ABSTRACT Many cities have adopted welcoming strategies, branding themselves as cities of welcome or of solidarity. Urban scholarship to date has interpreted these efforts either under the rubric of municipal governance reform or urban citizenship, frameworks which both sideline the role of civil society and social movements of refugees. Since these actors play crucial roles in negotiating the terms

ABSTRACT Late modern societies have seen a surge of interest in “urban nature”, with increased efforts to protect existing nature spaces as well as invite new natures into cities through restoration, renaturing and/or greening. However, to date, there has been little discussion on the kind of nature that gets promoted through these agendas and what the implications are for unwanted or “illegitimate”

(2021). The wealth and poverty of cities: why nations matter. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This study examines how perceptions of residential reputation and stigma vary according to differences in social class and spatial structures. The focus of our inquiry is the city of Santiago, Chile – a highly segregated city in Latin America. We suggest that residential stigma is the focus of a larger assemblage of material and non-material marginalization; it is a point of convergence of

ABSTRACT Why and how do artists engage in activities that likely lead to gentrification, despite their awareness of its effects and despite that they will possibly be among the displaced groups? I highlight a missing link in existing literature explaining the recurring patterns of art scenes and gentrification in US cities– the cyclicality of artistic careers trajectories in art scenes’ spatiality

ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the gentrification literature by asking how tenure changes, housing stock changes, and generational shifts might be related to gentrification as identified by household income growth in the inner cities of Canada’s three largest metropolitan areas. We use a modified shift-share analysis of changes in tenure, housing stock, and age-tenure cohorts between 1991 and 2011

ABSTRACT In Washington, D.C., an increasingly affluent and White population is drawn to spaces that advertise diversity and multiculturalism, despite ongoing Black cultural and physical displacement. Icall the eager production and consumption of this discursive branding a performance of progressiveness. I argue that its emphasis on esthetics and conspicuous consumption has profound political implications

ABSTRACT There is no shortage of articles, books and prognostications on an urban future dominated by self-driving cars and related tech-driven alternatives. Technological innovation and unrestrained economic growth are generally unquestioned and seen to benefit all of urban society. This contribution to Debates and Interventions shifts the spotlight away from innovation and toward a logic of repair

ABSTRACT Reception measures have been implemented in many EU countries, as part of an articulated framework of European, national, subnational, local normative arrangements. This paper states the need for more attention on the division of responsibility among government levels and forms of contention associated with it, moving beyond the Scholten’s framework (2013) focused on actors’ coordination.

ABSTRACT The early twenty first century has been a defining period for urbanization at a global scale. There is an urgent imperative to bring a gender analysis into debates on urbanization in this period of rapid urban growth and change. This article examines the potential of intergovernmental and scholarly spaces for gendering approaches to urbanization. We do so by reflecting on our experience of

(2021). Food for degrowth: perspectives and practices. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Migrants and city-making: dispossession, displacement, and urban regeneration. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT For many decades, permissible building heights have been kept relatively low and largely unchanged in cities, which have been home to renowned historic and architectural assets. Recently, attempts to introduce modifications into long-established height limitations have triggered diverse responses among policy-makers, planners and residents of such cities. Using an extensive body of planning

ABSTRACT This paper examines the historical evolution of uneven neighborhood food environments in tri-County Detroit, Michigan from 1970 to 2010. It demonstrates how broader economic conditions and business decisions not germane to the region interacted with a landscape marked by economic polarization and racial segregation to create an uneven food environment where Black neighborhoods disproportionately

ABSTRACT “People as Infrastructure” was a concept deployed by the author in a 2004 publication of Public Culture. This essay returns to this notion following widespread use across the urban studies community, and attempts to find new dimensions of applicability not considered in the original publication. These are rooted in an exploration of a techno-poetics of urbanism, the continuous and oscillating

ABSTRACT Financialization of urban governance is a process taking place with varying degrees of depth around the world. A key intermediary and a product that many cities must face to gain access to capital are credit rating firms and their opinions of underlying credit quality. Given the required economies of scale and scope with information intermediation, three global firms have emerged to offer

