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Beyond the project: from architecture to the living city
This piece discusses the collaborative nature of urban development, highlighting the importance of integrating diverse expertise and community involvement to create a living city. It uses the example of Azhadi Winery to illustrate how successful projects require cooperation across multiple disciplines and examines the complexities of scaling from individual buildings to entire cities.
October 6, 20265 min readNODA
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Form builds the city. Life makes us love it.
Form gives a city its permanence; it is not what makes people attached to it. What the research says about screens, content and community — and why tech-first smart cities keep failing. (Cover Image: Projection on the Grande Bibliothèque, Quartier des Spectacles, Montréal. Photo: art_inthecity, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)
October 5, 2026 · 17 min read
Trust is infrastructure, not a feeling
Communities that scale do not do it by trusting harder. They do it by building specific, boring mechanisms that make trust unnecessary in the places where it would otherwise have to be assumed.
August 16, 2026 · 5 min read