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Unfinished Dreams: Dwelling in China's Lanweilou Housing Projects

Jane Gao | Master Thesis, 2025

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A Fluid way of life: Adaptation and ecologies of exclusion

Isabella Pamplona | Master Thesis, 2025

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Gendered Access to Space and Infrastructural Challenges: Rohingya Women’s Experiences in Refugee Camps

Ambarin Sultana | Master Thesis, 2024

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Hospitality contra exclusion? Institutionalising Solidarity in Zurich in the Shadow of Humanitarianism and Border Violence

Jan Weber | Master Thesis , 2024

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EMBODIED HOLLIGEN: Unpacking Socio-Spatial Dynamics & Identity

Juliane Vocke | Master Thesis , 2024

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PLANNING PHARMACEUTICAL URBANITY: Basel in Transition in the Face of the Novartis Campus Enclave

Rea Grünenfelder | Master Thesis , 2023 

Swiss Corporate Coloniality
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Swiss Coporate Coloniality

While other European countries violently scrambled to colonize the Global South, Switzerland capitalized on its position in the global hierarchies being put in place. It relied on colonial networks, not only for importing, exporting, and…

Digging through Imaginaries of Urban Nature
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Digging through Imaginaries of Urban Nature. A Site Analysis: Allmend Grüzefeld, Winterthur.

Saskia Bryner | Master Thesis , 2023

The (un)Welcoming City
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The (un)Welcoming City: Sonic Psychogeography and Refugee’s Sense of Belonging in the Urban Everyday.

Christopher Allen | Master Thesis , 2023

Núcleo Bairro de Pirajá

Cultivating Citizenship through Cultural Terrains: A Study of the NEOJIBA Project’s Complementary Registers of Emancipation in Bahia, Brazil

Vinicio Altmann | Master Thesis , 2023

Garages Complex in Chemnitz

Echoes of the East: Unearthing (Post)Socialist Heritage in Chemnitz' Garages

Leah Alexandrine Bonvin | Master Thesis , 2023

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The contemporary zoo in Switzerland: a postcolonial critique

Salome Rohner | This contribution is part of the seminar “Decolonizing the Swiss Urban Landscape” (University of Basel, Autumn 2021) coordinated by Claske Dijkema., 2023

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Lamufutures

Students from Critical Urbanisms in collaboration with the Lamu Youth Alliance | URBANISM ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES; SITE IMMERSION LAMU, KENYA, 2023

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STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH SURAYA SCHEBA AND NANA YAA BIAMAH OFOSU

Fabian Konopka, Fay McKee, Nadja Nievergelt, Oliver Frayne | 2023

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STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON THE INAUGURAL ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION WITH JENNIFER GABRYS, PAULO TAVARES AND MICHAEL UWEMEDIMO

Lea Helfenstein, Yassine Rachidi, Nadja Nievergelt | 2023

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STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH YEMOH ODOI, MAUD HOUSSAIS AND FRANÇOISE VERGÈS

Hannah Hother, Samuel Giraut, Nadja Nievergelt | 2023

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Repair?

by Leta Honegger, Rebekka Ammann, Yajie Gao, and Anna Zweifel | Experimenting with Publics Course in Cape Town, 2022

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Collaborative Immersions in the City of Cape Town

Geetika Anand | 2022

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This.Is.Not.Magione

V. Altmann, C. Allen, L. Bonvin, S. Bryner, R. Grünenfelder, M. Hildebrand, S. Rohner, J. Roth, A. Selva, J. Weber | URBANISM ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES; LAND(SCAPE)/SPACE, SITE IMMERSION PALERMO, SICILY, 2022

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The Emotions of the Block

Linus Suter | Master Thesis , 2021

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recalibrating rhythm: passengers navigating Metro Manila through the Point-to-Point Bus

Carla Michelle Cruz | Master Thesis, 2020

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FOLLOWING THE SWISS RAILWAY: Politics of Land, Spatial Logics of Capital and State-driven Financialization Processes

Aline Suter | Master Thesis, 2020

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ART AS AN ENGINE OF TRANSFORMATION: Re-thinking “La Merced” neighborhood of Mexico City

Diana Vazquez Martinez | Master Thesis, 2020

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Black Box BAZ - The Invisibility and Violence of Federal Asylum Centers in the Canton Of Zurich

Alessandro Rearte | Master Thesis, 2020

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Lived Modernity in Tema: Studying Home Histories

Hanna Baumann | Highway Africa Research Studio Paper, 2019

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Transfronteridad and Everyday Commuter Negotiations of Tijuana’s Borderscape

Evan Natasha Escamilla | Master Thesis, 2019

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Photo Essay: Mowbray Taxi Rank

Leandra Maria Choffat | 2019

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Poem and Photo Essay: The Ideal Urban Experience

Lee Wolf | 2019

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'We are Workers, Not Inmates!': The Politics of Space in Mozambican Workers’ Company Dormitories in East Germany (1979-1990)

Lea Marie Nienhoff | Master Thesis, 2019

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Exploring Alternative Society-Nature Relationships: Learning from Urban Nature Conservation in Cape Town

Janine Eberle | Master Thesis, 2019

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Cosmopolitan Gazes, Envisioning the Township: Local Agents and Contemporary Tourism Encounters in Langa, Cape Town

Florence Siegenthaler | Master Thesis, 2019

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Building Houses Bit-By-Bit: The Stories Of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni

Critical Urbanisms and Southern Urbanism Student Cohorts 2019, Sophie Oldfield, People's Environmental Planning | Africa Centre for Cities, 2019

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Traditional Medicine as used by the Rastas in Mowbray, Cape Town

Oliva Andereggen | 2019

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The Distance between Minutes and Weeks: How Standardization Creates Spacetime Plurality at Tema Port

Isabella Baranyk | 2019

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Photo Essay: Dealing With Local and Global Trash in the (Eco-)touristic Region of Inhambane, Mozambique

Anna Buser | 2019

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Imagined Homes, Concrete Houses and bureaucratic subjects: Citizen-State Encounters in Eastridge, Cape Town

James Clacherty | Master Thesis, 2019

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Scripted Identity and Urban Imaginaries: The Festac ‘77 and Festac Town through the Lens of Nollywood

Florence Siegenthaler | Highway Africa Research Studio Paper, 2018

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The Trans-Africa Highway Masterplan: Of Masters, Plans and Master Narratives

James Clacherty | Highway Africa Research Studio Paper, 2018

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Rue Emoh: Our Home, Our Story

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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