How High is the City , How Deep is Our Love?

Originally published in Fillip #12, and later distributed for free at the first International Chilliwack Biennial (2010), How High is the City, How Deep is Our Love interrogates notions of critique and affect in relationship to urban policy and lived experience. In his essay, Derksen looks at critical urbanism in the age of the “creative city,” attempting to find a language of publicness that is critical, material, and relatively open and speculative.