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Mark Magazine has its 12th issue out. Bert de Muynck | movingcities contributed to it with an interview with Chinese architect-artist Ai Weiwei. In the interview Ai Weiwei looks back on his short but intense career as an architect.

After the 'What can we learn from China?'-lecture at ZZZ Gallery, Tel Aviv, February 29, 2008, we briefly met with Els Verbakel. Along with Rafi Segal, Els Verbakel edited the March 2008 issue of Architectural Design, entitled Cities of Dispersal. Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, Cities of Dispersal explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. While functionally and programmatically, dispersed ...

On Thursday March 6, we went on a field trip to Be'er Sheva (Beersheba), the largest city in the Negev Desert. In preparation for our research on desert cities we couldn't miss this one, 'the Capital of the Negev'. Be'er Sheva is the sixth largest city in Israel and has a population of approximately 200,000. The field trip was organized by architect Yuval Yasky, from the City/State Unit ...

Polarinertia, one of the webs' premier journals of nomadic and popular culture has a new issue online. movingcities contributed to it with the "Residual vs Icon"-photo series and a short observation on the strange building biotopes that surround Beijing's large construction sites.