S omething has been troubling me. It is that, apparently, the cities we live in have become creative. What I mean by this is that the various attempts to tackle social and economic decline in urban areas over the last few decades have recently found new expression through discourses of creativity and the 'creative city'. These discourses have made their way into the centre of urban policy debat...

during a very long period of time, civil engineers have been the only ones to be designated as the experts for underground space, while the planners and architects were the ones of the development at the surface. cities worldwide tend to overlook an invaluable asset that lies beneath their surfaces. most cities and urban regions are unaware of the benefits underground space use has to offer, bo...

the main goal of this article is to reflect upon the relationship between creativity and urban transformation. it stems from the assumption that creativity has a paradoxical nature as it is simultaneously used for the production of the neoliberal city and by those seeking to challenge it and build alternative urban realities. first, we put forth a critical review of the creative city narrative,...

We describe a new construction of an incoherent dictionary, referred to as the oscillator dictionary, which is based on considerations in the representation theory of finite groups. The oscillator dictionary consists of approximately p unit vectors in a Hilbert space of dimension p, whose pairwise inner products have magnitude of at most 4/ √ p. An explicit algorithm to construct a large portio...