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Conscious Cities Journal No.9: Connection & Belonging
Publication Date:
April 27, 2026
DOI: 10.33797/CCJ.09
ISSN: 2514-0914
Editor/s
Malak Mehta
Essays
The Cities We Carry
Jessica Myers
Beyond Legibility: Informality, Connection, and Belonging in Luanda
Erika Daniela Azevedo
Once Upon a Time in the Village
Simon Liao, Tristan Coolman
Cultural Heritage as a Community Connector
Sophie Butler
Research
Co-Creating Urban Commons: Citizen Agency, Community Stewardship and Belonging
Monika Valase
Digital Technology in Participatory Urban Design: Inclusivity or Shifting Power Dynamics?
Sriya Desikan
Plural Temporalities and Belonging in the Lost Walled City of Hyderabad
Afreen Fatima
Social Connection, Belonging and Collective Identity through Placemaking: A Case-Study of Kolkata City, India
Sudeshna Roy
Science Translation
Architecture as Prompt: Co-authoring a Living Heritage
Meghan Chadwick
Workplace for Universal Belonging — With Menopause as a Lens
Lukasz Krupinski, Catey Gans Kyrö
Leisure as Generative Social Infrastructure: The Missing Layer in Conscious City Design
Troy D. Glover
Case Studies
How Third Spaces Become the Social Infrastructure for Neighborhood Belonging
Joseph Manacmul, Felix Holubek, Ariana Roman, Elissa Lee
Designing Belonging in Later Life: A Reflective Case from a Senior Active Living Community in India
Insha Ahmad, Sayed Ebrahim Mubasheer, Samina Bano
Designing Belonging: Participatory Transformation of Teleki Square in Budapest, Hungary
Valentina Fesenko, Krisztina Somogyi, Árpád Szabó
Vernacular Urbanism and Belonging: The Case of the Šnipiškės Wooden District, Vilnius
Tautvydas Bokmota
