Social Good

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John Thackara|Essays

Cycle Commerce: The Red Blood Cells of a Smart City

Dehli's many millions of bicycle and rickshaw vendors embody the entrepreneurship, sustainable mobility, social innovation and thriving local economies, that a sustainable city needs. How can that be traslated to European cities?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Why Bernadette Fox Is Scary

The heroine of Where’d You Go, Bernadette is an award-winning female architect. Don’t envy her life.

Rob Walker|Essays

What Are You Looking At?

The maps of the future will tell you what to look at. Sometimes, you should look elsewhere.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Kicked A Building Lately?

That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Screen: Shooting the Past

Stephen Poliakoff’s Shooting the Past, set in a fictitious photo library, is a film that could haunt you for years.

Rob Walker|Essays

13 Striking Landscape Fictions

Thirteen “landscape fictions,” photographs of the natural world — made distinctly unnatural.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Christopher Simmons

Christopher Simmons discusses his lastest book, Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes, and reflects on why designers should be continually redefining their profession.

Observed|Collections

Neon: Bright Lights, Big City

Collector's Weekly interviewed architect Kirsten Hively, the created of the free iPhone app Project Neon.

John Thackara|Essays

German Government Think-Tank Supports Fringe Change Agents

Overview of the 400-page report World in Transition: A Social Contract for Sustainability from the German Advisory Council on Climate Change (WGBU), the heavyweight scientific body that advises the German Federal Government on …