Tag: saskia-sassen | ArchDaily ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[Contemporary Social Housing in China: Playing with the Constraints]]> https://www.archdaily.com/968191/contemporary-social-housing-in-china-playing-with-the-constraints Fri, 10 Sep 2021 03:00:00 +0000 Scarlett Miao https://www.archdaily.com/968191/contemporary-social-housing-in-china-playing-with-the-constraints Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, predicts in her co-authored book “The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda” that, in the future cities will become our crucial battlefield as we continue to fight against gentrification and growing degree of isolation in our communities. Sassen argues that, “Cities should be an inclusive space for both the affluent and the poor. Nevertheless, in reality our cities never achieved equality for all, because our cities were never designed that way. Still cities ought not to be a place that tolerates inequality or injustice”.

]]> <![CDATA[Saskia Sassen, Krister Lindstedt and Mimi Hoang on the Architecture of Migration]]> https://www.archdaily.com/792826/saskia-sassen-krister-lindstedt-and-mimi-hoang-on-the-architecture-of-migration Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:11:00 +0000 Rory Stott https://www.archdaily.com/792826/saskia-sassen-krister-lindstedt-and-mimi-hoang-on-the-architecture-of-migration At this year's reSITE conference in Prague, speakers attended from around the globe to present differing perspectives on the challenges of migration, with topics of interest ranging from economics, to city planning to architecture. But as revealed by the following presentations, migration is a topic that requires interrogation on a number of different scales and in a number of different contexts: from the global economic focus offered by Saskia Sassen in her opening keynote lecture, to the focused challenges of designing micro-apartments shown by Mimi Hoang of nArchitects; and even to the unusual case presented by Krister Lindstedt of White Arkitekter, when a migration is undertaken not by individual people but by a whole town at once.

]]> <![CDATA[How Migration Will Define the Future of Urbanism and Architecture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/790818/how-migration-will-define-the-future-of-urbanism-and-architecture Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:20:00 +0000 Rory Stott https://www.archdaily.com/790818/how-migration-will-define-the-future-of-urbanism-and-architecture

When we started talking about migration [as a conference theme], everybody said ‘don’t do it, it’s too controversial.’ We said that’s exactly why we’re going to do it.

]]> <![CDATA[AD Interviews: Saskia Sassen]]> https://www.archdaily.com/418484/ad-interviews-saskia-sassen Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:00:00 +0000 Becky Quintal https://www.archdaily.com/418484/ad-interviews-saskia-sassen Sociologist Saskia Sassen's researches and writes about the social, economic and political dimensions of globalization, immigration, and networked technologies in cities around the globe. Her books and writings—published in over sixteen languages—have sustained the interests of architects and planners who seek to better understand the city via the systemic conditions that find expression in the reality of urban space.

]]> <![CDATA[Video: What makes for a successful city?]]> https://www.archdaily.com/144858/video-what-makes-for-a-successful-city Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:00:22 +0000 Christopher Henry https://www.archdaily.com/144858/video-what-makes-for-a-successful-city Phaidon Press recently made us aware of a video they posted on what makes a successful city. It is part of a series by Ricky Burdett that promotes the book Living in the Endless City. This video features Ricky Burdett, Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen. This is an important topic as three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.

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