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Infrastructural politics: A conceptual mapping and critical review Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 León Felipe Téllez Contreras
The notion of infrastructural politics has been increasingly used in urban studies as it helps to explore urbanisation processes, the urban condition and urban life. Given its relevance, this article maps out and critically reviews the main analytical strands that inform its meanings, namely, conventional and popular infrastructural politics. These strands reveal the current tendency to demarcate infrastructural
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African Urban Studies: Contributions and Challenges Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Sylvia Croese, Astrid Wood
Scholarship on African cities represents a growing yet still scarce subfield in urban studies, especially considering the scale and variety of African urbanisation patterns. The purpose of this Virtual Special Issue is to review the scholarship published on urban Africa in Urban Studies over the past five decades. In this Editorial, we reflect on the contributions of African urban scholarship and present
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Book review: Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Eirene Tentua, Zahrotul Firdaus
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Smart cities, virtual futures? – Interests of urban actors in mediating digital technology and urban space in Tallinn, Estonia Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Olli Ilmari Jakonen
Urban spaces are reconfigured as digital technologies are increasingly embedded into cities. While existing research has considered the role of urban actors in implementing digital technologies as part of the smart urbanism framework, it has insufficiently considered the role that urban space plays for individual stakeholders and the implications this has for how they contribute to digital cities.
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Discontent in the world city of Singapore Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Jessie PH Poon, Orlando Woods
A burgeoning literature on ‘left behind’ places has emerged that captures the backlash against globalisation and highlights the locales that lag world cities. This paper integrates the ‘left behind’ and world cities literatures through the lens of discontent in the context of Singapore, using sentiment analysis and topic modelling as well as interviews with local professionals to unpack the multidimensional
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Megaprojects in austerity times: Populism, politicisation, and the breaking of the neoliberal consensus Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Amparo Tarazona Vento
Drawing on the literature on neoliberalism and populism this paper examines the potential of contentious politics that target iconic megaprojects for promoting societal politicisation and effectively challenge the neoliberal consensus over the necessity of sustained growth and competitiveness, in a context of enduring austerity. Using the case of Valencia as an entry point, it looks at how, just as
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Inhabiting digital spaces: An informational right to the city for mobility justice Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Dian Nostikasari, Nicole Foster, Lauren Krake
Space is often produced digitally before it is produced physically. This article investigates how the right to the city can be broadened to include the appropriation of digital spaces to produce ‘lived’ transportation spaces. Focussing on mobilisation against highway expansion in Dallas, Texas, we ask the following: (1) what are the mechanisms through which space is conceived, perceived, and lived
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Walls and openings: The politics of containment of informal communities in Islamabad Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Faiza Moatasim
In many large cities today, spaces of extreme wealth and poverty often exist in proximity. City officials, private developers and wealthy residents often ‘correct’ this cheek-by-jowl situation of proximate yet drastically unequal communities by building physical walls and fences between them. What is the interface between spaces inside and outside the walls built around low-income communities in elite
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Does gentrification constrain housing markets for low-income households? Evidence from household residential mobility in the New York and San Francisco metropolitan areas Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Taesoo Song, Karen Chapple
This research investigates whether gentrification restricts housing markets for low-income households by focussing on the New York and San Francisco metropolitan areas from 2013 to 2019. We investigate whether gentrification correlates with increased out-migration and decreased in-migration of low-income residents in affected neighbourhoods, and how it shapes where out-movers relocate. We leverage
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Book review: The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Arthur Acolin
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Book review: Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Faiza Moatasim
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Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Ana Gonzalez, Christof Brandtner
To realise their potential to lead in sustainability development, cities require both symbolic resources such as social capital and legitimacy and material resources such as financial and technical support. Recent research in urban studies has shown that cities overcome institutional barriers to urban sustainability by drawing on support from their wider environment. However, we argue that resource
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Moving through Toronto’s PATH: Assembling private urban governance Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Debra Mackinnon, Stefan Treffers, Randy K Lippert
This paper explores Toronto’s urban PATH, a 30 km network of underground pedestrian tunnels and elevated walkways that connect shopping areas, residential towers, mass transit and downtown destinations. Both as a case and heuristic, this paper situates Toronto’s PATH as an assemblage of private urban governance forms, exploring emergent and evolving constellations of power and responsibility for governing
