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Fresh off the press, an interview with our boy Jack Perry on KooZA/rch!

As part of last years project on affordable housing USC's students created a short provocative movie

The Right To Dwell a manifesto towards an affordable city (work in process) students of The Royal Danish Academy Of Fine Arts Urbanism and Societal Change 2017

"Whatever the promise of digital technologies, space is itself a technology, an information system in play as well as an underexploited medium of innovation. However heavy and lumpy, it does not need digital devices to make it dance. Digital and spatial networks can make each other smarter, but they can also make each other dumber."
Switch - Keller Easterling

Switch - e-flux Architecture - e-flux In the comedy of errors that is US car culture, contradictions and cross-purposes seem to thrive. The mid-twentieth century monovalent highway network replaced a finely grained rail network to conform with default modernist scripts that claim newer is better. In perennial cycles of obsolescence and…

U.S. Pavilion of Venice Biennale Announces Main Exhibitors - Metropolis The U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled "Dimensions of Citizenship," will grapple themes including borders and nationality.

"Could federalism be the shift required to save the Union? What if, rather than reinforcing the hegemony enjoyed by the English at Westminster, powers repatriated from Brussels were redistributed more locally? Against the backdrop of an ongoing constitutional stand off between Westminster and Holyrood, Nextminster envisages a radical restructuring which fragments England along existing administrative boundaries, to produce, along with Scotland, Wales and a reunified Ireland, twelve region states, each closer to one another in population. If centralisation = elitism, then decentralisation = populism."
Nextminster by Alice Haugh

Nextminster Could federalism be the shift required to save the Union? What if, rather than reinforcing the hegemony enjoyed by the English at Westminster, powers repatriated from Brussels were redistributed

"How could the public domain of Hanstholm be reimagined in order to support a more desirable civic life for it’s inhabitants?" See how Daniel Boesen addresses this question in his thesis project.

RURAL CIVIC - Contemporary public domain in Hanstholm

USC is starting up again tomorrow for a new year of great work! So here is a provocative article to get everyone thinking about cities again

Richard Florida Is Sorry For years, Richard Florida preached the gospel of the creative class. His new book is a mea culpa.

USC now has a instagram account up and running!

Urbanism + Societal Change (@kadkusc) • Instagram photos and videos MA in Architecture 🍻 People 🌟at The Royal 🍟 Danish Academy of Fine Arts 🍕

"Whereas new urbanist settlements often promote a small-town ideal, these sell big-city life" https://t.co/1yWbfHEfTg via

Ersatz urbanism Instant, ready-made downtowns bulldoze the distinction between city and suburb

Patrik Schumacher writing on planning making way for the market in - "It's a relic of a bygone era" https://t.co/UCCddz18AX

Coup De Grâce The welfare state was pretty great while it lasted, wasn't it? Yeah, those were the days, golden, even. But now, sad to say yet no point to lament times have changed; things are different. Planning used to be the way society would stay on track and moving forward. Today, for better or worse, we have…

The result of last weeks model workshop with the thesis students. Thanks https://t.co/3IHIt3NnTX

Urbanism SC (@USC_KADK) posted a photo on Twitter Get the whole picture - and other photos from Urbanism SC