An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Urban Culture, Space, Architecture, and Design
I use the concept of cosmopolis in Leonie Sandercock’s sense, referring to a city that’s developed in ways sensitive to cultural diversity and its wider societal benefits (e.g., enhanced vitality and creativity). In a recent post I noted that the sessions […]
My title, and especially the concept of a “Just Aesthetic”, is attributable to Alaka Wali, Curator of North American Anthropology and Director of Applied Cultural Research in the Environment, Culture and Conservation Division at Chicago’s Field Museum. Yesterday Dr. Wali spoke at the […]
In three weeks time I’ll be headed to Bologna, Italy to participate in an international conference on the City sponsored by the University of Bologna’s Laboratorio di Ricerca sulle Città (Laboratory for Research on the City). The laboratory was co-founded […]