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Name dropping
Reviews
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5 Aug 11
Figures & Fictions is a compelling look at contemporary South African photography.
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Minus 90%
Opinion
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15 Aug 11
Design with the Other 90%: CITIES calls on design to address the most critical issues arising from the impact of mass urbanisation.
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Paradise?
Inside View
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15 Aug 11
Today life in Angola might seem bleak, but for the infrastructural development. Yet the people are convinced of the possibilities.
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Stranger
Inside View
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15 Aug 11
Photographer Damien Schumann spent six months documenting the fraught USA-Mexican border cities.
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Of war reborn
Opinion
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15 Aug 11
While the remnants of 25 years of civil war clings to the urban fabric of Beirut, the city has managed to reinvent itself slowly.
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The power of 10
Opinion
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15 Aug 11
Using the city as the context for design, ExpoTENtial employs creativity as the driving force for a higher quality urban experience.
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Endemic systems
Opinion
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15 Aug 11
Known for its chaotic masses and vast economic disparities, Mumbai’s slums do not need a bulldozer but an alternative perspective.
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Panoptical
Opinion
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15 Aug 11
Photographer Mikhael Subotzky and artist Patrick Waterhouse have been capturing the shifting moods of Ponte City in Jo’burg since 2008.
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Open, everything
Reviews
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19 Aug 11
We're living in the era of "design by everyone". The book Open Design Now explores this phenomenon.
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The city burns
Reviews
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19 Aug 11
The book Fire Walker explores the meaning of the iconic sculpture of the same name by William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx, in Jozi.
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Carvings of white
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19 Aug 11
The book Claudette Schreuders is an insightful look into the work of this artist from the past 17 years.
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