We invite you to be part of our project and to write an article for our upcoming compilation, which- as we hope- will quickly be in huge demand in libraries and book stores due to its thematic singularity, the beauty of its style and its unusual perspective on urban spaces.
In order to guarantee the free development of topic and form of your article, we suggest only a few key ideas, around which the body of our compilation should build up:

• Multiperspectives of scale - we don't understand the city as something that exists within closed borders. City rather happens in different contexts (global, national, regional, daily), which through their interdependence and reciprocity create the peculiarity of urban spaces, practices and representations
  
• Incoherence-dependence - urban space constructs and structures itself through the influence of different agents. In our compilation we would like to depart from the traditional academic static structuring of urban space and focus on how the reciprocity of different actors and structures creates the fabric of urbanity. We decided to pay close attention to the cohesion and the incoherence of spaces and practices, centrality and periphery, deserted and transit spaces and to many other perspective and subjective turns that break the boundaries of traditional analysis of cities.
  
• Different states of cities - we observe wars, catastrophes, festivals and sport events, pass on the unevenness of states, rhythms, and emotional landscapes of the city and get rid of the unjustified monotony that, as a rule, accompanies the academic description of cities.
  
• Multidimensionality - presenting the city a vivacious space, rich in sounds, smells, expanding perceptible sensations, we think that it is most important and most necessary to transfer this exuberance of the city into the space of academic texts.

We hope that our joy in creating this compilation turns into a joy of reading experience on the readers' side, so that the main concept of the collection - intellectual hooliganism, non-standardization and the ease of its style does not endanger its academic depth.

Some organizational remarks
Initiators and coordinators of the project are Olga Brednikova (bred8@yandex.ru), Oksana Zaporozhets (ozaraporozhets@gmail.com) and Ekatarina Lavrinets (pedsakas@gmail.com).
The project is realized and financed with the help of the CISR (St. Petersburg) and the Laboratory of critical urbanism (Vilnius).

Language of the compilation is Russian, but we also invite English-speaking authors to participate, with a later translation of their texts into Russian. We welcome illustrations along the articles - their quantity and the required quality of the imprint will be discussed with each author individually.

Deadlines

• November/15/2009 - deadline for handing in the abstracts of the articles (not more than 500 words), outlining the topic and main focuses of the future text.
  
• December/15/2009 - final date to bring together the topics of the compilation's redactors with those of the authors.
  
• May/01/2010 - deadline for handing in the final draft of the article (to keep a variability of lower borders we only suggest, that no text should exceed 17 pages).
  

We plan to see the compilation on the shelves of libraries and book stores by December 2010, which is why we ask you to strictly comply with our deadlines. If you find interest in our ideas, please contact our project coordinators.