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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
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Managed urban retreat: the trouble with crisis narratives Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 M. Feisal Rahman, David Lewis, Laura Kuhl, Andrew Baldwin, Hanna Ruszczyk, Md. Nadiruzzaman, Yousuf Mahid
In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urb...
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What Los Angeles tells us about Dracula Urbanism Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Richard Kirk
ABSTRACT In their piece “Toward a Dracula Urbanism: Smart City Building in Flint and Jakarta,” Wilson and Wyly (2022) inaugurate Dracula urbanism as an explanatory framework for identifying previously unnoticed dynamics in advanced capitalist cities, particularly those engaging in smart city initiatives. From the perspective of LA, a radically different context from Wilson and Wyly’s (2022) choices
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Displaced for housing: analysing the uneven outcomes of the Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Fikir Haile
The population of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital and largest city is growing at a remarkable pace. Similar to other places in the Global South, rapid urban population growth poses significant chal...
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Caring for debt: women’s work in Istanbul’s mass housing estates Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Esra Alkim Karaagac
The housing programs of Turkey’s Mass Housing Administration (TOKI) for low-income groups put people into debt by selling them houses in remote housing estates and dragging them into a quasi-mortga...
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When monuments fall: anticolonial disruptions and decolonial urban practices (2022) Plenary Commentary Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Margaret Marietta Ramírez, Tsatia Adzich
ABSTRACT In this commentary on Laura Pulido’s plenary, “Cultural Memory, White Innocence, and United States Territory”, we reflect on the significance of colonial monuments and their toppling in the Canadian context. Thinking through the 2022 toppling of the John “Gassy Jack” Deighton monument, we consider how this act disrupts the settler colonial city and spatial and ideological manifestations of
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The role given to citizens in shaping a circular city Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado, Ida Nilstad Pettersen
ABSTRACT A circular city (CC) presents opportunities to address the urban nexus of citizens and material flows in a circular economy (CE). Still, the role of the citizen in shaping both CCs and CE is understudied. We start with a conceptual review of how the role of the citizen has been studied for CCs. There, we identify acknowledgment of the citizen as a political actor and subject to behavior change
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Community benefits agreements and growth coalitions: leveraging the growth machine thesis for alternative organizing strategies Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Lisa Berglund, Sam Butler
ABSTRACT Growth machine theory, inaugurated by Harvey Molotch in 1976, continues to be a major way to understand the dynamics of urban growth in the U.S. and beyond. Growth machine theory, with all of its recent provocative changes, nevertheless still fails to capture the subtleties and complexities of organizing for accountable development based on growth dynamics in cities. In our essay, community
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(D)evolving smartness: exploring the changing modalities of smart city making in Africa Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Luke Boyle, John Harlow, Lauren Withycombe Keeler
ABSTRACT The paper identifies an under-researched mode of smart city-making in Africa characterized by municipal deployments of ICT-driven innovations. This departs from typical framings that view African smart city development as nationally driven, master planned new city developments. An in-depth analysis of the City of Cape Town’s Digital City Strategy provides insights into the mechanisms and processes
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Liquid borders: reflections from fragmented water infrastructure in Guwahati, Northeast India Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Prerona Das
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explore the fluid nature of formal/informal access to water infrastructure in a micro-urban site in the city of Guwahati, in Northeast India. Guwahati being a rapidly urbanizing city in a frontier region, contains intersection of multiple bordering processes including India’s partition and consequent immigration debate in Assam, which often become manifest in fractured urban
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Memory, land, and white innocence in the empire-state (2022) Plenary Commentary Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Rea Zaimi
ABSTRACT In National Historic Landmarks across North America, Laura Pulido unearths the production of a cultural memory that preserves the myth of white innocence by systematically denying the constitutive role of colonialism and chattel slavery in the territorial development of the United States. In this reflection essay, I read Pulido’s paper alongside James Baldwin’s writings on white innocence
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Claiborne love song: black place-making toward a vast imaginary of freedom Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Anna Livia Brand
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on a temporally and geographically scaled Black geographical praxis and history of place-making along New Orleans’s North Claiborne Avenue. Employing both visual and textual examinations of North Claiborne in the post-reconstruction moment, it argues for a representation and reading of Black geographical praxis, the everyday habits, spatial lives and geographical claims
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Synthesizing collective memory and counter-memory in urban space Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 John Land
ABSTRACT The June 2020 Black Lives Matter protests which took place at the Cenotaph and the Winston Churchill memorial in London triggered national debate in the United Kingdom regarding the roles that memorials play in urban spaces. Stoked by media sensationalism, public discourse and action became increasingly vitriolic in the weeks following the protests. This contribution to Debates and Interventions
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Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory: the 2022 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Laura Pulido
ABSTRACT In this paper, I explore how hegemonic forms of cultural memory in the United States, specifically, National Historic Landmarks, represent white supremacy and colonization. National Historic Landmarks are a particular form of commemoration that, according to the National Park Service, “represent an outstanding aspect of American history and culture and embod[y] national significance.” We examined
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Neoliberalization and urban redevelopment: the impact of public policy on multiple dimensions of spatial inequality Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Justus Uitermark, Cody Hochstenbach, Jolien Groot
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of public policy on different dimensions of spatial inequality. We not only study residential segregation but also housing market access and inequality in terms of neighborhood status. We chart the impact of urban redevelopment policies in two Dutch cities—Amsterdam and Rotterdam—through a unique longitudinal and full-population dataset that enables us to distinguish
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“Blacklighting” the shaping of place: theories, strategies, and spatial imaginaries from the ‘Shaw Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta
ABSTRACT Over the last two decades, public space discourse has shone brightest on those stages of urban design and historic preservation either termed “placemaking” or “placekeeping,” arguably leaving a gap everywhere amid this “place-shaping continuum.” This paper attends to that chasm through mixed-methods research to “Blacklight” urbanism through the eyes of merchants and community planners producing
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Māṇḍavlī: negotiating with digital governance in Mumbai Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Sangeeta Banerji
ABSTRACT Mumbai’s municipal bureaucracy introduced an online complaints platform in 2016, promising increased transparency and improved public service. This article argues that this “smart” urban technology, which records grievances against land encroachments and violations of building codes, strengthens existing class and caste inequalities in who can access and manipulate state land administration
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Beyond revanchism? Learning from sanctioned homeless encampments in the U.S. Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Jade N. Orr, Jeremy Németh, Alessandro Rigolon, Laura Santos Granja, Dani Slabaugh
ABSTRACT To manage the growing homelessness crisis, many U.S. cities have implemented sanctioned encampments (SEs): temporary, state-designated public spaces for camping where people experiencing homelessness (PEH) can receive key services. Praised as a more compassionate response to managing homelessness, some argue that SEs can invisibilize PEH and fail to address structural causes of the crisis
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“I salute them for their hardwork and contribution”: inclusive urbanism and organizing women recyclers in Ahmedabad, India Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Josie Wittmer
This paper focuses on the politics of inclusion produced in the roll-out of recent Solid Waste Management (SWM) initiatives seeking to formalize informal recycling labor in India. I contest the not...
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The politics of producing urban expertise: institutions, urban praxis and the “new” citizen expert Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Beth Perry
ABSTRACT This special issue of Urban Geography makes an important contribution to understanding the politics of urban expertise. It draws attention to a counter-movement for urban epistemic justice through examining how politics matter in valuing different forms of expertise. Yet systematic consideration of the institutions of knowledge production is often missing from many debates on the politics
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Correction Urban Geography (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-27
Published in Urban Geography (Vol. 44, No. 3, 2023)