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What it means to live in a city of equals
City of Equals by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit examines what it means for one citizen of a city to feel equal to another, despite different experiences and…
Book Review: Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand by Eli Elinoff
In Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand, Eli Elinoff explores citizenship struggles and the political engagement of residents living in Northeastern Thailand. Unlike tra…
Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities
Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of…
Academic Fictions: A Tale of Two Value-Based Cities
I am very fatigued. Since the first day of 2020, something strange has happened to me. Every day I wake up to a different place – well, technically…
Elizabeth Fox takes the page 99 test
I have been fascinated by Mongolia’s capital city since my first visit in 2012. Despite my familiarity with the anthropological literature, on arrival in Ulaanbaatar I was utterly…
Book Review: The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City edited by Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett
In The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett bring together contributors to explore the conditions that have emerged or intensified since the…
Ethnographic Designs for Buen Vivir: Fieldnotes from Nicaragua
Co-Authored by Alex Nading, Josh Fisher, and Chantelle Falconer What does it mean to find value in urban ecologies? This question sparked our collaborative research in Ciudad Sandino,…
Book Review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In by Roger Keil
Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In, authored by Roger Keil, emerges out of an eight-year research programme on global suburbanisms to explore the diversity…
Dust by Nick Caverly
The building pictured below sat near Mack Avenue on Detroit’s far east side and, according to the municipal government, was an environmental hazard. Following years of complaints from…
David Hamou and Ida Susser: Where to Catalonia?: Is this commoning? What for independence?
As we sit here in Barcelona, a historic center of anarchism and left resistance, the questions debated in the most recent Focaal special section “Exploring the urban commons” confront us.…
Lake by Muchaparara Musemwa
Introduction Urban man-made bodies of water such as lakes can be sources of aesthetic beauty and leisure and can boost a city’s economy and tourism industry. They satisfy…
Archaeologies of Displacement and Urban Renewal in Detroit
Last week I attended the “Archaeology and Revitalization in Detroit” sessions at the Michigan Historic Preservation Network‘s annual meeting in Detroit, on the campus of Wayne State …
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
CfP: The "Purified" City – RC21 (Urbino, Aug 2015)
The Making and Unmaking of Urban Closures: Scrutinizing the ‘Purified’ City http://www.rc21.org/en/conferences/urbino2015/ Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2015 Organiser: Giovanni Picker (C…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Expulsion order to 18 Romanian Romani families in Montreuil
That’s an interesting issue. I’m doing fieldwork in Montreuil, near Paris; yesterday with an activist we went to see a number of Romanian Romani families squatting a building…
Singing on the Train
If traveling by train from Sicily to mainland Italy, the train is cut in half and boards a ferry. The ferry, carrying its cargo of train cars and…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…