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Simon Romero
took to the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, for Metropolis ("Destination:
São Paulo," ) to examine a city characterized by unchecked sprawl.
A staff writer for the New York Times, Romero moved back to the
U.S. in May after five years in Brazil. "The best time to forget
about the ferocity of São Paulo is at night, when the city's sea
of electricity is dazzling," he says. Romero has also written for
the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News, and AmericaEconomia.
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Katherine
Streeter makes her debut this month illustrating Philip Nobel's
column "Far Corner". Her mixed-media
work, which she creates in her Manhattan studio, combines
traditional collage with digital manipulation. "My studio
is in the meat-packing district," she says. "You have to keep
an eye to the sky here, because sea gulls often drop bones
they have swiped from Dumpsters." Steeter's work has appeared
in Shape, Business Week, and Salon.com, and can be seen on
her Web site, www.streeterart.com.
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Rick Poyner
investigates the magalog, the latest trend in advertising: half
magazine, half catalog ("Magalogs"). "I'm
probably not the typical target reader of magalogs," he says. "My
idea of a good read is the London Review of Books: real content;
column after column of beautifully crafted writing; and not a celebrity
photo in sight." Poyner writes for Print, I.D., Graphis, and many
other publications. He founded Eye magazine in London and edited
it for seven years. Design Without Boundaries, a collection of his
essays, was published in 1998. His latest book, due this fall, is
Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures, a monograph about the maverick
British designer.
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Randy
Gragg attended last June's Conference for the New Urbanism,
which took place in his hometown, Portland, Oregon ("Trouble
in Paradise"). "I went to the conference with equal parts
hope and skepticism," he says. "The only thing higher than
the idealism among the CNUers seems to be the hubris. One
of the more encouraging aspects of the conference was the
number of members who kept talking about working to get 'the
right person in the White House in November.' I'll be anxiously
looking for that box on my ballot." Gragg writes on architecture,
urban design, and development politics for the Oregonian.
He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's,
Interiors, Landscape Architecture, and Plazm.
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