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Decolonial cities: Considering the potential of the periphery in Rio de Janeiro

Admin March 13, 2026

By Graham McGeoch Augustine has long set the ‘gold standard’ for any theology of the city. However, in the Americas, Thomas Aquinas’ De regimine principum exerts a greater practical and political influence as it was the basis for the instructions of Spanish and Portuguese crowns to the conquistadores. Colonial city architecture and urban planning followed Christian medieval..

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