Elena Besussi, University of Architecture in Venice (Italy), Dept. of Urban Studies As you can read I belong to the 'urban studies' area rather to the geographical world. Yet my fields of interest and research have brought me close to critical geography issues. I'm a final year Master student (will discuss my thesis in March). Hopefully will be a PhD student in the US (any advice?) Main interests are: Critical approach to and interdisciplinarity in the representation of the city and in planning theory. Virtualization (in the P. Levy sense) of the city. The city as text. Artificial worlds as interactive tools for the understanding and experiencing of urban immaterial. Elena Besussi STRATEMA-DAEST Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia Ca' Tron, Santa Croce, 1957 30135 Venice, Italy tel:+39-41-2572156 fax: +39-41-5240403 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.iuav.unive.it/stratema R e p e t i t i o n i s a f o r m o f c h a n g e Oblique Strategy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%