By Minh Le Do The history of planning in the Maldives is quite unique because it does not have an abstruse history. Despite a short period of British protection, the country has always been an independent state throughout its years of existence. … Continue reading →

By Eileen Cuevas NOTE: This post builds off of a previous post. Please read this post before continuing. Thanks to Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is known as a bold experimentation of planning. While the history of the city is important, how … Continue reading →

By Eileen Cuevas Chandigarh’s history as a city had always set it apart from other cities in the country thanks to its status as the country’s first planned city. Because it was planned, it was susceptible to the differing influential … Continue reading →

By Patrick Braga (For a historical background on this historiographical and theoretical analysis of the story of Moroccan urbanism discussed in this post, please read The History and Legacies of Urbanism in Casablanca first.) Modernism, modernity, and modernization as intertwining … Continue reading →

By Patrick Braga Morocco has long been described as a laboratory for modernist urban planning. Under French colonialism, Moroccan cities became experiments for ideas and visions of how cities in France could come to evolve within a perspective of modernist … Continue reading →

By Allen T. Navasero Part I: How Metro Manila Slums Came to Be Defining and Maintaining Localities In the midst of the informal nature of slums, organizations and a means of informal social infrastructure must exist within such communities. A locality … Continue reading →

By Marina Santos Part I: Self-Help Housing in Calcutta In Calcutta, the term “slum” can refer to both bastis (or bustees) and squatter settlements. Bastis are characterized by huts made of brick, earth, and sticks– usually with tiled roofs. Basti slums … Continue reading →

By Armin Behroozi Imagine a low-income worker heading home after an exasperating, labor-intensive day. Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood, he is deprived of adequate transit options and food market choices. Too tired to walk several miles over to a neighborhood … Continue reading →

By: Sophia Li “The Chinatown landscape,” Norman Denzin once said, “is a cinematic society, a cultural landscape that is guided by a voyeur’s gaze.” (Lin, 1998) Indeed, although Manhattan’s Chinatown may not possess any officially defined borders, it, with the … Continue reading →