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Independent Urbanism: Nostalgia and Non-places by Amy Tibbels MAGAZINEONURBANISM2016-11-24T13:41:00-05:00>2016-12-05T00:56:29-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/35/35826h4va4192duq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The 25th issue of MONU “Independent Urbanism” provides a platform to unveil the multitude of decisions that had to be made by countries after becoming independent - and more specifically the cities within these countries.
by Amy Tibbels</p></em><br /><br /><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/z3/z3m3p6bt77yztobp.jpg"></p><p>In 2010 we became familiar with instagram and along with it a new way to represent ourselves. In the same year, the Republic of Macedonia’s capital city Skopje decided to completely cover itself with false neo-classical facades, embodied with hundred year old representation. The 25th issue of MONU “Independent Urbanism” provides a platform to unveil the multitude of decisions that had to be made by countries after becoming independent- and more specifically the cities within these countries. The magazine’s photo essays have an indispensable heaviness within this particular issue of MONU, in it’s twelve years it has never featured as many as three. Of this we can be appreciative in largest part because these intimate images bring authenticity to some inconceivable realities. But further, what I find integral to each of these photo essays is a nostalgia, which becomes a binding agent of most articles as if being the authors’ communal grand answer to the question; what happened to thes...</p>