MONU 27 Small Urbanism

When it comes to urbanism, small things matter, and the various contributors to this issue illuminate this idea further in various ways. Liz Teston, for instance, captures the theme when she writes about the transient micro-urbanisms of protest architecture. Levi Bryant claims how we design things can make a real difference in our lives, both socially and physically. Our cities’ less visible infrastructure is exposed by Julian Oliver, reminding us of our dependence on a deeper physical reality, while Marco Casagrande shows how small-scale interventions can also serve as a design methodology, creating ripple effects and a transformation of the larger urban organism.

• … And Though She be but Little, She is Fierce! by Liz Teston
• Build: Losing their Identity by Colin Davies
• Dissident Micro-occupations by Ana Medina
• Gang Urbanism: Subaltern Bodies Inhabiting Suburbia by Victor Cano Ciborro
• A Matter of Zooming – Interview with Stephan Petermann/ OMA by Bernd Upmeyer
• Stools as Tools: Tactical Units and Ways of Sitting in Public Space by Avsar Gürpinar and Nur Horsanali
• Every Object Is a Crowd! – Interview with Levi Bryant by Bernd Upmeyer
• On Triangles in Squares and the Color of Air by Kyle Miller
• Raptures by Masha Hupalo
• Small Scale, Practice by Hester van Gent
• Little People by Slinkachu
• Stealth Infrastructure by Julian Oliver
• All the Small Things by Benedetta Marani
• Local Code: Real Estates by Nicholas de Monchaux
• Hobby Room: Spatial and Social Infrastructures for Collective Urban Space by James Longfield
• The Cabanon: The Smallest Apartment in the World by STAR and BOARD
• The Apartheid that Can’t Be Flushed Away by Nadine Botha
• Seeding the City in Ulaanbaatar’s Ger Districts: Urbanisation from the Inside-out by Joshua Bolchover
• Small Urbanism for Refugees by Fabiano Micocci
• From Small Scale Interventions to the Third Generation City by Marco Casagrande

128 pages, ills colour & bw / 20 x 27 cm / English