ABSTRACT The paper introduces porcine bodies as landscapes upon which caste as wildness, primitive, or savage are inscribed and asserted in India, by the Hindu Right and the Dalit Right, to, respectively, advance parochial nationalisms. The general obscuration of the pig in violent nationalist discourses, is itself due to her inherent caste status as impure/polluting. Hindu Vedic scriptures endorse

ABSTRACT This article reassesses the influence of gothic design principles on twentieth century urbanism and considers their contemporary import. The paper elucidates how William Morris’s gothic design philosophy, which inspired two major strains of contemporary urbanism, became detached from its radical politics as it migrated from England to the United States. Architectural modernism came to dominate

ABSTRACT This paper explores the gaps between two geographic rationales in region-building: territorially defined, bounded sub-units of the state and relationally defined spatial backdrops to functional and actor networks. The latter are driven by urban/metropolitan agency aimed at international competitiveness, often resulting in self-selecting entities that peripheralize those places that are not

ABSTRACT Urban infrastructure has appeared as a central feature in a range of commentaries on the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the imprint of the pandemic on cities and the power-laden processes through which they are being rebuilt requires an attention to the politics and governance of infrastructure. In this intervention, we understand the pandemic as a moment to rethink claims over how infrastructures

ABSTRACT New sources of ‘big data’ are regularly described as revolutionizing the study of urban life. Of particular interest is analyzing gentrification, which has proven a challenging endeavor with conventional methods. Big data may offer a new approach to the persistent problem of defining and measuring gentrification, while also allowing us to rethink broader questions about theory and methodology

ABSTRACT During the last few years, Athens is experiencing a substantial increase in tourist inflows, while transforming from a one-day stop destination during summer to a year-round, city-break destination. Through a multi-method qualitative research, this paper explores the role of the aforementioned developments in the emergence of Athens as a city-break destination and explores ongoing processes

ABSTRACT Social class plays a central role in understanding the urban structure, yet its conceptualization and operationalization in urban studies are limited. We have used the Bourdieusian conception of social class, which conceives of class as the possession of economic, social and cultural capital, to establish the class structure of Rotterdam. We make a theoretical contribution to the literature

ABSTRACT .In the context of urgency-filled mega-event preparations, contested urban projects can be fast-tracked to completion in the name of event. This leads to deviations from the existing urban agenda and undermines democratic decision-making processes – all while having longer-term socio-economic and physical influences. Since its post-industrial transition Glasgow prioritized event-led urban

ABSTRACT Significant resources and efforts have been devoted, especially in the USA, to develop predictive policing programs. Predictive policing is, at the same time, one of the drivers of the birth, and the ultimate material enactment of, the anticipatory logics that are central to the smart city discourse. Quite surprisingly, however, critical analyses of the smart city have remained divorced from

(2021). Announcement: goings and comings at Urban Geography. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article discusses neighboring practices across difference in Avondale, a diverse and changing neighbourhood in Auckland, New Zealand. Based on a qualitative study of urban encounters, we draw attention to modes of coexistence in the parochial realm and, more specifically, to encounters with neighbors as an under-researched site of living with difference in cities. In Avondale, adherence

ABSTRACT This article explores design debates through a radical political lens. Examining ways in which architects, urban historians and townscape consultants view speculative office developments and profit-driven building height in the City of London, I argue for the democratization of the cityscape. I contest the prevalence of the consensual city-image in which towers are framed as structures that

ABSTRACT This study develops the notion of infrastructural excess to foreground how representational strategies and security practices combine to facilitate a specific political rationality of public bus transit. Critical analysis of bus-rapid transit (BRT) in Cleveland, Ohio, highlights how bus service improvment is undermined by the necessity of transforming the image of bus transit to catalyze urban

ABSTRACT Urban environments are often disputed over issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Urban citizenship within such spaces has been found to be fragmented, or even ‘dark.’ This paper focuses on the role of an intermediary institution, the Community Council (CC), in the contested city of (East) Jerusalem. Building on in-depth interviews and site visits, we suggest that CCs implement a limited

