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Allan Siegel

Notes on a Street in Transition

As Jane Jacobs pointed out quite a few years ago, a street can be more than simply a pipeline transmitting people or things from one place to the next: in fact in the most dynamic situations it is an organic entity which can either thrive or wither away. In this context the urban street is not that far removed from from the trading routes or trails borne from the wilderness as humanity’s isolated communities intermingled, fought, traded and evolved into modern metropolises.

 

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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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Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer & Wojciech Kacperski

Mokotowska Street: The Fresh Start of an Old Sentiment

    “Are you a Varsovian? Bred-in-the-bone? Then show your ID!”, was one gentleman’s answer to the question what he thought about Mokotowska Street. In a perverse way his reaction expresses a pretty common attitude toward the street located in the city’s centre: Mokotowska has always been here and only those who know about it can claim to be True Varsovians.

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Warsaw symposium

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 3.

 

 

 

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Budapest symposium

 

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 1.

 

 

 

On the 7th of November 2010, from 2 - 7 pm

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Emőke Kerekes

Vendor's Portraits, Király Street

While surveys generally focus on the residents of a particular area, we often have no information about the people who work there. However, these are the people who effect the character of a neighbourhood the most. Emőke Kerekes, in her series of portraits taken of shopkeepers of Király Street, reveal the great variety of retail types in the neighbourhood and the heterogeneity of their vendors.

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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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Ádám Albert, Réka Schutzmann and Csilla Zsuzsanna Vizl

On the Trace of the Ring: globalisation and real estate on the “most emblematic (Buda)Pest street”

Budapest, the capital of Hungary, boasts a number of invaluable national monuments. Many of these are residential houses still owned by the local governments. Recent years have witnessed the demolition and elimination of these buildings with no regard for their national monument status. This is especially true of Budapest’s District VII, Erzsébetváros (Elizabethtown, the old Jewish ghetto). This is where the three buildings of our concern, Király Street 25-27-29, are located.

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