Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
This article explores design debates through a radical political lens. Examining ways in which architects, urban historians and townscape consultants view speculative office developments and profitdriven building height in the City of London, I argue for the democratization of the cityscape. I contest the prevalence of the consensual city-image in which towers are framed as structures that visual enhance historic landmarks and buildings of ‘civic’ importance' in order to emphasize the importance of critically engaging with consensual pro-market governing processes and the role of tradition therein. Distinguishing between radical aestheticization and conservative beautification, I show how the Royal Fine Art Commission cultivated the latter and prepared the ground for today’s city-image. I suggest that design review can contribute to democratic urbanization processes if a radical conceptualization of aesthetics is being developed.
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Antifascist theatre
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin: An anti-dramatic reading in three acts
Urban Room | Intensive Places in Dessau
Publics | Places in Europe
HighLow in Busan
SeaNear in Larnaca
WaterTourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
Violence of Integration: Forging alliances for diverse cities
Politics of Urban Design
Borderspaces
Cities
Urban Design Thinkers
Urban Theory Provocations
Autumn Design Studio
Narrative Environments
Architecture Lecture Series
Design Studio
City Design: Research Studio
Cities by Design
Drawing the queer antifascist city
Micro-antifascism and the politics of feeling
W. Benjamin walks and writes in bed through Berlin
Antifascism as a liberatory spatial practice
Urban guerilla and revolutionary antifascism
Drawing queer lines
Antifascism as a city map
Nonrepresentational urban drawing
The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries
Urban imaginaries and authoritarian urbanism
Fascism and urban violence
The aesthetic regime of fascist thought and desires
Spiral movement: How to write with fascism?
5G and urban aesthetics
Fascism - Urbanism - Aesthetics
Aestheticising and beautifying: Benjamin and/versus Rancière
The post-race city: Borders, freedom and imagination
Drawing a 'revolutionary we': Queer antifascist lines for universal liberation
Revolutionärer Antifaschismus als Stadtplan: Gewalträume, Freiräume und Traumräume
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Avenue of atrocities
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence
Materiality, race and speculative aesthetics
Drawing as an ethico-political practice
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Thinking against heritage: Speculative development and emancipatory politics in the City of London
Wrecking London's skyline? A political critique of how the City is viewed
Visual consequences of the plan: Managing London's changing skyline
Skylines and the 'whole' city
Elevations, icons and lines: The city abstracted through is skylines
Date
2023
Language
English
Author
Günter Gassner
Keywords
Aesthetics
Beauty
Spatial practices
Spatial imaginaries
Commodification