– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020"/>
Could workplaces give space to schools?
– from Arnav Prakash, Kolkata, 25.05.2020
The education fragility of marginals has always been a challenging issue for any state. The developing nations have an extreme shortage of resource…
– from Xenia Kokoula, Berlin, 26.05.2020"/>
Thinking the city through COVID-19
– from Xenia Kokoula, Berlin, 26.05.2020
In March 2020 work and everyday life was suspended, put on hold for millions of people. Suddenly confined within their homes, in front of their ske…
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020"/>
Children’s hopes and well-being
– from Tayseer Khairy, New Cairo, 26.05.2020
This is a photo I took from my window of a group of children playing football in the space in between two buildings in Ramadan during night curfew …
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020"/>
Z/Room Society
– from Artemis Papachristou, London, 26.05.2020
This image is a “still” of the first step of the quarantine period. The anxiety of the unexpected state of suddenly being alone, forced to be inert…
– from Nicolas Goez, Berlín/Medellín, 31.05.2020"/>
Uneven Pandemics
– from Nicolas Goez, Berlín/Medellín, 31.05.2020
I dwell two cities. In one, I am physically present and sometimes mentally absent. In the other, I am emotionally roaming through its streets, park…
– Karine Dupre from the Gold Coast, 02.06.2020"/>
Greetings from the Gold Coast
– Karine Dupre from the Gold Coast, 02.06.2020
Tablescape from my living room, inside out.
Lady Palms and Lilli Pillis compete to attract lorikeets and silver orb spiders; blue sky and metal …
– from Hellen Aziz, Mansoura, 05.06.2020"/>
Masks in Street Markets
– from Hellen Aziz, Mansoura, 05.06.2020
This photo was taken on 5th May 2020, during my field work in El Kafr street market in the city of Mansoura, in the Delta of Egypt, as a part of my…
– from Georgina Eleftheraki, Athens, 16.06.2020"/>
Looking for an urban oasis…
– from Georgina Eleftheraki, Athens, 16.06.2020
COVID-19 brought, in a strange way, the city to the forefront, both in terms of housing and public space. On one hand, the confinement to the house…
– from Joel Mills, Washington, DC, 19.07.2020"/>
A democratic awakening
– from Joel Mills, Washington, DC, 19.07.2020
To live in the District of Columbia is to experience a civic schizophrenia. Like all cities, we have a unique local identity, but we are inhabited …
– from Nonument Group, Ljubljana, 21.07.2020"/>
Walking together during self-isolation
– from Nonument Group, Ljubljana, 21.07.2020
In times of the shutdown due to Covid-19 epidemic, collectivity had to be reinvented. In early March, Nonument Group planned a series of discursive…
– from Elisa Privitera, Sicily, IT, 22.07.2020"/>
Through and beyond horror (space and time) vacui in Catania?
– from Elisa Privitera, Sicily, IT, 22.07.2020
In 2007 the renowned Italian artist Franco Battiato was singing “vacuum”, considering it both in terms of space and time, referring to it like the …
– from Estefanía Piñeiros, Edinburgh, 28.08.2020"/>
Lockdown Landscape
– from Estefanía Piñeiros, Edinburgh, 28.08.2020
The window of one hour of exercise a day during lockdown allowed me to discover many interesting places in the vicinity of my home. Strolling aroun…
Editorial"/>
Land
Editorial
In an extreme sense, land must be understood here exclusively as a legal phenomenon, rather than a geographical one.
Letter from the Editors"/>
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Letter from the Editors
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with Hanna Wheatley"/>
The New Economics Foundation on tackling the housing crisis
with Hanna Wheatley
Treating the housing crisis as an issue of supply only, as most mainstream and free-market economists tend to do, ignores the changing role of housing and land in the UK.
with Andre Sacharow"/>
The community land trust, Stadtbodenstiftung, in Berlin on turning land into commons
with Andre Sacharow
By getting hold of the land through the CLT model, city dwellers can make sure that local initiatives do not get gentrified out due to spiking rental costs.
– Seraphine Appel"/>
Unceded territory and the lawspace of the settler colonial state
– Seraphine Appel
The iconic fountain at the entrance to the parliament building in Victoria, British Columbia (BC), Canada bleeds red. Since January 2020, an Indige…
– Mira Idris and Razan Bleidi"/>
On spatial looseness and temporary use: Exploring Al-Hisba market
– Mira Idris and Razan Bleidi
In its central location at the intersection of the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, the popular market of Al-Hisba represents…
– Konstantinos Manolidis"/>
Defaced land: Reading the marks of a social obsession
– Konstantinos Manolidis
Street networks commonly serve some form of human habitation. That’s why the image of a dense pattern of driveways leading to vacant plots in a nat…
– Guillaume Vanneste and Nicolas Willemet"/>
Four pocket parks: Towards landed commons
– Guillaume Vanneste and Nicolas Willemet
The project of four pocket parks is being carried out in the framework of the sustainable neighbourhood contracts “contrat de quartier durable” …