Navigating urban space: Women’s mobility experiences in Dublin in the wake of COVID-19
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A heavy use footpath and a main road in Dublin 6. Source: William Murphy, CC License. Public space and COVID-19 In Ireland, public space has been seen as being an important platform for people to be able to recuperate and engage in socially and physically restorative activities in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions. As with most cities, and evidenced by much research, the ideal of public space as being a platform for all citizens to equally share and enjoy does not unfortunately match the realities on the ground (Valentine 1990; Smith and Pain 2016; Jalalkamali and Doratli 2022). This article ..read more
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Urbanist's Guide to Nairobi, Keyna
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2y ago
After 1.5 months in Yaoundé, Cameroon, I moved to Keyna the other day. I didn't know what to expect from the eastern part of Africa, but it's been a pleasant surprise. Maybe the fresh and crisp mornings, maybe the easiess of being able to do anything in English, maybe the easy access to nature, I don't know, but I have been loving and absorbing everything I encounter here in Nairobi. As I always do, I stared composing some useful information to understand urbanism and arhchiecture scene here in Nairobi. This is a personal archive, so I'll keep updating the list as I learn more. Things to do ..read more
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Working with Africa's first spatial intelligence
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2y ago
Last year, Julien Carbonnell from the Democracy Studio and I had organized an open call to form a team of international urbanists of different skill sets to explore the African urban development and digital transformation. The idea is to join various local projects that are open to collaboration, providing a temporary workforce as well as developing our original projects with them. Our circus has visited South Africa and Togo already, and as a third chapter, we've arrived in the capital city of Cameroon, Yaoudé at the beginning of February. Two new members join us from Russia, and we've start ..read more
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Urbanist's Guide to Yaundé, Cameroon
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2y ago
As a third chapter of the African urban exploration of Traveling Circus of Urbanism, I came to the capital city of Cameroon, Yaundé! The city spreads over 7 hills, and after being a geographically flat city like Lomé, it feels refreshing to observe the wavy patterns of the landscapes. There is something mysterious and appealing about hilly cities. Here, we're collaborating with geo.sm, an open data platform and local social network establishing digital maps and GIS in Africa, creating the infrastructure for the interaction of inhabitants by geo-locations. I'll report more about geo.sm and the ..read more
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Wrapping up my time in Lomé, Togo
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2y ago
In the previous post, I explained how I ended up coming to the capital city of Togo and spend two months here to collaborate with Sénamé Koffi and WoeLab. This small West African country taught me so much and Lomé was such a welcoming gateway to my first journey in Africa. You can watch what Julien and I have been doing in collaboration with WoeLab during the two months here. It's hard to summarize everything — but I'll share some of the highlights from the pictures. A typical landscape around WoeLab. The whole suburban neighborhoods of Lomé look a bit like this — bare ground, trees, piles ..read more
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Humasn of Lomé: the HubCitizen Project
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2y ago
Traveling Circus of Urbanism is a platform for urban narratives that are collected from the world through traveling and dialogues with the citizens of the world. In Lomé, as a collaboration with WoeLab, I was interested in discovering the stories and empirical dataset on/of the streets to highlight the users of the HubCity project by WoeLab. During my stay, I've dedicated my time to face-to-face interviews and photo shooting with (potential) users and people in the neighborhood, as well as conducting participatory surveys. This is how I came up with the HubCitizen project. the HubCitizen proj ..read more
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Things to help me understand urbanism in Africa / Basic Introduction
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2y ago
In the past few weeks, I've been trying to gather resources that help me understand the architecture & cities of Africa. For many, the mention of Africa conjures images of poverty, mysterious tribes, thick jungles, and colossal Savannahs. While that remains true, according to this article, it's been more and more clear that Africa will be the next economic hub as its cities, and its population is rapidly growing. Urban centers in Africa are projected to house nearly 60 percent of the population by 2050. I've been also concerned that the urban theories, discourses, ways of thinking, archit ..read more
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Decoloing African cities in the future — L’Africaine d’architecture & WoeLab
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2y ago
It was in Amsterdam last year when my friend, a french urbanist Julien Carbonnell, and I have decided to organize an exploration journey throughout the multiple African cities. Living in the Netherlands, I was becoming more and more curious about the important part of the world which I had been so mentally distant from — Africa. African cities are growing, and in near future, many of the mega-cities in the world will be located in Africa. When we think about it, it's a very strange thing that we don't know much of their cities — not only about its history per se — but its happenings, its ambi ..read more
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Urbanist's Guide to Lomé, Togo
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2y ago
Here I am. I moved to Lomé, the capital city of Togo, Africa! I'll be working and exploring some of the cities of Africa until the next summer with a talented urbanist and a fantastic co-worker, Julien Carbonnell. The initiative I've joined in Togo is called WɔɛLab, created by Sénamé Koffi A., a community-based incubation hub that encourages smart-city development in a local context and educates the local community with digital technology. It's eye-opening to learn what they have achieved here, from creating the first "Made in Africa" 3D printer from e-waste, to tackling plastic-waste issues ..read more
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The Urban Familiar: Specific Sites that Feel Like Home
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2y ago
This joint-essay was wriiten by Aushaf Widisto (aka Oswald / Oz), an urbanist, writer, and cultural researcher based in Melbourne, and Ann Guo, an urban anthropologist based in Seattle and Istanbul. Part I: Melbourne Into the Library Photo by David Iliff on Wikimedia Commons. In The Image of the City (1960), urban theorist Kevin Lynch concluded that people orient themselves in cities by forming “mental maps,” which consist of five elements: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. These five elements intertwine and overlap with each other to create a “city image” that’s embedded in the ..read more
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