Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Technology & The City
Are Video Games Art?
While many video games probably should not be considered art, there are good reasons to think that some should be, and that the debates concerning the artistic status of chess and sports offer some insights into the status of video games
Aaron Smuts , Contemporary Aesthetics, 2 November 2005
While many video games probably should not be considered art, there are good reasons to think that some should be, and that the debates concerning the artistic status of chess and sports offer some insights into the status of video games
Aaron Smuts , Contemporary Aesthetics, 2 November 2005
Towards a European City Model?
It is difficult to speak of a standard European model of the city if we take into account the diversity of the continent’s cities, especially in terms of their respective traditions, whether Anglo-Saxon, Central European, Nordic or Mediterranean. Nonetheless, we can extract a set of common characteristics that are present in all these cities, and which define a similar way of understanding the city.
Joan Clos, Urban Age, 1 November 2005
It is difficult to speak of a standard European model of the city if we take into account the diversity of the continent’s cities, especially in terms of their respective traditions, whether Anglo-Saxon, Central European, Nordic or Mediterranean. Nonetheless, we can extract a set of common characteristics that are present in all these cities, and which define a similar way of understanding the city.
Joan Clos, Urban Age, 1 November 2005
Climate change, the role of cities
Climate change is already part of daily life - now measures to combat it must become part of cities' formal work programmes and action plans
Various, Local capacities for global agendas, UNEP and UN HABITAT, May 2005
Climate change is already part of daily life - now measures to combat it must become part of cities' formal work programmes and action plans
Various, Local capacities for global agendas, UNEP and UN HABITAT, May 2005
Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential
Open source methodology has the potential to give people forms of power that they have either lost or never had
Geoff Mulgan, Omar Salem and Tom Steinberg, Demos, 19 April 2005
Open source methodology has the potential to give people forms of power that they have either lost or never had
Geoff Mulgan, Omar Salem and Tom Steinberg, Demos, 19 April 2005
Going to the blogs?
The idea that blogging might be the salvation of politics seems not just to overstate the impact of the Internet, but to understate the problem of public disenchantment with politics
Kenan Malik, BBC, 30 March 2005
The idea that blogging might be the salvation of politics seems not just to overstate the impact of the Internet, but to understate the problem of public disenchantment with politics
Kenan Malik, BBC, 30 March 2005
Venice Turns to Future to Rescue Its Past
When Jane da Mosto scrambles from the water taxi onto the front steps of her family's ancient palazzo on the Grand Canal, her gaze is tinged with mourning.
Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, 22 February 2005
When Jane da Mosto scrambles from the water taxi onto the front steps of her family's ancient palazzo on the Grand Canal, her gaze is tinged with mourning.
Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times, 22 February 2005
What is China Thinking? - Bingqin Lee
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