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Audio Library
The Rise, Fall and Rise of Detroit - Part 3: Omar Blaik
February 7, 2013
Once the nation’s fifth-largest city, Detroit has lost nearly 60% of its population since the mid-1950s. Panelists discuss the challenges facing a shrinking Detroit and the planning and econmic development solutions for revitalizing the city.
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The Rise, Fall and Rise of Detroit - Part 4: Panel Discussion
February 7, 2013
Once the nation’s fifth-largest city, Detroit has lost nearly 60% of its population since the mid-1950s. Panelists discuss the challenges facing a shrinking Detroit and the planning and econmic development solutions for revitalizing the city.
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The Rise, Fall and Rise of Detroit - Part 2: Dan Gilmartin
February 7, 2013
Once the nation’s fifth-largest city, Detroit has lost nearly 60% of its population since the mid-1950s. Panelists discuss the challenges facing a shrinking Detroit and the planning and econmic development solutions for revitalizing the city.
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Frederick Law Olmsted
Portraits in Design
February 2, 2013
Ethan Carr, Phd, FASLA, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, considered the influential career of Frederick Law Olmsted, and discussed his work.
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Jamie Drake
Spotlight on Design
January 30, 2013
Jamie Drake, FASID, IIDA, founder of New York-based Drake Design Associates, discusses his exuberant color sense, taste for glamour, and eye for telling detail in projects that include the Kips Bay Show House, and private residences.
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Documenting Detroit
January 8, 2013
In a discussion moderated by John Beardsley, Camilo José Vergara and Andrew Moore speak about contrasting visions of Detroit—that seen in art and on the internet and that of day-to-day life within the city.
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Blogging, Social Media, and Interior Design
INSIDE
November 20, 2012
Shelter magazines and television shows have provided millions of people a wealth of home design ideas for decades. Blogging and social media are the newest ways to communicate these ideas. Sites such as Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy and Pinterest provide an interface for discussing interior design with a virtual community. A panel of experts and design practioners discuss the evolution of this new form of communication and media.
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Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright
November 18, 2012
Priscilla J. Henken and her husband, David, participated in The Fellowship, the group of acolytes who made Taliesin an architectural colony from the 1930s through the 1950s. In Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright her lively description of day-to-day life provides unique insights into the world of Frank Lloyd Wright during the period. Henken’s children, Elissa R. Henken, Jonathan T. Henken, and Mariamne H. Whatley, and diary editor and National Building Museum curator Sarah Leavitt discussed the diary and its significance. The publication of Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright was made possible by STUDIOS Architecture.
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Original Green
Smart Growth
November 14, 2012
Steve Mouzon, principal of Mouzon Design, presents the concept of Original Green, emphasizing sustainable places that are nourishable, accessible, and serviceable, with buildings that are durable, flexible, and frugal.
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Edith Wharton At Home
November 3, 2012
Richard Guy Wilson, noted professor and author of Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount (Monacelli) explores Wharton's direct hand in the creation of her country home and its landscape.
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