by AgaTino Rizzo

This is a new “box” of contents which in the frame  of this website will try to open a window on the North-European city. At the same time, this new column wants to achieve quite ambitious targets.

 The first of those targets is to support the making of the Press/tletter an international platform, providing a wider view to the current architectural debate in Italy. The second is to give voice to young professionals as well as researchers working in, and about, the city. The third is to provide a new “oblique” point of view in the current practice of urbanism, allowing a dialogue between southern and northern countries in EU. ...

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 by Michail Galanakis*

Art or vandalism? Creative expressions or signs of psychotic behaviour? The phenomenon of street art – graffiti, tagging, stencil – challenges our rights to public space. Depending on our social and ontological position, graffiti may be perceived as a creative outlet for those people whose oppressed imagination translates via spray-paint into a “voice.” Or it may be perceived as the visual littering of our public spaces, our walls, our cities. Manolis Andriotakis (2005) presents an equally littering source that has been normalised to the extreme: commercial advertisement.

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by Bauhaus Kolleg IX*

In 2007/2008, the Border Cities Kolleg, facilitated by the Germany-based Bauhaus Dessau Foundation [1], brought together an international group of young planners, architects, artists and urbanists to explore the complex dynamics of trans-national urbanism in the Baltic Sea Region. Within this framework our group came together to consider the cities of Helsinki and Tallinn  as a case of self-made trans-national metropolis in EU. ...

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by Bauhaus Kolleg IX*

The project ARCHIPELAGO CITY (see related article) draws on the structural potentials of the city itself for future urban development [1].  The project uses landscape elements for a determined process-oriented development strategy, tightly linked to the upcoming contemporary planning issue of landscape urbanism theorized especially in North America and more often already successfully practiced in Europe. ...

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by Bauhaus Kolleg IX*

Harbour (Sadama)

Based on the archipelago model of the city structure, the project focused on a singular fragment of the urban form, the Tallinn Harbour (Sadama). A zone where the cross-border effects plays out physically and transitions are taking place due to past and current happenings. The Sadama currently a topic of discourse is undergoing transformations, due to growing economies, dynamicities and requirements of a more open water front development. Presently the welcome gate to the city via the sea for 2 million passengers yearly who are greeted by spas, cheap shopping malls, industrial land, parking lots against the silhouette of a beautiful old city. ...

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by Panu lehtovuori

METROPOLITAN HORIZONS - Laituri 17.4.-16.5.2009

New synopsis of the YTK / Urban Studies section 3.

The exhibition has three main elements:

1) a large section about GHV and its continuation process, produced by WSP / Ilona Mansikka. 20m by 2,5m. This material is ready and freely in our use.

2) a hanging spiral which consists of Hannu Vallas’ aerial photos, creating its own space of reflection for the visitors. A selection of photos from inner city to the outer edge of Helsinki region, producing a continuous ‘horizon’. Each photo 60cm by 1,0m-1,8m. About 9 photos, total length of the installation 12-15m.

3) The section is conceived as a set of ‘academic comments’, mounted on 5 or 6 of the Laituri exhibition stands, each 2m by 2,2m. The idea and main text of this section is by Ache, Schulman, Ruoppila and Lehtovuori, with material from a wide variety of sources and partners, including: Balducci / Milan, I Fei / Baltic Pearl, Pasqualini / Angola, Kalliala / TKI island project, Grišakov / twin city, Moilanen / Metka study, Joutsiniemi / EDGE Helsinki simulations and maps, Mäenpää / public space and nature, Ameel / identity of metropolitan Helsinki 100 years ago, ESPON / European strategic horizons, Gordon / North-South axis of Europe, Harris / Aviapolis. ...

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by Bauhaus Kolleg IX*

How long Tallinn will manage its urban growth without a proper dialogue among its stakeholders, is the question that those involved in planning are posing in the last few years. The regime of deregulation started at the eve of the Estonian’s independency has created several opportunities for economic and urban developments. However, this process is leading to a negative impact on the social structure as well as in the urban structure of Tallinn in terms of public space. ...

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by AgaTino Rizzo

After three months “City…from north-Europe” change skin to become a more complete and independent column dealing with urban culture, architecture, and public space not only in “north-Europe”. Therefore we changed the name in "an Urban Fiction".

Our early issues are still valid: support the making of the PresS/Tletter an international platform, provide a new “oblique” point of view in the current practice of urbanism, for instance.

In UF, however, we will focus also in emergent urban lifestyles, new technologies, new political horizons, and we will try to stimulate a trans-disciplinary debate on urban research. ...

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by Egzon Bajraktari

Kosovo placed historically in a junction between the oriental and occidental worlds, was exposed to different cultural inputs. It inherits a colourful cultural heritage, most of it supposedly still uncovered. During its history Kosovo developed different types and forms of urban-architectural fabric. In Kosovo’s fragmentised cultural heritage we can find Neolithic localities, roman castles, byzanthinian churches, ottoman mosques and even late modernistic skyscrapers from the 60’s and 70’s of the last century. ...

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by urban Fiction

UF-Events is now available in share mode at:

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