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The Wall - Richard Sennett

The Wall - Richard SennettNew York, September 26th 2009, 15:00


Marketing War - Danny Kaplan

Marketing War - Danny KaplanNew York, September 26th 2009, 14:00

In times of war commercial considerations present new ways to promote culturally available sentiments of nationalism, previously sustained by state institutions. As governments withdraw from managing emergency services this vacuum may be taken up by private agents, particularly at the local-municipal level. This question of marketing war is examined in a case-study of a commercial radio station in the city of Haifa during the 2006 Lebanon War.


Cold war planning - Jennifer S. Light

Cold war planning - Jennifer S. LightNew York, September 26th 2009, 11:00

Cold war physical planning is frequently invoked in contemporary discussions about post 9/11 urban planning in the US, but another equally important/pervasive aspect of collaborations between defense planners and urban planners in the Cold War era is forgotten in these discussions. I'll talk about several technology-focused collaborations in the 1960s and suggest why this more expansive definition of Cold War planning history is important and relevant for thinking about cities and war today.


Oksana Bulgakowa: On Eisensteins Que viva Mexico

Oksana Bulgakowa: On Eisensteins Que viva Mexico"Que viva Mexico!", is the film Eisenstein came to shoot in Mexico, and he would tragically be excluded from editing it. The film's hybrid images depict Mexican life as a simultaneity of past and present.


Marwan Fayed: Legalising an Urban Tumour

Marwan Fayed: Legalising an Urban TumourKharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
 (in Arabic)
Marwan Fayed proposes alternative approaches to conventional urban design practices. In Fayed’s interventions, function is not dictated by design, but rather, is ascribed by city inhabitants who constantly reprogram the use of public space. Based on observations of public behaviour, his site-specific applications lend themselves adaptable to the spontaneity of a constantly mutating landscape.


Zoom - Shaina Anand

Zoom - Shaina AnandDictionay of War Taipei, October 25th 2008

ZOOM begins with a popular film from the 1970's that was said to define the "look of the 20th Century". We wonder about the powers of then, and the powers of now.


Markus ElKatsha: The Return of Mixed-Use Spaces

Markus ElKatsha: The Return of Mixed-Use SpacesKharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Saturday, January 17th, 2009



The Park – Investigation in a Post-Productive Cluster

Kharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Presentation by Marion von Osten, Katja Reichard, Peter Spillmann (in English)


Joseph Schechla: Housing Rights and the New Urbanism

Joseph Schechla: Housing Rights and the New UrbanismKharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Saturday, January 17th, 2009



Marion von Osten: The Colonial Modern. Planning, Segregation and Urban Apartheid

Marion von Osten: The Colonial Modern. Planning, Segregation and Urban ApartheidKharita 01: Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
Friday, January 16th, 2009