Benyameen Ghareeb

There has been a notable shift in the approach to planning from modernist thinking (Le Corbusier and those influenced by his thinking such as Robert Moses) to later approaches such as the Smithsons from Team 10 and today (New Urbanists for example) - the former approached urban interventions from above (a studio set up in a hotel suite thirty floors above the ground), whereas the latter... more

“Poe was one of the greatest technicians of modern literature.” (Benjamin, 42)

“Poe's famous tale 'The Man of the Crowd' is something like the X-ray picture of a detective story. In it, the drapery represented by crime has disappeared. The mere armature has remained: the pursuer, the crowd, and an unknown man who arranges his walk through London in such a way that he... more

It is very interesting how the authors of the three pieces for this week use simple issues such as park use and bus ridership to express more complex and important aspects such as class struggles, racism, gentrification, planning, and the right to the city. I wonder what other vehicles can be used to successfully portray similar or other urban and socio-economic issues. Can we, for example,... more