Land, Property, Colony



I co-wrote an essay with Andrew Herscher titled “Land, Property, Colony,” that will be published in On Architecture and the Greenfield: The Political Economy of Space Vol. 2, edited by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, here’s the description of the book:

In the face of the ongoing climate emergency, can humanity keep chipping at its food sheds via urbanization? This is the paradoxical question raised by residential forms of urbanization: On the one hand, housing settlements across the world devour thousands of hectares of arable fields at the periphery of growing cities. On the other hand, housing is a human right. This publication investigates these complexities. After On Architecture and Greenwashing (2024), it is the second volume in the series The Political Economy of Space and presents a cross-section of positions on architecture and its political economies from different perspectives