The Women of Jhenaidah City: Inclusive Housing & Self-Built Communities

by Suhailey Farzana

Urban Up Close: In the studio with Ghanaian artist, Amoako, in Vienna

When you move, you lose value.

-Amoako, June 3rd 2016

Urban Up Close: Showing Copenhagen my ass and other Scandinavian things

I’ve been in the region referred to as Scandinavia, including: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (and more broadly, Finland) for over one month. I began in Helsinki in the beginning of August learning about urban…

Poetry is empowerment: Place-making in Copenhagen

One of my best descriptions of poetry comes from ancestor Amiri Baraka who once talked about what made a poem good. It went something along the lines of if you read your poetry to a group of construction workers, and they liked it, then your…

Do most of the Africans in Brussels live in neighborhoods with less access to green spaces?

When you first glance at these maps, they look like the inverse of each other. At first sight it seems that the presence of green spaces in Brussels neighborhoods is opposite…

Urban Up Close: Unwrapping European Cities

Who cares?

This is the question I’ve been asking myself for the last six months as I’ve been living in Europe. This September I became a graduate student and began to think about my thesis research on the exclusion of…

What’s On Our List of American Classic Movies: Should We Boycott Racist American Classics?

As I was sitting down to relax and watch some Netflix, I was searching for a nice movie to watch. I didn’t really have any particular type of movie in mind, but I saw they…

Urban Up Close Oakland Edition: Tent Communities, Hipster Haven, and Black Woman is God

Being back in the United States for a short amount of time has brought back many emotions, some very pleasant and others very painful. Dealing with the anger and frustration of…

Urban Up Close: Belgrade could be in Africa, and a few other things I have to say about the Balkans

Firstly, Some Quick Definitions:

The Balkans (countries): is a peninsula and a cultural area in Southeast Europe with different and…