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Common?unity Gardening
From roadside and Brachen greening to allotments – community gardens define themselves mainly by their shared practice: they are maintained by a group of people on a voluntary basis and are often open to a broader public. In this way, they differ from the Kleingärten I looked at last week, which tended to be more rigidly demarcated…
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Notes Toward a Dreampolitik
The author in the Tobacco Root Mountains of Montana where the Anaconda Mine Company carried out extensive mining. Here we are, the final blog post. I’m going to reflect on the experience of blogging on Butte for the last few months, but more than that I want to sum up all of my posts into…
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A Way Forward For Moscow?
I thoroughly enjoyed writing about Moscow and analyzing the city from different viewpoints through a UPE lens of cities as metabolisms. The posts were largely based on my personal experiences. As a resident of London, I inevitably compare the two cities, so I took the little differences I have noticed and explored them in more…
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Food straight from the (klein)garden
If you are new to Berlin, you might be surprised by the abundance of gardens filling the nooks and crannies of the city. Known as “Kleingarten”, “Schrebergarten”, “Laube”, or “Datsche” these small, fenced allotment gardens are dedicated to the cultivation of fruit and vegetables and cover 3% of Berlin’s urban area (Kneist, 2018). (Checkout the…
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Concluding Copenhagen
This is my last blog post of my ‘UPE in Copenhagen’ series, in which I will be reflecting on the 5 weeks of writing I have done on Urban Political Ecology in Copenhagen. Writing about Copenhagen from a UPE lens has been eye-opening to say the least. As the author of these posts, I have grown my own understanding of urban spaces and…
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Happy New Year from Berlin!
In this blog post, I will explore Berlin’s Sylvester (New Year’s) fireworks. Particularly, I want to give you some insight into how the practice of ‘böllern’ has been experienced vastly differentially among Berliners and is now being re-evaluated in light of COVID-19. New Year’s fireworks reveal how nature, especially air, is interlinked with our urban-cultural practices. Originally…
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Copenhagen is Coping with Covid.
As an introduction to this blog post, I’d like to let the readers know that I am currently isolating with Covid-19. I am not disclosing this for sympathy, but rather to illustrate how prominent Covid is in the life of the urban citizen. Whilst this is unfortunate, I can use this time to write about…
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Blue Urbanism: Living on water
Urban Rigger Foreword: I was fortunate enough to have worked on this project in the summer of 2021, but all opinions are my own. Continuing from last week’s ‘Waterfront Transformations’ blog post, I introduce Copenhagen’s most innovative housing development: Urban Rigger (UR). Urban Rigger is a product of Reffen’s new investment and development efforts, reflecting…
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Where Does The City End?
This post is largely inspired by Gandy’s (2012) article ‘Where Does The City End?’. It references the phenomenal Andrea Arnold’s film ‘Fish Tank’ (2009). It is set in London suburbs and heavily features ‘edge landscapes’. It reminded me of a Russian film by Valeriya Gai Germanika (2008), which is also set in the Moscow suburbs…
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Basel Buttoned up
This blog entry marks the final post in my exploration of Basel and how it functions and is experienced as a city. Throughout this journey, we have explored the impacts of the Sandoz chemical disaster on the Rhine as well as the role that water plays more generally across the city. We looked into how…
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