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The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending

Kenny Cupers | in: Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy, edited by Now Ha and Kristina Graaff, 2015 Street vending is an omnipresent feature of the urban…

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Straining: Young Men Working through Waithood in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Sophie Oldfield, Brandon Finn Africa Spectrum, 2015 Young men in precarious situations of persistent un(der)employment in post-civil war Freetown, Sierra Leone are depicted in popular and policy debate as “stuck” economically or…

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Marginalized Groups in ICT-enabled Governance

Maren Larsen, John Driscoll, Dritan Shutina, Aida Ciro UN-Habitat and FUPOL, 2015 Governance is about the processes by which public policy decisions are made and implemented. ICT can become a catalyst to improve governance in towns and…

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Urban Migration Trends in the MENA Region and the Challenge of Conflict Induced Displacement

Maren Larsen, Mona Serageldi, François Vigier. International Organization for Migration, 2015 Cradle of one of the world’s oldest urban civilizations, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is currently home to 357 million people. Its…

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Inclusive Cities and Access to Land, Housing, and Services in Developing Countries

Maren Larsen, Mona Serageldin World Bank Group Urban Development Series Knowledge Papers, 2015 Historically, urban society has always been stratified and somewhat hierarchical. Economic forces and political events have shifted people among…

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The Social Project – Housing Postwar France

Kenny Cupers University Of Minnesota Press, 2014 In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century’s greatest social and architectural experiments: transforming a mostly rural…

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Handbook on Cities of the Global South

Sophie Oldfield, Susan Parnell Routledge, 2014 The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook…

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Claiming 'rights' in the African City: popular Mobilisation and the politics of informality in Nairobi, Rabat, ...

Sophie Oldfield, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou | A Routledge Handbook of Cities of the South., 2014 The groundswell of mass popular activism in contemporary cities –in particular in the global South- has (re)inspired an academic literature on ‘the…

The Studio and The City

The Studio and The City: Notes on Architectural Pedagogy

Kenny Cupers | (IN)formal LA: The Space of Politics, 2014 The pedagogical history of the architecture studio has yet to be written. But one of the things it would likely reveal — apart from an oscillation between the autonomy of the studio…

Where is the social project?

Where is the social project?

Kenny Cupers | Journal of Architectural Education, 2014 In the last decade, a range of participatory and activist practices have emerged as the self-proclaimed inheritors of architecture’s social project. From Architecture for Humanity’s…

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