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: eviction
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 …
Voices from Yangon
This republished article from Next City has many different voices from Yangon in Myanmar, telling the story of the planned eviction of an inofficial settlement. Read More …