Urban Renewal – Tafter Journal

Cities, Urbanism, Architecture and Citizenship

L’Ososphère: Popular Music, Temporary Uses and Planning in Strasbourg France

This article focuses on the temporary activation via popular music of former industrial buildings awaiting redevelopment in Strasbourg, France. The renting out of lucrative areas for certain periods of time, either for continuous use or one-off events, to cultural entrepreneurs,…

Culture for territorial development

Regaining Spaces and Territories. Reflections about the blank side of Italy

Just few years ago, Italy was a Country with more people than spaces. Nowadays, we’re living the opposite conditions: Italy is a Country full of spaces but without people. In Italy we build 8 meters per second, the urbanization rate…

Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

Trust against fear. The Role of Culture and the Future of Europe

In a fragile political and economic framework, the attention to the role that culture can play in creating the bass for the future of Europe is growing rapidly. This paper investigates the impacts that culture create in several aspects of…