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From virtual special issues to virtual collections Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Kevin Ward
Published in Urban Geography (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The restless urban landscape of housing financialization: geographies of residential real estate investment trust expansion in Germany and the United States Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Zac J. Taylor, Manuel B. Aalbers
The expansion of Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts (R-REITs) represents an important frontier in the financialization of housing and cities. This paper advances the literature on institutio...
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From shopping centers to cultural centers: Los Angeles strip malls as sites of ethnic and immigrant placemaking Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Alycia Cheng, Annette M. Kim
The strip mall is a ubiquitous urban design type formed by a strip of commercial establishments on a single parcel of land that surround an open, street-facing parking lot. We hypothesize that they...
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Questioning “progressive” gentrification in Asia: evidence from Kampung Sungai Baru, Kuala Lumpur Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Alia Salleh
This paper critically challenges the notion of “progressive” gentrification in Asia through the debate around the “culture of property” and its naturalizing effect on gentrification in Asian urbani...
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Integrated urban governance of COVID-19 interventions in Ghanaian cities: insight from marketplaces in Accra and Kumasi Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Lewis Abedi Asante, Naa Adjeley Ashiboe-Mensah Doamekpor, Joseph Kwaku Kidido, Paapa Yaw Asante, Jannat Abbas, Henning Füller
It is argued that cities require a specific mode of urban governance to provide an effective response to pandemics and disease outbreaks. This is conceptualized as integrated urban governance, whic...
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Tracing the smart virus in a smart city: a discursive analysis of Singapore’s early pandemic surveillance response Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Al Lim
What happened to the smart city’s seductive promises of technological solutionism during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic? This paper traces the discursive circulation of the smart city in...
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The sounds of who we are: rethinking divided cities through sound Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ana Aceska, Karolina Doughty
In scholarly analyses, popular representations, and professional responses, the image of the city, divided along ethnic and religious lines, is encoded in dualistic metaphors of “us and them” and “...
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Maintaining Portland’s “progressive dystopia”: housing, carcerality, and the real estate state Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Lauren Weber
In 2020, a coalition formed between a local real estate developer, a nonprofit, and a senator soon to run for state governor, with the goal of turning a never-used county jail in Portland, Oregon, ...
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Rhythms, dressage and pacemaking in South Side Chicago: examining the construction site of the Obama Presidential Center Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Tilman Schwarze, Krzysztof Zenon Jankowski
This article examines the effects of a major civil project, the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, on the everyday rhythms of this part of the city. In particular, w...
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Restaurants and the labor of urban revitalization, placemaking and rebranding in Louisville, Kentucky Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jen Watkins
Since the end of WWII, urban revitalization strategies have produced new – and exacerbated existing – employment and wage inequalities in US Rust Belt cities. Restaurants are at the forefront of th...
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Place branding in resource peripheries: attracting the knowledge elite to Antofagasta, Chile Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Sören Scholvin
Cities in resource peripheries tend to be unattractive places. They lack the features that appeal to the knowledge elite – at least from the perspective of Richard Florida’s influential work – and,...
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Human-animal relations in lively cities: a novel look Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ghazala Shahabuddin
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Lively cities: an urban theory for the twenty-first century Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ravi Sundaram
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Lively cities: a review in the minor key Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Nitin Bathla
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Animating ideologies of caste in the lively city Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Thomas Crowley
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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From lively spatial combinations to lively theorizations Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Lindsay Blair Howe
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Lively Cities – an intricate understanding of urban life Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Johanna Just
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 3, 2024)
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Centering artist voices: notes from a survey of artists and cultural workers in Philadelphia, PA, and Richmond, VA Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Andrew Zitcer, Benjamin F. Teresa
This essay explores our work collecting artist experiences and attending to the voices of artists themselves in two US cities. Prompted by an earlier phase of focus group research in Philadelphia w...
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Why does urban Artificial Intelligence (AI) matter for urban studies? Developing research directions in urban AI research Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Federico Caprotti, Federico Cugurullo, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Simon Marvin, Pauline McGuirk, Alan-Miguel Valdez
New digital technologies and systems are being extensively applied in urban contexts. These technologies and systems include algorithms, robotics, drones, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and autonomous s...
