How a New Kind of “Modern” Urban Development Can Include Street Vendors
City designers can recognize that popular patronage of street vending demonstrates demand for these services, and see the bottom-up tendency toward mixed-use development that blends a variety of activities at … Continue reading
Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
Cities are valuable to the extent they bring people (and jobs) together. To what extent is this value affected by the difficulty of commuting from various points in the city … Continue reading
Wanted: more inclusive, resilient, sustainable cities
Eighty per cent of Latin Americans live in urban areas. There has been a rapid increase in the urban population since 1950, reaching similar levels to Europe by 1990 and … Continue reading
The City of the Global South and its Insurrections: Algiers, Cairo, Gaza, Chandigarh, and Kowloon
This presentation constitutes a rather shallow examination of five cities’ reciprocal influence between their urban fabric and their insurrections and counter-insurrections operations. These criminalizing discourses construct an imaginary of these neighborhoods that … Continue reading
Critical Cartography
A critical cartography is the idea that maps – like other texts such as the written word, images or film – are not (and cannot be) value-free or neutral. Maps … Continue reading
On planning, violations and the limits of informality; an interview with Jayaraj Sundaresan
Originally posted on {FAVEL issues}:
After twenty years working in Indian cities as an architect-planner-researcher, Jayaraj Sundaresan challenged existing urban theory to explain planning violations in Bangalore. When I tell…
Refugee camps are the “cities of tomorrow”
Governments should stop thinking about refugee camps as temporary places, says Kilian Kleinschmidt, one of the world’s leading authorities on humanitarian aid. “These are the cities of tomorrow,” said Kleinschmidt … Continue reading
Who owns the city?
Saskia Sassen – “Does the massive foreign and national corporate buying of urban buildings and urban land that took off after the 2008 crisis signal an emergent new phase in … Continue reading
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