with Martin Bricelj Baraga and Miloš Kosec of NONUMENT!"/>
From monuments to nonuments
with Martin Bricelj Baraga and Miloš Kosec of NONUMENT!
Monumentality, commemoration and public display of social and political values, form one of the currents of the process of creation of public space…
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Land
Call for Submissions
closing 28.02.2020
Underlying and at times undermining urban development are the less obvious dynamics of land: ownership distribution, tenure structures, institution…
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Letters from the City
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ongoing
Things I wanted to tell you. Questions I haven’t asked. Experiences for which I have no words. I see you; I feel you; I live in you. You touch my existence, you make me feel alive and inspired…
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On to Volume 2
Preface
The reality of the Journal as an independent voluntary initiative means there are periods when the team’s work and life commitments take a toll on …
Curating capital: tourism, sustainability, and opportunity in Iceland
– Danielle S. Willkens
In 2016 and 2017, there were more Americans in Iceland than Icelanders. With a population of a nearly 333,000, and more than 65% living in the capi…
– Sofia Mavroudis"/>
The art tourist
– Sofia Mavroudis
One of the largest and most important international exhibitions of contemporary art takes place only once every five years. Documenta, the exhibiti…
– Christoph Sommer"/>
What begins at the end of urban tourism, as we know it?
– Christoph Sommer
Amidst the “overtourism” debate going on in Europe, one question pops up routinely. Namely, how much tourism do cities bear? This issue is a though…
‘Gentritourism’ and the subculture of visitors emerged from it
– Cristina Roxana Lazar and Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva
Tourism nowadays has become an industry that is increasingly influencing the way in which cities are planned and especially the direction towards w…
– Clara Zanardi"/>
Complexity-cage: toward a critical deconstruction of “tourism-phobia”
– Clara Zanardi
Tourist go home
Tourism kills the city
This isn’t tourism, it’s an invasion
Tourist: your luxury trip, my daily misery
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr "/>
Tourism in transformation: from a hectic urban environment to urban resilience in Barcelona
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr
The tourism industry has been growing worldwide since the first decades of the 20th century (Sezgin & Yolal, 2012), but particularly over the past …
– OPA!"/>
Sticking around: poster art as activism in Venice
– OPA!
This essay refers to street art practices as a creative tool for the critique of the touristification of the city of Venice. In it, we present a project of scattered…
with Sito Veracruz, co-founder of Fairbnb"/>
Fairbnb’s model for community-led tourism
with Sito Veracruz, co-founder of Fairbnb
Two prominent factors motivated me. Firstly, I am an urban planner, a “classic” urban planner from the Spanish perspective, because I graduate…
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One year old
Preface
With our fourth issue just published, we are now one year old. In these past 12 months we have published a total of 38 articles, projects, maps, dr…
– Negar Ahmadpoor"/>
Applied neuroscience in the research of place
– Negar Ahmadpoor
There is a continuous dialogue between the physical environment and the brain’s functions. The human constructs the physical environment and subseq…
– Philip Boos"/>
Spatial manifestation of mobility tactics
– Philip Boos
In 2017 we observe how access to walkable public spaces in urban areas is increasingly being restricted. One reason for this may be that motorized vehicles are usually granted…
– Rafik Patel"/>
Conflict, speech, and truth within the urban space of Tahrir square
– Rafik Patel
The Arab Spring began in December 2010, the catalyst being the self-immolation attempt of Tunisian citizen Mohamed Bouaziz (Lopez de Souza & Lipiet…
– Carolin Genz and Diana Lucas-Drogan"/>
Decoding mapping as practice: an interdisciplinary approach in architecture and urban anthropology
– Carolin Genz and Diana Lucas-Drogan
The main systematic research technique of urban anthropology is ethnography and its holistic approach to understand people within their social, spatial and…
– Patricia Capanema Alvares Fernandes"/>
Landscape as a mediator between mining and urbanisation: the case of Minas Gerais and Nova Lima, Brazil
– Patricia Capanema Alvares Fernandes
In Minas Gerais, centuries of resource extraction have resulted in a palimpsest landscape imbricated by layers of human settlements, mining and agr…
– Mohamad Abotera"/>
New space in Al-Kom Al-Ahmar: fitting community needs in leftover spaces
– Mohamad Abotera
This project aims to present a new model of urban development in Egypt. It came in the midst of unique political circumstances that we attempted to…
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Visualising the City
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closing 20.05.2018
Cities are in many ways the materialisation of the complexity of human societies: dynamic and evolving systems, made and remade, of buildings, spac…