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VIRUS URBANO: Documenting the Covid-19 space of emergency

Giulia Scotto GeoAgenda Magazine, 2020 This photo essay aims at documenting how the Covid-19 “space of emergency” was arranged in the city of Zurich in March 2020 and in the following months. At the same time, it explores the ways in which…

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Colonial Resonances

Jon Schubert Roadsides, 2020 Resonances of colonial aesthetics in the architecture and spatial layout of the Angolan port city of Lobito reveal the fundamental inequalities and unsustainability of extractive capitalism, then and now.

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Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway

Kenny Cupers, Prita Meier (NYU) Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2020 Focusing on the project to build a trans-African highway network during the 1960s and 1970s, this article argues for the need to develop a more…

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Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present

Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helena Mattsson University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020 Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has…

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Gardening as Geopolitics

Kenny Cupers The Journal of Landscape Architecture Vol. 14, No. 3, 2020 Gardening is usually understood as an individual experience and an intimate relationship with the natural world. Yet it should also be studied as a cross-scalar…

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The Invention of Indigenous Architecture

Kenny Cupers In: Race and Modern Architecture, edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson (University of Pittsburgh Press) , 2020 This book chapter questions the racial politics behind Germans’ deployment of the…

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"MO-FAYA: SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SURVIVALS IN NAIROBI'S OUTLAW SETTLEMENT " | Lecture by Wangui Kimari

The second lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Wangui Kimari, entitled "Mo-Faya: Socio-ecological Survivals in Nairobi's Outlaw Settlement."

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Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates (Lecture Series)

This course exposes students to schools of thought and concrete interventions that redefine understandings of urban lifeworlds in the twenty-first century. The lecture series will explore the dynamics that shape cities and how cities in…

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"PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS": Lecture by Sandi Hilal

The first lecture for the CRITICAL URBANISMS: CURRENT DEBATES Lecture Series will be given by Sandi Hilal, entitled "PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS." It will explore the living room and other instances of "permanent temporariness."

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