Uropean Urbanity: Europan 7 and 8 >> Austria and Slovenia

Uropean Urbanity provides an overview about young architectural strategies on contemporary urban development, showing all prize-winning and selected Europan projects from the competitions Europan 7+8 in Austria and Slovenia. In parallel with these projects, a collection of texts by writers, critics, theorists, architects and artists examines the effects of political, economical, and social forces onto urban environments, as well as they reflect spatial and urbanist practices, always in relation to current transformations of urban spaces. This publication addresses specialist readers from the disciplines architecture, urban planning, sociology, and cultural theory as well as an audience interested in development of contemporary cities and in experimental architecture work.