by Nicola | Jun 30, 2010
A tip passed along from BLDGBLOG’s meeting with documentary filmmakers tracing lost rivers in cities all over the world led me to the Tyburn Angling Society, and its curious confluence of daylighting, urban foraging, and legislative archaeology. IMAGE: The crest... by Nicola | Jun 28, 2010
IMAGE: Watermelons at the Central de Abasto in DF. All photos by the author unless otherwise noted. IMAGE: La Central de Abasto from a helicopter. Photo by Oscar Ruiz. La Central de Abasto de la Ciudad de México is enormous. It sprawls across a 327 hectare site on the... by Nicola | Jun 22, 2010
IMAGE: Still from Talking Nose video. All images courtesy Sissel Tolaas, unless otherwise credited. Artist Sissel Tolaas was one of the people I most wanted to speak at Postopolis! DF, having seen her discussing smell as design in New York earlier this year. Although... by Nicola | Jun 16, 2010
Long-time Pruned readers (which I encourage you all to become, if you are not already) might remember a short post from January 2007, which introduced Carlos Barrios, a former accountant turned official Mexico City sewer diver. These Washington Post descriptions of... by Nicola | Jun 14, 2010
IMAGE: Walmart, Mexico City. Walmart sells more food each year than anyone else in Mexico. It is the country’s biggest private employer, with a range of supermarkets (the high-end Superama and discount Bodega), department stores (the wonderfully named Suburbia)...