Can these very forms, supported by social media and new technologies, now extend to urban design and planning?

BBC: What if...you could design a city?

There is also a browse-worthy bookshop with Scandinavia's largest selection of architecture, design and urban planning publications.

BBC: The reigning king of Scandinavian design

Rahul Mehrotra, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Harvard Design School, has a team on site mapping and photographing the city that has sprung up here.

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"If you look at urban planning and industrial design on both sides of the Atlantic and especially in Scandinavia, there's a real engagement with the brash possibilities of Modernism, " Mr. Breward says.

WSJ: British Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum: A Nostalgic Leap Forward

Yes, the timing could be better, but Istanbul is newly exciting this fall for design aficionados and anyone interested in urban planning.

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Last November at Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Thomas Vander Wal and Gordon Ross spoke on What Urban Planning can Teach Social Business Design.

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