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Issue 02:
Contextualism/Globalism

 
 
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Old Beijing in 21st Century Globalized China

By Ina Li (MUP + MPP ’20)

Beijing is a city under constant transformation, from the imperial capital, the communist vanguard, the industrial center, the Olympics city, to the global metropolis today. Each transformation marks the end of a regime, a leadership, and a cultural generation, and the particular mix of ancient and modern…

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The unstable stability of soybean production under capitalism

Analyzing the Energetics of Urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Angeliki Giannisi, Masters in Architecture I, Harvard

Anne Hudson, Masters in City Planning/Masters in Science in Transportation, MIT

Amidst concerns about the precariousness of both ecological and social sustainability on a global scale, there is a growing demand for an analytical framework that transcends the duality between nature & society and offers a novel and integrated platform from which to understand both…