Creative practices for planning urban mobility
(2023)
Journal Article
All Outputs (17)
Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow (2023)
Journal Article
Amid growing interest in the creative industries and their influence on urban planning and regeneration strategies, this article revisits cultural backstages and their underlying infrastructural conditions. By cultural backstages, we mean those urban... Read More about Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow.
Flexibility in cultural production (2023)
Book Chapter
Flexibility, in the context of contemporary creative industries, has become a glamorised phenomenon, a buzzword used to illustrate an ideal working condition for cultural producers. The growth in, the use of flexibility as a concept in urban discour... Read More about Flexibility in cultural production.
Power and gender (2022)
Book Chapter
The theme of the London lab was provoked by the most recent, yet not the last, events of violence against women in London. Such gender-based power dynamics can be also found in the form of symbolic or non-physical violence within the built environme... Read More about Power and gender.
Encounters (2022)
Book
Encounters voices the choreographers, dancers, architects, and urbanists who contributed to the Movement Forum project. It narrates their experiences in London, Paris, and Lisbon which challenged the way they relate to themselves, to others, to a pla... Read More about Encounters.
Amidst urban edges (2022)
Book Chapter
Urban edges advance a reflection on human territoriality and the capacity of remaking territory in relation to public spaces. This social territory making includes a set of appropriation and consequences of presence in public space. Urban edges are i... Read More about Amidst urban edges.
When parrots of Tehran confess (2021)
Book Chapter
Embodying Otherness (2021)
Book
Embodying Otherness explores the presence, stillness and movement of bodies in the city, and the ways they are constantly restricted, codified and practiced. How can we challenge codes embedded in urban design which limit our right to be and move in... Read More about Embodying Otherness.
Reframing Kiruna’s relocation-spatial production or a sustainable transformation? (2021)
Journal Article
Due to the expansion of nearby mining operations, the city of Kiruna, an arctic city in Sweden, has been undergoing a massive urban transformation, led by the mining company, Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB), which is the largest iron ore p... Read More about Reframing Kiruna’s relocation-spatial production or a sustainable transformation?.
Urban Backstages Fieldwork Journal: Glasgow (2020)
Book
Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London’s towering cityscape (2020)
Digital Artefact
The debate over the tall-building boom in London is often torn between those supporting market-led spectacular urban development and those advocating for historic conservation of the traditional cityscape. In Ruined Skylines, Günter Gassner criticall... Read More about Ruined skylines: Aesthetics, politics and London’s towering cityscape.
The sensorial as infrastructure. Making pandebono (2020)
Journal Article
Appropriation of public space: A dialectical approach in designing publicness (2020)
Book Chapter
Benign Neglect (2020)
Journal Article
In September 2018, Network Rail sells 5,261 UK railway arches to Telereal Trillium and Blackstone Property Partners for 1.46bn. Eight months later, the National Audit Office estimates that rents for these properties will increase by 54% over the nex... Read More about Benign Neglect.
Urban Backstages Fieldwork Journal: London (2020)
Book
Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms (2020)
Journal Article
In what ways are cities things that happen to us, and in what ways are cities things we do together, with more or less art and purpose? How do we understand both the geometries of cities and the ways that form might be connected-or not-to their socia... Read More about Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms.
Designing care via sharing: Theorizing South-South urban practices (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The paper theorises from the sharing of south-south urban practices that restore care to the city and thereby transform the meaning of public spaces. The “wall of kindness” originated in Mashhad and other cities of Iran, under conditions of austerity... Read More about Designing care via sharing: Theorizing South-South urban practices.