The collapse of Spain’s property-led economy resulted in thousands of empty and unfinished homes. Often described as ‘ghost towns’, these sites reveal the fraught relationship between capital and the built environment, yet activist campaigns such as PAH show they’re also battlegrounds of […]
In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, empty and unfinished properties emerged across the globe, following years of frenzied construction during the “boom years”. For the month of March in 2013, I curated the Future State […]
Through stories of alienation, murder and marriage breakdown, Broken Harbour and Gone Girl explore the devastating impacts of economic austerity and unemployment – but what can we learn from these popular works of crime fiction? What do […]
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