We live in an urban era. There is no shortage of statistics on rural to urban migration, urban population explosions, and urban resource shortages and inequalities. Mushrooming megacities have become harbingers of impending scarcity crises or wellsprings of hope for those who see opportunities for economic growth in young populations and the formalization of informal economic activity. have become battlegrounds for visions
Redevelopment plans (with a long history) that clear the living areas of the poor to make way for unaffordable, orderly developments and new greenfield projects that desert established regions in favor of smart for a brave new future for the rich. Bottom up urban development planning led by community-based organizations and politically invested architecture studios. Facades of plans that reveal other realities in their seams.
ARTWORKS
Suspended Futures at Forest City
MEGACITY
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Dele Adeyemo
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ESSAYS
On an exceptionally warm morning in March 2018, I visited the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, and met up with Fikri, an employee of Karpower for over a decade.
In addressing urgent electricity demands, many countries are looking toward quick power generation systems.
MAY EE WONG
Since the 2008 United Nations declaration that the world is becoming increasingly urbanized, the notion of the ‘city-planet’ has become a well circulated trope, reflecting how urbanism is now understood as a phenomenon occurring on a planetary scale instead of merely a global one.
Water is not what it used to be. Increasingly, around the world, water is being mixed with private finance and practices often referred to as ‘financialization.’
Planetary Experiments
ORIT HALPERN