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Critical Urbanism Newsletter | Fall 2023

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Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union

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The Coloniality of Italian Fascist Architecture

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Book Review | Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa

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Critical Urbanisms Newsletter 2022

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Fear and Fainting in Luanda: Paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola

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On the use and abuse of networks in academia

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Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola

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‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector

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Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship

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Is there an Environmental Modernism?

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Toward an Aesthetics by Algorithms—Palestinian Cyber and Digital Spaces at the Threshold of (In)visibility

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Reparations, beyond infrastructure

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Crepe Romane: a Semi-Serious Catalog

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The Implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in Greece and Italy: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis

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Coloniality of Infrastructure

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Between Visible and Invisible; ENI and the Building of the African Petroleumscape

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Architectural Demodernization as Critical Pedagogy: Pathways for Undoing Colonial Fascist Architectural Legacies in Sicily

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Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam

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The Life Cycle of the Libyan Coastal Highway: Italian Colonialism, Coloniality, and the Future of Reparative Justice in the Mediterranean

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On the Coloniality of Architectural Modernism in Germany

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Urban Studies at the University of Basel

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VIRUS URBANO: Documenting the Covid-19 space of emergency

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Colonial Resonances

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Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway

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

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Gardening as Geopolitics

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The Invention of Indigenous Architecture

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Step, Step, Breathe

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Paesaggi Paralleli

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A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1. The limits of protection, prevention and care

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A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 4. Contagion and containment. Curtailing the freedom of movement in times of coronavirus

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A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 3. Politics of abandonment. Refugees on Greek islands during the coronavirus crisis

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A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2. From national threat to oblivion. Erasing migrants from public discourse in Italy during COVID-19

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Infrastructures, Borders, and the Making of the African Territory: The Case of Zambia

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Wilful Entanglements: extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique

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Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences

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The Global Age of Mass Housing

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The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito

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Die Gespenster Eurafrikas

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Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail

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Steel versus Asphalt: The Politics of Infrastructure in Post- Independence East Africa

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Effecting cultural change from below? A comparison of Cape Town and Bandung's pathways to urban cultural governance

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Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni

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Engineering Affect: Street Politics and Microfoundations of Governance

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The Afterlife of Fascist Colonial Architecture: A Critical Manifesto

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STUDENT WORK: Ruo Emoh: Our Home, Our Story

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Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh

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The Jerusalem of Things

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The Colonial Mediterranean, Anonymity and Migration Control

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Urban Immersions

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Spaces of Uncertainty: Berlin Revisited

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La banlieue, un projet social

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Of ‘Godziners’ and ‘Designer Citizens’: The emergence of designers as political subjects in Cape Town

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Worlding Cape Town by design: Encounters with creative cityness

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A Closer Look at the Role of International Accolades in Worlding Cape Town’s Urban Politics

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Colonial and Postcolonial Logistics

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Architecture and the Environment

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Modernism as Accommodation

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The Power of Association: Le Corbusier in the Banlieues

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Audializing Migrant Bodies: Sound and Security at the Border

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Reality Show(s)

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Contemporary Israel/Palestine

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‘A Culture of Immediatism’: Co-Optation and Complicity in Post-War Angola

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Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa. Beyond the Resource Curse

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Titanic in the Desert

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Along the Lines of the Occupation. Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem

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Projective Geographies Between East and West

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Shopping à l'américaine

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Colourful Propaganda

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Éric Rohmer in Cergy-Pontoise

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Habitat III Regional Report Arab Region: Towards inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Arab Cities

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Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola

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Bodenständigkeit: The Environmental Epistemology of Modernism

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Géographie Volontaire and the Territorial Logic of Architecture

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Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing

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Mapping and Making Community in the Postwar European City

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The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centres in Postwar Europe

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

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Between activism and the academy: The urban as political terrain

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The Cultural Center: Architecture as Cultural Policy in Postwar Europe

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Why we like to blame buildings

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

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The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending

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

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Marginalized Groups in ICT-enabled Governance

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

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

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The Social Project – Housing Postwar France

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Handbook on Cities of the Global South

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

The Studio and The City

The Studio and The City: Notes on Architectural Pedagogy

Where is the social project?

Where is the social project?

De facto vs. de jure Home Ownership

De facto vs. de jure Home Ownership: Women’s Everyday Negotiations in Lusaka and Cape Town

Use Matters

Use Matters

Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel

Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel

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Making Camp: Landscape and Community in the Interwar German Youth Movements

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Xool nu bu baax: Hip-hop, Youth Movements and Change in Senegal

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