Launched in 2004, the Prison Design Boycott is an initiative led by Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) targeting the ethics of architectural practice. The campaign aims to bring awareness and offer alternatives regarding t
Urban Tactics archive projects, researches and texts by aaa and their collaborators. They reflect the conditions of the contemporary city and the means and tools of an architectural and urban practice which is more inclusive and respectful of the desires of inhabitants and users, whatever is their social and cultural background.
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Ballard has said elsewhere that whereas the 20th century was mediated through the car, the 21st century will be mediated through the home, and as far as Super-Cannes goes home means work. "The dream of a leisure society was the great 20th century delusion," says Wilder Penrose. "Work is the new leisure. Talented and ambitious people work harder than they have ever done, and for longer hours. They find their only fulfilment through work. The last thing they want is recreation." There are references to the flats and houses of Eden-Olympia as service stations "where people sleep and ablute". The real home is now the office.
Once, a city was divided in two parts. One part became the Good Half, the other part the Bad Half. The inhabitants of the Bad Half began to flock to the good part of the divided city, rapidly swelling into an urban exodus. If this situation had been allowed to con- tinue forever, the population of the Good Half would have doubled, while the Bad Half would have turned into a ghost town. Af ter all attempts to interrupt this undesir- able migration had failed, the authorities of the bad part made desperate and savage use of architecture: they built a wall around the good part of the city, making it completely inaccessible to their subjects. The Wall was a masterpiece.
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...the following interview took place after the publication of Davis's most recent book, Planet of Slums.
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We showcase the beauty of urban decay, a series of photos of this eroded elegance that photographers have captured brilliantly.
Our intention to focus on the city first and foremost stems from our own organizing experience, and a recognition that the city is very often the terrain on which we fight, and which we should be fighting for.
