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Le projet de bioregion fait reference a des experiences en cours dans des regions d'Europe ou l'urbanisation a deja atteint un seuil critique. Elles nous indiquent des voies a suivre pour contenir le grand exode vers la mega-city, en opposant la vision d'une planete fourmillant de bioregions en reseau, et pour une « mondialisation par le bas » fondee en chaque lieu sur la(...)
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Le projet de bioregion fait reference a des experiences en cours dans des regions d'Europe ou l'urbanisation a deja atteint un seuil critique. Elles nous indiquent des voies a suivre pour contenir le grand exode vers la mega-city, en opposant la vision d'une planete fourmillant de bioregions en reseau, et pour une « mondialisation par le bas » fondee en chaque lieu sur la(...)
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La biorégion urbaine : petit traité sur le territoire bien commun
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Le projet de bioregion fait reference a des experiences en cours dans des regions d'Europe ou l'urbanisation a deja atteint un seuil critique. Elles nous indiquent des voies a suivre pour contenir le grand exode vers la mega-city, en opposant la vision d'une planete fourmillant de bioregions en reseau, et pour une « mondialisation par le bas » fondee en chaque lieu sur la gestion collective du territoire, ce bien commun.
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Le projet de bioregion fait reference a des experiences en cours dans des regions d'Europe ou l'urbanisation a deja atteint un seuil critique. Elles nous indiquent des voies a suivre pour contenir le grand exode vers la mega-city, en opposant la vision d'une planete fourmillant de bioregions en reseau, et pour une « mondialisation par le bas » fondee en chaque lieu sur la gestion collective du territoire, ce bien commun.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Urban Theory
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Comment évaluer l'impact de la stupidité humaine sur nos destins personnels et sur l'ensemble de la société ? Vaste question à laquelle l'historien Carlo Maria Cipolla décida en 1976 de répondre par un bref essai au ton éminemment scientifique. Au ton et seulement au ton : car derrière la rhétorique académique se cache un texte désopilant, qui ressortit au genre "(...)
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Comment évaluer l'impact de la stupidité humaine sur nos destins personnels et sur l'ensemble de la société ? Vaste question à laquelle l'historien Carlo Maria Cipolla décida en 1976 de répondre par un bref essai au ton éminemment scientifique. Au ton et seulement au ton : car derrière la rhétorique académique se cache un texte désopilant, qui ressortit au genre "(...)
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Les lois fondamentales de la stupidité humaine
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Comment évaluer l'impact de la stupidité humaine sur nos destins personnels et sur l'ensemble de la société ? Vaste question à laquelle l'historien Carlo Maria Cipolla décida en 1976 de répondre par un bref essai au ton éminemment scientifique. Au ton et seulement au ton : car derrière la rhétorique académique se cache un texte désopilant, qui ressortit au genre " pseudo-scientifique ", comme en son temps le célèbre Cantatrix Sopranica de Georges Perec, ou aujourd'hui les très sérieuses recherches de Jean-Baptiste Botul.
Les lois fondamentales de la stupidité humaine
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Comment évaluer l'impact de la stupidité humaine sur nos destins personnels et sur l'ensemble de la société ? Vaste question à laquelle l'historien Carlo Maria Cipolla décida en 1976 de répondre par un bref essai au ton éminemment scientifique. Au ton et seulement au ton : car derrière la rhétorique académique se cache un texte désopilant, qui ressortit au genre " pseudo-scientifique ", comme en son temps le célèbre Cantatrix Sopranica de Georges Perec, ou aujourd'hui les très sérieuses recherches de Jean-Baptiste Botul.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Critical Theory
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Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we must develop new forms of secular, civic ritual that make us more skilful(...)
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Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we must develop new forms of secular, civic ritual that make us more skilful(...)
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Together : the rituals, pleasures & politics of cooperation
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Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we must develop new forms of secular, civic ritual that make us more skilful in living with others. From Medieval guilds to today's social networks, Richard Sennett's book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.
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Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we must develop new forms of secular, civic ritual that make us more skilful in living with others. From Medieval guilds to today's social networks, Richard Sennett's book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Neomaterialism
Neomaterialism
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Since the so-called dematerialization of currencies and art practices in the late 1960s and early 1970, we have witnessed a move into what Joshua Simon calls an economy of neomaterialism. With this, several shifts have occurred: the focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject, and symbols now behave like(...)
