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  • 14-10-24 // MONU #37 – CONFLICT-DRIVEN URBANISM

    To Eradicate Urban Conflict, Eradicate Urban Interaction by Benjamin van Loon; Conflict as Condition – Interview with Eve Blau by Bernd Upmeyer; After Displacement by Rana Abudayyeh; From Provisional to Permanent by Lukas Großmann; Seeking Shelter in the City: The Plight of Climate Migrants in Urban Bengaluru by Kshitija Mruthyunjaya; Migration, Crisis, and City-shaping Forces […]

  • 16-10-23 // MONU #36 – NEW SOCIAL URBANISM

    Vulnerable City by Maria Reitano; Free Floating Fascism and Religious Revanchism is The New Neoliberalism by Mark Gottdiener; Social by Definition – Interview with Sharon Zukin by Bernd Upmeyer; Density, Equity, and Epidemics in New York City by Richard Plunz and Andrés Álvarez-Dávila; Do Nothing for as Long as Possible by Tatjana Schneider; The Life […]

  • 17-10-22 // MONU #35 – UNFINISHED URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #35 on Youtube) To Be Finished Is to Be Dead – Interview with Mark Wigley by Bernd Upmeyer; Overdesign Is a Problem Too by Marco Enia and Flavio Martella; The Perks and Quandaries of Coming Undone a Conversation with Akoaki; The Unfinished City: Approaches for Embracing an Open Urbanism by Nick […]

  • 18-10-21 // MONU #34 – PROTEST URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #34 on Youtube) Learning from Protests – Interview with Mabel O. Wilson by Bernd Upmeyer; Be Water: Protests in Liquid Public Space by Jeffrey Hou; Ambiguous Standards of Protest by Cansu Cürgen and Avsar Gürpinar; The Archive of Public Protests by APP; Toppling Monuments: Moments of Monumentality by Ben Parry; Not […]

  • 19-10-20 // MONU #33 – PANDEMIC URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #33 on Youtube) Quarantines and Paranoia – Interview with Beatriz Colomina by Bernd Upmeyer; On Constructing a Semana Santa by Ana Morcillo Pallares; Here Not There Urbanism by Jessica Bridger; Lockdown London: Tale of the Tape by Peter Dench; Grasping for (Fresh) Air: Exposing the Inherent Conflict of Public Interiors by […]

  • 20-04-20 // MONU #32 – AFFORDABLE URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #32 on Youtube) Redefining a Radical Social Market Economy – Interview with Jörn Walter by Bernd Upmeyer; The Architecture of the People’s Housing Plan by Sasha Plotnikova; Normal City by Christopher de Vries; Urbanism for All by Richard Florida; Can Affordability Be Flexible? by Savia Palate; The Good Fight – Interview […]

  • 14-10-19 // MONU #31 – AFTER LIFE URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #31 on Youtube) Democratizing Death – Interview with Karla Rothstein by Bernd Upmeyer; The Cemetery of the Living by Miguel Candela; With Seven Bodies in My Backyard by Omar Kassab and Mostafa Youssef; Constructing Memorial Poles as Monuments by David Charles Sloane; Ghost Life Urbanism by Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy; […]

  • 15-04-19 // MONU #30 – LATE LIFE URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #30 on Youtube) Retirement Utopianism – Interview with Deane Simpson by Bernd Upmeyer; Sun City by Peter Granser; The Great Escape: Domesticity for Nomadic Retirees by Hannah Wood and Benjamin Wells; Stayin’ Alive – Interview with Frits van Dongen by Bernd Upmeyer; Bucephalus by Nicolò Calandrini; The Future We Don’t Want […]

  • 15-10-18 // MONU #29 – NARRATIVE URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #29 on Youtube) Understanding Urban Narratives – Interview with Cassim Shepard by Bernd Upmeyer; Narrative is the New Black – On the Death of Modern Language by Omar Kassab; Hong Kong Is Land by MAP Office (Gutierrez and Portefaix); Les Grands Ensembles by Pierre Huyghe; Bangkok Domestic Tastes by INDA, Alicia […]

