Volume 3, no. 3 Autumn 2020
Category
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” …
– Loukia Batsi"/>
Segundo Torrão: Marginality seen in urban policy and the historical precedents of territorial fixation and stigmatization
– Loukia Batsi
The present work follows the connections between the marginality seen in urban policy and the historical precedents of territorial fixation and sti…
– 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.
– Hans Hortig"/>
A journey through agro-industrial territories of palm oil production in Southeast Asia
– Hans Hortig
In 2015 a group of anthropologists proposed the concept of the Plantationocene1 to describe the current practice of agrarian production and the ali…
– 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…
– Max Ott, Norbert Kling and Christian Zöhrer"/>
City of the many
– Max Ott, Norbert Kling and Christian Zöhrer
The city of Munich has recently held an ideas competition for a 600 hectare site in the northeast of the municipality, which is characterised by a mix of…
– Klemens Czurda and Lucija Matić"/>
A walk from Vesuvius to Pompeii
– Klemens Czurda and Lucija Matić
It is a five-hour hike from the peak of Mount Vesuvius to the Roman ruins of Pompeii, following the flow of the lava that burned its way to the anc…
– 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…
– Socrates Stratis"/>
A counter-project about land regeneration and land use in Larnaca, Cyprus; or, an everyday little utopia
– Socrates Stratis
In 2018, Larnaca Municipality launched an architectural competition for the regeneration of Zouchouri. It is an urban block in the historic city centre…
– Vidisha Barwal"/>
Sold (– A Letter from Ahmedabad)
– Vidisha Barwal
And here I am, amidst the puffs
Of smoke, flying dust.
For the future’s lure,
My breath is sold.
– 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.