Human Rights City

Towards a democratic city

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Antidote-Gentrification

An Artist’s Antidote to Gentrification

Artist Tonika Johnson’s work about racist housing practices in South Side Chicago has bridged the intellectual divide between art and urban policy – and found that home repairs can offset gentrification

CHICAGO, IL, USA

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The Freerunners of Khan Yunis

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Cohesion

German Jews Return to Their Berliner Homes

Claudia Saam and Wolf-Rüdiger Baumann extensively researched their building’s former residents, most of them German Jews, and found their descendants abroad.

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