UF-Toolbox #3: Metropolis?

by ATR

At the Laituri workspace in Helsinki is currently going on "Metropolitan Horizons", an exhibition organized by the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies – Helsinki University of Technology.

In this frame, a palette of analyses and ideas are shown to allow a debate on European metropolises scenarios today and in the next future....

read more: http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=2023

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Cityleft - Urbanism 3.0
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Urban Fiction Toolbox #2: How Peer Production And The Economic P2P Model Can Subvert The World Of Physical Production

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How does the peer to peer paradigm, which combines the input of open and free raw material (knowledge, software, designs), with participatory production processes and commons (i.e. universally available output), affect the world of urbanism?
read more: http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=2016
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Cityleft - Urbanism 3.0
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Urban Fiction Toolbox #1: Urbanism 3.0

by ATR

There is no doubt that the ongoing financial crisis will have a negative impact on spending on urban research. Alternatively, the current impasse of real-estate may present an opportunity for urbanists (scholars as well as practitioners) to contemplate and develop new practices that would enrich urban studies and empower local communities. In this article we present the examples of two Urban Art Interventions (UAIs) that were part of two different research projects carried out in the Helsinki-Tallinn region over the past four years... read more: http://www.presstletter.com/articolo.asp?articolo=2013
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Cityleft - Urbanism 3.0
http://www.cityleft.altervista.org/