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Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh

Giulia Scotto University of California Press, 2018 Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh was an exhibition about dichotomies: coexisting dichotomies, dichotomies in dialogue. The tensions between modernity and…

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The Jerusalem of Things

Emilio Distretti, Shahd Qannam, Bana Abu Zuluf, Jamal Abu Eisheh Bom dia Books, 2018

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The Colonial Mediterranean, Anonymity and Migration Control

Emilio Distretti Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics, 2018

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Professor Sophie Oldfield speaking at the 16th Swiss Geoscience Meeting

Professor Sophie Oldfield presented the Association of Swiss Geographers and the Geographica Helvetica Lecture: "The Urban as Political Terrain: Collaborative Urban Geography in Everyday Southern City Life", the keynote address in the Human…

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MA in Critical Urbanisms Students Study Infrastructure and Urbanism in Ghana

In early November 2018, the students of the MA in Critical Urbanisms participated in a one-week research trip to Accra, Ghana. The trip was part of the first-year research studio, “Highway Africa: Infrastructure, Decolonization, and the…

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Urban Immersions

Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz European Association of International Education's winter issue of Forum, 2018

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Spaces of Uncertainty: Berlin Revisited

Kenny Cupers, Markus Miessen Birkhäuser, 2018 How has Berlin’s urban landscape changed in its remarkable transformation from divided city to creative capital? Despite the monumental heritage and grand development projects, Berlin still…

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La banlieue, un projet social

Kenny Cupers, Traduit de l’anglais par Isabelle D. Taudière, Leslie Talaga et Anne Muller Editions Parenthèses, 2018 La France, au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, connaît une crise du logement sans précédent, dont l’appel de l’abbé…

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

Laura Nkula-Wenz Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 2018 Over the course of 2011, the City of Cape Town bid for, and eventually won the title of World Design Capital 2014. This article discusses how the ‘idea of design’ emerged as a new…

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Worlding Cape Town by design: Encounters with creative cityness

Laura Nkula-Wenz Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018 Considering the ongoing global proliferation of the urban ‘creativity fix’ and its inclination to further push local governments towards entrepreneurial governance logics…

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