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The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Clémentine Cottineau, Michael Batty, Itzhak Benenson, Justin Delloye, Erez Hatna, Denise Pumain, Somwrita Sarkar, Cécile Tannier, Rūta Ubarevičienė
Cities are so complex that we constantly build models to represent them, understand them and attempt to plan them. Models represent a middle ground between the singular configurations of cities and universal theories. This is what makes them valuable and prone to circulate (between places, institutions and languages) and evolve to adapt to new ideas, local conditions and/or other models. When it comes
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Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Martina Loi
In this article, I explore the hypothesis that urban interstices around urban motorways could be intended as spaces of creative, political and performative possibilities not responding to planning and market logic. Urban interstices are context-dependent spaces in a minoritarian position compared to more powerful spaces. Their relationship with planning and investments is ambiguous, because they are
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Re-learning culture in cities beyond the West Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Violante Torre
Urban scholars have long engaged with the role of culture in cities. Tracing this debate, this article outlines the evolutions of culture as an object of study in inquiries on the urban and wishes to trouble two persisting trends in this literature. The first is a geographical and theoretical Eurocentric vision of culture, often framing cities beyond the West as exceptions or needing validation through
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Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Ruth Potts, Alex Lord, John Sturzaker
This article contributes to the small but growing corpus of literature which analyses the increasing use of digital technologies as part of spatial planning activities. Much of that existing literature focuses on the opportunities such technology brings or explores the use of specific technology. Instead, the article seeks to problematise digital planning, explicitly questioning some of the optimistic
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‘Adopt your city’: Post-political geographies and politics of urban philanthropy during austerity Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Matina Kapsali
Over the last decade, urban philanthropic giving has acquired an increased significance for cities, shaping urban agendas and affecting local decision-making. Contributing to the emerging geographical literature on the impact of philanthropy on urban governance as well as to scholarship on post-foundational geographies, I argue that urban philanthropic giving is related to a post-political regime of
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Child-friendly urban practices as emergent place-based neoliberal subjectivation? Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Carmen Perez-del-Pulgar, Isabelle Anguelovski, James JT Connolly
As city-level decisionmakers generate urban policies and spatial interventions aimed at enhancing children’s environments and increasing their health, wellbeing and participation in urban life, they also impact the types of citizens that cities produce. Yet, despite the increasing ubiquity of city plans targeting the creation of child-friendly environments, child-centred transformations within the
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Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Martina Manara, Tanner Regan
Rapid urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa occurs with little land registration, and government-led regularisation schemes often find limited uptake of title deeds by residents. In theory, there could be private and public benefits from land titling in cities. However, little is known about how landholders value the various dimensions of formal property rights in comparison to informal tenure. We address
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Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Mahir Yazar
Populism is multilayered and involves two main dimensions – ideology and strategy – which are employed within and beyond political parties. These dimensions can result in sometimes overlapping but generally divergent backlashes, targeting specific climate and sustainability interventions in cities. This critical commentary presents episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions by exploring
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The missing link for effective informal settlement upgrading: Appropriation shaping the outcome of new infrastructure Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 George Kiambuthi Wainaina, Bernhard Truffer
Infrastructure investments, a core element of slum upgrading, play a role in improving the livelihoods of over 1 billion slum residents globally. Established planning practices often successfully deliver functional infrastructure but evidence shows that their contribution to improved livelihoods often either is absent or declines sharply after some time. To explain this limited effectiveness, this
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Heterogeneous neighbourhood effects on the educational attainments of native Norwegian and immigrant-descendant female and male young adults Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Anna Maria Santiago, George C Galster, Lena Magnusson Turner
Using longitudinal register data from Oslo, Norway, this article examines how cumulative childhood exposure to family and neighbourhood contexts influences the educational attainments of young adults, paying special attention to how these determinants vary by gender and immigrant status. Specifically, we examine how neighbourhood socioeconomic and immigrant context experienced during childhood affects
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Book review: Urban Food Deserts in Japan Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Rias Ratri Novita, Zahrah Khaerani
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Community weaving across Latin American peripheries: A listening infrastructure in Oaxaca Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Antonio Moya-Latorre
In July 2021, residents of Vicente Guerrero, a settlement built around the largest landfill in Oaxaca, commemorated the waste-pickers’ 40th anniversary with an urban art festival. This event was organised by Santa Cecilia Music School, a community-led cultural infrastructure that has shaped the social and material landscape of Vicente Guerrero since 2011. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted
