensional shapes. While Sketchpad’s capabilities were limited, it opened the door for more powerful CAD systems to flow into aerospace and ...
Live 3D renderings – Common Edge
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Affordable housing - Common Edge
Sep 11, 2023 · We Already Have Viable Models for Quality Affordable Housing. 06.15.2021. By. Essays. A Less Atomized, More Communitarian Los Angeles? Low-Rise Winners Point the Way. 05.16.2021. By. Essays.