Our friends and heroes Wrights & Sites are at it again!
This time you can take part in one of 4 Mis-Guided Tours departing from London’s ICA on Saturday 8 April, 2006.
Wrights & Sites and Tony Weaver mark the launch of their new book, A Mis-Guide to Anywhere, by leading four walking tours within […]
Tom Gieryn is Distinguished Visiting Speaker this week at University of Alberta. His talk on Truth Spots argued that from Delphi to the 8th St. New York of the Abstract Exressionists, places have served to lend credibility to scientific and religious claims. They agglomerate diverse actors and provide resources, distance others and competing […]
With the world now over 50% urban, and cities growing in significance on the global stage, our latest focus has been the effects of cities on human security. With this in mind, the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS) and Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) are launching a set of activities and resources designed to encourage […]
CFP: M/C Journal: Street
“Street in its most conventional sense represents the link between physical places, but more than that, they are spaces where cultural negotiations are made. They are everyday spaces where the informal meets the formal, and the public meets the private. In other words, they are spaces where unanticipated, sudden encounters may take […]
Theories of the present have converged on changes in spatialization or the spatial order of societies. These social science proclamations aim at setting major research agendas. Intriguingly, there is a focus on borders and boundaries in programmatic statements on reflexive modernity or remodernization (RM) by Bruno Latour and Ulrich Beck. They argue that boundary-marking and […]