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Redesigning the Slums: Stirling’s Urban Neighborhood
Posted on August 24, 2011When James Frazer Stirling won the Good Housing Competition prize in 1963 for his architectural design, the Daily Mail ran the outraged headline, “Frankly, do you think this is WORTH […] -
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Notes From A Native New Yorker: Shrinking Displays of the Department Store
Posted on August 9, 2011Michelle Stein— In The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960, Richard Longstreth documents the development of the department store as it moves from “a great, all-inclusive emporium that helped define the […] -
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Tomorrow’s Modern Design of the World’s Fairs
Posted on August 5, 2011Everything can be modernized: this is an idea that came close to being a “dogma” in the 1930s. Architecture, businesses, and infrastructure could progress, but so could corporate branding, family […]