Kibera Calling: Locally-Led Development in a Nairobi Slum
Kibera in Nairobi remains one of the world's largest informal settlements, with census data from 2009 claiming no less than...
Adam Nowek
Adam is an urban journalist and photographer with an MSc in Urban Studies from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, where his thesis focussed on high-rise residential tower design trends. Adam has also been a contributing writer at Pop-Up City and This Big City, and edited Pop-Up City: City-Making in a Fluid World (BIS Publishers, 2014).
Knowledge of Place: Connecting Generations with Ondergronds Amsterdam
As the city fluctuates to accommodate new locals and develop new trends, certain residents and their experiences are overlooked and...
Lost Vegas: A Night Walk on Fremont Street
Vice. Excess. Indulgence. The Las Vegas Strip holds a number of well-deserved stereotypes that emerges from a tourism sector that is...
Amsterdam’s Afterthought: Touring the A10
Many cities are defined in part by their urban road networks: Los Angeles had its freeways famously categorised as bourgeois or gangster by...
Celebrating South China’s Urban Villages
Urban informality is hardly a new reality for the world's cities. The term itself has a young theoretical life, being...
Incomplete City: Vancouver’s American Suburb
Outside of Europe's Schengen Area, international boundary lines usually act as a hard line, preventing urban expansion at an unquestionable...
Nassau Primed to Become the Next Macau
One of the world's largest and most costly construction sites is not a colossal piece of transportation infrastructure, a swath...
Filming Cities: Coast Modern (2012)
Filming Cities at The Proto City: Our authors review films about the urban environments that we inhabit. To kick off the...
Rem’s Canvas: Shenzhen’s Central Business District
Light traffic on Shenzhen's six-lane Shennan Avenue (Photo: 121214.004 by Adam Nowek) Whether you consider his architectural legacy to be...
Fantasyland: Casino Architecture in Macau
Macau's elephantine gambling industry is known for its size: Macau has already overtaken Las Vegas in terms of revenue and is rapidly...
