Geographies of Hip Hop and Gangster Rap
Observations from the German Rap Scene Eastside versus the Westside, Bloods versus Crips, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx. Where hip hop originates the...
Stephan Valenta
Founder and editor-in-chief of The ProtoCity.
Born and raised in Amsterdam, working as a transport planner, Stephan Valenta wrote his master thesis at the University of Amsterdam on a comparison of bicycle activism in Amsterdam and Berlin. @Stephan__V
Filming Cities: Pedal
Pedal is a documentary on earlier years of the bike messenger culture in New York. If you is fast, then...
Porto: UNESCO Heritage or Ruin
Porto and its shrinking city centre On The ProtoCity we have written on the shrinking periphery of the Netherlands and...
Suicide Cycling Berlin
At the beginning of this year I had the pleasure to visit Berlin for half a year for my master...
Norilsk: A Closed City in Siberia
Living in a Closed City Consider an average temperature in winter well below -30 °C. and not seeing the sun...
