REVISITING AND RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY URBAN DESIGN

Rethinking Interaction Design for Hybrid Urban Space

Hybrid urban space requires significantly different approaches to interaction design. The interaction design challenge will be to include spatial, ethical, personal and wider societal concerns as well as the conditio humana into the design model by understanding human values and needs.

The Opacity of Glass Rethinking Transparency in Contemporary Architecture

In this paper, an exchange of letters between the philosopher Jacques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman is used as a catalyst to discuss the material qualities of glass and its relationship with the concept of transparency in architecture. In his criticism of an architecture devoid of human qualities, Derrida uses glass, defined through Walter Benjamin’s writings, as a hard and cold material...

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City

Rethinking Clientelism: Demands, Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Brazil

Urban Development in Contemporary China

Known for its ancient metropolises, China has recently amazed the world with its rapid urban development as it enters the new millennium. Although China is still a predominately agrarian society with only 36 percent of its population living in cities in 2000, it has more people living in cities (456 million) than the total population of any other nation in the world except India (National Burea...