Mad City: Imagination of rap music as an experimental methodological device for the re-imagination of urban space in Los Angeles

The dilemma of race and space is deep entwined in the history of United States. From the slave quarters of plantations in the South to redlining and housing projects, the unjust distribution of space between diff erent ethnic groups has demarcated “otherness” until recent days. Perhaps the most vocal witnesses of the spatial injustice and the...

Adaptable Nowa Huta: Revitalizing the socialist legacy

The research in this master graduation focuses on Nowa Huta, a neighborhood located in the Krakow Metropolitan Area (Poland). Nowa Huta was designed and build as a socialist ideal city in the socialist era, complete with its own steel plant where the majority of the inhabitants worked. The Lenin steel factory provided work, but it also financed...

#WomenSpatialActivism: An urban designer's approach towards re-appropriation of spaces by women in New Delhi, India

Women inequality is a common practice in today’s world which is global in nature. Focusing on a developing country like India, violence against women, needless to say, is a grave concern. Crime in the form of rapes, molestation, and eve-teasing, has made public spaces fearful, and women have developed the fear of being a part of these places....