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Top 100 bloggers
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Future blogs: Urbanism appears to be the twenty-first century urban design, planning, and architectural mindset. This trend is breeding urban explorers (urbex), the greening of major metropolitan areas, and a focus on merging habitats and commercial structures with politics, culture, history and the arts. Find here the top 100 bloggers who focus on everything from architectural news to urbanism and from the junction of design and technology to the landscape. You’ll discover plenty of dialogue, images, and ideas no matter if you’re an urban designer, planner or even architect. Discover future urbanism blogs here.
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/DrMohsen/Pages/FutureUrbanismblogs.aspx
City of Sound
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Dan Hill, director of Web and broadcast at Monocle, blogs on themes of cities, architecture, design, media and culture as he makes logical connections between such seeming disparities as “travel writing and design, or football and architecture.” But, the major focus is on the design of the city as he points to design as the major catalyst between function and form.
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/
BLDGBLOG
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Geoff Manaugh is a writer, grant writer, would-be novelist, essayist, Archinect “team member” and the founding editor of BLDGBLOG. He’s also now a senior editor for Dwell Magazine. This site is an exciting meeting ground for architecture, planning, and landscape issues.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
Archinect
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines. One way they accomplish this goal is through their school blog project, where representatives from a collection of architecture programs around the world have been invited to maintain blogs that document their experiences and discoveries from each institution.
http://www.archinect.com/
anArchitecture
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Christoph Wassmann, who lives and work in Vienna, Austria, writes a blog filled with news, links, and opinions that are centered on architecture and architectural thinking.
http://anarchitecture.blogspot.com/
aggregät 4/5/6
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Enrique Gualberto Ramirez, an architecture historian, maintains no qualms about “the messy connections between spatial practice, cultural criticism, technology studies, art history, architecture, and other realms.” A must-read.
http://aggregat456.blogspot.com/
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Or, “Archidose,” as blogger John Hill calls it. He’s an architectural student in New York, but his blog covers an “(Almost)” daily architectural musings from Midwest American. This blog is intelligent, sharp, well-written, and enjoyed by many architects and designers.
http://archidose.blogspot.com/
Zoom Prospector
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Designed by planners, this tool enables users to look up data for any community based on a number of demographic criteria. Because the site gathers data from multiple sources, including those at the local level, Zoom Prospector is able to boast more detailed, informative searches.
www.zoomprospector.com
Infranet Lab
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
An intense and directed blog focusing on the physical manifestations of controlling resources. It’s a fresh look at the impacts of modern world’s infrastructural needs and the intertwined networks between urbanism, architecture and landscape that result..
http://www.infranetlab.org
Gapminder World
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
A “fact tank”, its goal is to take social, economic and environmental development statistics from around the world and make them readily accessible.
www.gapminder.org
Digital Urban
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
In-depth and advanced examination of the technologies and advancements in the field of city visualization, Focusing on digital media as an avenue for documenting city change and development, Digital Urban is keeping the pulse of a rapidly advancing segment of the study of cities.
www.digitalurban.blogspot.com
Design With Intent
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Dan Lockton is a researcher and engineer who is interested in human behavior, how people interact with designed objects and spaces. In particular, he's looking for ways to encourage sustainable behavior through design.
http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/
Arounder
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Arounder takes those virtual walkthroughs you see on real estate sites to another level, creating 360-degree, full screen panoramas of locations around the world.
www.arounder.com
Architect's Newspaper
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
An informative site covering the latest projects, developments and trends in the architecture world. Published since 2003 , the Architect’s Newspaper has joined the ranks of essential news sources for architects and those concerned about design and development issues. with near-daily postings since September 2008.
www.archpaper.com