Transitory Urbanism

Introduction (Gihan Karunaratne) Part 1. Incremental Transitions: Coloniality and Adaptivity 1. Sea-ing Ghana's Transitory Urbanism: Everyday Infrastructures, Colonial Legacies and Future Promises of Railways and Port infrastructures in Tarkwa and Sekondi-Takoradi (Costanza Franceschini and Carola Hein) 2. Transitory Urbanism: Adaptive Spaces and Evolving Identities in Shenzhen's Village-in-City Communities (Ali Cheshmehzangi) 3. Collecting Colonies: The Place of Native Villages at Turn-of-the-Century U.S. World's Fairs and Expositions. (Alan J. Plattus) Part 2. Fluid Cities: Weaving Diasporic Urbanity 4. On Oceanic Methods for the 'Citi(zen)s at Sea' (Doreen Bernath) 5. Harbour Unconscious: Encounter, Displacement, and Liminal Chinoiserie (Tian Pan) 6. The Lighthouse in Urbanism: Typologies, Trade Networks, and Theoretical Perspectives Through Port Cities in East and Southeast Asia (K. B. Izac Tsai) 7. Negotiating Belonging: Migrants' Home-Making Practices in Transitional Urban Spaces- A Swedish Case Study (Azadeh Fatehrad) Part 3. Negotiation and Resistance: Shifting Spaces of Belonging and Justice 8. Voices from Dadaab: Women's narratives of survival and violence (Fabienne Hoelzel) 9. Seeking Refuge, Pursuing Education: Ukrainian Refugee University Students in Australia (Olga Oleinikova) 10. Non-orthogonal as resistance: How the favelas reveal the coloniality of modern urbanism (Fernando Luiz Lara) 11. Structured Transience: Migrant Self-Governance and Negotiated Urban Order in Paris (Abel Mavura, Felipe Hernandez) 12. From the Ground to Sky: Transitory Urbanism of the under-served Communities of the City Colombo, Sri Lanka (Gihan Karunaratne, Jagath Munasinghe and Nusrat Jahan Mim) Part 4. Urbanism Otherwise: Between Transience and Intelligence 13. Spaces of Knowledge: Art, Walking and Transient Urbanism (Jaspar Joseph-Lester) 14. After the Blast: Spatial Reconstruction and Reimagination Following the Beirut Port Explosion (Aude Azzi and Frederik Weissenborn) 15. Inhabiting the interstices: Occupations, Ruins and Quilombo Urbanism in São Paulo (Giovanna Astolfo) 16. On the Move: Household Factories and Everyday Resistance Tactics in Tangxia Town, China (Ruzhen Zhao and Carolina Vasilikou)