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A Frame from 1970s Lamezia, A Story of the Global South

Architecture, bodies and cities in a changing Mediterranean

A photo of 1970s Nicastro (now Lamezia Terme) and a few images from Cairo tell a story shared across the Mediterranean and the Global South. Cities grow through layers and adaptations, homes change out of necessity, bodies become infrastructures.

Internal migrations and markets as places of arrival shape this process. Where institutions are weak and resources are scarce, urban change advances through practical, incremental solutions, built up over time.

On façades and in everyday spaces, the same urban story remains visible—driven by needs before plans.

A) अहमदाबाद स्मार्ट सिटी B) पटना स्मार्ट सिटी C) शिमला स्मार्ट सिटी D) जयपुर स्मार्ट सिटी

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Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous

In Sen̓áḵw’s case, it’s Indigenous by design, whatever it might look like to others. The project offers exciting architectural possibilities which could be replicated elsewhere by Indigenous leaders: a focus on communal public spaces rather than private yards, walking paths over parking spaces and the incorporation of Indigenous languages and designs reflecting thousands of years of site-specific history.

And rather than taking an incremental approach to development, with concessions to nearby homeowners, the projects at Sen̓áḵw, Iy̓álmexw and Heather Lands consider the entire community—including those who don’t yet live there, and those often marginalized by city planning, such as renters, non-drivers and, obviously, Indigenous people. (250 affordable homes will be set aside at Sen̓áḵw for Squamish citizens, and managed by the nation’s non-profit society Hiy̓ám̓ Housing.) On the Sen̓áḵw website, the Squamish Nation emphasized that rental housing will provide economic benefits for the next seven generations of its citizens. The chiefs of all three nations emphasized that Iy̓álmexw is for both “current and future residents of the region.”