21-01-2026 14:51 via indesignlive.com

Architecture, democracy and feeling at home in our cities

When we think about architecture and democracy, a few obvious themes come to mind. Public space, protest, patterns of ownership, housing affordability and so on. Many architecture students, for example, will have been exposed to texts such as Henri Lefebvre’s milestone The Right to the City (1968), in which he argues for urban space to be saved from commodification.But what about questions of democracy in relation to the built environment on more micro, individual level? What would it mean
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