Istanbul Taksim Gezi Park is not about trees Istanbul's central area of Taksim is currently the scene of a fledging 'occupy movement' as people react to this morning's 5am teargassing of…
Joe building: The Stalin memorial lecture - Jonathan Meades A sequel of sorts to Jerry Building this time examining Stalin and the Soviet Union.
Jerry building: Unholy relics of Nazi Germany - Jonathan Meades Jonathan Meades documentary on the role of architecture and urban planning in entrenching the Nazi…
City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles - Mike Davis Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not…
Urban renewal in Barcelona Resisting "urban renewal" in Barcelona in the context of larger economic struggle
Today in architecture: Knock down towers, build streets So long for Le Corbusier's famous streets in the sky!
City air: the end of freedom in the generalization of urban space - Miguel Amorós A brief examination of urbanism and urban development as tools of capitalist social control and…
Terminating the spatial contract: a commentary on Greece - Antonis Vradis Antonis Vradis from the Occupied London collective looks at the role of the central Athens district…
The human species and the Earth's crust - Amadeo Bordiga One of Bordiga's "ecological" texts in which he claims that cities are inherently unsustainable and…
Comparing Fordist cities: urban crisis and union response in Detroit 1915-45 and Turin 1950-75 Essay by Ted Perlmutter comparing the industrial cities of Detroit and Turin, their…
Tepito: no thanks, first world Gustavo Esteva on the puzzle of autonomy in 1990s Tepito, an inner-city community in Mexico City, which prefers to manage its own affairs,…
The housing monster - prole.info A beautifully illustrated book by prole.info which takes one seemingly simple thing - a house - and examines the social relations around it. From…
