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A new tool that helps to assess the mix of uses needed for truly sustainable projects highlights the importance of looking at the big picture. Sustainable masterplanning will help engineers and architects win the battle for lower carbon emissions, something tighter Building Regulations alone cannot achieve. That’s the belief of Hilson Moran’s director of sustainability Matt Kitson. Via. BSD
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GREEN HORIZONS An increasing amount of electricity is being generated by solar panels in California and wind turbines in Texas.
By KATE GALBRAITH
Texas cares little for environmental niceties. Its governor, Rick Perry, bashes the Environmental Protection Agency at every opportunity, and recently branded the climate bill that passed the House of Representatives a “legislative monstrosity.”
Yet the oil-and-gas state has nonetheless emerged as the nation’s top producer of a commodity prized by environmentalists: wind power. Eager developers are covering its desolate western mesas with giant turbines. The world’s largest wind farm began operations in Texas this month, and the state now has close to three times as much wind capacity as Iowa, the second-ranked state.
California, by contrast, has all but stifled wind developers. The state built several big wind farms in the 1980s — but has added very few since, because of the cost and delays of complying with stringent state environmental regulations. The early turbines killed thousands of birds, for instance, and that memory lingers. Via:NYTimes
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TOWARD THE SENTIENT CITY
An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space
Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York
September 17–November 7, 2009
http://www.sentientcity.net
Opening reception
Thursday, September 17, 2009
6:00–9:00 p.m.
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
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AA Landscape Urbanism
It was in 2000 that the Chinese government formulated a plan to build 400 new cities by 2020, in order to install the migration coming from the countryside towards the new urban agglomerations. This is the equivalent of 20 cities per week.
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On view June 28, 2009 – September 28, 2009
It is in the final days, if you have not seen the “Afterparty” be sure to make it up to PS1 and check it out.
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