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The ‘Container Menace’: unpacking household perceptions of container urbanism in Ghana
This study investigates the perceptions of households towards container urbanism, a rising alternative urban development trend in Ghana. The research...
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Can informality help create smart, sustainable cities? The vibrancy of self-organised informal settlements in Cape Town
The study critically evaluates the sustainability of informal settlements in terms of smart growth principles. There is an irony that informal...
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Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia
Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed...
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Community Divisions, Stigma, and the Structural Violence of Public Housing Transformation
This chapter critically analyses the impact of public housing transformation on the production of space in South Shore by focusing on how the arrival...
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The Layered Space: Permutations of the Portico
The portico is the essence of tropical form and represents the quintessential architectural character of the South East Asian tropics. The variations...
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Lean Urbanism Is About Making Small Possible
This chapter argues against approaching urbanism as a production and storage problem, and for focusing on the potentials of informal urbanization....
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Obsolescence of the Built Environment
ArchitectureArchitecture is the creation of a society that seeks to give itself a way of living. These forms build a material language that expresses...
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Micro-Informalities: Spatial Appropriations in the COVID-19 Era
The onset of the global novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the sequestering of human habitation to occur entirely within the interior...
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Affective Reflection on the Dalian People’s Stadium as an Everyday Place
This research approached the affect and emotion of the ordinary Dalian people in relation to the dynamics in the rapid demolition, dispossession and...
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Relational Spaces of Digital Labor
The distinction between everyday life and work is gradually diminishing, as productive capacities are increasingly hard-coded into quotidian...
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Bioclimatic Alignments of the Alun Alun: A Genealogy of the Nusantara Open Space
This chapter retraces the padang or alun alun, presently viewed as a green centre and as an urban space type within the historical evolution in the...
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De-urbanization: From the Shock to the Revolution of a New Urban Logic
CitiesCities and urban territoriesTerritory in their accelerated urbanizationUrbanization processes go through logics adjusted to contemporary...
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Housing Squats, Urban Commons, Right to the City
The chapter builds upon the existing literature about neoliberal urbanisation, ‘right to the city’ and urban commons to gauge their fitness as...
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Community Question: Classical Debates
The chapter provides an overview of the classical debates on community question. It discusses various approaches to community, comprehended as a...
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Eco-Inflections of the ‘Mandalic’ City-Form: Morphologies of the Pre-Colonial Urban Cores
The recognition of morphological layers in the evolving dynamic histories of South East Asian urban centres is crucial in understanding the original...
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Urban Resilience and the Politics of Development
This chapter explores the phenomenon of urban resilience and shows how climate urbanism has become a new planning logic in the global South. Drawing...
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Lessons Learned from Refugee Camps: From Fetishizing Design to Researching, Drawing, and Co-Producing
This chapter explores cases when a design-oriented approach can be harmful, especially if it shifts the attention from refugees’ needs and complex...
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Urbane Räume. Ankunftsräume für Geflüchtete und ihre Funktionen
Urbane Räume sind – ob Großstädte, Regionen, Quartiere oder spezifische Orte wie Unterkünfte – häufig Ankunftsräume für Geflüchtete. Sie können in...
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Indology and Sociology
Early Indian sociology had strong affinities with Indology which rested on the assumption that historically Indian society and culture are unique and...