by Sara Bissen NEWARK WITHHELD Newark Withheld is a series by Sara Bissen about Newark, New Jersey today, as seen through the eyes of its long-standing artists. Opened by Kevin Blythe Sampson, Newark Withheld initiates a discussion by local artists in relation to the transformation of their city. This series extends from the photographic work […] read more
Editor’s Note Sara Bissen Editor in Chief, The Ruralist Body, United States of America The city smells of decay. Not by chance, politics is dead. If politics is dead, it is because our words have become empty. As if we no longer inhabit them. As if they are no longer filled with soil. This issue […] read more
by Sara Bissen NEWARK WITHHELD Newark Withheld is a series by Sara Bissen about Newark, New Jersey today, as seen through the eyes of its long-standing artists. Opened by Kevin Blythe Sampson, Newark Withheld initiates a discussion by local artists in relation to the transformation of their city. This artist series extends from the photographic […] read more
by Sara Bissen I. 1947, A “Day of Reckoning”—The Central Planning Board of the City of Newark, New Jersey Addresses the Citizens of Newark[1] Newark’s 1947 Master Plan, completed after a decade of population decline (1930–1940) and a decrease in real estate value, noted a “downward trend” that “must be arrested by undertaking privately financed large […] read more
The 2017 Milan INTBAU conference will investigate methodologies of representation, communication, and valorisation of Historic Urban Landscapes. This will include not only cultural heritage, but also placemaking and local identity enhancement. The conference will promote holistic and multidisciplinary approaches to design, which are adapted to meet the challenges of tomorrow and support the unique heritage, […] read more
The Journal of Biourbanism (JBU) is an open peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international online journal, and the official journal of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB). Picking up a word coined by Edward Wilson, we define biophilic that kind of architecture, which is capable to supply our inborn need of connection to life and to vital processes. […] read more