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Sunday 11 November 2012

19 JUL 2012 Charles Eisenstein

Gift Economy talk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/jul/30/charles-eisenstein-gift-economy

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Borderline Colonias is a project run this year by the Free Unit at London Metropolitan University as a part of Postgraduate Studies in Architecture.

This blog will serve as a data bank and a diary of research and design.

2 years ago I spent summer travelling around Mexico and for 2 weeks I joined Habitat for Humanity and helped build a house in a colonia near Cuernavaca. The fascinating paradox of great rainfall and general lack of water has become inspiration for this thesis project. I will venture to research the mechanisms with which Colonias are being built and whether harvesting rainwater could inform the urban and or dwelling development.

Cities have been arranging themselves around sources of water since the dawn of civilisations be it sea, rivers, lakes. This time the water source is vertical!

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Isolative Urbanism: An Ecology of Control; Richard Brook and Nick Dunn; 2009
Shaping the City, Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design; Rodolph El-Khoury and Edward \Robbins; 2004
Planning World Cities, Globalization and Urban Politics; Peter Newman and Andy Thornley; 2005
urban Design Futures, Malcolm Moor and Jon Rowland, 2006
Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska; 2005
Urban Images of The Hispanic World 1493 - 1793; Richard L. Kagan, 2000

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