Avalanche examines changes wrought on Portugal’s twin capitals by elites’ accelerated and brutal reconstruction of their geographies �…
Theme park and living laboratory: Lisbon and Porto’s territorial nightmares
Tag: gentrification
You Cannot Burn Us All: the Issue of Communal Housing Privatisation in Poland
Privatisation has many faces.
Stopping the Haringey Development Vehicle
In common with estates and boroughs in city and town centres all over Britain, Haringey is facing a major redevelopment drive which threatens to gu…
Greek Floods and Gentrification
In November, flash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 23 people and caused significant destruction in central Greece.
The struggle against Google in Berlin
Earlier this year Google rocked up to Kreuzberg district in Berlin with plans for a swanky new Google Campus.
Fuck Parade: Inspired and Agenda Setting
I have to admit I was extremely cool about the idea of the Fuck Parade when I first heard about.
The End of Social Housing: The Housing and Planning Bill
On January 5th, Architects for Social Housing (ASH) and many others will demonstrate against the Housing and Planning Bill, which will pave the wa…
Could the occupation of London Metropolitan signal the rise of a working-class student’s movement?
In Cameron’s adventurous second term, the privatisation of culture has continued on a dramatic scale.
Hipsterphobia Sails Close to Homophobia and Gendered Norms [3/3]
This the final article from Cava Sunday’s blog on anti-hipster politics, reposted with permission.
Hipsterphobia is Theoretically Outdated [1/3]
This post first appeared on Cava Sunday’s blog and is reposted here with their kind permission.
#FUCKPARADE – What the fuck is to be done?
It’s official.
Recent Articles
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
