‘Rooting’ for Change
We were ravenous after biking in the hot sun, over 14 kilometers (which let me tell you, is a lot...
Consuming the City
Lingua Urbanus
Ordering the City Using the Right Language In his essay, “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell says a metaphor’s...
The City as a Consumed Adjective of Economy
Giving adjectives to cities has always been one of the main tasks of planners, politicians and architects. As storytellers for...
Stories from Third Street 第三街
The following stories are from Third Street in the Sai Ying Pun neighbourhood of Hong Kong. For a longer tour, see...
Learning from Kanye, unfinished…
Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish a picture?...
Eating from the Trash Can (of Ideology)
As consumption seems virtually impossible to escape in the city, we should look at the ways in which urban residents...
How Brussels Became the World’s Terrorist City
Mid-August I travelled to the political capital of Europe, prepared to spend a semester in the city and investigate differences...
The Exploited City Dweller
Cycling in Amsterdam is a great experience and a lot of fun. The whole city is honeycombed with wide cycle...
Do Cities Ever Sleep? The Night-Time Consumption Story
The Uber driver handed me the aux cable and I held it up to the backseat smiling “Shumaya or Kose...
Casitas in the South Bronx: Making a Place Called Home
During the 70s, many of New York’s neighbourhoods started to suffer from increasing poverty rates and declining living standards due...
