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Apr 2020
1h 16m

TEJU ADISA-FARRAR on Remapping Our World...

FOR THE WILD
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On this week’s episode, we explore the importance of place and placemaking with guest Teju Adisa-Farrar. We discuss how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation of place, its environmental impacts, and urbanization and urban futures in response to climate and economic migration and changes.Support the show For The Wild is ... Show More
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