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Streetscape Territories is the name given to an international research project that deals with the way buildings are related to streets. In other words, this project focuses on the territorial Continue reading →

Street Scape Scenes

Streetscapes only make sense if people use them, if they inhabit them. The posted videos illustrate the variety, multiplicity and complexity streetscapes can obtain, of how they constitute a flexible Continue reading →

Boundary Redundancy: the case of Chihuahua

Jean Baudrillard warned us a long time ago: representation of reality replaced reality. Last week’s analysis by one of the participants in the MPIA seminar on Collective Spaces at LaSalle Continue reading →

Bipolar Space

Listening to Alexandre Chemetoff explaining his Nantes project (lecture Bozar, November 15, Brussels), it just hit me: there ARE alternatives to design and experience urban space. I couldn’t really put Continue reading →

NYC: : zigzags, detours & shortcuts

Traditional urban models that only delimit public or private properties have long proved to fail: instead, collective spaces define our contemporary city, ruled by ownership ambiguity. Shopping malls, hotels,  office Continue reading →

The Need for Territorial Delimitation

Haiti 2010, refuge camps outside Port-au-Prince, after the January earthquake. (Photo: Delmas Stadium camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Olivier Laban Mattel/AFP/Getty Images ) Inside this refuge camp, as in many post-disaster Continue reading →