share Using Age-Old Designs to Solve Modern Problems Part of a Global Envision miniseries about Portland State University's effort to become the "Consumer Reports" of developing-world technology. Read more »
share Re-thinking the Urban Slum Living conditions for poor urban city-dwellers across the globe are far below an even basic set of healthy standards. Poverty, violence and poor building practices combine to leave a myriad of both physical and social ailments in their wake. Read more »
share US Architects Reinvent Themselves The global economic crisis has left many people thinking about new ways to approach econoimc development and propsperity. In the last year, architects and designers have been laid-off by the thousands. Read more »
share The Sky's Limits The financial crisis is crimping construction in the Middle East and other places that had been experiencing a building boom, Der Spiegel reports. Read more »
