Category: SHORT NOTES

SHORT NOTES 

Machizukuri (Neighborhood Making): Collective World-Making in Traditional Japanese Neighborhoods

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Machizukuri (Neighborhood Making): Collective World-Making in Traditional Japanese Neighborhoods   Paul Haimes   Machizukuri (literally “neighborhood making”) is a recent approach to community development in Japan, beginning in the 1960s, that aims to empower local communities in the development of their built environments through “more participation, independence in the decision-making process, and the establishment of […]

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Reflections on Beauty

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Reflections on Beauty Miklos Nicolaus Legrady   Beauty is a blessing and curse, at times superficial yet also bred in the bone. Beauty has a particularly bad reputation right now so merely to mention the subject might cost the writer some credibility in the art community: “What is the matter with you? Get with the […]