She Wants Your Attention, She’s the Voice of the City

She Wants Your Attention, She’s the Voice of the City

From switchboard operators to virtual assistants, the use of disembodied voices continues to entangle women, technology and labour and perpetuate gender stereotypes in public and private spaces.

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Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving

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Italy’s “Countryside” Does Not Need Saving

NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital

NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital

Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping

Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping

Barricades, Boulders, and How LA’s Public Space Became a Battleground for the Commons

Barricades, Boulders, and How LA’s Public Space Became a Battleground for the Commons

The distinction between private and public is too rigid, it doesn’t allow for in-between areas

How British Colonial Architecture Excluded Pakistani Women From the Public Sphere

How British Colonial Architecture Excluded Pakistani Women From the Public Sphere

Betraying the Profession: Design Labour Against Technocracy

Betraying the Profession: Design Labour Against Technocracy

Baku’s Urban Growth Machine Pits Residents Against Construction Workers

Baku’s Urban Growth Machine Pits Residents Against Construction Workers

Anti-car barriers, fencing, security cameras, anti-homeless spikes, and other blunt technologies

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

Let’s Remind Architecture and Design Organisations of Their Support for Black Lives Matter

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Let’s Remind Architecture and Design Organisations of Their Support for Black Lives Matter

Call for articles: Cities After Algorithms

Call for articles: Cities After Algorithms

The impotence of nostalgia is pervasive

OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise

OMA Uses Brutalist Aesthetics to “Greywash” the Luxury High Rise

After the Gay Bar, The Uncertain Future of Queer Space

After the Gay Bar, The Uncertain Future of Queer Space

Claiming Cinematic Space: Agnès Varda’s Pioneering Take on Women’s Urban Experience

Claiming Cinematic Space: Agnès Varda’s Pioneering Take on Women’s Urban Experience

Is The Freeport Set to Become The Defining Architecture of Post-Brexit Britain?

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Is The Freeport Set to Become The Defining Architecture of Post-Brexit Britain?

But I do think American taste is improving…

Before ArchDaily and Dezeen, There Was Aline Saarinen

Before ArchDaily and Dezeen, There Was Aline Saarinen
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