Category: #11
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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…
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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…
