Tag: political imagination

Faith in the City, Individual Publications, Stephan de Beer

City-making from below: A call for communities of resistance and reconstruction

Stephan de Beer & Mark Oranje September 21, 2020

This article laments the exclusion of small, local communities, voices and visions, from participating in making the city. It makes a case for ‘small communities’ practising resistance and reconstruction in multiple ways and places. Instead of viewing such actions as naïve or a-political, it calls for an understanding of such practices as alternatives to ‘top-down’..

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