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Urbanist at Large: Iterating an Urban Sensibility

The STIAS Fellowship will be used to define a new field of research for the next four years.

Edgar Pieterse Edgar Pieterse

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In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda

Tomás, António. 2022. In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-sk...

António Tomás António Tomás

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Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities

Bekker, Simon, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse. (Eds.). 2021. Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities. Af...

Simon Bekker Simon Bekker Edgar Pieterse Edgar Pieterse
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