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Kai Jonas (Editor)
Thomas Soehl (Editor)
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08/26/2009: THE GLAMOUR ISSUE AVAILABLE: As always all articles are available as pdfs for free online. Read them on the screen or print them out. A printed edition will be available in select bookstores soon or can be ordered by sending us an e-mail. Vesta Nele Zareh: Au revoir Paris: The "Grand Nation" in search of a "Grand Paris" Terry Nichols Clark: Glamour and Urban Development: Three Views of Cities Martin Schwegmann: Instant Glamour: A new urbanism - or how much Glamour do we need? Gordon Douglas: What is Glamour? The Production & Consumption of a Working Aesthetic Andreas Rumpfhuber: The Working Glamour: John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Bed-In Michael J Thompson and Alex Schafran: Discussion: Democracy and Suburbia
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| 06/06/2008: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: The Glamour Issue. Read more here! | |
| 05/22/2008:
NEW ISSUE AVAILABLE: memory amnesia and urbanism. All articles are are
available as screen version pdfs. A beautifully printed version will be
available in select bookstores soon; or e-mail
us for ordering instructions. We are also collecting contributions for our
upcoming issue. Read more here.
Andrei Harwell: Restoration and the politics of the heroic Vesta Zareh: The (almost) all American city Volker Zander: Up on Dschungel Rania Ghosn: A present - Beirut is in my hand Lorraine Mannion: Memento of the past or signum of the present? Alessandro Busa: Palimpseststadt – city of layers Christian Schmutz + Marisol Rivas Velsquez: A journey into the lost parts of Havana Rebecca Krucoff: The urban memory project Baruch Gottlieb with Jin Hee Beack: Necessity for the nostalgic Timothy O’Callaghan: Palermo - memory and nostalgia Bert de Muynck: Making minced meat of memory Maria Lewicka:Historical ethnic bias in urban memory: the case of Central European cities Inge Manka: Stone Grandstad - enter at your own risk. Yvonne Hung: Cologne 2007 - questions about a city Pedro Januário Gomes, PedroViana, Luís Santiago Baptista, Nuno Messias, Pedro Ferreira: Venice - revisiting disappearance Joanne Lam: Gone |
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03/09/2008 //
good news! the next two issues of mudot will be supported by a grant from
the graham
foundation for advanced studies in the fine arts. We are in the process
of assembling the next issue which will be available shortly. |
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| 09/20/2007//
mudot at plan07!
mudot is part of a project on memory and forgetting at the plan-project
2007 in Cologne, Germany. The project will ran from the 22nd to the
29th of September. Read more here!
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| 08/27/2007//
New Call for submissions
- mudot issue #8: memory, amnesia and urbanism. The next issue of mudot
will examine the role of memory, forgetting and amnesia for cities. How
are they constructed and recreated? Read more here.
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08/27/2007// NEW FORMAT, NEW NAME: mudot (magazine for urban documentation, opinion and theory) will be a follow up publication to monu-magazine on urbanism. Previous issues published under the title monu are available below. Bernd Upmeyer is continuing the title monu here. |
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9-10-07// Monu issue 7 available now.
