urban
My City?
In the beginning of September, we received a visit from a friend who is from London, he brought with him a program for the upcoming “Open House London”, I went through the program and became really surprised by its contents. The organization Open House is an independent organization which once a year manages to open [...]
The SHAPE of an image
This is the situation that we are facing every day, images selling products that try to make your life better, the idea of comfort and luxury surrounding every environment that you step in. This is the concept of a new life, a so called modern life style where luxury is all around you, but who [...]
Scale of information and public participation
ANNUAL PHENOMENON
Every July – August, tourists put to test Barcelona’s infrastructure, clearly witnessed in Metro congestion, shortage in natural resources like water and increased street crime. A prototypical Mediterranean city (1), Barcelona is more than the average mix of ancient city bazaar and sunny beaches. Ciutat Villa, characterised by narrow paved streets is dotted with [...]
I (heart) Corb
I come through the south of France, Marseille as a very naïve archi-tourist. My excuse? I really did not have time too pack and organise my travels properly, yet alone research where we are to be going (I am fortunate to have a very organised girlfriend who has taken care of this for me). I [...]
re PLAN [t]
During WWI and WWII, a government propaganda strategy became a moral buster during these harsh years for the communities of the allied countries. Under the name “Victory Gardens”, the plan Aimed to alleviate the shortage of vegetables supplies in the urban areas- since big part of the production was being destined for the soldiers across [...]
Social divisions shifting from a physical to a virtual space
New communities occupying urban and cyber space
Virtual potentials tend to eliminate physical distances, they facilitate communication and create an easily accessible virtual database of information. From Anthony Giddens to Manuel Castells in Informational City (1989) and to Pierre Levy in the Qu’ est-ce que le virtuel (1995), there is no doubt that computer-mediated [...]
Whose sex in the city / Whose space in the city?
Who are the people who own the space of the contemporary city; its image both real and imagined? Two events coincided to ignite this question during the beginnings of my holidays with my girlfriend:
A bus: midnight border check between Spain and France
A soap drama: Sex and the City
We stop at the border crossing, between Spain [...]
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