Metropolis Charleroi: Overcoming Post-Industrial Struggles?
The Southern-Belgian former industrial stronghold of Charleroi is dealing with a rather differing reputation. Some people associate the city with...
Month: June 2016
Tesla’s EV as Revolution in Sustainable Transportation?
Photo by The Washington Post In 2003 a small group of forward thinking Silicon Valley engineers founded the car company...
Istanbul: the Neo-Authoritarian City in the Age of Neoliberalism
The concept of neoliberalism has revealed similarities between urban developments and resistance movements across the globe, demonstrating the deeper unifying...
Lingua Urbanus
Ordering the City Using the Right Language In his essay, “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell says a metaphor’s...
The City as a Consumed Adjective of Economy
Giving adjectives to cities has always been one of the main tasks of planners, politicians and architects. As storytellers for...
