topos Magazine

14 December 2020

Urban spaces are subject to constant change. It's the nature of the beast. They are places of transformation, growth and shrinkage, places where layers overlap, places that become palimpsests over time. Urbanisation, digitalisation, crises, climate change, wars, times of recession and upswing, even pandemics change both the way we live in urban space and the urban space itself. Cities mutate into mega-urban spaces – borders, boundaries, neighbourhoods and spaces begin to blur. topos 113 takes an in-depth look at urban mutations, at transformation processes and the changing of urban spaces.