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Confronting Strategies in urban Reinvention

THE URBAN REINVENTORS - Issue 1 June 07

Editorial

Confronting Strategies in Urban Reinvention - Alessandro Busà - UR Chief Editor

Paper Series

The Ambivalence of Diversity and the Politics of Urban Renaissance: The Case of Youth in Downtown Portland, Maine - Loretta Lees, King's College London

Creativity and the City: Thinking through the Steps - Charles Landry, Comedia

Images of Renewal and Decline - Robert A. Beauregard, GSAPP Columbia University New York

Urbanization and Suburbanization: Assumptions about the future of European Urban Regions - Harald Bodenschaztz, TU Berlin

Repurposing the Square: Digital Symptoms of a Park’s Privatization - Gregory T. Donovan, CUNY Graduate Center New York

Reportages

Gulf Coast Blues: FEMA’s Botched Plans for Emergency Housing after Katrina - James Dickinson, Rider University New Jersey

Intra-metropolitan Creative Industries Clusters in New York City - Doreen Jacob, Humboldt University Berlin

Urban Stories

Eric Drooker: A Biography (PDF) - Allen Ginsberg

A San Diego Morning Haze: A Traveller’s State of Mind (PDF) - David Hayes

Image Gallery

Textures of Decay - Camden, NJ Camilo José Vergara

Gulf Coast Blues - New Orleans James Dickinson - Rider University, New Jersey

Eric Drooker’s New York Drawings of Eric Drooker

Haunting Suburbia Rich Mason

Tokyo: Smile is the best Make-up Michael Kuchinke-Hofer

Urbanization and suburbanizationAn anthology of pictures from US urban photographers/p>

Video Gallery

Contribution of Williams Architects (New Orleans)

Contribution of Andres Duany (Duany Plater-Zyberk, Miami, FL)

Contribution of Davis Brody Bond (New York)

Contribution of Acorn Housing (New Orleans)