about serial cities

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critical mass << los angeles : berlin : shanghai : cairo >> culture & capital(ism) << washington dc : new orleans : las vegas : dubai >> capital migration << new york : st. petersburg : melbourne : brasilia >> imperial cities << london : rome : mexico city : tokyo >> future cities << paris : chicago : montréal : mumbai >>series_1.htmlseries_2.htmlseries_3.htmlseries_4.htmlseries_5.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4
serial cities is also about mapping: the explorations of each city visited are documented on maps that also serve as graphic comparisons of city form. the reductive nature of the maps originated with the graphics for the City Plates — a series of twenty ceramic plates developed for notNeutral that uses mapping to look at the relationship between cities in the context of five urban themes:http://www.notneutral.com/index.php?cPath=1_8_63http://www.notneutral.com/shapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1
jennifer cosgrove is an architect based in los angeles whose interests span architecture, landscape, urban design, product design, art, and public space. Her education background includes a graduate degree in architecture from sci-arc and an undergraduate degree in art from NYU. before beginning the serial cities project she was working at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, and has co-taught studios at the USC School of Architecture with frank Clementi. contact/comments: jen_cosgrove@me.com http://www.sciarc.edu/http://www.rchstudios.com/mailto:jen_cosgrove@me.comshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2