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Gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty: evidence from a highly regulated housing system Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Selim Banabak, Justin Kadi, Antonia E. Schneider
There is growing evidence of a suburbanization of poverty in the context of accelerating gentrification, particularly in liberal housing systems. To what extent are similar processes occurring in h...
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“It’s not that I don’t like it here, it’s just that I eventually want to live somewhere else”: young refugees’ contested arrival experiences, local racialized discourses and emergent future selves in Amsterdam Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rik P. Huizinga, Ilse van Liempt
Although the urban fabric is often associated with relevant infrastructures that foster young refugees’ experiences of settlement and future imagining, a critical notion of place remains largely ab...
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Urban policy mobilities in Urban Geography: in retrospect and in prospect Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Kevin Ward
This virtual collection introduces and discusses urban policy mobilities contributions published in Urban Geography. Emerging in the very early 2000s, this inter-disciplinary field challenged work ...
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Domesticating a redesigned square: an ethnography of Enghave Square, Copenhagen Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jonas Larsen
This paper argues that it is in the intersection between design affordances and diverse domestication practices that squares come to life. Contributing to discussions about social infrastructure an...
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Urban geographies of waste Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Nathan McClintock, Georgina Morris
Through this virtual collection, we examine how urban geographers have described, characterized, theorized, and mobilized waste in the pages of Urban Geography since 1990. The articles we have sele...
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African cities in conversation: who are we listening and talking to? Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Mary Lawhon, Mwangi Mwaura
The “where” of urban geography as a discipline, and Urban Geography as a journal, has changed significantly over the last 40 years. Here, we take a quantitative and qualitative look at this history...
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Linking U.S. government-sponsored redlining to early-stage white flight, 1940–1950 Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Joseph Gibbons
White flight, the rapid departure of white residents from urban neighborhoods, has had a considerable impact on the racial/ethnic composition of cities. While there is reason to suspect that govern...
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Activist performances on edge: spatial politics after the end of public space Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-24
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2024)
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Revisioning Urban Pulse Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Pablo Bose
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2024)
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“Freedom Cities”: Trump and an American global new city Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Max D. Woodworth
This Urban Pulse entry examines Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build up to ten so-called Freedom Cities on federally owned land if re-elected. Similar to new cities being built around the world...
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Policing tenancy: the struggle for housing and land in Los Angeles Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Terra Graziani, Joel Montano, Ananya Roy, Pamela Stephens
This paper is concerned with the role of state power, specifically policing, in the precaritization of the tenancy. By focusing on nuisance abatement lawsuits, we demonstrate how the state interven...
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Consuming the creative city: gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO creative city of gastronomy Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Eden Kinkaid, Ellen Platts
Scholars have recently coined the term “gastrodevelopment” to refer to the increasingly visible relationships between food, food culture, and processes of urban development. As a paradigm, gastrode...
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“Regarding the pain of others”: urban geography after empathy Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Ihnji Jon
While urban geography has made significant contributions to mainstreaming disruptive thinking through its invocation of justice, less discussed is what good must our descriptions do especially when...
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Rental sector liberalization and the housing outcomes for young urban adults Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Amber Howard, Cody Hochstenbach, Richard Ronald
Young adults increasingly rely on precarious and costly rental housing, particularly in major cities and liberalized housing markets. Amsterdam has a more regulated housing system, but increasing m...
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Included or left behind? Residents’ perceptions on public investments, city growth, and local decision-making Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 J. Claire Schuch, Tonderai Mushipe
This paper shares emerging themes from two series of focus groups in Charlotte, North Carolina, with 75 residents discussing a new light rail adjacent to their neighborhood. Community conversations...
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Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Sue Ruddick, Susannah Bunce, Cara Clancy, Bronwyn Clement, John Patrick Casellas Connors, Leesa Fawcett, Anne Short Gianotti, Jacquelyn J. Johnston, Erin Luther
Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis. In this special issue, the authors offer generative tools grounded in an other-than-human stan...