  • 16-04-18 // MONU #28 – CLIENT-SHAPED URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #28 on Youtube) Sympathy for the Devil by Beatriz Ramo (STAR); What Clients Want by Nigel Ostime; The End of the Dominatrix Architect – Interview with Alejandro Zaera-Polo by Bernd Upmeyer and Beatriz Ramo; Expectation and Reality by Leewardists; The Fragmented Public as an Emergent Condition of “Weak Urbanism” by Iulia […]

  • 16-10-17 // MONU #27 – SMALL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #27 on Youtube) … And Though She be but Little, She is Fierce! by Liz Teston; Build: Losing their Identity by Colin Davies; Dissident Micro-occupations by Ana Medina; Gang Urbanism: Subaltern Bodies Inhabiting Suburbia by Victor Cano Ciborro; A Matter of Zooming – Interview with Stephan Petermann/ OMA by Bernd Upmeyer; […]

  • 18-04-17 // MONU #26 – DECENTRALISED URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #26 on Youtube) The City Is Dead! Long Live Urbanization… Interview with Lars Lerup by Bernd Upmeyer; Decentralized Consumerism by David Karle and Caitlin Tangeman; Texas Unbound by Ian Caine; The Legend of Grand Paris, or How Paris Became Great by STAR strategies + architecture and BOARD; Decentralizing the Global City […]

  • 17-10-16 // MONU #25 – INDEPENDENT URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #25 on Youtube) What Ever Happened to Skopje? by Jasna Mariotti; Capital City-Making by Gruia Badescu; A Translocal Capital? Prishtina by Kai Vöckler and Jonas König; Urban Development in Belgrade: The Politics of the New Urban by Alexander Kleibrink; Victory Park by Arnis Balcus; On the Condition of Post-(communist) Urbanism and […]

  • 18-04-16 // MONU #24 – DOMESTIC URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #24 on Youtube) The Home as Political Arena – Interview with Andrés Jaque by Bernd Upmeyer; Chantal Akerman, Yasujiro Ozu, and the Poetics of Intimate Space by Sander Hölsgens; The Fridge, the City and the Critique of Everyday Life by Justinien Tribillon; How to Domesticate a City: Adaptive Tools to an […]

  • 19-10-15 // MONU #23 – PARTICIPATORY URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #23 on Youtube) Distributing Power – Interview with Jeremy Till by Bernd Upmeyer; Temporary Urban Spaces as Evidence of Participatory Urbanism by Carolyn Sponza; Towards a New Urbanism – Emergent Strategies by Gonzalo J López; Learning from Advocacy Planning by Verena Lenna; From a Spatial Society to a Spatial Culture by […]

  • 20-04-15 // MONU #22 – TRANSNATIONAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #22 on Youtube) Liberté, Digitalité, Créativité – Interview with Jean-Louis Missika by Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer; On Home, in a World of Non-possession by Merve Bedir; Rescaling Transnational Geographies by Antonio Petrov; Third Form Cross Border Cartography – A Middle Eastern Exostructure by Maier Yagod; Transnational Urbanisms of Asylum Trajectories […]

  • 20-10-14 // MONU #21 – INTERIOR URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #21 on Youtube) Enfiladed Grids: The Museum as City by Jonathan A. Scelsa; Scalar Liaisons: Claiming The Public Interior by Amin Alsaden; Dark Transparency by Colleen Tuite; Some Notes Towards an Interior Archipelago by Brendan Cormier; From Domestic Housh to Consumer Mojama’a: The Social Space of Women in Kuwait by Dalal […]

  • 14-04-14 // MONU #20 – GEOGRAPHICAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #20 on Youtube) On the Geographical Organization of World Urbanization by Nikos Katsikis; A Geographic Stroll Around the Horizon by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy; 22º54´S 43º 10’W by Michael Oliveira; We Dig Your Land by David Morison; Working with Geography – Interview with Bernardo Secchi by Bernd Upmeyer; Underneath […]

