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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Futures
Call for Submissions
closing 30.09.2020
Cities have been continuously (re)produced by overlapping transitions. Palimpsests on which future visions are written over their scriptio inferior…