Call for Papers

Issue #2:Global Urbanisms

Within this huge topic of global urbanisms, we are interested in considering papers that examine the patterning of large metropolitan regions by focusing on the history of the design of large housing sectors. These residential urban elements—whether they are called “neighborhood units” in English, “mikrorayon” in Russian, or “unidades vecinales” in Spanish typically include arange of public uses and services and were a key element in what became the global town planning movement after 1920. We are interested in considering the impact of social, political, and economic ideals on the motives, programs, and design concepts of such large projects, which range from the canonical European projects of the 1920s to many others around the world designed on related principles. We seek papers that consider this form of urbanism from a variety of methodological approaches.Submissions for issue #2 are due 15 September 2009.

Positions’s aim is to broaden the scope of reflection and theorizing on these issues. Authors are asked to submit papers to the editors, preferably in English. Papers should not be more than 6,000 words, in addition to complete citations in the form of endnotes. They should be accompanied by no more than ten images. If a paper is accepted for publication, the author will have the responsibility to obtain world rights to publish these images.

E-mail submissions to:positions.on.modernism@gmail.com

Positions Issue #1: Open Submissions

Modern architecture and urbanism since 1900 needs to be, and is already being radically reconceptualized in light of a number of political, social and cultural developments: the ongoing dismantling of polemically-driven analyses and descriptions of modernism (and the development of new ones, polemically-driven and not); the opening up to scholarly research of new geographic areas in central and eastern Europe, where modernism was to a large extent born and actively practiced; the growing scholarship in Asian and African urbanisms; the continued study of modernism in Latin America; the development within the academy of new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of space, urbanism and built form in disciplines as disparate as studies in colonialism and post colonialism, gender, and film; cultural geography and anthropology; geographic area studies; critical theory; intellectual history and philosophy.

Positions’s aim is to broaden the scope of reflection and theorizing on these issues. We seek papers considering architecture and urbanism from a variety of methodological approaches. Submissions for Issue #1 are due 1 April 2009.

Authors are asked to submit papers to the editors, preferably in English. Papers should not be more than 6,000 words, in addition to complete citations in the form of endnotes. They should be accompanied by no more than ten images. If a paper is accepted for publication, the author will have the responsibility to obtain world rights to publish these images. E-mail submissions to: positions.on.modernism@gmail.com

Call for Papers

Issue #1: Open Submissions

Submissions for issue #1 are due 1 April 2009.

Issue #2: Global Urbanisms

Within this huge topic of global urbanisms, we are interested in considering papers that examine the patterning of large metropolitan regions by focusing on the history of the design of large housing sectors. These residential urban elements—whether they are called “neighborhood units” in English, “mikrorayon” in Russian, or “unidades vecinales” in Spanish typically include a range of public uses and services and were a key element in what became the global town planning movement after 1920. We are interested in considering the impact of social, political, and economic ideals on the motives, programs, and design concepts of such large projects, which range from the canonical European projects of the 1920s to many others around the world designed on related principles. We seek papers that consider this form of urbanism from a variety of methodological approaches. Submissions for issue #2 are due 15 September 2009.

Positions’s aim is to broaden the scope of reflection and theorizing on these issues. Authors are asked to submit papers to the editors, preferably in English. Papers should not be more than 6,000 words, in addition to complete citations in the form of endnotes. They should be accompanied by no more than ten images. If a paper is accepted for publication, the author will have the responsibility to obtain world rights to publish these images. 

E-mail submissions to: positions.on.modernism@gmail.com

Issue 0

The inaugural issue of Positions: On Modern Architecture + Urbanism/Histories and Theories is now available. Founding editors Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Eric Mumford and Cor Wagenaar explain the need and role for a journal like Positions, while the editorial board - consisting of leading scholars from around the world - respond to the editors' statement.