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New Read : Timothy Raeymaekers, The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean

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New Read:The city as a system- Metabolic design for new urban forms & functions

For a Sustainable City, a transformation of the underlying system is necessary in addition to spatial changes. This leads to new typologies and forms for buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes. We are currently overexploiting the urban body. How do we manage … Continue reading

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New Reading : Ananya Agustin Malhotra, Tran Duc Thao’s Anticolonial Phenomenology: In Theory and in Practice

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The Origin of Geomorphology: An Opinion

Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers wondered how mountains and other surface features in the natural landscape had formed. Aristotle, Herodotus, Seneca, Strabo, Xenophanes, and many others discoursed on topics such as the origin of river valleys and deltas, and the … Continue reading

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