UR Books: Urban Criticism in Metropolis

In 2016, Terreform launched its publishing imprint, UR (Urban Research). UR is a medium for disseminating our work and as a support structure for designers and researchers who share the project of a progressive and liberated urbanism.

UR was featured in Metropolis Magazine:

Urban Research Books, a new publishing imprint from the New York-based nonprofit Terreform, hopes to examine the politics that govern every city, offering a critical analysis of them. The publisher's diversity and geographic reach is driven by the acknowledgement that no single discourse can satisfactorily account for the complexity and sheer extent of either the idea or the face of the city. — Samuel Medina, Metropolis, October 2016, Vol.36(3), p.46:

UR (Urban Research) launches Beyond the Square

On September 26, Terreform's imprint UR (Urban Research) hosed a panel discussion at the Hagop Kevorkian Center at New York University to celebrate the launch of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (UR, 2016), edited by Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta. 

The panel featured both the editors, as well as Ahmed Kanna (Anthropology, University of the Pacific) and Julie Mehretu (Artist).

Watch the discussion below:

Terreform Receives Award for UR (Urban Research)

Terreform has received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts so that it can continue its publication series (URpub.org). This will support our initiative to disseminate speculative research,  designs and analyses that focus on a progressive urbanism.

See their announcement printed in Arch Daily: Graham Foundation Announces $419,000 in 2016 Grants to Organizations.

Also check out our grantees project page at Graham Foundation: UR (Urban Research), Volumes 07-11.

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