The fourth issue of Static, the online journal of the London Consortium is now online. To view Static please visit: http://static.londonconsortium.com/

List of contributions:

Making public interventions in today's massive cities | Saskia Sassen

Place and spacing | Andrew Benjamin

Dubai : self-help for those you wanted to build a 21st century city | Shumon Basar

Drag spaces | Neil Leach

Terra incognita | R&Sie(n)

Freeze - H2O : humans to ocean | Dynamic City Foundation

Freequent Traveller | Susanne Schuricht with Michael Hohl and Mirjam Stuppek

You have a future in common use | Celine Condorelli

European migration geographies, Poland | An Architektur and FFM

Lima rooftops : case study of an urban desert | Carlos León Xjiménez

Editorial | Elina Axioti and Toni Moceri

About Static:
Static is the web resource of the London Consortium, a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts , and Tate.

Aiming to initiate interdisciplinary intellectual debate about paradoxes of contemporary culture, Static presents contributions from an international team of academics, artists and cultural practitioners.

The materials, assembled for each issue around a theme, include analytical essays and articles, interviews, art projects, photographic images, etc. Static will welcome feedback, argument and commentary from scholars, artists and other readers, and will be regularly updated in order to communicate the most recent and relevant ideas and interpretations on the ch