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Call for Papers: International Conference
Contemporary Amman and the Right to the City 
November 3-4 2018 | Amman, Jordan

Organized by Ifpo Amman, Columbia GSAPP’s Studio-X Amman, and Columbia Global Centers | Amman

Please submit your abstracts..

Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits: Screening and Discussion with Imre Azem

Thursday, April 16 at 7pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5414
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016

A major urban redevelopment project in Fikirtepe had been going on for two years by the time I began my fieldwork in March 2013. During that time, three construction islands out of sixty had been entirely demolished, and many people, including many renters, had left the place. The streets were b..

Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais, editor, Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this ..

Daliyeh, a small peninsula sprouting from the Raouche neighborhood close to Beirut`s renowned Pigeons` Rock, is being sealed off from the public. Already, security guards are on site and steel poles

The mass movement of Syrians fleeing civil war to neighboring countries has become called the “Syrian refugee crisis.” The sheer volume of refugees brings up questions not only regarding these countries’ financial means and organizational capabilities but also, more importantly, regarding nation..

In his book Carbon Democracy, Timothy Mitchell analyses the interrelation between, on the one hand, the historical development of energy from fossil fuels and, on the other hand, the rise of democratic mass politics. The rise of coal in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made ..

Grounding Political Change in Egypt: 

The Public Interest, Local Roots of Democracy, and the Right to the City

While national electoral politics and the struggles between state institutions and protesters have been dominating headlines from Egyp..

Max Ajl (MA): Start by telling us a little about the Ir LeKulanu campaign.

Matan Kaminer (MK): Ir LeKulanu, “city for all of us” in Hebrew, is a municipal political party in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. It was founded six years ago by a number of activists who had been involved in di..

Right to Housing is an initiative that aims to link contemporary urban challenges with the notion of the “right to housing,” which, if that right is constitutionally protected and guaranteed, urban activists argue, could lead to the drafting of policies that will respond to the many neg..

Public space seems to be back in vogue these days, especially in relation to social protests taking place in city squares and along major streets, occupying and claiming spaces, often violently. Why do public spaces matter in cities? Is the absence or presence of public spaces in cities related ..

As I write this, Istanbul is under siege. The might of Istanbul`s entire police force—the largest city police force in Europe—is violently cracking down on peaceful occupiers in Gezi Park.

Bulaq: Among the Ruins of an Unfinished Revolution. Directed by Davide Morandini and Fabio Lucchini. UK/Italy/Egypt, 2011.

“Bread, freedom, and social justice” has been one of the most memorable chants from Egypt’s year of mass prote..

I remember a journalist asking a few weeks ago: has the world become a better place because of the Arab spring? I think what he meant was: are we living today in a better world because the Arab peoples have gotten rid of, or are getting rid of, some of the worst authoritarian leaders in the worl..