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Navigating constraints, finding freedom: exploring asylum seekers’ access to urban arrival infrastructures Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Marielle O. Zill
This paper explores asylum seekers’ experiences of urban arrival infrastructures, illustrating how these provide asylum seekers with opportunities for familiarization with the reception location an...
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Governing the nurturing city: the uneven enforcement of street food vending regulations Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Gwenn Pulliat, Daniel Block, Michaël Bruckert, Laura Nussbaum-Barberena, Carmen Dreysse, Philippine Dupé, Coline Perrin
Street vending has drawn recent attention from city governments in both the Global North and the Global South. This paper focuses on the regulation of street food vending and its enforcement in fou...
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Regulating sidewalk delivery robots as a disruptive new urban technology Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Mateja Kovacic, Simon Marvin, Aidan While
Sidewalk delivery robots are increasingly being deployed in diverse urban contexts, raising issues about the most appropriate form of regulation to maintain pedestrian flows and protect the public....
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Localizing India’s global smart cities: a multi-scalar analysis of cities yet-to-come Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Melissa Butcher, Srilata Sircar
“Smart Cities” have been positioned as a global digital paradigm addressing challenges in urban service delivery and governance. Recent debates have suggested the possibility of localized forms of ...
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Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Austin Dziwornu Ablo
This paper explores the effects of large-scale land deals for a private city development project in Ghana – the Appolonia City of Light. From the conceptual lens of accumulation by dispossession, t...
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Decolonising feminist explorations of urban futures Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Elsa Koleth, Linda Peake, Nasya Razavi, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
How do decolonial feminist urban imaginaries of urban futures begin to interrogate twenty-first century urban life? The urban futures signaled in this special issue highlight three dimensions of ur...
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In the shadow of gentrification: the case of art-led neighborhood change in Osaka’s developmental inner city Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Johannes Kiener
This study investigates the “shadow of gentrification;” that is, it examines the applicability of the concept of gentrification beyond the typical context of the global city and attempts to advance...
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The entrepreneurial shadow state delivering a smart city Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Rakib Akhtar
Among the many issues that have been discussed under the scholarship of entrepreneurial state, the place of and strategies to mobilize, a shadow state apparatus have so far received little attentio...
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How common is greening in gentrifying areas? Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jessica Quinton, Lorien Nesbitt, James JT Connolly, Elvin Wyly
Green gentrification occurs when urban greening/sustainability interventions become implicated in neighbourhood upgrading and displacement of existing residents. However, current emphasis on urban ...
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Negotiating infrastructural citizenship beyond the state: philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and the Flint Water Crisis Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Melissa Heil
The urban infrastructure literature has explored how infrastructure is tied to the politics of citizenship: states’ use of infrastructure to include/exclude populations and marginalized populations...
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Injected urbanism: urban theory from India? Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Robbin Jan van Duijne
This article reports on an urbanization process that can be described as injected urbanism. While conventional Northern theoretical perspectives capture an important role for one-way rural-to-urban...
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Subordinate housing financialization: tracing global institutional investment into Lisbon’s urban development Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Rafaella Lima
ABSTRACT This article contributes to scholarship on housing financialization and core–periphery relations by exploring the role of transnational institutional investors in housing production in Lisbon. Using a “follow-the-money” approach, I trace current investments into large-scale housing developments, finding a dominance of capital-rich institutional actors originating primarily in core economies
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Assembling place-based transitions: capitalist logics of green building in Vancouver, Canada Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kirstie O’Neill, Julia Affolderbach
ABSTRACT Green building is increasingly central in urban sustainability strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to demonstrate leadership, innovation, and technological advances. Vancouver offers a strategic example of a city that has adopted green building policies for sustainability and boosterism purposes. We combine assemblage thinking with sustainability transitions research to expose
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Rethinking vacancy within the urbanization process: towards a new research agenda Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Cian O’Callaghan
ABSTRACT Vacant land and property have periodically been the focus of urban research but remain undertheorized. However, a recent resurgence of scholarly interest has reinvigorated the topic and offers an opportune moment to critically advance theorization. The paper positions vacant land and property – normatively characterized as “surplus”, “waste”, or “empty” space – as active, lively, and contested
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On women, pans, and politics: imagining decolonial gendered urban spatialities Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Luna Lyra
Over the past decades, several collective urban experiments led by women in Latin America have revealed female reproductive work as a critical element in effectuating the right to the city. Amid a ...
