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In Mark Magazine #24 (February-March 2010), Bert de Muynck | MovingCities published an interview with Beijing-based structural engineer Rory McGowan [ARUP and ARUP in Beijing]. "Learning from CCTV | an interview with Rory McGowan" is now online.

With a two and a half month hiatus, MovingCities is following up on the hutong destruction around Gulou Subway Station. After introducing the area and the discussion about Beijing's hutong preservation/hallucinations, we now look at half-hutongs: a combination of dust and debris, bricks, and semi-transparent green plastic meshes covering rubble and ruins. Snapshots of semi-structures followed by a short intro to Instant Hutong's latest project: URBAN CARPET 8x5.

THERE IS NO I IN TEAM is a three-day event at PROGRAM, Berlin. Running from October 15th to 17th it brings together cutting-edge  video, live audiovisuals and performance art and creative communities from both China and Berlin. MovingCities will be part of Friday's radio show on the topic of China's Creative topography and Getting Lost Together.

We always had a strange fascination for Zibo. It has been on our radar since we found it positioned at the end of the alphabetical list of China's cities with more than 1 million inhabitants. And because nobody seems to care about it. Due to a nice coincidence of interests we embarked last weekend on a four hour high-speed train trip to the south. Zibo 淄博!

Haussman is haunting Beijing. While driving around, we traversed the territory by cab. From within it, Beijing reveals another image; there is the unavoidable largeness of space, buildingblocksbigness and omnipresence of green corridors along its ringroads and inner-city highways. A strange symphony of snapshots -like slowing down and speeding up.

What do we see when we scan Beijing's skyline? Is it an amalgamation of architectural elements where one can't be distinguished from the other, where there is no primacy? Is Beijing one of those city's that do not have a skyline? Recently we lifted ourselves from the groundlevel and aerially appropriated the city. Follow-up and snapshots.

We are no strangers to purposeless wanderings in Beijing's Central Business District. On this transactional territory we find towers (in flames), residual spaces, rational randomness or examples to learn from. World top planning news and snapshots.