MAPPING
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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…
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…
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…
From monuments to nonuments
with Martin Bricelj Baraga and Miloš Kosec of NONUMENT!
Monumentality, commemoration and public display of social and political values, form one of the currents of the process of creation of public space…
Decoding mapping as practice: an interdisciplinary approach in architecture and urban anthropology
– Carolin Genz and Diana Lucas-Drogan
The main systematic research technique of urban anthropology is ethnography and its holistic approach to understand people within their social, spatial and…
Visualising the City
Call for Submissions
closing 20.05.2018
Cities are in many ways the materialisation of the complexity of human societies: dynamic and evolving systems, made and remade, of buildings, spac…
Urban Gating: a Swedish take on the Gated Community
– Karin Grundström
Gates and fences cut through and divide cities. In Paris, a fence is to be constructed around the Eiffel tower and in New York artist Ai Weiwei wil…