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Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite is a social enterprise combining environmental stewardship and socially- minded employment strategies. Lee Zimmerman and Brian Anderluh , both MBA '94 , will speak about keys and barriers to success, potential for scale, and opportunities for the future.

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Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces.

Smart, eh?

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Bottom-Up: The Integration of the Poorest Countries into Global Society

CED 50th Anniversary - Visualizing the Future of Environmental Design: Bottom-Up: The Integration of the Poorest Countries into Global Society Paul Collier, Professor of Economics, Oxford University Bottom-Up: The Integration of the Poorest Countries into Global Society A billion people live in countries that have fallen far behind the rest of mankind. How, over the coming decades, can these societies develop? As they transform, what will be the implications for design? Paul Collier's research focuses on the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid; and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resource-rich societies. In the past year Mr. Collier has served as the senior adviser to the Blair Commission on Africa; has addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations; given a seminar at 10 Downing Street; and been invited to meet with Condoleezza Rice on her recent United Kingdom visit. http://www.ced.berkeley.edu

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Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature

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The Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture: So You Want to be an Architect? by Peter van Dijk Date: November 4, 2010 Location: Thwing Ballroom on the campus of Case Western Reserve University Sponsored by: Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Peter Van Dijk is a Fellow in the Ohio Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and recipient of it's highest honor, The Gold Medal of the Ohio. He is also a past winner of The Cleveland Arts Prize -- Architecture and the Ohio Arts Prize. He will discuss design, preservation, tradition and globalism.

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Eco Architecture

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The Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture: Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature November 5, 2009 Speaker: Douglas Farr Sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Location: Ford Auditorium, Case Western Reserve University Campus, Cleveland Ohio

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Informative blog about urban centers and urbanism

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Reinventing Urbanism in a Time of Economic Crisis

Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communications & Society, University of Southern California

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A dream degree to pursue?

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Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.

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Thom Mayne on architecture as connection - TED

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WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture began as an open design competition seeking innovative, implementable proposals that place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding our cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery. The competition, organized by UCLA's cityLAB, was inspired by the Depression-era Works Projects Administration and the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Given the $150 billion dedicated to infrastructure–the largest investment in public works in the United States since the 1950s–designers were asked to envision a new legacy of publicly-supported infrastructure, projects that explore the value of infrastructure not only as an engineering endeavor but as a robust design opportunity to strengthen communities and revitalize cities. Nearly two hundred teams from 13 countries and 25 US states entered the professional competition. The six final proposals represent some of today's most progressive plans for transforming existing urban infrastructure with an emphasis on better public spaces, more conscientious energy and water use, and turning detriments into resources.  WPA 2.0 (Student Edition) attracted nearly 150 entering teams from schools as far away as Mumbai, Sydney, and Beijing. Ten student projects were selected as finalists and one winner will be chosen by the jury while in DC. Their boards, along with those and the video animations from the professional finalists, are presented here at the National Building Museum in the building's East Court. The symposium was the second of the three-part WPA 2.0 sequence and it marked the first national discussion about the role of design in restoring the nation's infrastructure. In early 2010, cityLAB will launch the WPA 2.0 web exhibition. This third phase will provide global access to the range of new ideas and resources gathered throughout the competition, workshop, and symposium.

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Let's take this class!

Fundamentals of Interior Architecture at UCLA Extension 

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