Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives Jewellery Focusing on four decades

Focusing on four decades

Weizman and the architect Samaneh Moafi constructed a folly composed of seven roundabouts and a round table in front of the Gwangju train station

This publication features a series of essays and contributions by Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi and some of the participating artists

focusing on developments over the last fifty years

Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives Jewellery Focusing on four decadesIn cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the active eradication of any aberration, friction or alternative. From Dubai, Hong Kong and London to Amsterdam and Cairo, the smooth city, with its gated communities and theme park zones, insidiously transforms urban life into seamless "experience." While the demand for safe, clean and well functioning