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Since the so-called dematerialization of currencies and art practices in the late 1960s and early 1970, we have witnessed a move into what Joshua Simon calls an economy of neomaterialism. With this, several shifts have occurred: the focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject, and symbols now behave like(...)
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Neomaterialism
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Since the so-called dematerialization of currencies and art practices in the late 1960s and early 1970, we have witnessed a move into what Joshua Simon calls an economy of neomaterialism. With this, several shifts have occurred: the focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject, and symbols now behave like materials. Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things. Here, Simon advocates for the unreadymade, sentimental value, and the promise of the dividual as a means for a vocabulary in this new economy of meaning. Reflecting on general intellect as labor and the subjugation of an overqualified generation to the neofeudal order of debt finance—with a particular focus on dispossession and rent economy, post-appropriation display strategies and negation, the barricade and capital’s technocratic fascisms—Neomaterialism merges traditions of epic communism with the communism that is already here.
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Since the so-called dematerialization of currencies and art practices in the late 1960s and early 1970, we have witnessed a move into what Joshua Simon calls an economy of neomaterialism. With this, several shifts have occurred: the focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject, and symbols now behave like materials. Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things. Here, Simon advocates for the unreadymade, sentimental value, and the promise of the dividual as a means for a vocabulary in this new economy of meaning. Reflecting on general intellect as labor and the subjugation of an overqualified generation to the neofeudal order of debt finance—with a particular focus on dispossession and rent economy, post-appropriation display strategies and negation, the barricade and capital’s technocratic fascisms—Neomaterialism merges traditions of epic communism with the communism that is already here.
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October 2013
October 2013
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Critical Theory
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The collected essays form the compartments of Obrist’s curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane,(...)
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The collected essays form the compartments of Obrist’s curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane,(...)
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Sharp tongues, loose lips, open eyes, ears to the ground
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The collected essays form the compartments of Obrist’s curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.
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The collected essays form the compartments of Obrist’s curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.
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October 2014
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Art Theory
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The tension between tradition and innovation is fundamental to the discipline of architecture, as architects borrow readily and heavily from past designs and yet scramble in a competition for originality. In "Copy Paste", architects and lecturers Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo and Bernard Hulsman of The Why Factory dispense with the modernist cult of novelty in this engagement(...)
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The tension between tradition and innovation is fundamental to the discipline of architecture, as architects borrow readily and heavily from past designs and yet scramble in a competition for originality. In "Copy Paste", architects and lecturers Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo and Bernard Hulsman of The Why Factory dispense with the modernist cult of novelty in this engagement(...)
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Copy Paste : bad ass copy guide. The Why Factory
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The tension between tradition and innovation is fundamental to the discipline of architecture, as architects borrow readily and heavily from past designs and yet scramble in a competition for originality. In "Copy Paste", architects and lecturers Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo and Bernard Hulsman of The Why Factory dispense with the modernist cult of novelty in this engagement with questions of authorship, authenticity and originality.
Copy Paste : bad ass copy guide. The Why Factory
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The tension between tradition and innovation is fundamental to the discipline of architecture, as architects borrow readily and heavily from past designs and yet scramble in a competition for originality. In "Copy Paste", architects and lecturers Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo and Bernard Hulsman of The Why Factory dispense with the modernist cult of novelty in this engagement with questions of authorship, authenticity and originality.
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February 2018
February 2018
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Architectural Theory
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Has the consumer displaced the designer, or is the idea of 'open design' just an illusion? Has the wide availability of knowledge and information, small-scale industrial applications, simplified tools and computer applications led to the obsolescence of the (design) expert? Who then is the designer: the amateur or the expert? The boundaries are certainly fading – so what(...)
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Has the consumer displaced the designer, or is the idea of 'open design' just an illusion? Has the wide availability of knowledge and information, small-scale industrial applications, simplified tools and computer applications led to the obsolescence of the (design) expert? Who then is the designer: the amateur or the expert? The boundaries are certainly fading – so what(...)
