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Towards preventative urban health resilience: a case study of Cairo’s heliopolis
(2020-06-08)
The increasing prevalence of diseases in urban populations caused by poor living conditions and social inequities is a major concern for cities and their dwellers alike. This concern has become even ...
Memory space as symbolic repair in post-conflict situation: the case of Bojayá
(2020-05-29)
During the last fifty years of armed conflict in Colombia, the Pacific region was one of the most affected with both severity and frequency. The Bojayá massacre (May 2, 2002), marked forever the lives ...
Integrating refugees in shrinking cities through adaptative reuse: architectural principles for refugee housing projects
(2020-05-29)
In the current European context, characterised by an already tight housing market, finding adequate affordable housing to ensure successful integration for a growing influx of refugees is a major ...
Crises, capital & the immigrant: the impact of platform-delivery work on the socio-spacial integration of immigrant riders in Barcelona
(2020-05-29)
In his 1872 polemic, "The Housing Question", German philosopher Friedrich Engels addressed the housing problems faced by the proletariat migrant workers in major industrial centres. He asserted that ...
Waiting in non-places: the spatialization of discourses in Mexico’s migrant integration centres
(2020-06-08)
Over the last few decades, the process of labelling migrants and refugees has become increasingly politicized. And yet, these labels imply access (or lack thereof) to resources, rights and protections ...
Perceptions of place within paradoxes of inclusion and exclusion: the case of unaccompanied youth migrants in Sweden
(2020-05-29)
This thesis focuses on unaccompanied youth migrants in urban centers. For this study, I have looked into two main arguments – one that says that social inclusion and exclusion are inherent in any social ...
Supporting self-recovery in post-conflict situations: insights from Syria
(2020-06-08)
Self-recovery shelter support is a modality of humanitarian aid which remains illdefined and misunderstood despite the many aid organizations that attempt to undertake this work. Of the existing knowledge ...