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Tacheles in Ruins

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“In and against an environment”: Dhanveer Singh Brar on the Sonic Ecologies of 21C Black Music

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Aravena’s Venice Biennale Installation Obscures the Historical Struggles of Mapuche Communities

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The Problem with Neighbors

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How Sukarno’s Games of the New Emerging Forces Briefly Modeled a Vision for a Postcolonial World

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From Low-Income Landscapes to Black-Powered Towers: A Conversation with Walter Hood

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Adaptive Refuse

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Stories on Earth: Challenging the Human/Non-Human Dichotomy

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The Peace Walls at the Centre of Recent Unrest in Northern Ireland

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The Empty Houses Helping Kozarac’s Diaspora Hold on to Their Hometown

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Delivery Workers Expose the Troubling Ideology of Public Space in Bogota

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Los Repartidores de Domicilios Evidencian la Problemática Noción del Espacio Público en Bogotá

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All Design Is Political, Not All Politics Is Design

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Chile’s Establishment Have Just Discovered a Concern for Santiago’s Heritage After Years of Negligence

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NYC’s Reopening Plans Depend on a Holy Trinity of Diners, Designers, and Capital

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How More Security Makes Women and Queer People Feel Less Safe

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After the Gay Bar, The Uncertain Future of Queer Space

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Architecture is Yet to Come to Terms with Trans Bodies

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#12 When Beyoncé Seized the Louvre

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A Construction Mistake in Rome That Created a Lake and United a Neighborhood

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“Architecture is Never Non-Political”: Michael Sorkin

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The City and the City and Coronavirus

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The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?

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We Participate, They Profit

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Watch It Die: The Managed Decline of Tainted Architecture

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Bjarke Ingels and the Art of Greenwashing

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A Decade of Failed Architecture

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How the British Buried Their Imperial History Along with Wembley Stadium

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The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible

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Jakarta’s Superblocks Continue a Legacy of Urban Segregation

Where the Image Flows: How Sidewalk Labs’ Public Relations Came to Dominate Journalism

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The Radical Culture of Night Shops and Beauty Salons

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Degrowth is About Redistribution by Design, Not by Collapse

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Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge

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Craigslust: “We’ll Have Sex and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat”

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Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable

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Maybe Modern Ruins Are Just the Kind of Failure We Need

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Learning from Brazil’s “Architect of the Poor”

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Death Sentence: The Words That Bulldoze Our Cities

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Taking Back Taksim: Everyday Life vs. Top-Down Redevelopment

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The Cities of Vilnius: Past Ideologies, New Consumerism

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Community Wealth Building: An Idea Afraid of Its Own Radical Potential

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The Playful City: From the 1960s Strive for Spontaneity to Today’s Space of Entertainment

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University of Amsterdam Shirks Urban Responsibilities Despite Legacy

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Photo Essay: Written on Glass – Detroit ’67

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Amsterdam’s Architecture of Colonial Exploitation

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Resisting Phnom Penh’s Beautification Plan

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Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry

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Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener

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In Conquering the Sea, Singapore Erases Its History

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Pleasure Postponed: Pyongyang’s Tourist Hotels

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Social Life Triumphs in Sicily’s Empty Utopian Artscape

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The Invisible Wall of Lampedusa: Landscaping Europe’s Outer Frontier

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Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika

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Reinier de Graaf: “Architecture Is in a State of Denial”

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Kevin Lynch and the GPS: Predicting the Culture of Navigation in 1960

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How Amsterdam Resisted the Sellout of its City Centre

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Singapore’s Metabolist Megastructures: The Asian City of Tomorrow?

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Hot Potato Heritage: Heidelberg’s Nazi Amphitheatre

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How The Student Hotel Makes Millennials Pay for Amsterdam’s Housing Shortage

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A Hilariously Embarrassing Housing Crisis

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Photo Essay: The Grey City – Aberdeen’s Mundane Side

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The Grenfell Disaster Shows that Architecture Is Always Political

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Aerial Imperialism: Syrian Ruinscapes and Vertical Media

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Lost Forever: Amsterdam’s Shell Terrain Transformed

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Choreographing Ankara’s Airport Road

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The Collective is Not a New Way of Living – It’s an Old One, Commodified

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The 5m² Maid’s Room: Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture

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Three Strikes, You’re Out: Habitat III’s Doomed Urban Agenda

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Amsterdam’s Architectures of Hospitality

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Clubbing’s Demise and the Downfall of London

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Architecture After Excess: The Palaces of Saddam’s Baghdad

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Colonising the Street: How Greenpoint’s Retail Newcomers Market Authenticity

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Photo Essay: Brooklyn’s New Everyday Architecture for the 1%

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Vienna’s Social Housing Legacy: Rethinking Value

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The Battle Over What Istanbul’s Iconic Bridge Means

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Photo Essay: The Fading Glory of Brazil’s Disappearing Love Motels

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Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies

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Instagramming Architecture

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Robert Moses, Pig-Ears and the Camden Bench: How Architectural Hostility Became Transparent

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Spaces of Otherness: Ruins Through a Feminist Lens

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Komtar: Malaysia’s Monument to Failed Modernism

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The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space

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Why the Pop-up Hype Isn’t Going to Save Our Cities

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What the City of the Future Looks Like in the Next Economy

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Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy

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Neoliberal Shock Therapy: The Post-Katrina Redevelopment of New Orleans

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Last Season: The Final Moments of the Four Seasons

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How Skopje’s Urban Makeover Alienated Locals

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Dredging the Dutch City, Part 1: Rotterdam

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Lichtenberg, Berlin: A Sketch from the Ground

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The Best Ad in History: Capturing Caracas

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Turncoats: ‘Architectural debates are rubbish’

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Urbicide in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Photo Essay: DORP

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The Partisan Necropolis: Mostar’s Empty Stare

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Did Suburbia Fail?

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The Modern Ruins of Ipswich’s Waterfront

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Walking the Decline: Sheffield’s Collectivist Architecture

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Enclosed Paradise: Istanbul’s Microcities as Megaprojects

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Haussmann and the Sanitisation of Amsterdam

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