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topos 113: urban mutations
topos 113 takes an in-depth look at urban mutations, at transformation processes and the changing of urban spaces, and examines the challenges and opportunities inherent to them.
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about topos
topos is aimed at internationally active landscape architects, urban planners and decision-makers who want to inform themselves about international trends and developments in other countries. The English-language trade magazine is published four times a year and presents current developments and trends in landscape architecture and related planning disciplines worldwide. topos publishes outstanding projects and concepts and stimulates international discourse with its contributions from theory and practice.
"IT TAKES COURAGE TO USE A LANDSCAPE AS IT IS"
When industrial landscapes have fulfilled their purpose, are no longer needed, a process begins that goes to the very substance of things. Not only places, but also people are robbed of their identity; economic, social, societal changes are inevitable. Where do you start as a planner? How do you set a transformation process in motion? Do you build on what is still there? Do you break away from it? How much radicalism is needed to transform landscapes in such a way that a new identity is possible, but the past does not disappear? topos spoke with Tilman Latz, a German architect, urban planner and landscape architect, about the right way to deal with industrial legacies, about the dangers of the Bilbao effect and about the great heritage of Duisburg-Nord. Read more in the print issue or the ePaper.
SHAPING THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Decades of massive population growth and rural-to-urban migration have accelerated urbanization in the Global South and produced cities of unprecedented size and density. By 2030 developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are projected to be home to 34 out of the world’s 41 megacities. Developing these “urban fields” and turning them into liveable and sustainable areas of habitation involves complex undertakings the significance of which extends the borders of individual countries. Deden Rukmana, editor of The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South, describes the challenges that lie ahead and presents innovative urban development and planning initiatives. He focuses especially on informal spaces, which are the largest physical feature of cities throughout the Global South. Read more in the print issue or the ePaper.
THE BIG PICTURE: BEYOND GLITTER
Apart from the flashing, sparkling glow of the Strip, whose dazzling, colourful images we commonly associate with Las Vegas, this metropolis in the Nevada desert is really more of a dystopian place. An illusory American world caught between fake news, reality shows and the denial of climate change is what German ethnologist, artist and photographer Cyrill Lachauer shows us on the big picture. He takes a look behind the scenes of the brave new world of superlatives that America once was, and still wants to be. Read more in the print issue or the ePaper.