Editorial
Righting the City
Editorial
Chris Barnes
What do rights mean in an urban context? Does righting the city require the (re)inscription of individual or collective rights within a legal frame…
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Mapping Democracy: A Tale of Two Capitals
Anavil Ahluwalia
Capital cities have been the seat of political power and a central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. The…
Kamila Bak, Rita Berisha and Anna-Maria Grimm"/>
The Fine Line Between Protection and Citizen Control in Beirut
Kamila Bak, Rita Berisha and Anna-Maria Grimm
During the speech addressing the Protests in Lebanon in October 20191, Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced, “I heard many voices calling for t…
Kallia Fysaraki and Phaedra Kotsifaki-Sarpaki"/>
The Space of Appearance Revisited in the Occupied Squares Movement
Kallia Fysaraki and Phaedra Kotsifaki-Sarpaki
The square-movement of 2011 erupted as a protest and resistance to existing forms of governance globally. It gathered crowds from different backgro…
Nadine Hindi"/>
The Spatiality of 2019 Protests in Beirut
Nadine Hindi
On the afternoon of October 17th 2019, a long overdue protest swept all of Lebanon at once1. It spontaneously erupted across different cities and l…
Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall"/>
Infrastructures for Voice
Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall
We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political?…
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The Pain of Others
Sasha Kurmaz
The Pain of Others is an intervention that consists of photos, collages, posters, and banners which at first sight resemble memorial sites spontane…
Wendy M. Thompson"/>
Black at Home in the Bay Area
Wendy M. Thompson
Living in a black place mattered to me, the granddaughter of black southern migrants who had left homes in Louisiana to make new homes out west. Mo…
Fernando Campos-Medina, Iván Ojeda-Pereira and Josefa Mattei"/>
Crowded but With Masks: On the Resilience of an Unfair Mobility, Reflections From Santiago, Chile
Fernando Campos-Medina, Iván Ojeda-Pereira and Josefa Mattei
The present photo essay seeks to visualize the resilience of a transport system and how it exposes deep social differences in Chile. On the 18th Oc…
I Am a Tool of Gentrification: An Experimental Documentary Series
Lyubov Matyunina
Lyubov’s work is inspired, often indirectly, by her personal life or everyday life events. As she tells us “in the case of I am a tool of Gentr…
Francesca Cocchiara"/>
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, by Leslie Kern
Francesca Cocchiara
The experience of the city cannot be synthesized in absolute terms, yet urbanism and spatial planning have taken men’s needs as the norm, for centu…
with Neelke Wagner"/>
A Right To Fight For: Berlin’s Housing Referendum in Context
with Neelke Wagner
Based in Berlin, Neelke Wagner works as a scientific advisor for energy and climate policies. She has studied political science and philosophy in B…
with Pernille Bussone"/>
Cycling Without Age: The Right to Wind in Your Hair
with Pernille Bussone
Cycling Without Age (CWA) is a volunteer-based organization first started in Copenhagen in 2012. By means of a collaboration with the city municipa…
Call for Submissions
Housing for a Fairer and Greener World
Call for Submissions
Closing 30 June 2022
There is no denying the fundamental role of housing as a guarantor of human development. Yet, we are nowhere near guaranteeing humanity’s fundament…
Editorial
Futures
Editorial
Profit-oriented and speculation-driven development is not the inevitability of planning; it is time to revisit those past futures that worked for communities and for the planet before and beyond the late experiences of the Global North.
– Noël Nicolaus"/>
Materializing Alternative Futures through Urban Hyperstitions: The Case of Haus der Statistik in Berlin
– Noël Nicolaus
We will have to build unusual alliances, create resilient networks of grassroots institutions, foster models for sustainable circular economies.
– Swetha Rao Dhananka and Leo F. Saldanha"/>
Imagining street-markets as urban commons: The mother’s market in Manipur
– Swetha Rao Dhananka and Leo F. Saldanha
Over the years, the women’s collective political power and economical importance has developed through the market space and has been a prevailing force in becoming the socio-economic engine of the region.
– Grace Abou Jaoude, Olaf Mumm, Majd Murad and Vanessa Miriam Carlow"/>
Possible futures of Berlin
– Grace Abou Jaoude, Olaf Mumm, Majd Murad and Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Envisioning a desirable future is an indispensable component of urban planning, a discipline largely concerned with imagining, shaping and planning for the future.
– Israel Hurtado Cola"/>
Meanwhile Communities Network: Detecting and strengthening local communities through temporary re-use of vacant facilities in London
– Israel Hurtado Cola
Meanwhile Communities Network explores the creation of a participatory digital platform that will automatically generate a live recording of vacant properties with potential to become meanwhile civic spaces.
– Petra Marko"/>
The Future of the Countryside: VeloCity Principles in a Post-Pandemic World
– Petra Marko
There are over 10,000 villages in England, set only 2-3 miles apart and they offer an opportunity to advance a strategy which can alleviate housing pressure on the towns and turn villages into well-connected places for 21st century living.