In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps
neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little problematic, can no longer be sustained …

Resistant performances in Athens have gathered momentum over the last year, transforming
the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. The singular …

Independence Square in Kyiv. Tahrir Square in Cairo. The steps of the state capital in
Madison, Wisconsin. We live in an era when merely mentioning these place names can …

Four years and four days. The exact amount of time, that is, that has lapsed since the day the
greek state would sign its 'memorandum of agreement'with its lenders (the IMF, the EU and …

Sometimes, the maelstrom of a crisis can be captured in a single image. The image of the
mundane, barely noticeable movement of an urban dweller as they go about their everyday …

Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction? Is
their fate obsolescence? Or, are they the model for our urban future? Can a city whose very …

Greece is in the midst of a profound economic, social and political crisis. Hardly Greece's
issue alone, it is a crisis shaped by a prevailing neo-liberal economic doctrine in Europe and …

Athens is an historical anomaly. Excavations date its first settlement to over seven thousand
years ago, yet it only became the capital of Greece in 1834. During the intervening centuries …

The urban space has always expressed the inequality of social relations and offered a site of
conflict. Urban legality comprises planning, architectural and traffic regulations, public …

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