- ALL ABOUT THE URBAN REINVENTORS SUBJECT The Urban Reinventors is a newly released online urban journal whose aim is to analyze political strategies of urban redevelopment implemented by entrepreneurial administrations of western countries within the growth-oriented and competition-driven framework of urban governance of the contemporary city.
- AIM
- The online diffusion of the content has a scientific character and uses the multiple resources of the new media in order to reach the widest possible audience, trying to establish a cross-sectional dialogue between overground (policy makers, planners and architects, local institutions, academic world) and underground (urban activists, organizers, writers, artists, informal groups, private associations, non-profit organizations).
The modern city’s condition will be illustrated by means of very different contents ranging from theory to documentary videos, from reportage to critical reflections, from novels to photographic galleries.
- RESOURCES
- The journal is conceived as a collection of writings, images and videos. Each thematic issue will lead the reader into a fascinating journey around the bright and dark sides of our contemporary urban condition.
Besides a “Paper Series”, including mainly academic essays, articles and papers from academics in urban planning, architecture, geography, politics, economy, philosophy, cultural studies and the humanities, The Urban Reinventors Online Journal features a “Reportages” section, investigating specific relevant places and events, an “Urban Stories” section, presenting novels, short stories and screenplays of emerging writers, an “Image Gallery”, showcasing photographic reportages as well as artworks about metropolises and urban life, and a “Video Gallery”, functioning as a platform for professionals as well as for emerging artists, video makers and urban reporters.
- ONLINE
- The Urban Reinventors is also present online at flickr.com:
http://www.flickr.com/people/urbanreinventors/
And on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=UrbanReinvention
The social, economic, and long-term macroeconomic impacts of strategies of urban reinvention require robust theoretical and empirical evaluation. The aim of this journal is to make those evaluations and to put current debates about strategies of urban reinvention in context and perspective. Through the analysis of several case studies of critical significance, assets as well as pitfalls and disfunctionalities of such strategies will be unraveled.
