Tag: Urban studies
Legal awareness does not always lead to legal action
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in LawStudy examines why precarious housing tenants avoid legal remedies despite awareness, identifying structural barriers including landlord dependency and interconnected institutional vulnerabilities.
Teras Cihempelas shows the tensions of formalising street vending
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Study of Teras Cihempelas elevated walkway in Bandung, Indonesia examining design politics and impacts of integrating informal street vending into formal urban infrastructure over a decade.
Essay argues crisis urbanism is persistent but progress remains possible
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Critical examination of crisis urbanism as structural feature of contemporary urbanization, analyzing personal-planetary dialectics and historical continuities in urban crises.
Matatu access conflicts with Nairobi Expressway infrastructure
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Study examines tensions between Nairobi’s matatu informal transport and Chinese-backed Expressway, revealing how foreign infrastructure reshapes mobility and excludes indigenous systems.
Generations are shaped by different futures in Hoyerswerda
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Explore how generations in postsocialist Hoyerswerda are shaped by divergent orientations toward capitalist futures rather than shared historical events, revealing futurity as central to.
Sudbury’s local collaboration supported environmental and social transformation
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Sudbury, Ontario transformed from mining-dependent economy to sustainable community through collaborative governance, environmental restoration, and multi-sector initiatives addressing ecological.
Contextual factors shaped mosque design and construction in Greater Phoenix
Contextual framework for mosque construction in U.S. cities examining demographic, economic, social, and institutional factors shaping design and development processes.
