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A Manifesto for Smart Citizens
Waag Society, a foundation which is devoted to education and research in art, science and technology, publishes on its web a manifesto that challenges the Smart City and urges it to take a political position.
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Interview to Candy Chang
The Guggenheim Lab blog interviews Candy Chang, author of the project Before I die..., which invites people to write down their wishes on city walls. The artist has spent the past several years conducting interventions that prompt communities to use public space to connect and engage with one...
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Tahrir: ends of circulation
Writer Brian T. Edwards revisits Tahrir Square in an article published by publicutlure.org. He does so armed with two words of Egyptian dialect: hisa (chaos, the hectic, the frenetic) and zahma (standstill, blockage). According to him, In Cairo one learns to navigate between this two concepts not...

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Bella Fuori 3: San Vitale
The third edition of Bella Fuori competition raises the improvement of a green area in San Vitale district, Bologna. Launched by Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, in partnership with the Urban Center Bologna and the district of San Vitale, the call for entries will be open until...
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Swiss authorities ban asylum-seekers from public places
New draconian restrictions ban asylum-seekers from frequenting schools, swimming pools or libraries in a move denounced by human rights groups as intolerable and discriminatory. [full article on The Independent]
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'Playable City'
The Vienna Architekturzentrum will host on Saturday 3 August a workshop aimed to let the children over six years will imagine how the city should be.

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«Skateboarding vs Architecture»
They love architecture differently, almost in a tactile way. Urban space is their environment and the way they use it is such intense as controversial. Like many other cities, Auckland (New Zeland) implements fierce strategies to drive them away, while they claim their own right to the city....
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«Eurovision: Turkey» in A10 magazine
Arkitera, Turkey’s independent centre for architecture, has long been critical of the Turkish government’s urban policies and has been continuously active as a source for information and coordination since the protests began. In the latest edition of A10 magazine, Arkitera outlines...
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‘Strategy and Tactics in Public Space’
The number 38 of the a+t magazine explores analytic tools for understanding how to build a public space where everyone feels included.