Finding the Contemporary City Between the Local and the Global with In-Between Economies

2017-03-22T12:03:00-04:00

How is the city made? Who is it made by? Who is it made for? These are the questions poised by In-Between Economies, an interdisciplinary research platform based in Copenhagen, London and Oslo. In their view, the only way to address them in the 21st century is to expand beyond the purview of architecture or urbanism. “Urban life, and our experience of it, is a complex mix of economic systems, social relationships, and infrastructural spaces,” they tell me. And to grapple with it, we need to start talking with people besides architects.

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Finding the Contemporary City Between the Local and the Global with In-Between Economies