Shifting Grounds

Shifting Grounds

The Bulldozer Arrives Before the Solution: Evictions, Spectacle, and the Politics of Exclusion

As real estate speculation thrives, the Lisbon periphery becomes a battlefield where precarious lives are crushed under the weight of police operations and policy failures.

Shifting Grounds

Traffic as Theatre: Lisbon’s Rush Hour as Performance of Urban Anxiety

From medieval alleys to motorway gridlocks, Lisbon performs modernity while choking on its own choreography.

Shifting Grounds

A Man with a Shovel: The Trees That Hélio Built

One man’s quiet campaign to reforest São Paulo, tree by tree.

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Postcards from Nowhere: The False Paradise of Portugal’s Coastal Boom

The Coast Is Clear—Of Locals, Laws, and Limits.

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The River Between Us: Almada Between Memory and Masterplan

What exactly is at stake for Almada? And what does this say about the future of urban Portugal?

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Reclaiming the Tracks: Transpraia’s Second Life

On a forgotten beach line, Portugal reimagines a future of collective movement.

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The Soft Violence of Discovery

From admiration to erasure: reflections on being a foreign creative in a country slowly pricing out its own.

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Ginjal, From Rubble to Renewal: A Riverfront at a Crossroads

As Almada transforms its shoreline, the battle for public space, cultural memory, and inclusive urban futures begins anew.

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Tourists Welcome, Tenants Evicted: The Cartography of Displacement

How Airbnb transforms neighborhoods into tourist zones, creating “dead zones” where locals can’t afford to live but tourists cluster.