Urban Biodiversity and Climate Change; Adaptation and Mitigation – October 8 – 12th, 2012 Mumbai, India The 3rd International conference of Urban Biodiversity and Design (URBIO 2012) is being organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and will be held in Mumbai, India from 8th to 12th October 2012. URBIO is an open worldwide scientific network […] read more
Launched on last March, Integrated Habitat Design Competition (IHDC) 2012 Conference, Public Exhibition & VIP Awards Ceremony, Natural History Museum, London, is going to be held next October 15th. This year subject is “Ecosystem Services come to Town. Adapting to Climate Change by Working with Nature”. Our towns and cities face numerous complex challenges – overheating, surface water management, air […] read more
Once Upon a Time a Rocky Paradise from gloria lattanzi on Vimeo. A short trailer about the Summer School in Neuroergonomics and Urban Design. Poem by Vibhavari Jani. Music by Jenny England. Filming and Editing by Andrea Centofanti. 2012 (c) International Society of Biourbanism – www.biourbanism.org | www.biourbanistica.com read more
Journal of Biourbanism The Journal of Biourbanism (JBU) is a biannual peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international online journal. The journal takes an incisive look into the bios/life of urbanism through perspectives in architecture, planning, environmental studies, and other social sciences. The journal aims to critically review and define the notions of biourbanism. Assessing human-centered or need- based […] read more
CALL FOR IMAGES of the Journal of Biourbanism www.journalofbiourbanism.org JBU is looking for photo contributions on the following subject: the biophilic and sustainable city, and sustainable ways of living. The aim is editing a supplementary photographic issue, with both a scientific and artistic value. Please submit no more than 5 pictures to photoeditor@biourbanism.org, by February 15th […] read more
Please consider becoming a Participating Member of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BIOURBANISM for 2012. The membership fees for 2012: student member: 40,00 euro / year ordinary member: 60,00 euro / year supporting member: 200,00 euro / year corporate and institutional member: 500,00 euro / year. Participating Members support the work of the International Society of […] read more
Letter to Mr. Steve Jobs | Apple Inc. June 14, 2011 Dear Mr Jobs, Due to the wonders of the iPad, I came across your June 7th presentation to the Cupertino council of the plans for the new Apple campus. My excitement at the start of your presentation — expecting Apple’s cutting edge tradition to […] read more
Stefano Serafini, research director of the International Society of Biourbanism, awarded as honorary member of Greenaccord Association, by the President Alfonso Cauteruccio. read more
Interview with Julio César Pérez appeared in Cuban Art News, 6 January 2011.
Last month, on December 16, Cuban architect Julio César Pérez opened an exhibition of architecture and planning at the Eduardo Abela Gallery in the town of San Antonio de los Baños. Pérez, who graduated from Havana’s School of Architecture in 1982, has taught and lectured at Harvard University, the Boston Architectural Center, and the University of Toronto. He is the author of Inside Cuba (Taschen, 2006), The Island: Visions of Cuba (Editorial Samper, 2009).
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The monstrous project of building a 403 meters skyscraper in the centre of St. Petersburg, Russia, has been dismissed by a presidential ukaz. According to Guardian, company in charge of realizing the Okhta Centre, the Scotland-based multinational RMJM, is sailing in troubled waters. read more