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Cities Remember What We Try to Forget
Posted by Santosh Kumar Ketham on 2025-12-04
There’s a sound beneath every city, a kind of heartbeat we pretend not to hear. It hums through pavement cracks and lingers in dust swept from demolished doorways. We call it progress when the skyline rises. But I keep wondering: progress for whom, and at what cost? While editing this special issue of Socio-Cultural Theory, I wasn’t just reviewing articles. I was walking through a chorus of [...]
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Reading Cemeteries as Urban Interiors: New York City and Istanbul in Dialogue
Posted by Alison B. Snyder and V. Şafak Uysal on 2025-10-14
What happens when two urban walkers (and interior design professors) – one in Istanbul, one in New York City – start visiting cemeteries, not to mourn but simply to walk, observe, and listen? Our awareness and approaches began to shift as we studied our interests. As designers, we pushed ourselves to consider the subject of death and burial well beyond typical aspects of mourning or visiting the [...]
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Nostalgia through Cinematic Space: The case of Kung fu Hustle
Posted by Xiaoyu Chen on 2025-04-02
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, a Hong Kong film released last year, achieved extraordinary popularity and box-office success. This action film, which revolves around gang conflicts in the Kowloon Walled City—a lower-class enclave in 1980s Hong Kong—prompts us to recognize that cultural nostalgia for Hong Kong’s past persists as an undiminished collective sentiment within Sinophone [...]
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Trade, Tension, and Transformation: A Century of Change in Xiamen Bund
Posted by Ruoqi Yu on 2025-02-04
Today, many former treaty ports have repurposed their historical waterfronts to project a modern, globally connected image. But how did foreign intervention and commercial expansion shape the modernization of the Bund in these port cities? In the Chinese context, major cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai often take centre stage. In contrast, Xiamen—a key maritime hub in southeast China and one of [...]
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Co-Sharing a Heritage Site as a Living Memorial – the story of Tyneham in Dorset
Posted by Milena Metalkova-Markova on 2024-12-03
My paper depicts the story of Tyneham village in Dorset, UK, whose population was displaced to other areas nearby before WWII, as the site was selected to become an active tank shooting ground by the UK Ministry of Defence. Intended as a temporary relocation of the residents, in reality they were never allowed to return to their village and nowadays village settlement’ ruins, a school and a [...]
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Architecture_MPS – Now indexed in SCOPUS
Posted by Architecture_MPS Editorial Office on 2024-10-02
Following a rigorous evaluation process, Architecture_MPS is pleased to announce it has been accepted for indexing in SCOPUS. Researchers publishing in the journal will now be indexed automatically in SCOPUS, in addition to the list of other indexers, including the Web of Science. The official journal of the international research organization, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS), [...]
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How to remember – How to rebuild
Posted by Marie Nevejan and Gisèle Gantois on 2024-10-01
Narratives in the shadow of ypres’ reconstruction Like a phoenix rising from the ashes. The name chosen by the Westhoek to present the story of the reconstruction to the general public in 2020 is particularly noteworthy. Ypres is a city in the West of Flanders (Belgium) that was completely destroyed during the First World War. ‘The Death of Ypres’ was announced, illustrating a farewell to the [...]
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