Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London's towering cityscape
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 book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in London’s tall-building boom, it develops a critique of the construction of more and more speculative towers as well as a critique of the claim that these buildings ruin the historic cityscape. Gassner argues that the new London skyline needs to be ruined instead and explores ruination as a political appropriation of the commodified and financialised cityscape. Aimed at academics and students in the fields of architecture, urban design, politics, urban geography, and sociology, Ruined Skylines engages with the work of Walter Benjamin and other critical and political theorists. It examines accounts of sometimes rebellious and often conservative groupings, including the City Beautiful movement, the English Townscape movement, and the Royal Fine Art Commission, and discusses tower developments in the City of London – 110 Bishopsgate, the Pinnacle, 22 Bishopsgate, 1 Undershaft, 122 Leadenhall, and 20 Fenchurch – in order to make a case for reanimating urban politics as an art of the possible.
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
2025
Language
English
Author
Günter Gassner
Keywords
Aesthetics
Politics
Activism
Skyline
Commodification