Cities between dream and reality On 1 October, a group of twenty artists, architects, designers and observers embarked on the airplane to Skopje. The capital of the Republic of Macedonia was to be the first of the nine cities visited during the 17-day study trip ‘What’s Up, What’s Down. Cultural Catalysts in Urban Spaces’ organised by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. All cities on the itinerary are – for various reasons – reinventing themselves. Here is the first part of my travelogue: about how authorities acquire a new (cultural) image for their city.
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Back in 1963, then still a part of Tito’s Yugoslavia, Skopje was hit by a severe earthquake, and as a result twenty percent of all buildings were reduced to rubble. The international community rushed to the rescue and Japan…
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