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Published in: openSecurityFrom Olympic spectacle to social crisis: review of Future SuspendedReview: Crisis-Scape's new film invites us in to the shadows of Athens, a city tenuously held together by state...
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Published in: openSecurityAthens: future suspended
Watch: What impact does a global financial crisis have on everyday life in the city? Crisis-Scape's final 35'...
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Published in: openSecurityFocus E15: the young mothers' struggle for universal housing
For more than six months, a small group of young, homeless mothers have been battling for decent and secure social...
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Published in: openSecurityTerritorial stigma and regeneration in TottenhamThe stigmatising narratives which dominate popular discourse on the 2011 riots have imbued the punitive regeneration...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Free Fare Movement comes to RioOn 6th February, Rio's military police clashed with thousands of protestors calling for free movement in the city....
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Rana Plaza
Why were NGOs left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza factory collapse?
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Published in: openSecurityGentrification: how do we define it and who cares anyway?Rather than fighting over what gentrification is and what it's not, attention needs to paid to the actual...
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Published in: openSecurityThe resilience of neoliberal urbanismResilience, the latest urban policy and think tank buzzword extolled upon the world's urban dwellers, operates as an...
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Published in: openSecurityCharter cities in Honduras?Are private cities the miracle cure for Honduras' surging violent crime, state violence and institutional disarray?
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Published in: openSecurityBloomberg's biopolitics: the molecular mayor
Looking back on three terms of Michael Bloomberg we see a mayor who sought to fundamentally change New York’s...
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Published in: openSecurityIstanbul in transformationThe Gezi park protests of June 2013 drew the attention of the world to a very urban conflict in Turkey's most...
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Published in: openSecurity"There is Marikana everyday in South Africa" - an interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo
Film: Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack...
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Published in: openSecurityVictims no longer: Spain’s anti-eviction movementFor over four years, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) have responded to a national housing crisis...
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Published in: openSecurityRebuilding Nahr el BaredAfter its destruction in the 2007 conflict, how did residents and architects go about rebuilding one of Lebanon's...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe (anti-) protest law: no more public space in Egypt?
The battle for dominance over public space in Egypt will continue, determining the future relationship between state...
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Published in: openSecurityTunnelling borders
The growing ubiquity of militarized borders has with it produced a subterranean network of cross-border tunnels. In...
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Published in: 50.50Bankrupting democracy
Michigan’s political elite is pushing the city of Detroit—wellspring of industrial unionism, home of soul music—into...
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Published in: openSecurityKabul: the humanitarian cityInitially mandated to protect and assist, the humanitarian project in Kabul has significantly reshaped the city over...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom civil to civic conflict? Violence and the city in 'fragile states'
The increasing ubiquity of riots, gang crime, and terrorist attacks in cities, would suggest the hallmark of the...
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Published in: openSecurityVisualizing Palestine
Over the past two years, Visualizing Palestine has harnessed visual storytelling to bring public attention to the...
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