Parkstad Limburg: Coping with Shrinkage for Better or Worse
Shrinkage is a fate that an increasing number of cities and regions across the globe are already facing or will...
Build & Destroy
Planning, design & decay
Minsk: Reconceptualize the Post-Socialist City
Welcome to Europe’s least discovered capital: Minsk. The streets are incredibly clean, people show discipline in all their daily practices...
Dresden Victimised by Fury of UNESCO
Something terrible happened to the city of Dresden, something which is perhaps indescribable and unprecedented anywhere else in the world....
Ferentari: Bucharest’s Post-Socialist Ghetto
Romania is a country with a long socialist planning tradition that evoked in mass urbanisation, leaving a tremendous footprint on...
Fantasyland: Casino Architecture in Macau
Macau's elephantine gambling industry is known for its size: Macau has already overtaken Las Vegas in terms of revenue and is rapidly...
Has the Electric City Gone Haywire?
The Internet entrepreneur's rhetorical joyrides down the streets of the Smart City Recent years have seen growing excitement among professionals...
Shared Space in Vienna: Doomed to Fail?
Experiences from the New Mariahilferstrasse Global movements and initiatives towards (more) equal and sustainable mobility patterns, as well as uses...
Liverpool ONE and the Privatisation of a City Centre
Liverpool. The city of the Beatles, the Docks and the Merseyside Derby – but also a struggling post-industrial city still...
A Non-Toxic Park: Gas Works in Seattle
As more and more cities go post-industrial, the result is wide swathes of factories and warehouses that sit vacant, occupying...
Visual Individualism in Hamburg’s Protest Culture
Lately, there are a lot of protest situations happening in Hamburg, two articles have been published here on The Proto...
