Berlin: Creativity and Gentrification
In this essay, Dennis Gastelum explores the notion of Berlin as a creative cities and relates experience from a field trip to the Mediaspree area to the Mexican city of Guadalajara. Read More …
Tag: housing
Voices from Hamburg
In an interview, the volunteers of Hamburg’s donation fence (Gabenzaun) for the homeless explain their work and also talk about how homeless people can participate in the city. Read More …
Voices from Accra
Based on my own Master’s dissertation, this article focuses on how to prevent evictions, using the example of the Old Fadama Neighbourhood in Ghana’s capital city Accra. Read More …
Affordable Housing and Participation
Urban October 2017 is all about affordable houses, which I look at in a bit more detail in this article.a Read More …
Citizen Jane – Battle for the City
A summary and short review of this documentary about the great urban writer Jane Jacobs and her struggles to maintain Washington Park in NYC. Read More …