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The Art of the Commute, by Alessandro Rognoni.Recognising, embracing and loving the commute might be the key to joy in the increasingly alienating metropolis; to do so, we may have to look back at times when such concerns were at the core of urban design. Repetition is intrinsic to our times.…View →
Brasilia: Reverie Embodied as City, by Lucas Di Gioia.From that day on, Brazil was running against the clock to build a functioning metropolis in the middle of the central-west plain lands of Brazil, where even the roads to get there were still to be constructed.…View →
Missing Urbanists, by Federico Ruiz.I still struggle with the idea of Rotterdam as a metropolis: It might be mixed and diverse, but I still need the mango-selling hawkers with distorted megaphones standing at every corner in order to define any city as a metropolis.…View →
Shooting at the Verge, by Alessandro Rognoni.global urban sprawling, taking place at different moments depending on country; a phenomenon connected to those politics of globalisation that allowed for investment in the housing sector, to accommodate (as in the Roman case) an all-out migration to the metropolis…View →