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Bodenständigkeit: The Environmental Epistemology of Modernism

Kenny Cupers The Journal of Architecture, 21:8, 2016 Focusing on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century imperial Germany, this article examines how environmental thinking shaped the development of modern architecture and urban…

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Géographie Volontaire and the Territorial Logic of Architecture

Kenny Cupers Architectural Histories, 4: 1, 2016 From the 1940s until the 1970s, an important group of geographers, engineers, state administrators, urban planners, and architects in France used the novel term géographie volontaire, or…

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Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing

Kenny Cupers Public Culture, 29: 1, 2016 This article examines theories of human territoriality and their historical role in the demise of public housing in Western Europe and North America between the 1960s and the 1980s. The neglect and…

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Mapping and Making Community in the Postwar European City

Kenny Cupers, Journal of Urban History, 42: 6 2016 This article examines how midcentury European sociologists, planners, and architects mapped the existing city to build future communities. The neighborhood unit concept spread globally in…

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The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centres in Postwar Europe

Kenny Cupers in: Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich (ads.), Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Participation and Occupation, 2016 Participation is enjoying a peculiar resurgence in contemporary art and architecture.…

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Humanitarian Responses by Local Actors: Lessons Learned from Managing the Transit of Migrants and Refugees through Croatia.

Maren Larsen, Elma Demir, Maja Horvat International Institute for Environment and Development. Working Paper. , 2016 The Croatian Government managed the transit of 650,000 migrants and refugees in late 2015 and early 2016 by coordinating…

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Between activism and the academy: The urban as political terrain

Sophie Oldfield Urban Studies 2015, Vol. 52(11) 2072–2086, 2015 A growing consensus suggests that urban scholarship can benefit from engaging with knowledge in multiple sites in and beyond the academy, for instance with activism central to…

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The Cultural Center: Architecture as Cultural Policy in Postwar Europe

Kenny Cupers Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 74: 4, 2015 This article examines how culture became an explicit domain of state policy in postwar Europe and why the modern architecture of cultural centers and culture…

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Why we like to blame buildings

Kenny Cupers Oxford University Press blog, 2015 On 27 October 2005, two French youths of Tunisian and Malian descent died of electrocution in a local power station in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Police had been patrolling…

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Waiting for the state: A politics of housing in South Africa

Sophie Oldfield, Saskia Greyling Environment and Planning A, 2015 Although specified in the South African Bill of Rights, for the majority of South African citizens the right to access housing translates in practice to the experience of…

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