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Rail Baltic will arrive in Tallinn in the shape of a large-scale commercialized transportation hub designed by the globally renowned Zaha Hadid Architects. This fantastical future portal to Europe is seated in Tallinn’s contrasting ...

27 October 2020

Urban Studies

Paljassaare island hopping: Cruising through barren and the bliss

1st year Urban Studies students island hop through Paljassaare peninsula – the “barren island” in the very happening and now district of Northern Tallinn! On this (bicycle) cruise we explored the different layers of the peculiar peninsula, while ...

19 October 2020

Urban Studies

Paljassaare island hopping: Cruising through barren and the bliss

Ahoy sailor, we welcome you aboard for our ...

13 October 2020

Urban Studies

Shelter at Home: Curious Cases of Dwelling

2020 Urban models (in)habitation course had its final review entitled "Shelter at Home: Curious Cases of Dwelling". Shelters provide physical survival. Throughout time along with the development of urban models, the agendas ...

19 June 2020

Urban Studies

Urban Studies Master Thesis Defence 2020

Congratulations👏 again Larissa Franz, Hoi Yee Cheung, Jannat Sohail, Jennifer Jackson and Maiken Vardja for delivering great defense. Here are some photos by our 1st year student ...

19 June 2020

Urban Studies

Re-Valuing Nature: A Conversation Between Wastelands and Wetlands

On the 21st of May, the first year students of the EKA's Urban Studies program launched the website Re-valuing nature: A conversation between wastelands ...

25 May 2020

Urban Studies

Urban Ethnography Collaborative Research Projects

Taking urban environmental imaginaries and technoecologies of (hard or soft) urban infrastructure as a starting point, the Urban Ethnography course (tutors: Agata Marzecova and Hanna Husberg)

15 May 2020

Urban Studies

Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

"After a long semester attempting to grasp hold of the elusive Maardu, I ended my final project not with answers but with more questions about the process of urbanisation. The whole study experience was a roller ...

19 December 2019

Urban Studies

RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION FROM THE FRONTIER: BERLIN-SCHÖNEWEIDE

A501 16:00 Põhja pst 7 While few outside Berlin know where Schöneweide is, new developments led by the likes of Bryan Adams and Olafur Eliasson position the neighbourhood as a silent frontier of gentrification dynamics in the ...

12 December 2019

Urban Studies

Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

A lake and a port. Summer housing and mass housing. Metal, steel, automobiles, and the not-so distant memories of phosphorus mining. Beyond the towers of Vanalinn and the limestone of Lasnamäe exists this municipal assemblage that over 15,000 ...

5 December 2019

Urban Studies