– 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…
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Land
Editorial
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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…