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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…
– 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.
– Aikaterina Myserli and Henk Hartzema"/>
The Power of Envisioning: Projective design as a tool for embracing radical change
– Aikaterina Myserli and Henk Hartzema
During the summer of 2019, the National Environmental Vision (De Nationale Omgevingsvisie-NOVI), was published in the Netherlands.
– Elizabeth A. Walsh"/>
(R)evolutionary powers for regenerative economies: Learning from natural law and leaders in Jackson, Mississippi
– Elizabeth A. Walsh
What can we learn about liberty, natural law, and human nature from American revolutionaries before and after the 18th century to meet the challenges of the 21st century?
– Siân Moxon"/>
Beauty and the beast: Confronting contrasting perceptions of nature through design
– Siân Moxon
Nature elicits potent, contrasting emotions in us, from love and awe to fear and loss of control. As we become increasingly urbanised, we are distancing ourselves from wildness…
– Maxime Le Calvé and Olivier Gaudin"/>
Both feet in murky waters: Fieldnotes from the Floating University in Berlin
– Maxime Le Calvé and Olivier Gaudin
The proposal is to connect a neighbourhood, the city’s infrastructure and a hybrid ecosystem through the exploration of a specific place.
– Anjali Karol Mohan, Mohan S. Rao and Rahul Paul"/>
Cities, eco-systems and embedded expressions: Towards performative regeneration
– Anjali Karol Mohan, Mohan S. Rao and Rahul Paul
This paper traces the shift from sustainability – argued to be an ‘exhausted term’ – to regenerative cities.
– 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…
– Taylor Kathryn Miller"/>
Al-Manshiyya: Bordering and spatializations of difference on the vanishing Palestinian coastline
– Taylor Kathryn Miller
Walking north along the Homat HaYam Promenade in Jaffa, the entire Tel Aviv skyline comes into view with Mediterranean waves crashing against the o…
– Sophie C. R. Jerram"/>
Value in the empty city: Findings from New Zealand’s Urban Dream Brokerage
– Sophie C. R. Jerram
The Urban Dream Brokerage (UBD) ran as a platform in New Zealand, liaising between creative producers and private property owners, to place community and arts projects in vacant city sites.
– Ava Lynam"/>
Tolerated informality: Weak land governance and dualism at the Chinese urban-rural interface
– Ava Lynam
The increasing scale and pace of urban expansion over recent decades has resulted in uneven socio-spatial development across the globe, polarising inequalities between…
– Maria Vidali "/>
Our land
– Maria Vidali
This article focuses on a small community in the village of Kampos, on the Greek island of Tinos in Greece. In studying the history of the island o…
– Julian Raxworthy"/>
Land AS: conflicting definitions of land – and disciplinary relations to it – in landscape architecture
– Julian Raxworthy
A revelation for landscape architecture in the twentieth century was a move from the site to the city, and then to the region: a move that was predicated…
– Erich Wolff"/>
Uncharted Terrain: the clash between “risk management” and informal urbanisation
– Erich Wolff
The ideas of insurgent citizenship and participatory planning also acknowledge the failure of the State in providing equal opportunities for all citizens in contemporary cities, but they propose different solutions for it.