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
Over 40 years after Henry Lefebvre’s Le Droit à la Ville (“The Right to the City”, 1968) was conceived, the notion of a “renewed right to urban life”, or in other words “a right to an equitable usufruct of cities within the principles of sustainability, democracy, equity, and social justice” has hardly ever seemed as out of reach as it does today. read more
Il 48° Congresso AICA è organizzato con l'Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, città dove il devastante sisma del 6 Aprile 2009 ha colpito duramente gran parte della città e dei centri abitati circostanti come anche gran parte delle infrastrutture di base, acquedotti, rete del gas, rete elettrica. A poco più di 1 anno dal sisma e dall’uscita dalla fase di emergenza, inizia un percorso di ricostruzione in tutti i settori, di cui l'ICT può costituire il volano facilitatore. read more