[Image: Combustible City by Common Room]. The New York-based group Common Room will soon be publishing and displaying in their space a series of walks around the city, walks that, in their words, "demonstrate, at four different spatial scales, the agency of combustion in shaping the city’s architecture,...
Fields of the Future
Peter Brewer, an ocean chemist at Monterey, is working on what Nature Climate Change calls an "underwater aquarium." [Image: A diagram of Peter Brewer's "underwater aquarium," via Nature Climate Change]. It is, Brewer explains, "a 10m-long flume with an experimental chamber that sits on a patch of...
Urban Target Complex National Monument
[Image: Yodaville, via Google Maps]. Yodaville is a fake city in the Arizona desert used for bombing runs by the U.S. Air Force. Writing for Air & Space Magazine back in 2009, Ed Darack wrote that, while tagging along on a training mission, he noticed "a small town in the distance—which, as we got...
