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Charlie Clemoes
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“How the Shipping Container Changed Everything”
topos
(110) Urban Mutations
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Falling for an 80s Brixton Idyll”
Klapmutsenveem 62
“Ayn Rand’s Libertarian Utopia Provided the Blueprint for Billionaire Doomsday Prepping”
Failed Architecture
“The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?”
Failed Architecture
“A Different Perspective on Walkability”
topos Magazine (105) Mobility
Rendered Real
Unseen Magazine
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“‘Next Hype’: Taking and Making Space in the 2010 U.K. Student Protest Movement”
The Funambulist
(21) Space & Activism
“Red Bologna Today”
Jacobin
“Werker Collective and the Worker Photographers: Taking Back Control of the Image,”
Novara Media
“Looking After the Nighthawks: The Night Mayor of Amsterdam: Shamiro van der Geld”
topos Magazine
(105) Mayors
“Making Anti-Terror Infrastructure Pretty: The Most Depressing New Urban Design Challenge”
Failed Architecture
“The Grenfell Elections: How Decent Housing Became Horribly, Brutally Possible”
Failed Architecture
“Vienna’s Social Housing Legacy: Rethinking Value”
Failed Architecture
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Is it Really Brutalist Architecture in Blade Runner 2049?”
Failed Architecture
“Talking Clubbing, Space and London with Gaika”
Failed Architecture
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The Tragedy of De Certeau’s Godlike Voyeur ft. Jamie Foxx”
Failed Architecture
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Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener
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Failed Architecture
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San Cataldo Cemetery: Graveyard of Postmodern Architecture”
Failed Architecture
“Houses as Money: The Georgian Townhouse in London”
Failed Architecture
“Dawson’s Heights: South London Sublime”
Failed Architecture
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Guardian Property: Freedom at Another’s Expense”
Failed Architecture
blog posts
The Valencia of Rita Barbera
RoXY Club: Urban History of Amsterdam’s popular Nightclub
Empty Shelves
Mirail: Toulouse’s Infamous District
Keywords of Development: Rent
Just in Time for Heroin
The Politics of Tree Planting
Keywords of Development: Up-and-Coming
High Street’s Long-Term Decline
Dream Cities, Haunted Cities
Keywords of Development
Chokepoints
Weird Belgian Architecture
Nike’s Church Renovation
Remaking London’s Docklands
Djibouti City: Cities on the New Silk Road
Narkomfin and the Social Condenser
Bicycle Architecture
Cities on the New Silk Road: Venice
Just-in-Time Urbanism
Civic Sacrifice
Self-build between Dreams and Reality
Thomas Sankara’s Burkina Faso
Mid90s Skater Landscapes
Cities on the New Silk Road: Rotterdam
Trump’s New York Origins
Cities on the New Silk Road: Tehran
A Paper Monument for The Paperless
Notre Dame and Architecture Competition
Alfonso Cuaron’s Environmental Storytelling
USA Today’s “The City” podcast
Cities on the New Silk Road: Athens
Gentrification and the AIDS epidemic
South London’s Super-Diverse Streets
Possum Springs: The Rust Belt
Liege’s Abandoned Sacred Heart
Cities on the New Silk Road: Xi’an
“How the Shipping Container Changed Everything” 
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“The Virus Biennale: Shall We Call the Whole Thing Off?” 
“A Different Perspective on Walkability” 
Rendered RealRendered Real
“Werker Collective and the Worker Photographers: Taking Back Control of the Image,” 
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“Memories, Steel and Concrete: The Wire’s Season 3 Opener“
Remaking London’s Docklands
