Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and a member of its Committee on Global Thought. Her most recent books include Territory, Authority, Rights: from…
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What is at stake for the post moderns is successful new designs for liveable, immune relationships, and these are precisely what can and will develop anew in ‘societies’ with permeable…
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Two young girls with pleated skirts and plaited hair play in a circle of sand containing a rectilinear seesaw. A month ago, this play area along with other playground structures…
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The laundromat in my neighbourhood does something more than wash dirty laundry. It’s not a case of illegal goings on, quite the opposite. The workers at Bubbleworks, in New York’s…
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What is our commons and how should it be renewed, sustained, enlarged, drawn down, and/or extended to others? —J.K. Gibson-Graham The creation of instituting society, as instituted society, is each…
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The apartheid regime in South Africa maintained its rule through the ‘organization of urban space into racially segregated living areas’ [1]. Since the regime’s fall [1990], the easing of migration…
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“The last man, man of the street, man of the crowd, man of the masses, mass-man; that’s how THEY represented Bloom to us at first: as the sad product of…
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Collagen is a natural molecule which is the main component of connective tissue making around 25% of our body protein content. It is made up of amino-acids, which are in…
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The Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana has just launched the new Call for Applications to BIO 50, as an important turning point for 50th anniversary of Biennial of…
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