Nuclear Italia
The Italian government has reversed a 20 year policy against building nuclear power plants, and has announced that they plan to return to nuclear power. Unlike New Zealand's strange and fascinating...
infrastructure
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...
By maetl,
11th January 2008
In: architecture
urban
infrastructure
farming
ethics
ecology
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...
By maetl,
12th December 2007
In: management
organization
agile
politics
environment
infrastructure
ecology
philosophy
Underground in Canada
BLDGBLOG talks to Michael Cook, the author and photographer behind the Vanishing Point. Michael's spectacular images of tunnel systems and urban decay are a must-see. He views the city as...
By maetl,
29th August 2007
In: architecture
urban
infrastructure
toronto
photography
Scaling for the Masses
ReadWriteWeb summarises an interesting new service based on utility computing: In the next decade, only the largest enterprises will be able to justify owning and operating their own servers. This...
By maetl,
20th September 2006
In: internet
software
hardware
network
infrastructure
economics
capitalism
