Article The Digital Habitat and Urban Editing as Emerging Practice, with Jan Bovelet, MONU Magazine #14 (Editing Urbanism), April 2011

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Despite the current urgency to deal with the enormous potential of the already existing urban material as Urban Editors, there seems still to be an enormous lack of interest in topics such as urban and architectural restoration, preservation, renovation, redevelopment, renewal or adaptive reuse of old structures among architects and urban designers. But ignorance in this matter can only be dismissed as socially irresponsible and economically and culturally unacceptable. But what might be the reason for the prevailing ignorance? Who is to blame? Why is Urban Editing considered to be so utterly unattractive?

Article OpenStreetMap as empowering tool for collective visualizations, in The Anxious Prop / Case 4, Reviewing Making-Visible, March 2011

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Article Wrecking Pendulum, in The Anxious Prop, Case 2, Have Balls (Eccentric)

Article Black Swan Spaces, in The Anxious Prop, Case 3, The Black Swan Issue

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…Cities are often the central battlefields of modern wars, resulting in the massive destruction of urban structures. In processes of reconstruction, international actors initiate urban transformation in very different regions of the world, using strikingly similar patterns. But which concepts of the city do these interventions follow? Is there a special global mode of urbanisation in post-war cities, a “UN urbanism”? Using the examples of two post-war cities—Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Kabul (Afghanistan)—this book aims to tackle the question of how the institutions and activities of the international community influence newly emerging daily city life…

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…Anstatt in der U-Bahn Werbung und Nachrichten darüber zu zeigen, wieviele Leute gestern durch welche Bombe starben und somit die Leute, die sowieso schon nicht glücklich darüber sind, zur Arbeit fahren zu müssen negativ zu beeinflussen, sollten wir all diese Einrichtungen und Medien dazu nutzen, die Leute zum Handeln zu ermutigen; die Stadt nicht nur als Spielplatz zum Spielen zu benutzen, sondern auch als Teil des kollektiven Designs…

Interview by Jan Kage alias Yaneq

Berlin Pioneers trilogy

Following spatial tactics and socio-political meaning of temporary use in Berlin

Available only in Serbian

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Project Sichuan Hot (S)pots has been published in magazine Urban China vol. 36

Available only in Chinese

Hot (S)pots_Urban China

Issue about Latin-American Metropolis through Space-Time methodology of Milton Santos

Article Medellin: “El Hueco” as a public space

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