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Wired August 2003 Josh McHugh	The Lost City of Venice For centuries, St. Mark's Square has been slowly slipping closer to Atlantis. Here's how a massive system of floodgates could turn the tide.
Fast Company July 2003 Christine Canabou	Design for Collaboration A look into world-class architecture-and-design firm Gensler's new headquarters.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2003 Alison J. Head	Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites Alan Cooper has kindled a strong interest in personas. Cooper's leading interaction design firm has often used personas for developing consumer hardware and software products, but personas can be applied to information-intensive Web design projects, too.
Wired June 2003 R.E. Somol	Join the Club From Las Vegas to Arizona to Orange County, California, there is a Bermuda Triangle of lost orthogonality, an arid territory made improbably fertile by the emergence of a new form of development: the golf course.
Wired June 2003 Rem Koolhaas	Best-Laid Plan Public space is somewhere between success and failure
Wired June 2003 Paul Elliman	Now Hear This: When Space Starts Speaking. We Listen. Our cities can finally talk to us. Using just a few words at a time, they speak from the walls and ceilings of buildings, from elevator cars, supermarket checkouts, and subway trains -- offering directional advice, even warnings.
Wired June 2003 Rem Koolhaas	The New World 30 Spaces for the 21st Century
Wired June 2003 Rem Koolhaas	Dump Space: Freedom From Order The dump is the lowest form of spatial organization. Pure accumulation, it is formless, has an uncertain perimeter and location. The surface of the dump reveals only part of its contents; the dump is fundamentally inconsistent and unpredictable. But it has potential; it attracts scavengers.
Reason May 2003 Brian Doherty	Massively Misguided Transit Although they invariably cost far more per passenger mile than buses or automobiles, light-rail trains continue to capture the hearts of urban planners nationwide.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2003 John Teresko	Electronics: A Voyage Of Discovery Nano-based breakthroughs will shrink data-storage costs, redefine equipment maintenance and change the fundamental challenges of new-product development.
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