City Walks:
imagining the postmodern,
postindustrial urban landscapes
 by Joerg Ploeger
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 DETROIT RUINS
This fabulous website takes you on a virtual tour through the postindustrial urban landscapes of Detroit. The dramatic change in this classic industrial city is shown by the decline and destruction of it's former architectural landmarks - now turned into ruins: http://www.detroityes.com/toc.htm
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POLITICS OF SPACE IN THE GHETTO
Using conceptual maps and animations Columbia University architecture student Mathias Echanove shows new virtual ways of how to imagine the urban spaces. Check out his tour through East New York:
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/Students/
Fall2001/Echanove.Mathias/eastnewyork/
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NOMADOLOGY
Concepts of space through the eyes of the new urban nomad using theoretical reconsiderations about the transformation of space in the digital age. "Nomads naturally resist any authority that undermines their freedom of movement":
http://www.nomadology.com/
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PAROLE
A dynamic dictionary of contemporary urban forms and processes. The structure of the webpage invites you to wander through the different expressions and explore them. The complexity and heterogenity of urban structures will become obvious by the sheer quantity of the site: http://parole.aporee.org
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INFILTRATION
The online magazine about going to places you are not supposed to go! Offering practical and theoretical information about urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage:
http://www.infiltration.org/
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BILBAO REALITY
HACKING
Brilliant virtual tour through contemporary Bilbao by French student collective Access 5. Different tours lead through derelict urban wastelands which stand in sharp contrast to the postmodern landscapes created by revitalization programmes (French language only): http://axs5.free.fr/
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BERLIN MITTE
Explorations of an urban conversion.
A photo essay which depicts the drastic transformation of the urban landscape in Berlin especially after the fall of the wall.
The pictures are sorted by themes and geography: http://uinic.de/berlin-mitte
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NEW YORK SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PROJECT
 Project by a New York based non-profit community group concerned about the increasing loss of privacy through the rising numbers of surveillance cameras (CCTV). Maps show the locations of cameras in the borough of Manhattan: http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/
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