Inhalt:
Editorial
Christoph Laimer, Elke Rauth
– Public Spaces. Resilience & Rhythm:
Resilience, rhythm, and public space. Shaping robust environments
Aglaée Degros, Sabine Knierbein, Ali Madanipour
The role of users in processes of urban resilience : the career of Manhattan’s Pier 84
Stéphane Tonnelat
The Polykatoikia – Resilience and variability in space and time
Richard Woditsch
Im Reich der Wunder. Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin
Nikolai Roskamm
And the Street Goes on: Everyday Acts of Resilience in Budapest
Ian Cook
Istanbul – City of Risk. Public space planning for risk mitigation
Susanne Prehl, Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri
Prishtina: shifting experiences of places in a ‘post-conflict’ city
Karin Norman
– Kunstinserts:
World´s End
Martin Krenn, Barbara Holub, Paul Rajakovics
– Magazin:
Lob der Brandstifterin
Thomas Ballhausen
Physical Disorder oder Urban Culture? Ein ethnographischer Essay über Architektur, Graffiti und Überwachung
Robert Rothmann
Straßenbeobachtungen: Das Smartphone im Stadtalltag
Peter Neitzke
– Serie: Geschichte der Urbanität:
Die Stadt als Archipel der Kapseln (Teil 2)
Manfred Russo
– dérive – Radio für Stadtforschung:
S.O.S ST. PAULI – Die Essohäuser und das Recht auf Stadt

– Besprechungen:
… „hinter dem nylonvorhang“? Architektur und Urbanismus Südosteuropas
Iris Meder
Der Raubzug in Berlins Mitte
Claudia Krieg
Los Angeles oder das Ende der Vergangenheit
Nicole Theresa Raab
Haltung und Handlung zugleich
Elisabeth Haid

Language: English-Deutsch
Pages: 68
Size: 28 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover

Price: €8.00

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Giovanna Silva, ed.
Text by Angelo Del Boca and Giovanna Silva

The book Libya: Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley is part of a series of publications about nations at war, or in crisis; conceived by Giovanna Silva, they tell the stories of different countries through photographs of their multifaceted landscapes. In the case of Libya, Silva has attempted to outline the architectural structures built by Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime that were demolished during the recent revolution. Her journey started from Benghazi—the first epicenter of the revolt, as a city that had always been hostile to Colonel Gaddafi—and culminated in Tripoli, inside the bunker-barrack of Gaddafi’s residence. In this construction and de-construction of Gaddafi’s personality, Silva creates a parallel narrative relying on archival pictures she has collected over the years, depicting everything from a young Gaddafi surrounded by the politicians he did business with for years (who would later turn their backs on him), to images of his death, when he lay bleeding and knocked to the ground just like the architecture that embodied his ideals. The publication includes a conversation between Giovanna Silva and Gaddafi biographer Angelo Del Boca, who knew, inside out, just who the real Gaddafi was.

Language: English / Arabic
Size: 11 x 15 cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9788867490929

Price: €20.00
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Editionshow. Chert, Raster & Motto, @ Chert / Motto. 06.12.2013 – 15.02.2014

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http://www.chert-berlin.com/

These posters exist for a day. They are conceived in the newsrooms of our tabloid dailies – The Star, The Sun, The Times and others – in the late afternoon, as the paper is being put to bed. Just hours later they are visible along the roadside of every major arterial road in the city.
These tabloid posters – candid and often outrageous epigrams of news – have been displayed along this road since the First Anglo-Boer War. They live momentarily in the minds of passing drivers and pedestrians, and by midnight they are already defunct.

I began collecting South African tabloid posters in 2008 with no other purpose than to preserve them. I thought they were funny, clever and true. Composed in a local vernacular of shebeen English, these statements are part of the texture of our urban fabric; so familiar as to almost disappear. Loud and colourful, tough and sharp, replete with a droll wit and blunt gallows humour, their blatant iconoclasm and muscular use of language is invigorating and oddly reassuring. The newspapers themselves were not keeping an archive, and however ephemeral they might seem I thought there was a relevance in them that was not being recognised; something uniquely South African.

Driving down Louis Botha Avenue, the rhythmic flash of passing headlines reads like a journalistic version of the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse. It’s an alternative history of the city, a tabloid summary of our age. Constructed from political sound-bites, public innuendos, colloquial bon-mots and hard, bitter truths, they read like an everyman’s state of the nation address, full of comedy and antagonism.

“They are,” as one of the copy editors remarked, “the perfect marriage of a corrupt society and a progressive constitution.”

– Laurence Hamburger

Language: English
Pages: 208
Size: 19 x 27 cm
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780957161221

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Language: English-Deutsch
Pages: 320
Size: 24,5 x 18,5cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9783033042261

Price: €38.00
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Language to Cover a Page. Kristen Mueller. Motto Books / & So.