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BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
Compassion in urban settings is manifested less as a definitive practice than as a panoply of spatial and temporal orientations that lend uncertainty to the dispositions of actions and events. This is an uncertainty that can be either generative or debilitating, and it is difficult to predict which in advance. Thus,...
Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges and realities of climate change adaptation in African coastal cities and beyond. By centring African expertise and...
THE PATTERNS OF PROTECTION FOR HOUSING COMMONS: Building Occupations in São Paulo
This article discusses the reproduction of housing as a commons in São Paulo. It analyzes the occupation of vacant real estate properties and their subsequent transformation into low-income housing in central São Paulo as instances of commoning. It examines the mechanisms through which housing commons are protected,...
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A detail showing a female construction worker in India (photo by Justin Morgan, November 2009, CC BY-SA 2.0. URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_construction_worker_in_India_(4180249684).jpg)
A detail of the Integral Centre of Services in Zapopan, Mexico (photo by Mariana Reyes, December 2024)
A detail of a redeveloped commercial building in Halle (Saale) (photo by Matthias Bernt, March 2023)
