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