– Isabella Rossen"/>
Olympic gentrification? Hackney Wick, London: from petrol refining to showcasing arts
– Isabella Rossen
The past few years, Hackney Wick has transformed from a peripheral derelict industrial area into a new creative urban centre. Located on the fringe…
– Anna Attademo"/>
The meaning of limits in a limitless city
– Anna Attademo
Contemporary cities grow in space and time, every day struggling competitively against others, crossing spatial and conceptual limits: in the conte…
– Fabiano Micocci"/>
Chorographia Atheniensis: the reconstruction of the pre-modern geography of Athens
– Fabiano Micocci
Athens has altered its original soil. The unrelenting urban development that changed the city after the Second World War had erased the natural soi…
– Aigars Lauzis"/>
The Island
– Aigars Lauzis
The project was conceived as a M.Arch Urban Design thesis at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), London, 2009. Being located at the confluen…
– Guerilla Architects"/>
Hidden Borough.
– Guerilla Architects
In everyday life, city residents adopt and transform urban spaces for their own use. An individual subconsciously invents tactics, invisibly transf…
Phantom Railings
– Catalina Pollak
Phantom Railings (2012–2014) is an interactive public artwork that uses sound to highlight the absence of railings from a Bloomsbury garden squ…
Urban Fields, Roma
– Daniele Mancini and Urban Fields
Simple, minimal, almost intimate gestures. Over anonymous moments of everyday life. Space changes. Intention reveals what has been hidden: the …
– Simone Ludovico and Lucia Zanettichini"/>
Rhythms and faces of an accidental place
– Simone Ludovico and Lucia Zanettichini
This article discusses the techniques used for the production of the video “Rhythms and faces of an accidental place”, which is developed as a tool…
– Jacopo Bonifaci"/>
Tuscolano, an uncommon view of Rome
– Jacopo Bonifaci
These Indian ink drawings of Don Bosco – Tuscolano quarter, in Rome, are inspired by the bird’s eye views used as a city’s ‘business card’ in Europ…
– Maria Michou"/>
“Mythistorema”: fantas(ma)tic sections
– Maria Michou
Following the demolition of low-rise early 20th century housing in central Athens, the plots illustrated here emerge as transitory cracks in the co…
– Rab Harling"/>
A delicate sense of terror
– Rab Harling
Between February 2011 & February 2014, I was a resident of Ernö Goldfinger’s brutalist icon Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets. Throughout this period,…
– Felipe Lanuza"/>
Palimpsests of light: the absence of the Heygate Estate
– Felipe Lanuza
Projected in the late 1960s and built between 1970 and 1974, the Heygate Estate was a product of the late phase of urban and architectural modernis…
The Westway: four decades of community activism
– CivicWise
A walk along the Westway, the largest elevated urban highway in Europe, located is West London. The area below and around the Westway has witne…
Urban Fragments: Athens from a distance
– archIV+
Metropolis, Centre, Epicentre, the Absolute Greek City, Greek Provinces and Athens. Violence in the centre, immigrants, abandonment, seizure, t…
Walls Speak
– Evdokia Koraki and Catherine Blin
Walls speak and Catherine, a new resident in the country, took a camera and photographed the “sayings”. Among the thousands of graffiti writte…