The Horizons of Platformed Urban Politics
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In this wrap up to the Platform Urbanism roundtable, Scott Rodgers and Susan Moore argue that horizons of a platformed urban politics should entail critical engagement and practice.
vol. 3
“Highest and Best Use” from the Plan to the Platform
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John Stehlin considers the historical resonances and specificity of platform urbanism.
On the Slippages in Platform Urbanisms
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Matthew Wilson argues that, as a form of “self-city-nation,” platform urbanisms enable slippages between the self and outside organizing forces that expand logics of quantification.
Platform Urbanism Rejoinder: Why now? What now?
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Sarah Barns uses Henri Lefebvre's theories of the quotidian to consider platform urbanism as a mode of ‘everyday’ urban intervention.
We Are All Platform Urbanists, But Not All in the Same Way
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Maroš Krivý asks whether platforms contribute to the dynamics of uneven urban development itself.
Platforms as urban technology?
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Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.
A Historiographic Approach to Old Tucson
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Josh Gleich examines the value and limitations of historical records that will inform his cross-disciplinary study of Old Tucson Studios.
A Geographic Approach to Old Tucson
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Chris Lukinbeal explains how GIS techniques, drone technology, and multi-layer mapping data can help trace the topography of location shoots.
Old Tucson: Studio and Location, Geography and Film Historiography
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Josh Gleich and Chris Lukinbeal use a perennial location for westerns to ask how film scholars and geographers might each approach such a site and what they might learn from one another.
At the margins of the market: notes on the essay film’s modes of production and distribution
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Roberto Cavallini unpacks the essay film's potential for ideological critique vis-à-vis its position within the film industry.
Beyond the Museum of Present Pasts
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Iván Villarmea Álvarez explores the politics of memory in the contemporary city essay film.
(Im)Permeable History: Notebook on Cities and Clothes (pt. 2)
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Thomas Elsaesser traces Wim Wenders and Yohji Yamamoto's intertwined history through personal upheavals and national trauma to arrive, unexpectedly, at Weimar photography.