Architecture + Infrastructures Working Paper Series 2: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities and Labour

Editors: Beatriz Serrazina and Francesca Vita

Series Coordinator: Ana Vaz Milheiro

Design: vivóeusébio

Edition: 1st Edition

Editor: Dinâmia’CET-Iscte, 2026

Format: Printed and Digital 


Editor’s note

Beatriz Serrazina, Francesca Vita

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Segregation by Design: Migrant Housing and the Afterlives of Colonial Spatial Ordering in Frankfurt

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