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Metronome

Ross Domoney and Antonis Vradis

A short film exploring emerging social tensions within Athens' public spaces. (8 mins)

Metronome

Ross Domoney and Antonis Vradis 13 May 2013

A short film exploring emerging social tensions within Athens' public spaces (8 mins).

Byron, Brewdog, and the recuperation of radical aesthetics

Jonathan Moses 10 May 2013

'Dirty Burger' rebellion versus the experience and traditions of genuine anti-capitalist space. This week's Friday Essay.

Failed cities?

Manoela Miklos 7 May 2013

Everyday life in some western cities is often more dangerous than living in so-called 'failed states'. Is it thus time to re-scale security analysis?

Spectacle and surveillance in Brazil

Flavie Halais 2 May 2013

The unprecedented series of mega-events which are set to take place across Brazil in the coming years have lead to heightened security in host cities – a gold mine for the global private defence industry.

Building resistance in Hebron

Elisa Ferrato, John Lewicki, and Mick Scott 29 April 2013

In the face of growing spatial securitisation and colonisation of Hebron's occupied old city, a set of community initiatives have emerged which seek to build resilience, protect human rights, and counter the economic and social decline of the area.

Architecture must be defended: informality and the agency of space

Camillo Boano 24 April 2013

To engage in areas where it is needed most, architecture must begin a new critical project to reclaim the inherently political nature of the practice.

The battle for Golibar: urban splintering in Mumbai

Matt Birkinshaw 22 April 2013

The ‘Mumbai model’ of public-private partnerships in urban land and housing development is being adopted and piloted across India, and the world. So why has the ‘Mumbai model’ in Golibar provoked such outrage?

Memories of war in the divided city

Camillo Boano and Dalia Chabarek 18 April 2013

The dilapidated buildings which dot downtown Beirut are constant reminders of what existed before, what was destroyed during, and what has occurred since the civil war which violently divided the city.

Creating subjects in Lavasa: the private city

Persis Taraporevala 16 April 2013

Through a process of devolution to private enterprises, a number of private cities are emerging across the Indian landscape. While private cities have been lauded by some as symbolic of a modern, global India, their impact on the nature of democracy and citizenship in the emerging city remains a contentious issue.

Squeezing the poor out of London

Cecil Sagoe 11 April 2013

From April 2013 major changes to benefit provision in Britain will likely change both the social and spatial make-up of our cities. The squeezing out of poorer residents from London and elsewhere, raises an important question: exactly who has the ‘right’ to the city in contemporary Britain?

Beyond the ghost town

Emma Cummins 9 April 2013

The collapse of Spain's property-led economy stands to highlight the intense yet fraught relationship between capital and the built environment in times of economic crisis.

Britain's Brezhnev-style capitalism

Will Davies 6 April 2013

Wander into post-Olympics East London, lift your gaze, and what do you see? The awful warning of late-Soviet homogenisation.

Laying siege to the villages: neighbourhoods for the working poor

Mary Ann O’Donnell 28 March 2013

Part 4: As of 2013, with a population of 140,000 residents Baishizhou was the largest of Shenzhen's urban villages. The sheer size and density of the village highlights the contradictions between formal and informal urbanization of the city.

Laying siege to the villages: informal urbanization in the outer districts

Mary Ann O’Donnell 28 March 2013

Part 3: Shenzhen township and village enterprises (TVEs) in the outer districts were quick to take advantage of neoliberal reforms, and by 1990 had become de facto urban planners, developers and industrialists of the city. Next: Neighbourhoods for the working poor

Laying siege to the villages: neoliberalizing the bamboo curtain

Mary Ann O’Donnell 28 March 2013

Part 2: Both Cold War geo-politics and the rush to develop the neoliberal city informed the development of a particular form of urban inequality within Shenzhen's informal villages.  Next: Informal urbanization in the outer districts

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