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Published in: openSecurityAnatomy of a demolitionOne year ago last month, part of a Delhi slum was demolished; the demolition received almost no public attention. As...
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Published in: openSecurityThe urban paradoxAs Cities in Conflict goes on hiatus, I take a look back at the past fourteen months of publishing articles, film,...
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Published in: openSecuritySexual violence on the margins of DelhiWhile debates on sexual violence in India focus on the city, the experiences of women expunged to the city's...
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Published in: openSecurityWhose smart city?The proliferation of 'smart' solutions to a deluge of political and economic problems in today's cities may well...
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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: 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: 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: 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: openSecurityResisting the cityIn the face of rapid urban expansion and environmental degradation, the people of Usme, a periurban town of Bogotá,...
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Published in: openSecurityCity bypassed: the casualties of Mumbai's urban renewal
Watch: A short film exploring Mumbai's urban renewal as seen from Byculla, a multicultural inner-city neighbourhood...
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Published in: openSecurityMount Zion: the city withinRather than submit to the noxious dynamics of Spain’s colossal underground economy, the migrant workers of Mount...
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Published in: openSecuritySão Paulo: the city and its protest
While the recent protests in São Paulo are made up of a cross-section of Paulite society 'waking up' to social...
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Published in: TransformationBreakfast in DetroitVisions of Detroit as a "ruined city" have become popular. But volunteers are stepping into the breach to rebuild...
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Published in: openSecurityReclaiming life in the precarious cityDespite the recent crackdown on squatting in the UK and Europe, across the Global North we are now witnessing the...
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Published in: openSecurityPlanning for exclusion in AbujaRigid planning and development controls in Abuja, Nigeria's modern capital, have served to exclude population groups...
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Published in: openSecurityThe myth of resettlement in DelhiSince 2000, activist groups across India have sought to defend slum communities from dispossession in favour of...
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Published in: openSecurityFailed cities?Everyday life in some western cities is often more dangerous than living in so-called 'failed states'. Is it thus...
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Published in: openSecuritySpectacle and surveillance in BrazilThe unprecedented series of mega-events which are set to take place across Brazil in the coming years have lead to...
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Published in: openSecurityArchitecture must be defended: informality and the agency of spaceTo engage in areas where it is needed most, architecture must begin a new critical project to reclaim the inherently...
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Published in: openSecurityThe battle for Golibar: urban splintering in MumbaiThe ‘Mumbai model’ of public-private partnerships in urban land and housing development is being adopted and piloted...
