15 February 2006
Among the images of the international media from the riots that shook up the cities of France in November 2005 were not only street scenes and torched cars but also the buildings where the rioters lived. To many people the images of these vast complexes of mass habitation were new. […]
5 June 2005
The collapse of the socialist bloc, just fifteen years ago, took down with it all references to the way of life in the countries which operated under this system. There is a sense of ‘black hole’ in time and space, almost as if this life never existed.
14 April 2004
Forget tower blocks! The cities of the future are “shacks of recycled plastic and corrugated tin!”, notes an appalled Edwin Heathcote in his review of Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums in the Financial Times.
14 February 2004
In 1893, just three years before the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Chicago organized the World’s Exposition to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the New Continent’s discovery by Columbus. Another four years before that, in 1889, the Champs de Mars in Paris had hosted the famous Exposition Universelle – […]
5 October 2003
It is known that the greek postwar reconstruction, one of the most fundamental aspects of the general function of the modern greek society, has not yet been evaluated completely from the social, economic and technological viewpoint.