ABSTRACT Post-industrial global urbanization has seen the rise of territorial economic development strategies predicated on reconfiguring the urban landscape to conform to novel forms of economic production, often under the guise of “global city” development. This paper reorients the conversation on global city development by highlighting the intermediary roles that particular cities play in brokering

ABSTRACT Urban environments are often disputed over issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. Urban citizenship within such spaces has been found to be fragmented, or even ‘dark.’ This paper focuses on the role of an intermediary institution, the Community Council (CC), in the contested city of (East) Jerusalem. Building on in-depth interviews and site visits, we suggest that CCs implement a limited

(2021). Making transformative geographies: lessons from Stuttgart’s community economy. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In this piece, we introduce a special issue on “Rethinking Urban Density” which asks: what are the meanings and implications of density in cities today? How might we understand and research it? This collection offers a set of reflections on urban density in different parts of the world. Ranging from the urban forms, lived experiences, and perceptions, to the policy trends and politics of urban

ABSTRACT There are numerous forms of densification taking place in Johannesburg and the surrounding area; the vast majority is through the auto-construction of residents. Backyard rooms and units, the repurposing and reconfiguring of older multi-storey buildings, and the pirating of spaces such as basements and rooftops have been key sites of resident-led densification. The state, however, has not

ABSTRACT Density is not only a matter of spatial arrangements, but temporal ones as well. Replete with multiple trajectories of the obdurate and transitory, with oscillating accelerations and slowness, urbanities increasingly reflect both parallel streams of detached modes of operation and hybrid times – reflected through a repurposing of long-honed practices and institutions that now function differently

ABSTRACT Are crowds merely detrimental to the livability of cities? This commentary considers the impressions of two people living in Tokyo for whom crowds comprise a key element in what makes big city life enchanting. Density, seen as urban affect, brings the material organization of compactness, the patterning of urban moods, and social difference in city spaces into simultaneous view.

ABSTRACT The paper’s main concern are the intersections of the urban fabric and process with their political ecologies and political pathologies. Density is the substrate of core debates we are having in geography, urban studies and urban practice. These debates have oscillated between the states of hope and panic about the role of density in our urban futures and they have been sharpened by the 2020

ABSTRACT Density is often a major focus of contestation in imagining the future city. The built form of the future city, including its height and density, is a crystallization of current and projected urban growth, as well as a realization of policy ambitions. However, also determinant of future built form are present capacities to extract value from urban development, on the part of both private and

ABSTRACT Densities of care, weaving together public moods, physical forms, and deliberative actions, shape a critical synergy in the 2019–20 Anti-Extradition Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement. This essay unpacks urban density through a radical sense of ‘care’ - the solidarity ethics and actions that create, bond, and repair political crowds. Drawing on three forms of ‘densities of care’ – mobility, atmosphere

ABSTRACT Despite reaching ever higher densities, London’s new residential blocks and towers are evermore exclusive and unaffordable. The current market-led era of high-density housing development contrasts acutely with that of the postwar era, geared around the mass provision of council homes. These changing densities are often discussed at the city level, but there has been little research capturing

ABSTRACT In this paper we argue that the infra economy of the city contributes to the metabolic functioning of everyday dense rhythms of urban life. In Indian cities, this complex work performed by the city’s vulnerable and marginalised labouring classes produces a secure, sanitary and aesthetic city, keeping the crowds at bay and yet maintaining desirable limits of density.

ABSTRACT In the face of climate destabilizations and breakdowns, debates about (de)growth and scale have been particularly significant within critical scholarship. These debates counterpose radically different political positionings, with implications for how the planetary future is envisioned. Must societies build their way out of climate change’s existential threat via massive new investments in

ABSTRACT Previous scholarship on the smart city has expressed concern at the top-down, technocratic nature of smart technologies and the lack of meaningful citizen participation in their development. In this paper, we utilize instrumentalization theory to trace the initiation, design and deployment of a specific smart city initiative: bikeshare in Hamilton, Ontario. Smart bikeshare is increasingly

