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25 August 2009

! MAP THIS ! #16

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Labels: mapoftheweek, URBANITIES

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The city is made up of assemblages built of heterogeneous networks and associations. Multiple and overlapping enactments constitute urban life as a synchronous city.
SYNCHRONICITY is a blog excavating these networks and setting them in relationship to each other. SYNCHRONICITYunderstands itself as an extended platform sharing myriad approaches in urbanism, landscape and architecture.

written by Christian Haid, currently located in Berlin

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