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Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Monica Degen, Gillian Rose
Aesthetics, generally understood as an intensified emphasis on the sensorial look and feel of urban environments, has become an important perspective through which urban scholarship is examining the economic, social, political and cultural processes of urban regeneration projects across the globe. Much of this aestheticising work is now mediated by many kinds of digital technologies. The entanglement
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Urban poverty and the role of UK food aid organisations in enabling segregating and transitioning spaces of food access Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Morven G. McEachern, Caroline Moraes, Lisa Scullion, Andrea Gibbons
This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban poverty responsibility increasingly shifts away from policymakers to the third sector. Building on Castilhos and Dolbec’s notion of segregating space and
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Negotiating the night: How nightclub promoters attune their curatorial practices to the intra-urban dispersal of nightlife in Amsterdam Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Timo Koren, Brian J Hracs
Night-time economies have traditionally clustered in city centres and nightlife districts. Yet, due to regulation, urban regeneration and gentrification, nightlife activities and spaces, including nightclubs and club nights, are increasingly located across cities. However, the significance and spatial dynamics of this diffusion and the relationships between different nocturnal spaces and scales remain
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Reimagining the municipal economy: The emancipatory politics of the people’s budget movement Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Emily Barrett, Sara Safransky
Budgets are often thought of as boring, invoking the tedium of bookkeeping. The summer of 2020 suggested otherwise. As America’s plague of police brutality combined with the death-dealing blows of the COVID-19 pandemic and a wave of urban uprising gripped US cities, activists turned their organising attention to municipal budgeting. From Seattle to Atlanta, demands rang out for cities to #defund the
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Legitimising displacement: Academic discourse, territorial stigmatisation and gentrification Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Richard Kirk
This article explores the territorial stigmatisation–gentrification nexus and how it is advanced by an intellectual pipeline between academics and policymakers in the USA. Despite much research revealing the pathologising narratives latent within displacement-inducing urban policies, little work has explicitly sought to underscore the influence of academic discourses in promoting these policies. Centring
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Old cities, ‘new’ agendas: Swedish cities across time Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 TL Thurston, Claes B Pettersson
In its 2017 New Urban Agenda, the United Nations lists almost 200 declarations and implementation plans for creating sustainable and equitable cities, towns and settlements, yet the word ‘history’ is mentioned only once – to describe our own times as a critical juncture – a somewhat detached approach to problems with great time depth. Historical archaeology provides a unique toolbox for understanding
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The limits to the urban within multi-scalar energy transitions: Agency, infrastructure and ownership in the UK and Germany Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Helen Traill, Andrew Cumbers
This article critically interrogates the over-emphasis upon urban solutions when considering complex and multi-scalar energy infrastructures that must transition to low-carbon intensity for a sustainable future. While urban actors can play an important role in energy transition, their interventions are riven with difficulties, and at times failure, as they encounter challenges of politics, capacity
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Accommodating ‘generation rent’: Unsettling dominant discourses on rental housing reform in Catalonia and Spain Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Lorenzo Vidal, Javier Gil, Miguel A Martínez
In contemporary urban areas, a growing ‘generation rent’ is finding shelter in expensive and precarious private rental housing. Tenant organisations and legislative initiatives have been pushing to improve housing conditions for renters, yet have been met with strong resistance. Intense policy and academic debates have ensued. This paper delves into the discourses used by dominant actors involved in
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Commuting to the urban tech campus: Tech companies’ and their elite workers’ co-production of South Lake Union, Seattle Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Estelle Broyer
This article demonstrates how tech professionals commuting to neighbourhoods redeveloped for their work are contributing to their transformation into urban tech campuses: gentrified districts where landscapes, understandings of place and temporalities are shaped by their praise of innovation, emotional detachment from place, and daily ebb and flow. While also resulting in displacement, othering, and
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The politics of drains: Everyday negotiations of infrastructure imaginaries in Accra Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Afra Foli, Justus Uitermark
In this article we unpack the infrastructural imaginary of urban residents in a neighbourhood in the northern periphery of Accra in Ghana, focussing on drainage. Based on interviews and observations, we describe how residents characterise their neighbourhood’s development as a linear progression in stages, each marked by the completion of different infrastructures. Our analysis brings out the visceral
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Is hiding my first name enough? Using behavioural interventions to mitigate racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Helen XH Bao
This study investigates whether behavioural interventions can reduce racial and gender discrimination in the rental housing market. In our correspondence tests, we incorporated two specific behavioural interventions: providing employment details to assist letting agents in overcoming statistical discrimination and incorporating anti-discrimination messages to encourage adherence to the ‘Equality, Diversity
