Multimedia | film profile
De Engel van Doel [An Angel in Doel]
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.
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Multimedia | film profile
Detropia
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
Multimedia | film profile
Maputo Dancing Dump
This film tells the story of a young man whose hip-hop dance emerged from the context of Maputo’s biggest garbage dump.
Arcadia
An Endless Sediment Story: The First Five Decades of the Canal de Marseille
The Canal de Marseille has allowed an improvement in the water supply in the city of Marseille, but also induced environmental issues in its first decades due to strong suspended sediment fluxes.
Perspectives Article
Unruly Hinterlands and Settlement Histories of the Deccan Plateau
This paper uses the settlement histories of the early Deccan Plateau to highlight how heterogeneity, and a process of continual adjustment, shape historical settlements and lead to unruliness.
Arcadia
Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah
Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.
Multimedia | book profile
Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Multimedia | journal article
"Traditional knowledge in the Defence of the Cultural Landscape of Tlajomulco, Mexico"
The aim of this paper is to encourage conservation and prevent further deterioration around the traditional villages of Tlajomulco, Mexico by making more widely known the rich cultural landscape and the know-how of the inhabitants that has contributed to its conservation.
Arcadia
Brewing, Industrialization, and London Water Supplies
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
Arcadia
The Kauri Case—Native Nature and National Identity in Titirangi, New Zealand
The article discusses the role of native trees as representatives of national identity and belonging.