Where to for Brazil's Cities? Citizen Empowerment or Global Marketing?

An awakening interest in public space in Brazilian cities is emphasising the value of existing civic areas. Guilherme Wisnik , a critic, curator and professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, looks at the history and potential future of Brazil's urban spaces. He highlights how despite the introduction of innovative Modernist design in the mid-20th century, which forged ‘a new relationship between architecture, urbanism and landscape design’, more recently the country's cities have been subject to the vicissitudes of market and political forces.     

基于ASP.NET的城市公交查询系统

本文所开发的是城市公交信息查询系统,通过站点与线路之间的关系,利用数据结构算法构造一个公交查询的网络图,然后通过最短路径算法,为用户准确地提供两站点之间的最短乘车路线。     

Miesian Grids and the Domain of Ink

What happens when you subvert the standardised repetition of the Modernist grid? In Building the Picture, a series of drawings that architect Elena Manferdini produced for an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago that ran during the spring and summer of 2015, visual effects and colour were applied to counteract Mies's highly uniform and modular mass-producible systems.     

Global Village Media: Coming Together in the Early 1970s at Whiz Bang Quick City

Felicity D Scott , Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), describes here the instant city events of the early 1970s. These foreshadowed current global village media practices in what now seems a quaintly material manner: communication between sites involved the physical mailing of videotapes and ‘wire photos’ through the postal service. The sites themselves – in the US and elsewhere – were transformed into ‘instant cities’ through the erection of physical geodesic domes, teepees and inflatables in seas of mud. The true antecedents of today's instant networking, these pioneers embraced the newest technology available at the time and the most innovative forms of temporary architecture.     

Design for the Future: Educational Institutions in the Gulf

Despite a distinguished heritage of learning in the Middle East, the expansion of provision for higher education is currently at an unprecedented scale. The Gulf States, in particular, are seeking to keep up with accelerated population growth and a demographic ‘youth bulge’. Guest-Editor Kevin Mitchell describes the architectural approaches employed in the design of institutions in the region from the first universities in Saudi Arabia to Foster + Partners's ground-breaking sustainable design for the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi and future projects.     

In the Pursuit of Pleasure: The Not so Fleeting Life of the Pavilion and its Ilk

Author and architecture critic for the London Evening Standard, Robert Bevan reflects on the enduring appeal of the temporary structure, speaking ‘to a latent desire for freedom and movement’ as a hangover of our nomadic past in a sedentary ‘civilised’ society. He highlights the type's historical apex in Henry VIII's palatial pop-up on the Field of the Cloth of Gold, questioning the purpose and purposelessness of more recent examples.     

新疆博乐市空间发展战略、博河新区控制性详细规划及城市设计

作为我国及新疆面向中亚的重要开放城市,新疆博乐市的发展应统筹区域资源、结合口岸特色,走出一条新型城镇化道路。规划抓住博河新区发展的有力契机,战略先行、规划引领、理念科学、对接实施,创新了规划编制方式、规划组织形式和规划技术手段,提升了规划可行性,谱写了博乐城市发展的新篇章。     

基于物联网与GIS的“智慧上海”建设研究

上海市在加快城市信息化领域的进程中,提出建设“智慧上海”的战略.物联网作为“物物相连的互联网”,是在信息化互联网基础上的延伸和拓展,而GIS则更深化了物联网的空间信息管理能力.提出将GIS与物联网相结合,发挥物联网目标身份快速识别的特点以及GIS空间管理分析优势,从而构建城市智能网络,使得多方协作、高效灵活的“智慧上海”运作成为可能.