... And other such stories Preface Lori E. Lightfoot Foreword Todd Palmer The city otherwise Yesomi Umolu Sepake Angiama Paulo Tavares Rights and reclamations.The racial question(ing) of justice Denise Ferreira da Silva ;Excerpt from the case for reparations Ta Nehisi Coates ;Architecture of citizenship: São Paulo occupations Paulo Tavares and Carmen Silva ;Alma de Bronze (bronze soul) Virginia de Medeiros Appearances and erasures.African space magicians Lesley Lokko ;Excerpt from in the mecca: poems Gwendolyn Brooks ;Decolonizing space: the case of #RhodesMustFall Yesomi Umolu Inam Kula and Aviwe Mandyanda ;Appearances and (non)erasures: mapping confederate monuments and the racial conditionedness of liberation Mario Gooden No land beyond.Forest for the trees Eduardo Kohn ;Adventure in Chinatown 1958 Susie Silook ;Unceded territory: historicizing Vancouver Sepake Angiama cheyanne turions and Vincent Tao ;Palatal geographies Vivien Sansour Common ground.The scale of commons and solidarity infrastructures Pelin Tan ;Nourishing the root: transforming the urban ecologies of Chicago Sepake Angiama and Emmanuel Pratt ;Concrete windows Stephen Willats Featured biennial contributors.Exhibiting contributors ;Publication contributors What constitutes the social context of architecture What kind of stories can be told about how lived experiences across global communities cities territories and ecologies resonate with architectural and space making practices The 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial explores the implications of architecture and the built environment as they relate to land memory rights and civic participation drawing buildings planning art policy making education and activism into new conversations at global and civic scales. Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial ...and other such stories extends the exhibitions core questions through a range of essays interviews and visual dossiers along with a section introducing the Biennials contributors. It is structured by a series of curatorial frames: (1) No Land Beyond reflects on landscapes of belonging and sovereignty that challenge narrow definitions of land as property and commodity; (2) Appearances and Erasures explores both shared and contested memories in consideration of monuments memorials and social histories; (3) Rights and Reclamations foregrounds aspects of rights advocacy and civic purpose in architectural and spatial practices; and (4) Common Ground addresses practices invested in producing and intervening in public space within and beyond the field of architecture