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We can make it if we try: 4 scenarios for design and democracy
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Has the consumer displaced the designer, or is the idea of 'open design' just an illusion? Has the wide availability of knowledge and information, small-scale industrial applications, simplified tools and computer applications led to the obsolescence of the (design) expert? Who then is the designer: the amateur or the expert? The boundaries are certainly fading – so what makes these particular designers distinctive and to what could that be attributed? We Can Make It If We Try wants to discuss role as designers. Four designers present production possibilities and tools that demand our input. The effectiveness of these structures, what we can do with them, that is up to you…
We can make it if we try: 4 scenarios for design and democracy
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Has the consumer displaced the designer, or is the idea of 'open design' just an illusion? Has the wide availability of knowledge and information, small-scale industrial applications, simplified tools and computer applications led to the obsolescence of the (design) expert? Who then is the designer: the amateur or the expert? The boundaries are certainly fading – so what makes these particular designers distinctive and to what could that be attributed? We Can Make It If We Try wants to discuss role as designers. Four designers present production possibilities and tools that demand our input. The effectiveness of these structures, what we can do with them, that is up to you…
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October 2014
October 2014
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Design Theory
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Globes: spheres volume II
Globes: spheres volume II
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With Globes, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the(...)
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With Globes, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the(...)
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Globes: spheres volume II
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With Globes, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the first circumnavigations of the earth, the orb was replaced by the globe. This second globalization is currently giving way to the third, which we are living through today, as the general virtuality of all conditions leads to a growing spatial crisis.
Globes: spheres volume II
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With Globes, Sloterdijk opens up a history of the political world using the morphological models of the orb and the globe, and argues that all previous statements about globalization have suffered from shortsightedness. For him, globalization begins with the ancient Greeks, who represented the whole world through the shape of the orb. With the discovery of America and the first circumnavigations of the earth, the orb was replaced by the globe. This second globalization is currently giving way to the third, which we are living through today, as the general virtuality of all conditions leads to a growing spatial crisis.
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October 2014
October 2014
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Critical Theory
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or to Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban(...)
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or to Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban(...)
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Boom towns: restoring the urban american dream
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or to Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again. Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of capital in all of its forms — places that attract people by making their labor more productive and their leisure more pleasurable. Policymakers, therefore, must properly define and enforce property rights in order to prevent the flight of capital and the resulting demise of urban centers. Using vivid evocations of iconic towns and the people who crucially affected their destinies, Walters shows how public policy measures which aim to revitalize often do more harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities and needlessly limit their residents' opportunities. With its fresh interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day, Boom Towns offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities and a program for their restoration.
Boom towns: restoring the urban american dream
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American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or to Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again. Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of capital in all of its forms — places that attract people by making their labor more productive and their leisure more pleasurable. Policymakers, therefore, must properly define and enforce property rights in order to prevent the flight of capital and the resulting demise of urban centers. Using vivid evocations of iconic towns and the people who crucially affected their destinies, Walters shows how public policy measures which aim to revitalize often do more harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities and needlessly limit their residents' opportunities. With its fresh interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day, Boom Towns offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities and a program for their restoration.
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September 2014
September 2014
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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The legendary fourth CIAM congress took place aboard a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in 1933. Led by Le Corbusier, Cornelis van Eesteren and Sigfried Giedion and themed the “Functional City”, the universal programmatic agenda it produced is considered to be a pinnacle of urbanism. Participants analysed 34 cities on the basis of maps specially produced for the congress,(...)
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The legendary fourth CIAM congress took place aboard a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in 1933. Led by Le Corbusier, Cornelis van Eesteren and Sigfried Giedion and themed the “Functional City”, the universal programmatic agenda it produced is considered to be a pinnacle of urbanism. Participants analysed 34 cities on the basis of maps specially produced for the congress,(...)
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Atlas of the functional city: CIAM 4 and comparative urban analysis
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The legendary fourth CIAM congress took place aboard a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in 1933. Led by Le Corbusier, Cornelis van Eesteren and Sigfried Giedion and themed the “Functional City”, the universal programmatic agenda it produced is considered to be a pinnacle of urbanism. Participants analysed 34 cities on the basis of maps specially produced for the congress, and the results were shown at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 1935. Plans for a publication were interrupted by the war, and the material has until now remained unpublished. This systematic overview of the CIAM 4 city maps offers new perspectives at a crucial moment for urbanism today.
Atlas of the functional city: CIAM 4 and comparative urban analysis
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The legendary fourth CIAM congress took place aboard a ship on the Mediterranean Sea in 1933. Led by Le Corbusier, Cornelis van Eesteren and Sigfried Giedion and themed the “Functional City”, the universal programmatic agenda it produced is considered to be a pinnacle of urbanism. Participants analysed 34 cities on the basis of maps specially produced for the congress, and the results were shown at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in 1935. Plans for a publication were interrupted by the war, and the material has until now remained unpublished. This systematic overview of the CIAM 4 city maps offers new perspectives at a crucial moment for urbanism today.
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December 2014
December 2014
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
