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August/September 2002

Features

21 Great Design Ideas
Introduction to this special issue.
  1. Mass Customization
  2. Instant Information
  3. National Design Museum
  4. Bioinspiration
  5. Microclimates
  6. Nonpolluting Cars
  7. Sustainable Skyscrapers
  8. Public Toilets
  9. Experience Mapping
  10. Modern Contextualism
  11. Outside The Academy
  12. Eco-Audit
  13. Environmental Party
  14. Rapid Prototyping
  15. Urban Authenticity
  16. Virtual Interiors
  17. Congestion Pricing
  18. Pedestrian Cities
  19. Invisible Security
  20. Multicentered Cities
  21. Plastic Paper

Departments

Notes From Metropolis
Inclusion.

Starting
by Philip Nobel
Architecture's fear of the blank slate has hidden effects.


Technicolor Skylines
by Dave Eggers
Why can't our cities be clothed in the colors of the world?


The End Of Openness
by Akiko Busch
Modern notions of transparency have long denied a basic human need: privacy.

Rethinking Robert Moses
by Phillip Lopate
What if New York's notorious master builder wasn't such a bad guy after all?


Renewing The New Media
by John Maeda
A call to reform an ailing field.


Portable Mayhem
by John Hockenberry
Today's nightmare--a nuclear device carried in a backpack--was tested by the U.S. military 40 years ago. That insane idea may become reality.


The Newanderthals
by Bruce McCall
Architecture's bold leap backward.


Deep Design
by Barbara Flanagan
The next frontier: targeting our senses to reach our emotions.


A Plea For Ornamentation
by Véronique Vienne
Why do Modernists display so much hostility toward adornment?


Architect Do No Harm
by Blair Kamin
Tales of moral decrepitude from the notebook of an ever more cynical architecture critic.


The Coming Age
by Robert Campbell
What role will design play in the next century?


Collaborating With Nature
by Paul Goldberger
When architecture and the natural world combine, both are transformed.


The Factory Of The Future
by Bruce Sterling
The post-industrial model is not an assembly line, but an assembly swarm.


The View From The Prow Of The Getty
by Lawrence Weschler
There's much more to be seen from Richard Meier's famed museum than the City of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.


The Mod Squad

Historic preservation has entered a new era with the Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee.


The Road To Hell
by Milton Glaser
Bending the truth can be a slippery slope for graphic designers.


The Twentieth Century'S Worst Design Ideas

Thinking With Your Hands
In praise of the tactile.

Reference Page
More information on people and places covered in this issue.

Ben Katchor
New uses for vitreous china.

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