The Horton Plaza Mall in Downtown San Diego was once vivid and colourful. The bright colours may still be there, but the consumers have gone: it has become a ruin of a mall. The property developer Stockdale now wants to convert it into a high-tech campus with entertainment facilities. A last visit to a remnant of history.
Hiding in plain sight, the words that developers use to describe their projects reveal an awful lot about the kind of city they’re trying to create.
In military strategy and global trade, the chokepoint is one of the most interesting ways in which geography can be used to mess with the powers that be.
Thanks to a popular Tumblr blog, Belgium architecture has developed a reputation for ugliness, but a survey of Antwerp’s buildings suggests “weird” might be a better description.
Now derelict, Moscow’s Narkomfin Building was once a potent expression of the social condenser, an approach to building which sought to engineer a new, more socialist community.
Valencia’s mayor Rita Barbera had a hold over the city’s urban development for almost a quarter of a century, her rise and fall tells us a lot about the changing nature of Spanish urban development.
