Imagineering Cultural Vienna: A Book Presentation
Suitner, Johannes (2015) Imagineering Cultural Vienna. On the Semiotic Regulation of Vienna’s Culture- led Urban Transformation. transcript, Bielefeld Not only...
Lukas Franta
Lukas Franta (Msc) studied Urban Planning in Vienna and Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam, now working as a PhD- candidate at Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on geographies of protest and on cycling cultures and cycling policies of cities.
Filming Cities: Mama Agatha
Cycling is an essential part of living in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam Zuid-Oost, where a large immigrant group is living,...
Life and Death of Shopping Streets in Vienna
A walk through Vienna’s small neighborhood shopping streets. Shopping streets are lifelines of cities and their neighborhoods, providing the surroundings with...
Filming Cities: Mietrebellen- Rent Rebels
A German documentary about initiatives in Berlin fighting against unreasonable rent increases and evictions. Mietrebellen- Rent Rebels (by schultecoersdokfilm) Mietrebellen...
Suicide Cycling Madrid
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is a typical south-European city with high densities and a generally compact layout. However, with...
The Hipster as a Tourist Attraction
On a recent trip to Berlin, some posters and stickers in windows of the neighborhood of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain caught...
Filming Cities: Conversations in Milton Keynes
Ingo Baltes' documentary 'Conversations in Milton Keynes' (2011), on life in a modernist utopia. Milton Keynes: 'We try to catch people...
Public Space and Urban Planning: A Stepchild Relationship?
Modernist Housing With Plain Public Space (source: das-neue-dresden.de) Large scale urban developments as they were common since the 1960s were...
Urban Restoration in Havana
Havana, the capital of Cuba, has been founded in the 16th century as a trading place with a small fortress....
Suicide Cycling London
London, often said to be Europe's response to New York, is kind of hip, has great pubs and some astonishing...
