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Divided Cities, Space & Territory: Belfast, Skopje & Mitrovica

By Peter Geoghan First published February 2014 in webmagazine ‘Citizenship in Southeast Europe’ www.citsee.eu Cupar Way, West Belfast Pictured above is one section of an imposing 800-metre long multi-level barrier that has, in various forms, separated the largely Protestant Shankill Road from the largely Catholic Falls Road… Continue Reading →

The Urban History Man. Richard J. Williams interviewed by Richard J. Williams

I’m interested basically in why cities look the way they do. It’s an unusually perfect day in Edinburgh and I’m sitting in Richard’s 1878 tenement flat, in the kitchen to be precise where sun is streaming through the big sash… Continue Reading →

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