ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1184541/built-to-exclude-colonial-violence-and-urban-ecologies-in-africa Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Maisa Elamein https://www.archdaily.com/1184541/built-to-exclude-colonial-violence-and-urban-ecologies-in-africa Colonial violence in African cities bled through the political dimensions into the spatial realm. It is infused into street grids, land tenure systems, drainage infrastructure and residential zones that continue to organize inequality and displacement today. Kinshasa, Khartoum, and Kampala each carry this afterlife in their urban morphology, at once historical artifacts and an active structure; shaping who has access to services, who occupies flood-prone land, and catalyzing a deepening climate instability that forces this apparatus into entirely new dimensions - including geological ones.

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