Senegal's banlieues are sprawling. These suburbs, often forgotten by the outside world, are urban-worlds onto themselves, each with their own inherent logic, of which very little is known...
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Like many new cosmopolitan cities, Dakar as cosmopolis is also deeply impacted by the close relationship to their village heritage of most of its inhabitants…
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Curitiba's local curator Sérgio Pires questions Curitiba's renowned planning approach by including new thinkers and more diverse perspectives to consider the city's outward growth – exemplified by the development of the "green line" – bleeding into the surrounding municipalities... more
The affordable housing complex is a displaced piece of urban fabric in the middle of a rural area. How long will it take until the city absorbs it? Will it ever?...
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The informal settlement Marlboro South is located in northern Johannesburg, near Sandton, sub-Saharan Africa’s most powerful economic hub, and was a typical buffer zone in apartheid planning...
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