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Published in: openSecurityLaying siege to the villages: neighbourhoods for the working poor
Part 4: As of 2013, with a population of 140,000 residents Baishizhou was the largest of Shenzhen's urban villages....
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Published in: openSecurityLaying siege to the villages: neoliberalizing the bamboo curtain
Part 2: Both Cold War geo-politics and the rush to develop the neoliberal city informed the development of a...
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Published in: openSecurityLaying siege to the villages: lessons from Shenzhen
In this 4-part series, Mary Ann O'Donnell explores the social antagonisms that have emerged through Shenzhen's...
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Published in: openSecurityShenzhen: constructing the city, reconstructing subjects
Shenzhen, one of our greatest contemporary urban experiments, faces huge challenges in integrating the non-urban...
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Published in: openSecurityConservation and dispossession in Bogotá
The deployment of conservation zones in Bogotá's 'green' neighbourhoods, is fast becoming an alibi for the...
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Published in: openSecurityPacifying Rio: what's behind Latin America's most talked about security operation
Rio de Janeiro has engaged in an ambitious security operation aimed at freeing its favelas from the control of gangs...
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Published in: openSecurityPeopling space: contemporary redevelopment in Bogotá
While previous 'security planning' in Bogotá has been premised on eviction and demolition, emerging redevelopment...
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Published in: openSecurityDevelopment and dissent in China's 'urban age'
As China enters an 'urban age' for the first time in its entire history, a new set of urban conflicts over identity,...
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Published in: openSecurityThe politics of neglect in post-Mubarak Cairo
The politics of neglect which has long governed Cairo's expansive informal spaces looks set to remain well into the...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job