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Landscape Architecture Magazine: In the early 1920s, leaders of the Soviet Union had a communication problem: how to relay the abstract and complex communist ideology and economy to their scattered constituents across several nations, languages, and varying literacy levels. Enter the agit-train, a multimedia spectacle covered with constructivist supergraphics that drew crowds at every stop. The agit-trains carried […]

CT POST: BRIDGEPORT — As he exits the governor’s office, Dannel Malloy and his administration are giving $14.6 million worth of parting gifts to the city that helped elect him twice and recently ensured another Democrat — Ned Lamont — will take over as Connecticut’s chief executive. The state bond commission, which is chaired by the

ARCH DAILY: As part of a global, interdisciplinary effort to tackle climate change, architects are devoting resources towards optimizing the energy efficiency of buildings old and new. This effort is more than justified, given that buildings account for almost 40% of UK and US emissions. As awareness of the issue of climate change becomes more apparent each year, so too do the

CT POST: Rebecca French is blunt when she’s asked about hurricanes and Connecticut’s preparedness for them.“Have we figured out as a state, as a region, individually figured out how to not have damage from those storms? No!” she said. French ought to know. Until recently, she was with the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA)

The New Republic: When Amazon announced on Tuesday that it would build one of its new headquarters in Long Island City’s Anable Basin, environmentalists were quick to notice that the site could be partially underwater by 2050. By the next century, it will be completely submerged, according to the environmental research group Climate Central’s most