  • 14-10-13 // MONU #19 – GREATER URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #19 on Youtube) Unlimited Greatness – Interview with Antoine Grumbach by Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer; Greater Moscow by Anton Ivanov; From Utopia to Real World by Fabrizia Berlingieri and Manuela Triggianese; Grand Paris by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; Greater Singapore: Exporting the Model City-State by Calvin Chua; Metro-Detroit Faith […]

  • 23-04-13 // MONU #18 – COMMUNAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #18 on Youtube) Learning to Live Together by Martin Abbott; Ecstasy and Privacy – Interview with Rainer Langhans by Bernd Upmeyer; The Centennial RV Park by Lisa Hirmer; Ownership to Membership: Collective Consumption as Urban Strategy by Travis K. Bost and Eric Höweler; Voluntary Crowdedness in Innovative Communities by Alfredo Andia; […]

  • 16-10-12 // MONU #17 – NEXT URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #17 on Youtube) Santa Fe-ing of the World by Joel Garreau; Emerging Geographies: From Environment to Terrorism – Interview with Saskia Sassen by Bernd Upmeyer; The Urbanism of Demographics: Next Eleven, BRIC 2.0? by Hajir Alttahir; Investment as Planning by Kai van Hasselt; The Data Based Infographics of Urban Expansion by […]

  • 17-04-12 // MONU #16 – NON-URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #16 on Vimeo) The New Rural: Global Agriculture, Desakotas and Freak Farms – Interview with Kees Christiaanse by Bernd Upmeyer and Beatriz Ramo; Non-Urbanism Revisited by Hester van Gent; Remembrances of an Older Urbanism by Edward W. Soja; Urbanism in the Expanded Field of the Built Environment by Jessica Bridger; Non-Urban […]

  • 21-11-11 // MONU #15 – POST-IDEOLOGICAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #15 on Youtube) Acrobatic Narratives – Interview with Wouter Vanstiphout by Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer; Welcome to Post-Ideological City by Patty Heyda; Nacht Series by Thomas Ruff; Urban Fictions New Cairo – Fairytales, Fables and Ideologies by Samir El Kordy and Ying Zhou; Lean Urbanism by Brendan M. Lee; Towards […]

  • 18-04-11 // MONU #14 – EDITING URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #14 on Youtube) The Naked Lunch: A Stark Honest Discussion On Renewal by UNION3; On Politics of Planning by Henk Ovink; Beyond Editing by Simone Pizzagalli; Extreme Demolition and Extreme Preservation by OMA; Apoptotic Woomera 2035 by Lucas Dean; Eternal Ise by Jarrik Ouburg; Moveable Chair by Sara Hendren; What not […]

  • 05-10-10 // MONU #13 – MOST VALUABLE URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #13 on Youtube) Most T-shirtable Cities By Mika Savela; Evaluation City – Post Industrial’s Most Valuable Urbanism By Melissa Dittmer and Amy Bos; Within a Day By Bobby Shen; Urban Perception of Happiness By Luciano Alfaya and Patricia Muñiz; The Urban Rhythm By Karin Aue and Jeffrey Koh; Tales of Nail […]

  • 11-03-10 // MONU #12 – REAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #12 on Youtube) Luxury Space By Jason Lee; The World According to Mr. Reds By Doreen Jakob; The Shelter Category By Mammoth (Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes); How the City of Broad Shoulders Bought its Growth Spurt By Karl Johann Hakken; Residential Developers and Investors in Central Europe: Boom and Bust […]

  • 25-08-09 // MONU #11 – CLEAN URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #11 on Youtube) Sci-fi Greenery …or just Responsibility? By Samo Pedersen; Clean Cities – Dirty People By Matteo Muggianu; Dirty Consumerism By Nikonus Pappas; Coming Clean By Randall Teal ; Domes over Manhattan – Interview with Gerd Hauser By Bernd Upmeyer; Rendering the Clean By Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia (WAI); […]

  • 06-02-09 // MONU #10 – HOLY URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #10 on Youtube) A Mormon Megaproject by Daniel Hadley; Then It Hit Me: Learn to Meditate by Brian A Shabaglian; The Sacred and the Holy: Transient Urban Spaces by Colin Davies; Cross Utilization: Enhanced Religious Experiences by NL Architects; Strata and Sound: The Adhan as an Urban Operating Procedure by Peter […]

