HACC - Engineering Department

The Stories Behind 17 Skyscrapers & High-Rise Buildings That Changed Architecture The skyscraper: representative of spatial economy and a symbol of power. This building typology has a storied, turbulent and even contested past....

This is something to watch as technology increases ways to document existing conditions in building - cloud point data.

3D tours allow homebuyers to fully explore multiple properties before seeing them in person! Real estate agents and brokers around the world are using Matterport's immersive Spaces to market their listings, bring in more qualified leads, and sell homes faster! Find out more at www.matterport.com.

This would make a great multi cultural and multi discipline discussion as it relates to Harrisburg's Comprehensive Plan. Maybe a future EdCamp at HACC Midtown?

http://www.sustainablecitiescollective.com/klaus-philipsen/1074216/are-cities-becoming-less-authentic

Placemaking and Gentrification and Planning and Authenticity | Sustainable Cities Collective In the never ending quest to find out what millennials want (bike sharing, walkability, brewpubs, strong coffee, placemaking) another attribute is frequently mentioned: authenticity, both as a desired quality millennials seek, or as a threatened quality that their influx destroys.

Watch This Lego Device Build (and Launch) a Paper Airplane The contraption was built over five days, using 4,000 Lego pieces and lots of paper.

Transit Agencies Can Now Test New Routes in a Virtual World Urban Engines now offers companies and transit agencies the ability to test and compare different choices in the virtual world.

The River of Data — MIT MEDIA LAB Cities historically were planned alongside waterways–long and winding from mountains into towns. This dates back to the …

Professor Anderson was an amazing professor of architecture who challenged students to understand the multiplicity of context in any architectural endeavor.

Professor Stanford Anderson dies at 81 Noted scholar and founder of the History, Theory and Criticism Program led the Department of Architecture from 1991 to 2004.

The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, the map shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. That's 308,745,538 dots in all.

It would be great to see this and related classes for HACC buildings in Midtown.

Edenworks Is Building The Future Of Food On Urban Rooftops Avocados from Mexico. Apples from Chile. Broccoli from China. If you take a look at the stickers on the produce you’re buying at the grocery store, chances..

http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/08/17/googles-new-project-could-convince-you-to-buy-solar-panels/

Google’s new project could convince you to buy solar panels Google wants to make it easy for people to consider using solar power for their homes. Today it launched a tool called Project Sunroof, which uses Google M