Monthly Archives: July 2009

Hackney Wicked Art Festival

July 30, 2009 – 12:05 pm

This weekend is the Hackney Wicked Festival. There are special exhibitions in different galleries, open studios and some other events and performances. You can have a look to the programme in http://www.hackneywicked.com/index.html

By Bartlett Think-Tank | Posted in Events, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Suggested Reading: Lefebvre

July 29, 2009 – 1:58 pm

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. by Donald Nicholson-Smith with an afterword by David Harvey (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991).
I’ve been working on Lefebvre’s theorisation of space off and on for about 8 years now, and in that time quite a bit has changed in terms of how The Production of Spaceis understood, or engaged with, in the [...]

By Nick Beech | Posted in Books | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Reading the urban public spaces of China

July 8, 2009 – 3:50 pm

 

The last two decades debates on the future of public life and public spaces have been markedly western-oriented, negativist and raising often questions: does public space still matters for our public life?
To counter these views, I would like to offer a different and non-western perspective for the discussion. Here, I will talk about the case [...]

By Patricia Simoes-Aelbrecht | Posted in Public space | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Sensing Cities

July 8, 2009 – 12:00 pm

[SOUND ARCHITECTURE, A BBC World Service programme]

“Professor Trevor Cox, science broadcaster and acoustic engineer explores the idea of aural architecture – architecture for your ears.
Now, through new technology and a new way of thinking, acousticians and architects are working together to create spaces that both function better but also look good too.”

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By Alexandra Gomes | Posted in Planning, Public space | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A Revaluation of Public Space in Toronto (1955-2005)

July 5, 2009 – 2:08 pm

Paper presented at the 2009 Anglo-American Conference of Historians “Cities” in London.
You can download the full paper with images here.
INTRODUCTION
What we will look at in the next twenty minutes is a study of three iconic projects in Toronto that were all planned and built between the years 1955 and 2005: City Hall and Nathan Phillips [...]

By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff | Posted in Conferences, Public space | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)