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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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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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