Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
Aestheticizing the beautiful city: Democratic politics and design review
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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
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
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
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
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
Website
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
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
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
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
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
Website
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
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
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
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
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
Website
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
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
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
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
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 profit-driven 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 visually 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 developed.
Website
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
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
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
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
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
Website
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
High – Low in Busan
Sea – Near in Larnaca
Water Tourism in Ljubljana
Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far right (CIRAF)
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network (WARN)
Violence of Integration
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
Recognition theory, political agency and intersubjective institutions: The case of contesting austerity
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