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‘Everything-old-is-new-again’: Private urban security governance responses to new harmscapes Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Julie Berg, Clifford Shearing
This article reflects on the proliferation of novel forms of private urban security governance assemblages, specifically the roles of private auspices and providers in responding to contemporary climate-related socio-material harmscapes. The authors use the lens of climatic harms and associated discursive shifts in understandings of the relationship between humans and ‘nature’ to draw attention to
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Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Christian Isendahl, Nicholas P Dunning, Liwy Grazioso, Scott Hawken, David L Lentz, Vernon L Scarborough
The New Urban Agenda’s call for long-term visions in urban planning fails to recognise that ‘long-term’ implies different longevities depending on context of assessment. Compared to other social sciences, archaeological approaches add rigour to envisioning urban sustainability over several centuries and millennia. The archaeology of the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya urban tradition is an interesting case
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Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Michał Murawski, Saffron Woodcraft, Katherine Zubovich
In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical
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Book review: The Urban Rehabilitation of Post-Disaster Scapes Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Muhammad Rizal Pahleviannur
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Book review: Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Gregory Bracken
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Those who leave: Out-migration and decentralisation of welfare beneficiaries in gentrified Paris Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Luc Guibard, Renaud Le Goix
In major metropolitan areas, gentrification, financialisation and welfare retrenchment contribute to a severe housing crisis. Over the past 20 years, home price inflation and affordable housing shrinkage have been particularly acute in Paris. Such issues have been linked to the displacement of lower-income Parisians and the suburbanisation of poverty on a regional scale. In this article, we match disaggregated
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Neighbourhood structure and environmental quality: A fine-grained analysis of spatial inequalities in urban Germany Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Christian König
Urban environments are characterised by sparsity of space, elevated levels of air pollution and limited exposure to natural environments. Yet, residential environmental quality varies substantially both between and within cities. This study combines information on the socio-economic and demographic composition of 243,607 urban neighbourhoods with administrative and remote sensing data on the spatial
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‘Security’ and private governance in São Paulo’s corporate centrality frontier Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Gabriella DD De Biaggi
In the last half-century, the ‘centre–periphery’ model has become insufficient to describe the increasingly fragmented and multicentric Latin American metropolises. Frontiers between central and peripheral areas are shifting, in part, due to the emergence of new corporate centralities, usually located outside historical city centres and heavily equipped with private ‘security’ agents and devices. By
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Place-oriented digital agency: Residents’ use of digital means to enhance neighbourhood change Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Hadas Zur
The smart city literature mostly focusses on digital initiatives from above. However, digitalisation also reshapes the city from below. Residents use digital means and platforms to empower their agency in the city. This paper aims to explore how residents utilise digital tools to activate their agency and influence local politics. The paper focusses on one neighbourhood in the city of Tel Aviv where
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Smart cities at the intersection of public governance paradigms for sustainability Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Giuseppe Grossi, Olga Welinder
As a research domain, the smart city keeps growing, despite the remaining contradictions and ambiguity related to its conceptual aspects. We propose to dig deeper into the complex socio-technical nature of the smart city and examine the concept through the lens of different public governance paradigms, therefore aligning it with the sustainability outcomes. Embracing interrelated dimensions of humans
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Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ana Aceska, Karolina Doughty, Muhammet Esat Tiryaki, Katherine Robinson, Eva Tisnikar, Fang Xu
Matters of sound and listening are increasingly being attended to across the social sciences and humanities, reflecting what has been termed a ‘sonic turn’ since the early 2000s. In urban ethnographic research, scholars are starting to pay attention to the role of sound in social relations, in expressions of identity and senses of belonging, as well as in processes of othering. In this paper, we explore
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Proximity as urban democratic legitimacy: Strategies of participation in Buenos Aires Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Sam Halvorsen, Rocio Annunziata
Since 2007, Buenos Aires has been governed by a centre-right coalition that has made participation an integral part of its approach to governance. Under mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (2015–2023), the idea and practice of proximity became central, notably through weekly meetings with neighbours across the city. This article demonstrates that proximity was a strategy for building urban democratic legitimacy
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Inventraset assemblages: The spatial logic of informal street vending, transport and settlement Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Kim Dovey, Redento B Recio
