Category: Urban Studies

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Urban Studies Master Thesis Defence 2020

Congratulations👏 again Larissa Franz, Hoi Yee Cheung, Jannat Sohail, Jennifer Jackson and Maiken Vardja for delivering great defense. ...
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Re-Valuing Nature: A Conversation Between Wastelands and Wetlands

On the 21st of May, the first year students of the EKA’s Urban Studies program launched the website Re-valuing nature: A conversation ...
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Urban Ethnography Collaborative Research Projects

Taking urban environmental imaginaries and technoecologies of (hard or soft) urban infrastructure as a starting point, the Urban Ethnography ...
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Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

“After a long semester attempting to grasp hold of the elusive Maardu, I ended my final project not with answers but with more questions ...
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RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION FROM THE FRONTIER: BERLIN-SCHÖNEWEIDE

A501 16:00 Põhja pst 7 While few outside Berlin know where Schöneweide is, new developments led by the likes of Bryan Adams and Olafur ...
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Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

A lake and a port. Summer housing and mass housing. Metal, steel, automobiles, and the not-so distant memories of phosphorus mining. Beyond the ...
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Estonia Diagonal

Urban studies 1st year students are taking a critical look at both the term and the process of urbanisation. The so called urban is investigated ...
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A Day Out In Maardu: Chasing the Fox Tails

From atop the hill of the St. Michael the Archangel church, we locate ourselves with a red, wooden sign. Perched in a grassy landscape of ...
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The Mereological City: Open Lecture by Daniel Köhler on 19th November

​Daniel Koehler – The Mereological City 2014 Model, scale 1:10000: computational model based on the Vertical City Schema by Ludwig ...
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Expert committee: the Estonian Academy of Arts and its activities have visibility both in Estonia and internationally

The Quality Assessment Council of the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA) has given institutional accreditation to ...