Divided Cities

Announcing the release of a new book by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth on Penn University Press. Divided Cities explores the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines--when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. Planning and conservation experts Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth offer a warning beacon to a growing class of cities torn apart by ethnic rivals. For more information...

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Architects Without Frontiers Australia (AWF) is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to engage the Australian design professions in pro-bono projects that improve the living conditions of communities in need with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

While conflict, poverty, climate change and social dislocation pose many challenges to communities around the world, they have particularly severe impacts upon the most marginal communities. Unfortunately, 90 per cent of the world’s design resources are utilised by the richest 10 per cent.

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