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Pécs

Ders Csaba

Community - Community Space

Community and community space are closely related – this is what we have come to conclude after brainstorming over the case of King Street at the Pécs workshop of Urban Ideas Bakery.

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Péter Lowas

Alternatives of Active Life in the City of Pécs

The title European Capital of Culture raises a number of questions. Namely, how it is possible to avoid the “capital of culture” becoming a mere “projection surface”, where cultural roles and products are represented in extraordinary magnitude; to what extent the lifestyle of the residents is affected; how much room is given for the community – the population – that forms the structure and cohesive force of the city, to participate in the process; what democratic potentials are invoked by its presence and possible participation.

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Péter Rákosi (Technika Schweiz)

Shop windows - an inventory, 2007-2010

Shop windows constitute the most visible layer of the urban signscape. Together with posters, advertisements and grafitti messages, they constantly update the city's visual environment: they discribe to the passer-by the current state of consumable objects. Created to animate the desire of shoppers, they are also talkative inventories of what a store has to comunicate. Crafted with humor or exhibitionism, some shop windows peel off from the store they represent and become self-referentional signs, mere decorations of the street.

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Edwin Heathcote

Church and King

The point where Church Street spills into the roaring Roman Road of Edgware appears an exemplar of urban dysfunction and a crushing critique of London’s particular brand of anti-urbanism. Yet, this is a cityscape of infinite complexity, one of the most perfect ciphers for the contemporary city in which globalisation informs the street in every conceivable way.

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Eszter Steierhoffer & Levente Polyák

Anatomy of a Street: an introduction

Welcoming Cities 

The London Festival of Architecture’s theme, ‘Welcoming Cities’, is open to a variety of interpretations: of cities welcoming the Olympic Games, as well as cities welcoming initiatives, diversity and eventually conflict. The Anatomy of a Street project poses the question somewhat differently: what if large-scale cultural or sporting events affect cities in far more diverse ways than we expect?

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