Tue, 5 December 2023
6:00PM
All Fall Down: Post-Industrial Demolition Projects and the Aesthetic of Collapse
Jack Halberstam
While urban planning in the middle of the last century in Europe and the US was indelibly influenced by the plans for social order and control produced by Le Corbusier and his acolytes, by the 1970’s small groups of activists and artists envisioned another kind of city, one which emphasized access and reveled in the disorderly arrangements of transport, buildings and life that cities fostered, created and sustained.