Editorial"/>
Visualising the City
Editorial
Visualising the city discloses the fundamental relation to the city as a possible object of study. In order to know the city, to understand it, and…
– Karin Grundstrom"/>
Stråk: Visualising an urban design concept – Reflections on verbal and visual approaches in research
– Karin Grundstrom
In the Swedish metropolitan regions, the word stråk has been incorporated into urban design and planning practice as an approach to (re)-connect th…
with Nausicaa Pezzoni, on mapping perceptions of European cities"/>
Seeing the city
with Nausicaa Pezzoni, on mapping perceptions of European cities
There is an ethical reason for this kind of participatory process. It is the opportunity to listen to participants’ point of view with the intention of building a level of equality between the expert and the disorientated gaze…
– Adela Petra Popa"/>
Lighting master plan: The night time face of Timisoara city
– Adela Petra Popa
Creating an adequate nocturnal environment means the reactivation of a lost collective memory, placing an importance on light in our lives, that may connect people despite their age, nationality or social status…
– Stavros Mouzakitis"/>
Playful poly-culture: An “ecosophic” park in south west Attica
– Stavros Mouzakitis
The general goal of this competition was the transformation of the area into an extensive metropolitan green park, able to become an intensely active part of the city’s public/common space…
– Diego Iglesias Gómez and Cristóbal Baños Hernández"/>
HYPER TOKYO
– Diego Iglesias Gómez and Cristóbal Baños Hernández
A city that forces its inhabitants to live in continuous movement through complex temporal dynamics which rely on a succession of urban interiors, the infrastructure for nomadic lifestyles…
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci"/>
A palimpsest of topographies: A comparative analysis of five urban sections
– Cristiano Lippa and Fabiano Micocci
Urban societies are increasingly complex global entities. According to Henri Lefebvre, such complexification can be roughly defined in spatial term…
– Efrossyni Tsakiri"/>
Poli-Plex-Icon: A tool for city image visualization in the age of complexity
– Efrossyni Tsakiri
By analogy with Calvino’s layered city, the starting point of the urban visualization in Poli-Plex-Icon are various descriptions of the city (scientific and pre-scientific, literary, historical, personal, urban, encyclopedic, etc). All of them form the city text…
– Yorgos Garofalakis, Alexander Alexiou and Daphne Delfaki"/>
Understanding urban density: How a bespoke densification model can unlock London’s future growth
– Yorgos Garofalakis, Alexander Alexiou and Daphne Delfaki
Treated not as an enabler of monolithic high-rises but as a tool for bespoke, balanced and safe placemaking…
– Jonna Tolonen"/>
Turning into guirilandia: Experiencing gentrification in Valencia, Spain
– Jonna Tolonen
It is the sixth consecutive day that I am photographing here. After so many long hours of shooting, the neighbourhood finally starts to feel famili…
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Futures
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closing 30.09.2020
Cities have been continuously (re)produced by overlapping transitions. Palimpsests on which future visions are written over their scriptio inferior…
– from Georgina Eleftheraki, Athens, 16.06.2020"/>
Looking for an urban oasis…
– from Georgina Eleftheraki, Athens, 16.06.2020
COVID-19 brought, in a strange way, the city to the forefront, both in terms of housing and public space. On one hand, the confinement to the house…
– from Xenia Kokoula, Berlin, 26.05.2020"/>
Thinking the city through COVID-19
– from Xenia Kokoula, Berlin, 26.05.2020
In March 2020 work and everyday life was suspended, put on hold for millions of people. Suddenly confined within their homes, in front of their ske…
– from Nicolas Goez, Berlín/Medellín, 31.05.2020"/>
Uneven Pandemics
– from Nicolas Goez, Berlín/Medellín, 31.05.2020
I dwell two cities. In one, I am physically present and sometimes mentally absent. In the other, I am emotionally roaming through its streets, park…
– from Hellen Aziz, Mansoura, 05.06.2020"/>
Masks in Street Markets
– from Hellen Aziz, Mansoura, 05.06.2020
This photo was taken on 5th May 2020, during my field work in El Kafr street market in the city of Mansoura, in the Delta of Egypt, as a part of my…
– Karine Dupre from the Gold Coast, 02.06.2020"/>
Greetings from the Gold Coast
– Karine Dupre from the Gold Coast, 02.06.2020
Tablescape from my living room, inside out.
Lady Palms and Lilli Pillis compete to attract lorikeets and silver orb spiders; blue sky and metal …
– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020"/>
Could workplaces give space to schools?
– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020
The education fragility of marginals has always been a challenging issue for any state. The developing nations have an extreme shortage of resource…
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020"/>
Z/Room Society
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020
This image is a “still” of the first step of the quarantine period. The anxiety of the unexpected state of suddenly being alone, forced to be inert…
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020"/>
Children’s hopes and well-being
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020
This is a photo I took from my window of a group of children playing football in the space in between two buildings in Ramadan during night curfew …
– from Ramin Rahman, Kabul, 23.05.2020"/>
The fearless city
– from Ramin Rahman, Kabul, 23.05.2020
My name is Ramin Rahman. I am a freelance photographer in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. After one and a half months of quarantine, I left home fo…