  • 26-08-08 // MONU #9 – EXOTIC URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #9 on Youtube) A City under the Influence by Vesta Nele Zareh; Cities of Girl by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix/ Map Office; Thawing Urbanisms in the Arctic by Mason White and Lola Sheppard; Living Facades – Green Urbanism and the Politics of Urban Offsetting by Owen Hatherley; Flying Grass Carpet […]

  • 14-03-08 // MONU #8 – BORDER URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #8 on Youtube) SlaveCity – Interview with Joep van Lieshout by Bernd Upmeyer; Potential Nation States by STAR; Global Islands in North Korea by Simone Cartier and Katrin Gimmel; Operation Desert by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer; Kaliningrad by Ines Lüder, Dominique Hurth and Ciarán Walsh; Segregated Istanbul by Pelin Tan; […]

  • 10-09-07 // MONU #7 – 2ND RATE URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #7 on Youtube) Branding the Generic City by Alfredo Andia; Bern, Beverwijk, and the Representation of Cities by Joost Meuwissen; Claiming Space by Daan and Job Roggeveen; I like my Town by Medium; Music City, USA by Veronica Kavass; Banal Urbanism by Jamie Peck; 2nd Rate Urbanism in 1st Rate Urban […]

  • 30-01-07 // MONU #6 – BEAUTIFUL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #6 on Youtube) Potentially Beautiful by Sean Burkholder; Beyond Kitsch by Dirk Hebel and Deane Simpson; Sterile Rotterdam by Melisa Vargas; The Anti-Urinator by Supersudaca; Beauty and the Sublime by Joost Meuwissen; The Revolving Transient by Lukas Reichel; Pedaling Hope by Jen Petersen; Microrayons by Bee Flowers; Advanced City Camouflage by […]

  • 10-07-06 // MONU #5 – BRUTAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #5 on Youtube) The Return of the Repressed by Loïc Wacquant; Vandalism as a Productive Force by Michael Zinganel; The Evil Architects Do by Eyal Weizman; Preventing Brutal Urbanism – Interview with the Director of the Security Task Force for the 2006 World Cup by Bernd Upmeyer; Terrorists Love Density by […]

  • 16-01-06 // MONU #4 – DENIED URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #4 on Youtube) Scrap and Build by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Jorge Almazán; Ex Gas Stations by UAS; Shopping for Vice by Jeffrey Ludlow; The Future of Filming in Downtown Los Angeles by Sarah Lorenzen; A Guide to Visiting Cities by Boris Sieverts; The Master of Lockhart (Texas) by Hans Frei; Transforming […]

  • 05-07-05 // MONU #3 – POLITICAL URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #3 on Youtube) Planning and Activism by Malkit Shoshan; nEUtral by bad-architects; Rojak by Maggie Peng; Between Aerial Defense and Modernism by Lola Meyer; Model City – Interview with Margitta Faßl, the managing director of ‘Wohnungsgesellschaft Hoyerswerda’ by Bernd Upmeyer; You shall be Urban by Theo Deutinger; Flevoland: From State Planning […]

  • 20-01-05 // MONU #2 – MIDDLE CLASS URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #2 on Youtube) Dispersion by Johannes Fiedler; Density, Zoning, and Class in New York City by Beth Lieberman; Mc Mansions by William Alatriste; Urbanism for the Middle Class in historic City Centers by Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto; Middle Class Urbanism Interview – with Thomas Sieverts by Bernd Upmeyer ; IKEA: […]

  • 16-06-04 // MONU #1 – PAID URBANISM

    (browse the entire issue #1 on Youtube) Imagining the Subsidized Landscape by CUP; After Growth by CASE with Reinier de Graaf; Urban Distortion by Shireen A. Barday and Damon W. Root; Urban Money Beats Global Money by Hans-Henning von Winning; The Paid Urbanism Project by Thomas Soehl and Bernd Upmeyer; SpaMania by Kai Jonas; Is […]