Urban informality remains a central challenge for those engaged in understanding and transforming global South cities. There have been calls to develop new conceptual language geared to this challenge and much debate around the degree to which it might be subsumed within global urban theory. We argue that theories of informal urbanism need to be grounded in an understanding of how it works to sustain
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What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Hannah Hasenberger
Recent literature at the nexus of geography and political economy notes that local governments are becoming financialised. But it is not always clear what this means. Specifically, what is being financialised? And what is the role of local governments in this process? Building on Whiteside’s definition of local state-led financialisation as enabled and internal, this article combines a systematic literature
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Local policy-making within the multilevel system: A study of governance in peripheral(ised) medium-sized cities undergoing socio-economic transformation in Saxony, Germany and Lower Silesia, Poland Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Rafał Gajewski, Robert Knippschild
Our motivation for undertaking this research was to verify the scope and results of public policies aimed at supporting peripheralised medium-sized cities, and to check how these policies have been perceived by stakeholders within these cities. We selected the Polish-German borderland as a case region for this, primarily due to a particular concentration of cities experiencing the detrimental effects
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Back to the suburbs? Millennial residential locations from the Great Recession to the pandemic Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Hyojung Lee, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Riordan Frost
In the past decade, there has been a great deal of attention paid to and speculation about the residential mobility and location decisions of millennials. Academics and practitioners alike have been trying to determine where millennials are moving and why, including whether they are leading a ‘back to the city’ movement or whether they are moving to the suburbs as previous generations did at their
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Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe: Everyday experiences on and off the grid Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Cecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L Browne, Mary Lawhon, Deljana Iossifova
Scholars have called for increased attention to the practices through which residents of southern cities create and use infrastructure. The failures and disruptions of many particular artefacts have meant that people often develop multiple ways to access water, electricity, or transportation, even if all of them have limitations. For sanitation, thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
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Urban heat islands and the transformation of Singapore Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yoonhee Jung
An urban heat island is defined as an urban area that experiences warmer temperatures than its surroundings. This study examines how Singapore’s planning efforts established after the mid-20th century have affected the thermal environment of the city in association with land transformation, using historical temperature data available from the Meteorological Service of Singapore and some historical
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Constitutive outsides or hidden abodes? Totality and ideology in critical urban theory Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 William Conroy
In the context of hotly contested debates within critical urban theory, many scholars have recently attempted (both implicitly and explicitly) to move beyond the relational-dialectical concept of ‘totality’, taking up the notion of ‘the constitutive outside’ in its place. With this in view, this article seeks to (1) develop a critique of the ways in which the concept of the constitutive outside is
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Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kristina Grange, Nils Björling, Lina Olsson, Julia Fredriksson
Uneven regional development fomented by city-centric growth agendas generates significant challenges for regional peripheries. Placing regional margins and other plural geographies at the centre, in this article we apply a normative framework based on justice theory to uncover the dominance of urban viewpoints in urban regional development policy. Departing from Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional justice
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Informality through the state: How overregulation and tolerance shape informal land development in metropolitan Brazil Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 João Tonucci
The relationship between the state and informal land development in Global South metropolises has yet not received much attention in urban studies. Concerning that knowledge gap, this paper investigates how the state regulates and inspects irregular and clandestine land subdivisions in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (MRBH). A mixed-methods approach, focused on the inner workings of the land
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Navigating spatial inequalities: The micro-politics of migrant dwelling practices during COVID-19 in Antwerp Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Hannah Robinson, Jil Molenaar, Lore Van Praag
The COVID-19 pandemic and its multiple lockdowns disrupted city life, while restrictions on physical distancing and urban activities highlighted the importance of our living environment and its links to our well-being. As part of the COVINFORM research project, this case study uses a micro-political lens to explore the specific spatial challenges which migrants faced in two of the more socially deprived
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Caring and commoning in political society: Insights from the Scugnizzo Liberato of Naples Urban Studies (IF 4.418) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Roberto Sciarelli
Recent research has highlighted the connection between commoning processes and the creation of new infrastructures of care in the areas of Southern Europe which were most affected by austerity policies and by the connected crisis of social reproduction. The objective of this paper is to shed new light on the caring practices organised through and within urban commons by using the theoretical lenses