– Guillaume Vanneste and Nicolas Willemet"/>
Four pocket parks: Towards landed commons
– Guillaume Vanneste and Nicolas Willemet
The project of four pocket parks is being carried out in the framework of the sustainable neighbourhood contracts “contrat de quartier durable” …
– Loukia Batsi"/>
Segundo Torrão: Marginality seen in urban policy and the historical precedents of territorial fixation and stigmatization
– Loukia Batsi
The present work follows the connections between the marginality seen in urban policy and the historical precedents of territorial fixation and sti…
– Taylor Kathryn Miller"/>
Al-Manshiyya: Bordering and spatializations of difference on the vanishing Palestinian coastline
– Taylor Kathryn Miller
Walking north along the Homat HaYam Promenade in Jaffa, the entire Tel Aviv skyline comes into view with Mediterranean waves crashing against the o…
– Sophie C. R. Jerram"/>
Value in the empty city: Findings from New Zealand’s Urban Dream Brokerage
– Sophie C. R. Jerram
The Urban Dream Brokerage (UBD) ran as a platform in New Zealand, liaising between creative producers and private property owners, to place community and arts projects in vacant city sites.
– Hans Hortig"/>
A journey through agro-industrial territories of palm oil production in Southeast Asia
– Hans Hortig
In 2015 a group of anthropologists proposed the concept of the Plantationocene1 to describe the current practice of agrarian production and the ali…
– Ava Lynam"/>
Tolerated informality: Weak land governance and dualism at the Chinese urban-rural interface
– Ava Lynam
The increasing scale and pace of urban expansion over recent decades has resulted in uneven socio-spatial development across the globe, polarising inequalities between…
– Maria Vidali "/>
Our land
– Maria Vidali
This article focuses on a small community in the village of Kampos, on the Greek island of Tinos in Greece. In studying the history of the island o…
– Max Ott, Norbert Kling and Christian Zöhrer"/>
City of the many
– Max Ott, Norbert Kling and Christian Zöhrer
The city of Munich has recently held an ideas competition for a 600 hectare site in the northeast of the municipality, which is characterised by a mix of…
– Klemens Czurda and Lucija Matić"/>
A walk from Vesuvius to Pompeii
– Klemens Czurda and Lucija Matić
It is a five-hour hike from the peak of Mount Vesuvius to the Roman ruins of Pompeii, following the flow of the lava that burned its way to the anc…
– Julian Raxworthy"/>
Land AS: conflicting definitions of land – and disciplinary relations to it – in landscape architecture
– Julian Raxworthy
A revelation for landscape architecture in the twentieth century was a move from the site to the city, and then to the region: a move that was predicated…
– Socrates Stratis"/>
A counter-project about land regeneration and land use in Larnaca, Cyprus; or, an everyday little utopia
– Socrates Stratis
In 2018, Larnaca Municipality launched an architectural competition for the regeneration of Zouchouri. It is an urban block in the historic city centre…
– Vidisha Barwal"/>
Sold (– A Letter from Ahmedabad)
– Vidisha Barwal
And here I am, amidst the puffs
Of smoke, flying dust.
For the future’s lure,
My breath is sold.
– Erich Wolff"/>
Uncharted Terrain: the clash between “risk management” and informal urbanisation
– Erich Wolff
The ideas of insurgent citizenship and participatory planning also acknowledge the failure of the State in providing equal opportunities for all citizens in contemporary cities, but they propose different solutions for it.
– Tejashrii Shankarraman"/>
Two Souls at Sarkhej
– Tejashrii Shankarraman
As I follow my shadow towards her,
I feel the cool stone beneath my feet.
Light creeps in through her traceries
And her presence dawns on me.
B…
Call for Submissions
Righting the City
Call for Submissions
closing 28.02.2021
From the insurrections of the Arab Spring against oppressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East to the rallying cry of Black Lives Matter …
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…