Vietnamese Vernacular Modernism Is a Local Language Created by the Ordinary People
The characteristics of Vietnamese modernism invite us to reconsider how architectural value is understood. It is not only the “scholarly” architecture practiced by a few, but rather the popular practice … Continue reading
Between Order and Unruliness: Rethinking Vietnam’s Post-Colonial City
What if apparent disorder is not simply evidence of a city failing to conform to a plan? What if it reveals something about how the city actually works? From this … Continue reading
Envisioning Labour-led urban development: A collective reflection
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities
Urban Violence and Marginalised Communities presents a nuanced and revealing picture of how urban violence manifests and operates in multiple and unprecedented ways, challenging the common conception of urban violence solely … Continue reading
Decolonial informal urban futures
Urban informality scholarship is concerned with injustice and anti-democratic practices. It addresses these issues by engaging with and critiquing urban displacement, inequality, and exclusionary governance. Decoloniality is present in this … Continue reading
Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future
This collection critiques the rhetoric of ‘smart cities’. It seeks to engender a timely debate about what future cities might look like and what their concerns should be. Using a … Continue reading
Global Urban Policy: A Framework for Analyzing State and Society
Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs and … Continue reading
In-situ Upgrading or Population Relocation? Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Slum Renewal Policies
Slums are widely viewed as disadvantaged areas characterized by substandard housing and negative neighborhood spillovers that constrain local economic development. Governments typically respond with one of two place-based interventions: (a) … Continue reading
Reading Development 