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Open cityOpening up the city, rethinking the city
The change in era we’re currently experiencing is altering many of the values, conceptual schemes and balances upon which post-war Europe was built. The “Ciutat...
Open cityFlexible Urbanisms
Much of the urban design applied around the world follows the technocratic model of the Athens Charter. This is a homogenous, one-size-fits-all model that provides...
Open cityBuilding Harmonies: Toward a Choral Architect
Although people know what they need and want, yet architecture spins into navel-gazing and drifts farther and farther from the possibility of substantive contribution...
Open cityWhere do they keep the white people?
For the first time in many years, the term “fascism” is being used in the United States to refer to the rhetorical return of white supremacists, and the threat it...
Open cityIs there a women’s city?
From a feminist perspective, cities need to respond to the human need to inhabit, not to accumulate wealth. They need to allow people to live where they were born and...
Open cityCommitment and collective action
Emancipatory political transformation doesn’t just require certain political and legal tools (such as well-established democratic institutions or certain material...
Open cityThe (global) city’s not for me
The large global metropolis embodies the spirit of our era, while small and medium-sized deindustrialized cities are sceptical about the future, with nostalgia for a...
Open cityRefugee cities: an alternative?
Just as borders are accepted as an inevitable part of our reality, it seems increasingly difficult to imagine a migration policy that doesn’t involve an unyielding...
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