The word rent is widely used, but its origins are not widely understood, as attested by recent appeals to abolish rent during the Covid-19 lockdown. Rent has taken on a heightened significance in recent weeks due to a sudden rapid spike in unemployment in various countries. Prompted by the worldwide Covid-19 lockdown, the spike has […]
The architect Max von Werz writes in topos 110 about Mexico City – a cultural epicentre bursting at the seams with fresh, raw energy.
As the story of a small group of Mexican heroin traffickers demonstrates, just-in-time supply chain methods revolutionised all areas of the global economy, including the drug trade.
Friedrich Passler, architect at AllesWirdGut, writes in topos 109 about Vienna: a city worth living in and loving, which continues to grow, but in a healthy way.
The changes that population growth and consumer capitalism cause on our planet are the theme of “Landscape of Consumption“, a film by Karl Davies.
This year’s ASLA Conference examined the US identity in turbulent times. A congress report The expression “the elephant in the room” is delightfully ambiguous. On the one hand, it refers to something important that everybody knows about, yet nobody addresses explicitly. On the other hand, however, it implies a huge, blundering something that can break […]
