Author Archives: Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Follow link for 40 min. interview with Times Higher (UK) on the new book Sex and Buildings.  Much discussion of US urbanism, modernism, and LA architecture, as well as the relationship between sexual ethics and architecture.…

Originally posted on Earth Baby:
Indonesian rainforest. Not my image. According to Positive News, the forest dwelling indigenous people in Indonesia may soon have the legal rights to control those forests. This means they would be private property, and the…

Originally posted on DEMOCRACITIES:
Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979 – By J. Dana Stuster | Foreign Policy. “Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979 From Cairo to Wall Street to the West Bank, plotting a world…

Originally posted on robertscribbler:
If anything, the upcoming book, Growth Shock, is a call for action. Confronting the combined threat posed by a rapid depletion of renewable and nonrenewable resources, a human population that is still growing beyond the 7…