—AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT NEUWIRTH Sara Bissen interviewed writer and researcher Robert Neuwirth in November 2016 on the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito October 17−20, 2016. The text in which the interview refers to is the Draft Outcome Document of the United Nations Conference on Housing […] read more
Editor’s Note: The Silence of Design by Stefano Serafini Editor in Chief, International Society of Biourbanism, Italy I. Marx and Engels were among the first to denounce the ugliness of the modern city. The notes by Engels on London as an expanded capitalistic plant that breaks human relations speak for the urban absence of beauty […] 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