Writing on camps is dangerous as they are never constrained to the architectural scale and form, we might firstly perceive them. If examined singular objects, even in their multiple diverse morphological aspects contested historiography, seem incapable of mobilizing spatial reflection beside an aesthetic precarity, makeshift resistance or violent power control, surveillance, exclusion, death. B...

In recent years, various proposals have emerged for the construction of “eco-cities,” specially designed communities with an explicit environmental focus that often incorporate technologically sophisticated building design, comprehensive master-planning, renewable energy sources, and efforts to achieve resource self-sufficiency. This trend, however, is subject to intense criticism among some pr...