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Urban built environments are spatial and material archives. Streets, buildings, open spaces, or infrastructures are registers of historical negotiations and repositories of data. Stories of power, geopolitics, economic systems, labour and culture can be revealed through road name ...
On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration” is the third installment of a multisited collection of articles and essays that takes migration as the central concept and historical event behind a set of feminist histories. Excerpts from each contribution to thi ...

Arrival Cities

Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century

Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings to ...
Where is the link between an immigrant from Lebanon opening a falafel shop in Berlin, and a man who has lived in Dar es Salaam for thirty years, selling maize and snacks next to the bus stop for a living? What connects the anecdote of a woman recalling the wastelands of the Moabi ...