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Reclaim the city! Reclaim nightlife!
Nightlife and its role in promoting and diffusing culture needs to be officially recognised, write two Geneva based activists. While the authorities of the Swiss city are indeed becoming more attuned to nocturnal culture, support tends to be limited to its commercial, mainstream variety. [more]
The mythological city
Whether it is prehistoric paintings on the walls of caves or the graffiti and advertising we see all over the walls of our modern cities, people need to mark out their space, distinguish it from the untamed wilderness. Peter Wendl asks why we still need to produce signs and icons in public spaces. [more]
"Walhalla is a department store"
On the technologically advanced Romanticism of the German Empire
When department stores first emerged in imperial Germany, they were admired as technological achievements yet feared for their corrosive effect on the state. This was typical of the "reactionary modernity" that went on to form the core of Nazism, writes Thomas Lenz. [more]
Three stages in the art of public participation
The relational, social and durational
"Participation is not only a form of co-production but also an end product in itself". Curator, artist and theorist Paul O'Neill traces a development from the site-specific artwork to long-term participatory urban art projects. [more]
Three chapters for a future of the unplanned
In cooperation with "dérive", the Eurozine Gallery presents Barbara Holub. Her drawings create an opportunity to reassess habitual ways of seeing, and tell us: there are no innocent images; the images are already in us, writes Ines Gebetsroither. [more]
Chapter 1: Ambivalence, necessity, free will
A project exhibited in the Eurozine Gallery [more]
Chapter 2: Beyond a society with economy as driving force: New values are wanted
A project exhibited in the Eurozine Gallery [more]
Chapter 3: A plea for unplanned pleasure
A project exhibited in the Eurozine Gallery [more]
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On the work of Barbara Holub
Barbara Holub's drawings prompt recognition without us having experienced the situations they represent, writes Ines Gebetsroither. They create an opportunity to reassess habitual ways of seeing, and tell us: there are no innocent images; the images are already in us. [more]
Parasitic strategies of deconstruction
Deconstructivist architecture reveals the immanent breaks in the modern, the impossibility of social order, the fact of constant change. Like a parasite, it nests itself into the old city, causing creative disruption, drawing attention to the exclusions in static and hierarchical spaces. [more]
From hegemony to diversity
A new look at the migration society
The image of "inadaptable" immigrants who retreat into parallel worlds where they reproduce their "culture of origin" permeates academic discourse on migration. Immigrants' everyday reality is thereby overlooked, writes Erol Yildiz. [more]
The drawn sprawl
Illustrative urbanization in children's literature
Children's literature no longer has only a rural setting; the urban environment forms the backdrop for many heroes and their adventures. Sequential, filmic illustrations that shun conventional viewing patterns are a more recent development, writes Ines Wagner. [more]
Living work
"Architecture has always marked out and organized spaces of production, has formulated both structural and symbolic orders that work inwardly as a well as outwardly." On the convergence of private life and vita activa. [more]
Art interventions as alternative place-making
Urban cultural exchange between Vienna and Hong Kong
Both Vienna and Hong Kong are prototypical tourist destinations. In Hong Kong, valuable cultural sites have been demolished, while in Vienna, cultural treasures have been exhausted, writes Hilary Tsui. [more]
Planning and liberalism
Applied to city planning, Foucauldian "governmentality" implies local governance, the close involvement of civil society, and low taxation. This approach is ambiguous, both creating and closing off open space. [more]
Vienna noir
Austrian film in the postwar era
In postwar Austrian cinema, bombed-out Vienna provided the backdrop for films portraying returning soldiers as victims. International productions such as "The Third Man" and "The Red Danube" upset this myth and made Vienna the location for a new drama: the Cold War. [more]
The demolition of Star Ferry Pier
Urban reclamation versus cultural heritage in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has branded itself as "Asia's World City", yet by demolishing historical features to make way for shopping malls and tourist kitsch, it is becoming just another Asian megalopolis. [more]
Urban landscape planning
The question of sustainability
Contemporary European urban "planning" is an oxymoron. All too often, residential needs come second to the profit-based interests of a deregulated property sector. But deregulation didn't come from nowhere... [more]
Sofia, fluid city
New social inequalities brought by the transition to a free-market economy are taking shape in the traditionally privileged Sofia. In a privatized city, affluence levels are all too easily read in the urban fabric. But appropriations at the neighbourhood level are mere irritations compared to larger incursions into the city space. [more]
Sounds of globalization
Observations from Zurich
If the globe is an acoustic space, then globalization is an audible process. Listening for truth of the "World is Flat" theory. [more]
Network-based urban policy
National and transnational networks between cities are expanding in response to regional and international competition. But these are not the solution to real problems of employment policy so much as "superstructural hocus-pocus". [more]
The erratic state of reality
Yona Friedman in interview
The author of Architecture mobile and La ville spatiale talks about the ideal inhabitant of his flexible city and the universality of the concepts of participation, choice, and openness. [more]
Entrepreneurial urban politics and urban social movements in Los Angeles
The struggle for urban farmland in South Central
While ostensibly dealing with the local consequences of wider structural transformation, so-called "entrepreneurial urban policy" plays a major role in reproducing the conditions it seeks to redress. The community garden campaign in South Central L.A. is a local movement that resists the vested interests behind local planning. [more]
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