Issue 6 of Triple Canopy, Urbanisms: Model Cities, now online

Triple Canopy, Issue 6
Urbanisms: Model Cities

The first five pieces are currently online, with the rest to be published over the next month.

A Note on Urbanisms
By the Editors
An introduction to two issues examining our current urban situation and what lies beyond it: the city’s past and future; the suburban, the exurban, the frontier.

He Is Fresh and Everyone Else Is Tired
By Ian Volner & Matico Josephson
In 1966, New York’s new mayor, John Lindsay, launched a series of far-reaching plans to transform the city, most of which were never realized. The authors recover that vision and its lessons for the present day.

Boom, Bust, Burn, Blame: The Story of Fake Omaha
By Neil Greenberg
From CyBar Stadium to Soapbox Yards: an artist project considering the evolution of a paper-and-ink city.

Index or Constructed by Way of Experiment
By José León Cerrillo with Peter J. Russo
Supreme geometries and densely packed buildings: an artist project cannibalizing the sites and structures of modernism in Mexico City.

Wrong Place, Right Time
By José León Cerrillo
A limited-edition poster to support new commissions for Triple Canopy.

Infrastructure for Souls
By Joseph Clarke
Tracing the parallel histories of the American megachurch and the corporate-organizational complex.

Virtual Bowery
By Dan Torop
Rebuilding the Bowery in one adequate descriptive system, with Lower Manhattan circa 1997 as a flock of swans.

Wiederholungszwang
By Gil Blank with Caleb Waldorf
The trauma of lost histories and the joys of JPEGs. A webcam atop the highest hill in Portland, Maine, transports one public place to another, and another.

What Is the Antique in Truro: A Portfolio
By Adam Davies with Taylor Baldwin
Photographic portraits of the unnatural in nature, from Pittsburgh to Lynchburg and beyond.

The City That Built Itself
By Joshua Bauchner
Utopian modernism turned on its head in Caracas, where residents have turned fifty-year-old superblock housing projects into the locus of sprawling improvised settlements.

Monoactivité
By Jules Treneer
In Paris’s 11th arrondissement, the boulangeries–and everything else–have been displaced by Chinese textile wholesalers, and the government is determined to legislate them into oblivion.

MoMA, China
By Angie Waller
Amid the wreckage of old Beijing, the Modern Group debuts “MoMA,” a condominium tower that pays homage to Mies and Design Within Reach.

Underground Space
By Shu Yu with Tong Zhen
Why we must create subterranean cities: an interview with the vice director of Shanghai Underground Space Research Center, excerpted from Urban China magazine.

Gypsy Mansions
By Lev Bratishenko
The Roma build their palaces just like the rest of us, one cinder block at a time.

Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. These investigations are realized in an online magazine as well as in public programs and print publications encompassing various fields and locales. We aim to present work and advance ideas informed by a multitude of disciplines and perspectives, and to disseminate them among a broad and diverse audience. Triple Canopy was founded in late 2007; our first issue was published on March 17, 2008.

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