Sentences with phrase «urban utopia»
... For me, the Menil neighborhood is really a holistic place, a kind of contemporary urban utopia.»
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On his own block on the South Side of Chicago, Gates has engineered a miniature urban utopia, turning the once - blighted buildings that surround him into artist residencies, a library and even a cinema house that shows works by aspiring filmmakers from the neighborhood.
As colorfully - vibrant as Saekdong (traditional Korean attire), South Korean artist Tae - Jin Seong's carved wood painted panels depict satirical scenes of urban utopia.
Situated on the southern bank of the Brisbane River in the heart of this renowned artistic precinct, this contemporary hotel is just 30 minutes from the Brisbane Airport, with public transport on the doorstep so you can explore this urban utopia without hassle.
God save me from mush - minded futurists predicting a new urban utopia thanks to the wonders of the self - driving car.
Both halves feature production designer Mark Friedberg's meticulous re-creations of bustling cityscapes — from the beautifully grimy multicultural wonderland of Ben's New York to an equally textured evocation of Rose's monochrome, pre-Depression urban utopia — and Haynes and editor Affonso Gonçalves shift between them with abrupt cuts and sound bridges that produce a textured, sensory experience of the city.
Clearly, a compelling vision, clear road map and creativity are required to build Africa's urban utopias of the future.
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And past efforts at doing that — whether through the urban renewal of individual neighborhoods or the wholesale development of utopias — have invariably failed for that reason.
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The participating artists address themes such as memory and self - reflection, social and political issues such as discrimination, racism, the failure of the modern utopia, urban violence and exploitation of the Amazon rain forest.
Through a series of concrete and abstract geographies and their latent meanings, in A Staggering Territory Asbjørn Skou offers a critical perspective on contemporary urban planning and its consequences which are presented as a precarious terrain balancing between disaster and utopia.
In this illuminating talk with The Conversation Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist, he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies, past and future projects, utopia, influences and metaphysics, revealing a wise and deeply - animated humanistic intellect.
In Utopias, Unmoored, Leinberger creates a series of photographs and videos of small - scale islands of urban settings constructed out of unstable and inexpensive materials — foam, colored paper, wood pieces — in the water.
She has received grants from the Puffin Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Brooklyn Historical Society for her original Brooklyn Utopias (BU) exhibition and programming series inviting contemporary artists to respond to urban planning issues.
The Group exhibition «A Luxury We Can not Afford», uses popular culture, economic and urban planning history, and art of the «50s /»60s and «00s, two moments in which Singapore was at the brink of economic utopia.