#11
Emergence
Part of SHIFT 1, issue 11 focuses on the joy of and the ideas about design, culture, food, music that are emerging from cities across the global South.
Building on our format change in issue 10, Cityscapes 11 marks a massive rethink of the publication. It’s more tactile, the form much more pliable to the needs of the reader. We approached it as a mini exhibition that each reader could curate to their taste. It is part of SHIFT 1.Ruchi Gupta, Mumbai
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Between the hammer and the rubble
The death, destruction and rise of Arab cities. Deen Sharp investigates “urbicide”—the destruction of entire cities, the use of the built-environment in oppressive militarisation, and the development and securitisation of planned urban space—across the so-called Middle East.
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Searching for the contours of an Arab World
Is it the Middle East or West Asia? The Arab world or the Muslim one?…
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Building an Architecture of Necessity
In mid-2021, Palestinian architect and educator Omar Yousef spoke to compatriot and fellow architect, Mahdi…
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A Fading Jewel
“Everyone keeps talking about the future of Joburg,” photographer Mark Lewis said on a recent…
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A city in crisis
At a generative and powerful roundtable discussion, author, journalist, and this issue’s contributing editor, Ferial…
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Joburg: What’s to be done?
Edgar Pieterse examines the factors contributing to Johannesburg’s series of infrastructure crises and the political…
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Architecture is Science Fiction
Michael Awake spends the day with artist Olalekan Jeyifous and dives under the mesmerising surface…
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Foundational shifts
A degrowth manifesto for planetary transition. We face a foundational transition that is shifting us…
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Mediation and negotiation as spatial practice
Picture a bustling urban marketplace in Alexandria or Tunis. Traders in stalls haggling and adapting…
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A roof over our heads
Sheela Patel foregrounds the realities of slum dwellers in thinking about climate change resilience and…
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Nigerian cuisine is ready for prime time
On a summer’s late-afternoon at Skylight, a rooftop bar in East London’s Tobacco Dock, the…
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Power and permanence
What Delhi’s new Parliament means to democracy in India. At a glance, the pretext for…
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Nairobi: the curious case of the city in the sun
Twenty years ago when I first came to work in Kenya’s capital, I could drive…
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Lagos: When the metro comes to town
Everyone on the platform held their smartphones and digital cameras aloft on the mild September…
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Fleeing Khartoum
“Riyadh was very busy, with a lot of life and movement,” Khartoum resident Haneen El…
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Vukosi Marivate: Finding Africa inside the machine
While the rest of us speculate about ChatGPT and Midjourney, the University of Pretoria’s Vukosi…
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Adanech Abebe: The mayor
Ferial Haffajee spoke to Ethiopian attorney and politician, Adanech Abebe. With a population of 5.4…
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Dr Dixon Chibanda: Re-thinking (mental) health infrastructure
Enlisting the wisdom and skills of community elders, Dixon Chibanda’s innovative approach to mental healthcare…
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Benjamin de la Peña: Decolonise mobility!
Across cities in the global South, “informal” transport—a misnomer—meets peoples’ needs like no new, large-scale,…
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Claude Borna: From the ground up
Kim Gurney speaks to Claude Borna about how Benin is building a knowledge-based digital economy…
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Renzo Guinto & Tolullah Oni: Health in everything!!!
Tau Tavengwa spoke with global health scholars Renzo Guinto & Tolullah Oni. Originally from the…
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Chatpong Chuenrudeemol: On designing for context
Returning from the USA to Thailand, architect Chat Chuenrudeemol talked to Tau Tavengwa about letting…
Ruchi Gupta, Mumbai
Jesusegun Alagbe, Lagos
Charles Onyango-Obbo, Nairobi
Gavin Weale, Cape Town
Mathias Agbo Jr, Lagos
Deen Sharp, Nairobi
Mahdi Sabbagh, New York City
Mark Lewis, Johannesburg
Ferial Haffajee, Johannesburg
Dark Matter Labs, London
Mukanzi Musanga, Nairobi
Kim Gurney, Cape Town
Mikael Awake, New York City
Insaf Ben Othmane, Tunis
Omar Wana, Tunis
Cosimo Campani, Rome
Sheela Patel, Delhi
Wael Al Awar, Dubai
Mpho Matsipa with Tomi Seyi Laja, Los Angeles & Johannesburg
Kwanele Sosibo, Durban
Vukosi Marivate, Pretoria
Adanech Abebe, Addis Ababa
Chatpong Chuenrudeemol, Bangkok
Omar Yousef, Gaza
Claude Borna, Cotonou
Benjamin de la Peña, Chicago
Olalekan Jeyifous, New York City
Sammy Baloji, Lubumbashi & Antwerp
Dark Matter Laboratories, London
Renzo Guinto, Manila & Singapore
Dixon Chibanda, Harare
Tolullah Oni, London