A printed version is available from Veenman
Publishers. Branding the Generic City by Alfredo Andia Bern, Beverwijk and the Representation of Cities by Joost Meuwissen Claiming Space by Daan and Job Roggeveen I like my town by Medium Music City USA by Veronica Kavass Banal Urbanism by Jamie Peck 2nd Rate Urbanism in 1st Rate Urban Areas by Doreen Jakob I ROTterdam by Charles Bessard and Nanne de Ru The Re-creation of the European City by Beatriz Ramo/STAR Dumped in Almere Interview with Floris Alkemade Little New York by Melisa Vargas Wholesale Urbanism by Michael Jenson 3rd Rate Guide to 2nd Rate Urbanism by Alex Schafran What is Antiurbanism by Michael J. Thompson Bonifacio Global City. Ideal Manila by Ursula Faix / bad architects group |
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6th ISSUE - BEAUTIFUL URBANISM: Potentially Beautiful by
Sean Burkholder
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5th ISSUE - BRUTAL URBANISM: The Return of the Repressed by Loïc Wacquant Vandalism as a Productive Force by Michael Zinganel The Evil Architects Do by Eyal Weizman Preventing Brutal Urbanism - Interview with the Director of the Security Task Force for the 2006 World Cup Terrorists Love Density by STAR Repulsive Desperation in the Constructions of Survival by Baruch Bruce Gottlieb Happy Slapping – Urban Violance in the Age of Camera Phones by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer 5000 Years of Brutal Urbanism by UAS It’s the Protocol, Stupid by Marc Schuilenburg On the Run – Contesting Urban Boundaries by Lukas Feireiss Cities of Collision by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets (re)Moving History by John Comazzi As a Child of the Suburbs: - a response to Michael Thompsons “How Suburbs Destroy Democracy” by Alex Schafran A Rejoinder to Alex Schafran by Michael J. Thompson
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4th ISSUE Scrap and Build by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Jorge Almazán EX Gas Stations by UAS Shopping for Vice by Jeffrey Ludlow The Future of Filming in Downtown Los Angeles by Sarah Lorenzen A Guide to Visiting Cities by Boris Sieverts The Master of Lockhart (Texas) by Hans Frei Transforming Local Government - privately by Robert H. Nelson How Suburbs Destroy Democracy by Michael J. Thompson Literature of the City 101 by William Alatriste No Simple Problem Interview by Martin Schwegmann und Thorbjörn Reuter Christiansen with Mika Hannula Infrascapes, Urban Androgyny and other unplanned Effects of Metropolitan Dynamics by Gabriel Duarte No Slush by Tommi Mäkynen Reinventing Lifta by Malkit Shoshan and Eitan Bronstein Welcome to Houston, Texas by Eric Leshinsky The Heckpfad by Kai Dolata and Lola Meyer Volkspalast by Amelie Deuflhard and Sophie Krempl-Klieeisen Hidden Veneration by Kristina Blazevski DIY by Matthijs Bouw
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THIRD ISSUE Planning and activism by Malkit Shoshan nEUtral by bad-architects Rojak by Maggie Peng Between aerial defense and modernism by Lola Meyer Model City: Interview with Margitta Faßl You shall be urban by Theo Deutinger Flevoland: From State Planning to Planning the Stateless by CASE The Pharmacy by Joost Meuwissen Turning the corner by Fabian Faltin Supersuburbia by UAS
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SECOND ISSUE: Dispersion by Johannes Fiedler Density, Zoning, and Class in New York City by Beth Lieberman Mc Mansions by William Alatriste Urbanism for the Middle Class in historic City Centers by Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto Middle Class Urbanism: Interview with Thomas Sieverts IKEA: When Cathedrals were blue by Manuel Shvartzberg Neu Karow: a new space between berlin's past and its border by Katherine Bourke and Gregor Harbusch Landscape Urbanism by Detlev Ipsen and Holger Weichler Circuitous by Leah Beeferman Adi, Audi, Aldi by Theo Deutinger Middle Class Emulations by Angie Waller The New Middle Class by Robert Winkel Middle Class Desires by UAS Book review: Integrated Perspectives on Places of Modernity by Kai Jonas
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FIRST ISSUE Contents: ( 0.3 MB) Imagining the Subsidized Landscape by CUP ( 1.7 MB) After Growth by CASE ( 0.9 MB) Urban Distortion by Shireen A. Barday and Damon W. Root ( 0.6 MB) Urban Money Beats Global Money by Hans-Henning von Winning ( 0.6 MB) The Paid Urbanism Project by Thomas Soehl and Bernd Upmeyer ( 3.2 MB) SpaMania by Kai Jonas ( 0.6 MB) Is a Bathtub Still a Bathtub on Mars? by William Alatriste ( 1.0 MB) Richard J. Daley’s Chicago Civic Center and the Modernist Urban Landscape |