ABSTRACT Eat or be eaten: motorcycle taxis in Guatemala City Motorcycle taxis in Guatemala City are a form of transportation in which the customer pays to ride as the pillion. For a modest amount of money, Guatemalans can avoid road traffic by riding in between idling cars. Clients and drivers alike call this maneuver “eating traffic.” The colloquialism captures a reversal in which commuters dominate

ABSTRACT Atlanta is the fourth fastest gentrifying city in the United States, and a group of five neighborhoods is the subject for this visual ethnography. A problem list was derived from a qualitative study of 20 resident leaders/stakeholders which highlighted problems associated with important representative structures in the community. A visual representation is a way of “seeing, knowing and showing”

ABSTRACT In this paper, we aim to explore how community gardening can embed and foment grassroots resistance to the privatization of urban space in the current configuration of a prolonged socio-economic and ecological crisis in European cities. We focus on the emblematic case of the Hellinikon self-organized garden; a case of guerrilla gardening that emerged as part of a social movement against the

ABSTRACT Displaced people are increasingly living in urban areas and humanitarian organisations are rethinking their policies and practices. The ‘Neighbourhood Approach’-an area-based policy model has become globally popular amongst humanitarians. In this paper, I trace its development in Lebanon through a Temporary Technical Committee (TTC) on Neighbourhood Upgrading. Although it failed in being taken

ABSTRACT In the last 30 years, researchers have increasingly examined (im)mobility to understand why homelessness continues in the Global North. Studies consistently identify how people experiencing homelessness are excluded and displaced. However, the relationship between social and spatial marginalization is not well understood. In this article, I argue that a more complete understanding of mobility

(2020). Taking possession: the politics of memory in a St. Louis town house. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT As part of the infiltration of automation across urban life, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are traversing cities and regions across the world. This paper presents our critical analysis of trials of these vehicles, which are being shaped by, and are shaping, the material, political, and economic fabric of the city. We take the burgeoning literature on urban experimentation in a new empirical direction

ABSTRACT The Munich Metropolitan Area (MMA) is embarking on becoming a more polycentric urban region. For long, the monocentric city model has provided strong explanatory power in understanding the location decisions of private households and firms. However, this model has been challenged by the emergence of large, polycentric city-regions. Increasing commute ranges and the spatial reorganization of

ABSTRACT One prominent explanation for municipal incorporation – i.e., the formation of new cities – is that it is a defensive response to the threat of annexation posed by neighboring cities. In this paper, we conduct cross-sectional regression analyses to examine the relationship between race, municipal annexation, and municipal incorporation between 2000 and 2010. Our results suggest that annexation

(2020). Nairobi in the making. Landscapes of time and urban belonging. Urban Geography. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The traditional conception of metropolis has been challenged by the emergence of city-regions and large agglomerations. Most of the different conceptualizations share the key feature of polycentricity. Besides, several theories today enrich the study of urban transformations. Introduced by a brief overview of polycentrism, the paper advances a reflection on Milan urban region to discuss features

ABSTRACT The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems

ABSTRACT This paper explores the work of a group of urban wildlife organizations (UWOs) involved in responding to human-wildlife encounters a Canadian city. Using Timothy Beatley’s proposal for the biophilic city as an interpretive lens, I focus on the ways in which these organizations view the complications of living in close proximity with urban wildlife. In particular, I attend to the organizational

ABSTRACT Agrowing number of authors have recently suggested a clear interaction between tourist gentrification and commercial gentrification. However, little scholarly attention has been paid to the growing interrelation between the nighttime leisure economy and urban tourism, along with all its complex forms of simultaneous interaction as fundamental driving forces of the current processes transforming

ABSTRACT This paper explores how the uneven distribution of light and darkness in the vertical city conditions residents’ capacities to form meaningful attachments to the places in which they dwell. Drawing on ethnographic material collected on a recent high-rise development in London, the paper explores how residentsilluminate their homes in improvisatory engagement with the basic infrastructures

ABSTRACT Eco-communities are permanent interventions to build and reshape the urban, a form of insurgent urbanism. Using examples from already-existing urban eco-communities the ways such projects demonstrate lasting material, social and economic transformations are illustrated through three examples of; generating affordability, designing for frequent social interaction, and repurposing marginalized