Amidst a rapidly changing urban landscape in the tourism hub of Venice, author Neal E. Robbins examines the city's economic, environmental, and social future.
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In conversation with Dr Andreza A. de Souza Santos and Dr Markus Hochmüller, both of the University of Oxford’s Latin America Centre, following the recent publication of Dr de Souza Santos’ article “Trading time and space: Grassroots negotiations in a Brazilian mining district” in Ethnography 2019, 0(0) 1–23
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An interview with Alex Vasudevan, author of The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting and Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford, on the subjects of Squatting & Citizenship, Spatio-Temporality, Commons-Enclosure, and Ecology & Ontology.
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Small-scale interventions with strong urban vision have the potential to transform obsolete spaces into active destinations. George Town, the UNESCO-recognized historic core in Penang, Malaysia, could transform its inner-block voids, making them part of a lively urban system.
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Sai Villafuerte speaks to Mexican photographer, Arturo Soto, about his debut photobook In the Heat and what it means to negotiate our place in a city.
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Luciano Mateo Rodriguez Carrington chats with Dr. Andreza de Souza Santos from the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society on the importance of collaboration in addressing urban migration issues in Brazil.
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In Vancouver, Canada, a non-profit organisation called frida&frank aims to empower citizens to be placemakers by helping them imagine new roles for the city’s public spaces: rainy-day oases.
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On 9 June 2017, the Oxford Urbanists held a debate titled Informal Settlements and the Role of Land Rights, in partnership with the International Growth Centre's Cities That Work program. Dr. Andreza de Souza Santos, a discussant, provides written replies to some of the questions discussed.
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