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– 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.
– Karin Grundstrom"/>
Stråk: Visualising an urban design concept – Reflections on verbal and visual approaches in research
– Karin Grundstrom
In the Swedish metropolitan regions, the word stråk has been incorporated into urban design and planning practice as an approach to (re)-connect th…
– Efrossyni Tsakiri"/>
Poli-Plex-Icon: A tool for city image visualization in the age of complexity
– Efrossyni Tsakiri
By analogy with Calvino’s layered city, the starting point of the urban visualization in Poli-Plex-Icon are various descriptions of the city (scientific and pre-scientific, literary, historical, personal, urban, encyclopedic, etc). All of them form the city text…
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki"/>
Pocket parks as spaces of “Re-public”: the experience of the Alexandrou Svolou initiative
– Spilios Iliopoulos and Michaela Loukia Litsardaki
It is very common in modern cities to find, within the urban fabric, forgotten/neglected parts,which are pieces of land that have either been abandoned in relation to an earlier…
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno"/>
A street-explorative and interactive-designing laboratory
– Elisa Privitera and Filippo Gravagno
The current state of participatory planning in Italy tells us that, until now there are few aware and empowered experiences of urban transformative processes…
– Patrick Foong Chan and Camilla Lade"/>
Space activation and re-territorialisation
– Patrick Foong Chan and Camilla Lade
“Space Activation and Re-Territorialisation” examines how alleyways and lanes are transformed through the current trend of space activation. Furthe…
– Melissa Harrison"/>
The (market-) state of the “public”: reappropriating the urban as common(s)
– Melissa Harrison
Over the past decades, intensified following the 2008 financial crisis, we have witnessed geographically and qualitatively diverse assaults on the …
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri"/>
Playscapes in the city of Larissa: a participatory design approach engaging architects, children and adults
– Eliki-Athanasia Diamantouli and Athina Fousteri
In 1989, the United Nations (UN General Assembly, 1989) established the children’s right to play. As a result, cities and municipalities became responsible to fulfill this need…
– Brinda Shrestha"/>
Does the city have the right to disregard children? The role of children in contemporary Kathmandu, Nepal
– Brinda Shrestha
The urbanization trend in modern Kathmandu, Nepal, as in other developing Asian cities, is broadly scrutinized as the result of an aftermath of un…
– Nina Margies"/>
From the emergence of urban lighting to a new culture of consumption: department stores and the public life of women
– Nina Margies
The first public lighting system that was centrally organised and legally standardised emerged in France at the end of the 17th century. It was…
– Antonis Antoniou"/>
Institutional housing policies and habitation practices of the refugees arriving in Volos, Greece, in 1922
– Antonis Antoniou
In September 1922, following the destruction of Smyrna in the same year, a major wave of refugees came to the city of Volos. The crowds were initially…
– Christopher Adan"/>
The street market as animated space: an ethnographic exercise
– Christopher Adan
Sayed wears a red windbreaker and looks me straight in the eyes. His stall is replete with duvet covers, pillows and mattress foam. Originally from…
Curating capital: tourism, sustainability, and opportunity in Iceland
– Danielle S. Willkens
In 2016 and 2017, there were more Americans in Iceland than Icelanders. With a population of a nearly 333,000, and more than 65% living in the capi…
– Christoph Sommer"/>
What begins at the end of urban tourism, as we know it?
– Christoph Sommer
Amidst the “overtourism” debate going on in Europe, one question pops up routinely. Namely, how much tourism do cities bear? This issue is a though…
‘Gentritourism’ and the subculture of visitors emerged from it
– Cristina Roxana Lazar and Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva
Tourism nowadays has become an industry that is increasingly influencing the way in which cities are planned and especially the direction towards w…
– Clara Zanardi"/>
Complexity-cage: toward a critical deconstruction of “tourism-phobia”
– Clara Zanardi
Tourist go home
Tourism kills the city
This isn’t tourism, it’s an invasion
Tourist: your luxury trip, my daily misery
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr "/>
Tourism in transformation: from a hectic urban environment to urban resilience in Barcelona
– Elisa Diogo Andrade Silva & Cristina Roxana Lazăr
The tourism industry has been growing worldwide since the first decades of the 20th century (Sezgin & Yolal, 2012), but particularly over the past …