Category: Urban Studies
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New Paper for a Special Issue on “Decentring Urban Experiments”
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be writing a paper for Architecture and Culture’s upcoming special issue, “Decentring Urban Experiments.” My contribution, titled “My neighborhood is an amusement park, and I am [not] okay with that”: Co-laborative Explorations of an Outdoor Escalator System in Medellín, Colombia, explores the complex entanglements of architecture, governance, violence, and everyday life…
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Reviewing Urban Ethics
My colleague and doctoral supervisor, Ignacio Farías, and I recently published a review of Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities (edited by Moritz Ege and Johannes Moser) in Zeitschrift für Volkskunde. The book sets out an ambitious research agenda for cultural urban studies, asking a deceptively simple question: How should one live in the city?…