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

Sophie Oldfield, People's Environmental Planning; Critical Urbanisms and Southern Urbanism Student Cohorts 2019 Africa Centre for Cities, 2019 The City Research Studio (CRS) is a year-long course presented as part of the newly launched…

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Engineering Affect: Street Politics and Microfoundations of Governance

Michelle D. Weitzel Middle East Law and Governance 11, no. 2, 2019 Affect was an essential component of the Arab uprisings, and it remains an important medium for shaping everyday politics in the Middle East and beyond. Yet while affect is…

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The Afterlife of Fascist Colonial Architecture: A Critical Manifesto

Emilio Distretti, Alessandro Petti Future Anterior, 2019 The listing of the capital of Eritrea Asmara as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017 has raised a series of contradictory questions around Italian fascist colonial heritage: is the…

Architecture and the Environment

Read Prof. Kenny Cupers' new co-written piece on architecture and the environment: Despite its ubiquity in contemporary discourse, the notion of the environment has yet to be analysed as a central category of thought in architectural…

Professor Sophie Oldfield visiting Cornell University

Professor Sophie Oldfield has been a Cornell University Distinguished Africanist Scholar, hosted by the Cornell University Department of City and Regional Planning.

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Final Review Highway Africa Research Studio 1

After conducting fieldwork in Ghana, the group of students from the MA in Critical Urbanisms presented their final work for the Research Studio 1: Highway Africa: Infrastructure, Decolonization, and the City.

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Urban Immersions

Read 'Urban Immersions', Laura Nkula-Wenz's and Sophie Oldfield's recently published piece in the European Association of International Education's winter issue of Forum, focused on 'Unexpected Internationalisation'.

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Infrastructure Space and the Future of Migration Management

On 10 December 2018 Bilgin Ayata and Kenny Cupers hosted a kick-off workshop on the research project "Infrastructure Space and the Future of Migration Management: The EU Hotspots in the Mediterranean Borderscape" with the following…

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Career Opportunity Day

Many guests and institutions participated in the event this year (December 2018), to discuss potential prospects for the 1st and 2nd year students' future careers.

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STUDENT WORK: Ruo Emoh: Our Home, Our Story

2018 From housing struggles to hope in new homes - A research project by Critical Urbanisms and Southern Urbanisms classes at the University of Cape Town

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