Alistair Knox (1912–1986) and the Birth of Environmental Building in Australia
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 18
urbanization
The Fen River in Taiyuan, China: Ecology, Revitalization, and Urban Culture
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 17
Versailles’ Drinking Water and the Last Service of the Marly Machine, 1859–1963
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 14
Sprawling from Grace
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
Hauling
This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.
The Human Scale
This film criticizes the twentieth-century urban planning model of megacities and argues for a return to a human scale of design.
De Engel van Doel [An Angel in Doel]
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.
Detropia
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
The Kauri Case—Native Nature and National Identity in Titirangi, New Zealand
Arcadia, Summer 2016, no. 11
"Water and the City"
This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.