– Melissa Harrison"/>
The (market-) state of the “public”: reappropriating the urban as common(s)
– Melissa Harrison
Over the past decades, intensified following the 2008 financial crisis, we have witnessed geographically and qualitatively diverse assaults on the …
– Benjamin T. Busch"/>
Tusheti, Georgia
– Benjamin T. Busch
Glyphs crawl and scrawl over
ambivalent flux
History reddened with
wine and blood
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri"/>
Playscapes in the city of Larissa: a participatory design approach engaging architects, children and adults
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri
In 1989, the United Nations (UN General Assembly, 1989) established the children’s right to play. As a result, cities and municipalities became responsible to fulfill this need…
Call for Submissions
Regenerative Cultures – Regenerative Cities
Call for Submissions
closing 31.05.2020
The evidence that human activity is the cause of climate change is overwhelming. An ever-increasing number of institutions, from the UN to local go…
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Let us read your stories
Preface
In a bid to explore novel and unconventional ways of narrating the city and relating to its lived experiences, we are launching an ongoing call for our Letters from the City section.
– Brinda Shrestha"/>
Does the city have the right to disregard children? The role of children in contemporary Kathmandu, Nepal
– Brinda Shrestha
The urbanization trend in modern Kathmandu, Nepal, as in other developing Asian cities, is broadly scrutinized as the result of an aftermath of un…
– Nina Margies"/>
From the emergence of urban lighting to a new culture of consumption: department stores and the public life of women
– Nina Margies
The first public lighting system that was centrally organised and legally standardised emerged in France at the end of the 17th century. It was…
– Antonis Antoniou"/>
Institutional housing policies and habitation practices of the refugees arriving in Volos, Greece, in 1922
– Antonis Antoniou
In September 1922, following the destruction of Smyrna in the same year, a major wave of refugees came to the city of Volos. The crowds were initially…
– Christopher Adan"/>
The street market as animated space: an ethnographic exercise
– Christopher Adan
Sayed wears a red windbreaker and looks me straight in the eyes. His stall is replete with duvet covers, pillows and mattress foam. Originally from…
– Donagh Horgan"/>
Building blocks of Brotherhood and Unity
– Donagh Horgan
Tito’s break with the Soviet Union in the early 1950s paved the way for Yugoslavia1 to forge its own developmental strategies, based on a return to…
– Patrick Düblin"/>
Letter from Rome
– Patrick Düblin
Walking along Via Prenestina in the east of Rome, we are approaching a yellow brick building behind a lonely roundabout. Its shutters are down, the…
with Martin Bricelj Baraga and Miloš Kosec of NONUMENT!"/>
From monuments to nonuments
with Martin Bricelj Baraga and Miloš Kosec of NONUMENT!
Monumentality, commemoration and public display of social and political values, form one of the currents of the process of creation of public space…
Call for Submissions
Land
Call for Submissions
closing 28.02.2020
Underlying and at times undermining urban development are the less obvious dynamics of land: ownership distribution, tenure structures, institution…
Call for Submissions
Letters from the City
Call for Submissions
ongoing
Things I wanted to tell you. Questions I haven’t asked. Experiences for which I have no words. I see you; I feel you; I live in you. You touch my existence, you make me feel alive and inspired…
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On to Volume 2
Preface
The reality of the Journal as an independent voluntary initiative means there are periods when the team’s work and life commitments take a toll on …
Curating capital: tourism, sustainability, and opportunity in Iceland
– Danielle S. Willkens
In 2016 and 2017, there were more Americans in Iceland than Icelanders. With a population of a nearly 333,000, and more than 65% living in the capi…
– Sofia Mavroudis"/>
The art tourist
– Sofia Mavroudis
One of the largest and most important international exhibitions of contemporary art takes place only once every five years. Documenta, the exhibiti…
– Christoph Sommer"/>
What begins at the end of urban tourism, as we know it?
– Christoph Sommer
Amidst the “overtourism” debate going on in Europe, one question pops up routinely. Namely, how much tourism do cities bear? This issue is a though…
‘Gentritourism’ and the subculture of visitors emerged from it
– Cristina Roxana Lazar and Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva
Tourism nowadays has become an industry that is increasingly influencing the way in which cities are planned and especially the direction towards w…
– Clara Zanardi"/>
Complexity-cage: toward a critical deconstruction of “tourism-phobia”
– Clara Zanardi
Tourist go home
Tourism kills the city
This isn’t tourism, it’s an invasion
Tourist: your luxury trip, my daily misery