Publications

Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2022). Reframing Spatialities in Urban Africa: Insights from Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. ANUARI d’Arquitectura i Societat – Research Journal. 2 (2022): 222-253.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2022). Critique of Permanence and Linearities in Urban Africa: Perspectives from Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. archiDOCT: The e-journal for doctoral research in architecture. 18(10 (2)). 

Book Chapters (peer reviewed)
Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2025). Market Publics in Urban Africa: Reading Self-Organized Spaces of Exchanges and Material Flows at Onitsha in Nigeria.  In: Staub, A. (Ed.), Architecture and the Search for Social Sustainability. London: Routledge. Accepted and Forthcoming.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2024). Urban Markets as Infrastructures of Exchanges and Material Flows. Insights from Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. In: Klumpner, H., Papanicolaou, K. E., and Theodore, G. (Eds.), Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities. Basel: MDPI.

Chukwuemeka C.V., Gantois, G., Scheerlinck, K., Onyegiri, I., Schoonjans, Y. (2019). Embodying local identity as heritage in transition: The case study of Onitsha markets in Nigeria. In: Fouseki, K., Guttormsen, T. S., Swensen, G. (Eds.), Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations, (55-65). London: Routledge.

Doctoral Thesis
Chukwuemeka C.V. (2022). Emergent Spatialities in Urban Africa: Case Study of Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. Doctoral Thesis. Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Working Papers
Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2024). Notes on the Behavior-Centered Architectural Reinvention of Publicly Accessible Toilets.

Selected Talks / Seminars
Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2024). Future Toilets: A Behavior- and Health-Centered Architectural Reinvention of Publicly Accessible Toilets as Healthcare Infrastructures. Princeton Precision Health Seminar, Princeton University, USA. 06 December, 2024.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2023). Reconfiguring Spaces of Disease Prevention: Toilet Surfaces and Bio-Aerosols. Disease Ecology Group Research Seminar. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA. 08 March, 2023.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2023). Reconfiguring Spaces of Disease Prevention: Toilet Ventilation Systems. Stone Lab Research Seminar. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, USA. 16 February, 2023.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2022). WaSH + Wellness Hub: A Distributed Network Prototype Amidst Conditions of Uncertainty. Ethnography for Research and Design Seminar. Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA. 30 November, 2022. 

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2022). Sanitation Hub Project: A Behavior-Centered Prototype for Urban Africa. Paluck Lab Joint Seminar Series. Department of Psychology and School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA. 17 November, 2022.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2022). Urban Markets as Infrastructures of Exchanges and Material Flows. Topics in the Formal Analysis of the Urban Structure: Environmental Challenges of Urban Sprawl Seminar. School of Architecture, Princeton University, USA. 06 April, 2022.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2021). Critique of Informality and Development in Urban Africa: Insights from Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. Program in African Studies Research Workshop — Fall 2021. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, USA. 01 December, 2021.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2021). Urban Markets, Emergent Spatialities and Interdisciplinarity: Insights from Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. Interdisciplinary Design Studio Seminar Series. School of Architecture, Princeton University, USA. 07 October, 2021.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2021). Re-framing Spatialities in the African City: Insights from Onitsha in Nigeria. Princeton-Mellon Forum. School of Architecture, Princeton University, USA. 29 September, 2021.

Selected Conference Presentations / Posters
Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2024). Hygiene + Health Hubs: A Behavior-Centered Architectural Reinvention of Publicly Accessible Toilets as Healthcare Infrastructures. Keynote – Inclusive Hygiene in Public Restroom, Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) Headquarters, Washington DC, USA. 25 June, 2024.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2023). The Behavioral Foundations of Architectural Design, Urban Planning, and Environmental Policy: Historical Evidence from Spatial Configurations of Toilets. 2nd Int’l Behavioral Public Policy Conference, UNC Chapel Hill, USA. September 06 – 09, 2023.

Chukwuemeka, C.V. (2022). Spaces of Prevention: Water and Sanitation Hubs Prototypes for Urban Africa. Investigating Spaces of Infection. IRS Spring Academy 2022. Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Erkner, Germany. May 31 – June 03, 2022.

Chukwuemeka, C.V., Scheerlinck, K., Schoonjans, Y., Onyegiri, I. (2019). Forms of Collective Adaptations within Emerging Markets: Insights from Onitsha, Nigeria. SHARELAND Doctoral Colloquium ONA Oerlikon, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. 06 April, 2019.

Chukwuemeka, C.V., Scheerlinck, K., Schoonjans, Y., Onyegiri, I. (2019). Development in Informality: Insights from Collective Spaces of Onitsha Markets in Nigeria. AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE CONFERENCE +12 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, Netherlands. 27-29 March, 2019.

Chukwuemeka, C.V., Scheerlinck, K., Schoonjans, Y., Onyegiri, I. (2018). Informality Through the Local’s Eyes: Why Informality? Rethinking the Informal/Formal Misnomer – Case of Onitsha Markets, Nigeria. THROUGH LOCAL EYES International Conference. UNECA, Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia. 29-31 October, 2018.

Chukwuemeka, C.V., Scheerlinck, K., Schoonjans, Y., Onyegiri, I.(2017). Reading Collective Spaces and Structures of Spatial Autonomy in Self-Organized Wealth; Possibilities and Constraints – the case of Onitsha Markets, Nigeria. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017. Decolonizing Geographical Knowledges: Opening Geography Out to the World. “Financial Geographies: Trade, Retail and Markets” RGS-IBG, Imperial College, London, UK. 29 August – 01 September 2017.

Chukwuemeka C.V., Scheerlinck, K., Schoonjans, Y. (2017). Collective Spaces of Informal and Formal Markets as Drivers of Self-Organization Processes of Urban Growth in Emerging Cities: Learning from Onitsha, Nigeria. In: PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces, (51-72). Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 May 2017-26 May 2017. http://humancities.eu/story/public-space-for-local-life.

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