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Oct 28, 2021

What is at stake after Berlin’s referendum for the expropriation of big corporate landlords

All of us facing daily problems in housing and economic insecurity are watching what happens next as Berlin paves the way written by Nikos Vrantsis It was the mid-1990s and Berlin was suffering a fiscal crisis. Neoconservatism was the dominating ideology, spreading entrepreneurialism as the new mantra for urban development…

Berlin

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What is at stake after Berlin’s referendum for the expropriation of big corporate landlords
What is at stake after Berlin’s referendum for the expropriation of big corporate landlords

Feb 15, 2020

The boundaries

Space gives the impression that it is more domesticated and harmless than time: most people carry a watch but only a few carry a compass. We have a constant need to know the exact time, but we never wonder where we are; we think we already know. We’re at home…

Homelessness

4 min read

The boundaries
The boundaries

Nov 15, 2019

Exarhia or how to frame a revolution!

“One could not be more cozily accommodated in an uncozy situation” Walter Benjamin Saturday’s newspapers always reserve some room on their printed and digital editions to fit in the report on the clashes in Exarchia. The same article, slightly changed, is reproduced weekly just like the urban conflict it describes…

Politics

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Exarhia or how to frame a revolution!
Exarhia or how to frame a revolution!
Nikos Vrantsis

Nikos Vrantsis

Freelance researcher /Urban mouse /Flâneur interested in poetics of space

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