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Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Kevin Keenan, Mahbubur Meenar
ABSTRACT We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker’s life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts
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Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlements Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Ester Barinaga, María José Zapata Campos
ABSTRACT The article examines how dwellers in Kenya’s informal settlements engage in continuous tinkering of a particular grassroots infrastructure: local currencies. The article argues that the malleability of these grassroots infrastructures enables grassroots networks to actively and creatively engage in reclaiming and reorganizing money, a critical infrastructure. The argument is built in three
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Shaping smart cities: problem framing, vertical selection and governance in UK smart cities Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Richmond Juvenile Ehwi, Hannah Holmes, Gemma Burgess
ABSTRACT As urban governments adopt smart city strategies for delivering services, the need to understand how – and in whose interests – these strategies are formed is imperative. The selection of smart city verticals (or areas of focus for smart city programs) within processes of urban governance has implications for which aspects of the urban agenda become prioritized. Through a study of seven UK
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“Fixing” finance? The dialectical publics of resilient disaster governance in Mexico city Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Beki McElvain
ABSTRACT Urban disaster governance in global Southern cities is shaped by relationships with development finance institutions. As state capacity wanes, development finance is seen as an agenda-setting driver of “resilience” and “innovation” but needs an accommodating state to function at the urban scale. This study complicates claims that development finance can “fix” overaccumulated capital in global
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Insourcing the smart city: assembling an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Orlando Woods, Tim Bunnell, Lily Kong
ABSTRACT This article examines an alternative model of smart city formation, one based on the principle of insourcing technical competencies and capabilities to those responsible for city governance. This model counters the logic of technological outsourcing upon which many assumptions and critiques of the smart city rest, and thus reveals ways in which a more generative discourse can be forged. Drawing
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Touristification, rent gap and the local political economy of Airbnb in Salzburg (Austria) Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Christian Smigiel
ABSTRACT Cities all over the world are experiencing a steady tension that from interlinked processes such as touristification, gentrification and the financialization of housing. This paper shows how short-term rentals (STR) are an accelerator to all these processes which pull in or redirect different forms of capital and short-term users on the one hand and push out long-term residents on the other
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Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Ingrid Foss Ballo, Kjetil Rommetveit
ABSTRACT Visionary imaginaries of desirable ‘smart’ urban energy futures entice city governments into innovation and collaboration aimed at large-scale urbanism. As part of attending to actualizations and materializations of ‘smart’ urban imaginaries, this paper contributes to moving beyond idealized framings of smart urban publics, towards more embedded reflexive accounts of how ‘real people’ in urban
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Cultural variables differ informal settlement interventions in Accra and Buenos Aires Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Hsi-Chuan Wang
Informal settlement growth in various countries has led to distinctive actions that enhance low-income populations’ accessibility to proper housing and basic services. These actions differ with the...
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Growing up sustainable? Politics of race and youth in urbanplan, Copenhagen Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Max Ritts, Rebecca Rutt
ABSTRACT This paper considers how racialized youth in Denmark negotiate sustainability amid contexts marked by intersecting forms of economic restructuring, progressive neoliberalism, white ethno-nationalism, and green urban planning. Urbanplan is a low-income, notoriously “troubled” Copenhagen neighborhood where we conducted fieldwork for 7 months (2019-2020) with fifteen male youth, aged 17-21. Using
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Self-exploiting for survival in the urban global South: insights of agrarian political economy for urban theory Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Diana Denham
ABSTRACT This paper considers the value of agrarian political economic scholarship for urban theory-building. Drawing on Chayanov’s theory of peasant economy developed in early twentieth century Russia and feminist scholarship emphasizing how women’s is work rendered invisible by standard economic measures, it demonstrates how households’ reliance on gendered self-exploitation via pooled family labor