Green Structural Adjustment in African Cities
Cities play a major role in climate change mitigation. African cities are scripted as the least prepared to deal with climate change, lacking the governance structures and finances to bring about infrastructural resilience independently. Thus, various international actors are seeking to harness private investment in green and smart…
Urban Climate Change
This course introduces students to current debates on climate risk and urban adaptation. We investigate the various ways in which climate risk is produced, a…
Expectations
A short film for the Film & Architecture Studio with the Independent School for the City. The short film was screened in Rotterdam’s theater LatarenVenster in parallel to the Architecture Film Festival 2021 “More than Houses”.
Shifting Housing Policy and the Role of COVID-19.
The state of housing in South Africa has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in many complex ways. The urgency of the circumstances have temporarily shifted the capacities of state to deal with ongoing issues of access to adequate…
ArcGIS Urban
Issues like housing availability, sustainability goals, and economic changes are compelling cities to better plan for the future…
Breaking New Ground in eThekwini
State housing schemes are shaped by the people who live in them in unpredictable ways, just as the way people live is shaped by the housing schemes they live in. A focus on Cornubia residents’ lives - a mixed- use development in…
Housing the City.
Labeled as London’s ‘new town’ upon inception and now again some 50 years later, Thamesmead in southeast London reflects the social, economic and political issues of London’s housing agenda both in tenure and in the built…