Meeting diversity
The novelist and president of PEN International highlights the cosmopolitan spirit of Istanbul and recalls that Gustave Flaubert was fascinated by the diversity of languages he heard in its streets.
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This is our house, if houses can be owned
Das ist unser Haus! | Burkhard Grießenauer, Daniel Kunle, and Holger Lauinger | SEELAND Medienkooperative E.D. | Germany, 2017 | 64 min. | German
Members of the Mietshäuser Syndikat (Union of Rented Housing) describe the model of collective appropriation of space and present projects of widely varying approaches and settings of housing.
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"Tolerance for difference is learned in cities"
The German philosopher speaks of public spaces that make it possible for us to work out who we are through interaction with strangers. At the same time, public spaces are a precondition for collective democratic action.
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Prize Advisory Committee
Meeting in BarcelonaOn 4 and 5 March the first meeting of the Advisory Committee of the European Prize for Urban Public Space was held at the CCCB. The Board for this year’s award consists of ten European institutions working in the domains of architecture and urban planning.
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Architects have not always gone along with the powerful
The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar | Forensic Architecture | United Kingdom, 2020 | 16' | English
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Its multidisciplinary team works together to reconstruct and document cases of abuse for purposes of reporting them in legal and political forums.
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“A good urban public space performs its functional role while also expressing what is public”
An architect and sociologist with a long career concerned with cities, he considers several key aspects of urban transformation and reviews examples of good urban public space practices around the world.
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Highlighted works
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Recoveing of the Moirii Canal
Reghin (Romania), 2012
The demolition of buildings occupying the banks of the Morii Canal and subsequent construction of quays and footbridges have given the Libertății neighbourhood its first green zone and recreational area.
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"Baana": pedestrian and bicycle corridor
Helsinki (Finland), 2012
A deep railway cutting which slices through the urban fabric has been converted into a pedestrian and bicycle corridor in a resource-saving collaborative process that also respects the memory of an industrial past.
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Network of Footpaths and Cycling Routes
Santa Pola (Spain), 2015
A network of paths and bridges for walkers and cyclists has rescued from deterioration and neglect historical sites and natural areas on the rocky massif separating the town of Santa Pola from the Gran Alacant residential area.
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Blue House Yard
London (United Kingdom), 2017
A process of participative design and construction involving students, local residents, users and professional carpenters has converted a disused spae and a municipal building into a productive, lively site with workshops for creative businesses, wooden shops, a space for local residents to meet, a bus converted into a café, and spaces for fairs and markets.
