The paper takes as its point of departure advocacy planning approaches’ consideration that urban renewal is incompatible with equitable socially effective urban planning strategies. It focuses on analyzing the activities of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), which was the first organization solely devoted to advocacy planning in…[Read more]

The paper examines the cinematic representations of working women and migrants in Italian Neorealist cinema reveal filmmakers’ perception of a newly conceptualized Italy. Its starting point is the hypothesis that the roles of borgatari and women functioned as devices of reconceptualization of Italy’s identity, providing a fertile terrain for ref…[Read more]

Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Cinema: On Challenging the Stereotypes of National and Gender Identities

In Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze sees World War II as a historical event underpinning divergent taxonomies; the post-war period greatly increases the situations in which we are faced with spaces we no longer know how to describe, to which we longer know how to react. Deleuze refers to a crisis of the action-image in cinema, which…[Read more]

This paper aims to explain why Pierre Bourdieu’s “Le marché des biens symboliques” is useful for deconstructing the solidity of the various architects’ positions in relation to their ideological, political, aesthetic, marketing, and academic ambitions. To grasp how symbolic domination affects their ambitions, it suffices to bring to mind Bourdieu…[Read more]

This paper places particular emphasis to the analysis of the social theory of German sociologist Georg Simmel. Its main objective is to explain how Simmel’s understanding of the role of privacy can help us better understand the modes of representation characterized Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s perspective views. It will also examine in which sen…[Read more]

Η εν λόγω εισήγηση αποσκοπεί στο να ρίξει φως στις σύνθετες σχέσεις μεταξύ των πολιτικών του Ψυχρού Πολέμου, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Ευρωπαϊκού Προγράμματος Ανάκαμψης (European Recovery Program) (ERP), που είναι γνωστό, επίσης, ως Σχέδιο Marshall, αφενός, και της αρχιτεκτονικής και της αστικής ανάπτυξης, αφετέρου. Βασίζεται στην αντίληψη ότι…[Read more]

The paper is built upon the general understanding that the Marshall Plan played a crucial role in the reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War. Architecture and urbanism were very important in this respect. A starting point for the paper is the identification of certain key players regarding the connection between the politics of the…[Read more]

The paper is built upon the general understanding that the Marshall Plan played a crucial role in the reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War. Architecture and urbanism were very important in this respect. A starting point for the paper is the identification of certain key players regarding the connection between the politics of the…[Read more]

The paper is developed around the following axes: firstly, it focuses on the examination of Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s respective understanding of democracy; secondly, it presents their respective reconstruction models; thirdly, it analyses their respective stance vis-à-vis centralised and decentralised models of governing; fi…[Read more]

This paper aims to shed light on the complex relationship between the Cold War policies including the European Recovery Program (ERP), known as Marshall Plan, and urban public space. Its main objective is to provide a precise and deep understanding of how the Marshall plan politics, contributed to the formation of national identity in Greece and…[Read more]

The paper examines the role of architects and urban planners in shaping connections between European land-based mobility, cities and landscapes. For over half a century, politicians have promoted transportation and transnational mobility for commodities and individuals by planning and funding the E-road network. This attempt to link the different…[Read more]

The article presents the reasons for which the issue of providing housing to low-income citizens has been a real challenge in Addis Ababa during the recent years and will continue to be, given that its population is growing extremely fast. It examines the tensions between the universal aspirations and the local realities in the case of some of…[Read more]