See the program for this upcoming conference to be held at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, here and follow the twitter feeds @airportculture and @citiesatSAS. See also the Cities project at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In the … Continue reading
Congratulations to our colleagues on launching this new book! The volume is an extension of the main research themes explored by the exhibition Enchanting Views. Romanian Black Sea Tourism Planning and Architecture of the 1960s and 70s, held in the Sala Dalles of … Continue reading
There is a lot to say about Alan Barenberg’s deeply researched book Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta, partly because there are so many ways to approach it critically as a work of scholarship. The … Continue reading
The study of one city as a litmus test for broader issues is becoming very widespread because a particular urban case gives an excellent opportunity to trace the formation and unexpected intersections of different processes on the ground level over … Continue reading
The third conference of the Second World Urbanity project “Living Cities of the Second World” will be held in St. Petersburg (Russia) on February 27-28, 2015! Bart Goldhoorn, the architect and editor of the journal Project Russia will give a keynote … Continue reading
In the course of exploring the planning and architecture of any given city, scholars are often eager to reproduce an image of its Master Plan, if one is available. Such a document immediately offers the scholar’s audience a snapshot, bird’s-eye abstraction of … Continue reading
The Housing Question Nomad Seminar – San Diego University of San Diego March 12-13, 2015 Keynote Talk March 12, 2015 at 6:30pm Reinhold Martin, Associate Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University, and Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American … Continue reading
Katherine Lebow’s book starts with a reference to Andrzej Wajda’s movie Man of Iron (1981), which depicts one of the leaders of the Solidarność protests in the Lenin Shipyards in Gdańsk in 1980. This movie was a sequel to Wajda’s … Continue reading
I want to respond briefly to Kate Brown’s recent thoughtful post. About my use of the term of “comparative history” to describe her book and her preference to see it as a “tandem” history: I appreciate this distinction that she … Continue reading
My thanks to Asif Siddiqi and Anna Veronika Wendland for their thoughtful reponses to Plutopia. I know both of these scholars and respect their work a great deal. They summarize many of my main points much more eloquently than I … Continue reading
