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…

On the 20thOctober 2016, at the United Nations Habitat III conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, held in Quito, Ecuador, the New Urban Agenda (NUA) was adopted, providing a 20-year framework on how cities should be planned and managed to best promote sustainable urbanization globally. The docu…

Berkeley replaced one DIY bench with a city-approved one, but a pair of activists have since added at least four more wood benches in Berkeley and Oakland. After a transit activist’s guerilla installation of a bench at a Berkeley bus stop spurred the city to action, more benches are popping up at stops around the…

Contemporary shopping malls in Egypt have created new public spaces for lifestyle and leisure, which complement the commercial logic of consumer behavior. Mega malls in Egypt are simultaneously merging shopping, leisure, and entertainment, creating an ambivalence. They are representations of the globalized econo…

The case of Freedom Park and Kitwe Zoo in Kitwe, Zambia The city of Kitwe experienced a surge in the construction of shopping malls between 2010 and 2020. Government’s deliberate efforts for city making and restructuring policy in the built environment has resulted in increased commercial and tourism infrastructu…

Gentle Activism for Collective Survival This portfolio examines the possibility of my project ‘Just Keep Going’ series to nurture resilience for those experiencing uncanniness during periods of change and re-organization in the aftermath of extreme experiences. Experiences in an action-oriented non-verbal polypho…