Volume 1, no. 2 Summer 2017
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Urban Formats
Preface
It’s been a challenging but exciting few months since our launch. We have been slightly overwhelmed by the amount of high-quality work submitted in…
– Karine Dupre and Ruwan Fernando"/>
A Community Project: the students have their say, what can we learn?
– Karine Dupre and Ruwan Fernando
The Gold Coast of Australia is noted for its real estate development around artificial canals connected to the Pacific Ocean. The coastline has bee…
– Karin Grundström"/>
Urban Gating: a Swedish take on the Gated Community
– Karin Grundström
Gates and fences cut through and divide cities. In Paris, a fence is to be constructed around the Eiffel tower and in New York artist Ai Weiwei wil…
Spaces of care and spaces of insecurity: homelessness and precarity at a north London night shelter and beyond
– Ruth Ellenby
“I’m feeling like a bit of a regular now – the briefing – great news that Rodney (1) has been given accommodation by the council! – sad not to see …
Green Urban Lab
– Urban Gorillas
Green Urban Lab acts as a tool regenerating urban public spaces in Cyprus, and reclaiming public spaces in four main cities across the island. …
– Maria Kostareva"/>
Notes
– Maria Kostareva
Notes is a series of small format drawings which reflect my sense of the city. I was born in a village, yet most of my life so far has been set in …
– Virginia Garfunkel"/>
Moloch & Adventureland
– Virginia Garfunkel
The big city is both: risk and opportunity, the place of dreams and neuroses, the possibility of withdrawal or communication, Moloch and Adventurel…
What happened, Major Tom?
A fantastical vision of Cairo’s elevated highway
– Amin El-Didi
, Mina George,
Hussein Salem
Outdoor advertising has become a world-wide urban aesthetic in our modern societies. Businesses would call billboards a method of advertising w…
Call for Submissions
Tourism and the City
Call for Submissions
closing 31.10.2017
“Tourists go home” slogans were recently painted on the walls of Barcelona; they follow policies passed earlier this year at local level limiting t…
Publishing Editor
Vacancy
closing 29.09.2017
We are looking for a partner who shares our exhaustive curiosity about the urban world to join us as the Publishing Editor of The Urban Transcripts…