The Necessity for the Centre on African Public Spaces The struggles for land and spatial justice feature very strongly in the modern history of the African continent, which has not only deeply shaped the continent’s history, but continues to shape its present and unfold in its future. In such contexts, geographic…

Beta 2022 focuses on The City as a Common Good, in an attempt to investigate the personal relationship that each of us has with the urban space in which we live and manifest. In this sense, Beta comes with concrete tools that encourage the public to become more active and to claim, along with the responsibility, the…

Livability is key to the quality of city life as we look to the future. We don’t have to look far into that future to see how this plays out on the streets. On Sunday, December 15, 1974, a group of residents in Bogotá, Colombia, tried an experiment: they closed 5 kilometers of a major road in the city to cars for a few…

Urban redevelopment in India over recent decades has had particular implications for women. While the economic deregulation of the 1990s opened up new possibilities for work, leisure and relationships, it has also led to new stresses. Cities such as New Delhi have become sites for experimentation, autonomy and aspirati…

This paper aims to add to the research investigating how home is created from the perspective of those who live outside the norms of a conventional house. This research focuses on those members of the community who live in public spaces in self-built camps in the nearby bush lands surrounding Byron Bay and Bruns…

A morphological and functional study of contemporary residential row-houses The focus of this paper is liveable, low-rise high-density urban morphologies of residential architecture and urban planning practices in Tokyo. Over the last several decades, historically established qualities in cities worldwide are inc…