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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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IpoTESI di PreistoriaThe workshop, which took place on October 7, 2024, at the Department of History and Culture of the University of Bologna, examined the theme of so-called megalithic walls.
Maurizio Cattani
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Resilience, innovation and collapse of settlement networks in later Bronze Age Europe: New survey data from the southern Carpathian Basin. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Molloy B +9 more
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In Praise of Monumentality: Vertical Urbanism and the Human Condition
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUAThe skyscraper has long represented modernity’s ambition, yet its civic and emotional potential remains overlooked. This paper reexamines the skyscraper through Sigfried Giedion’s framework of monumentality, not as spectacle or isolated icon, but as a ...
Wayde Tardif
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Fibiger L +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Novum monumentum : study of the new metropolitan monumentality [PDF]
, 2018 De nos jours, parler de monumentalité soulève des questions pour le moins problématiques. Selon des interprétations négatives, cette notion est fruit d’une pensée rétrograde, fondée sur l’historicisme et sur une lecture de l’architecture comme une ...
Panzeri, Alessandro
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