Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Foot Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Foot Title: The urban periphery, myth and reality: Milan, 1950-1990 Abstract: Much contemporary debate on the city concentrates on what is known in Italy as 'la periferia'-the urban fringe, the suburbs, the outer city. In fact, it is almost impossible to study urban history without a deep understanding of the periphery. The periphery is where the vast majority of Europe's people now live. Yet, this understanding is hampered by a widespread confusion about what the periphery is, and the myriad ways in which these urban forms, mentalities and problems are depicted. John Foot draws together some of these interpretations of the periphery-for Milan but not only for Milan-and then draws out some possible new ways of looking at this whole area of study. Journal: City Pages: 7-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:7-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Title: European ethnoscapes and urban redevelopment: The return of Little Italy in 21st century Manchester Abstract: Social science approaches to urban studies rarely make a significant link between current analytical perspectives and actual interventions into the process of urban development. In this article, however, the author uses Appadurai's notion of an ethnoscape-defined as 'the landscape of … tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest workers and other moving groups and individuals'-with other analytical perspectives as a contribution to understanding the implications of the ethnic re-modelling of a central part of a city. Journal: City Pages: 27-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:27-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jordi Borja Author-X-Name-First: Jordi Author-X-Name-Last: Borja Title: The citizenship question and the challenge of globalization: The European context Abstract: How can citizenship be a reality in a world that is being re-shaped by the process of globalization? Jordi Borja considers the dilemmas and opportunities with particular reference to the European Union. His conclusion is that the political-legal basis of European Citizenship is weak and he goes on to put forward a proposal for action. Journal: City Pages: 43-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:43-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simona Florio Author-X-Name-First: Simona Author-X-Name-Last: Florio Author-Name: Sue Brownill Author-X-Name-First: Sue Author-X-Name-Last: Brownill Title: Whatever happened to criticism? Interpreting the London Docklands Development Corporation's obituary Abstract: The 'regeneration' of the London Docklands has a much wider significance not only for planning but also as a demonstration of a new socio-economic, political and ideological settlement. Yet it has not, of late, been the subject of the kind of detailed examination that Simona Florio and Sue Brownshill now provide. Journal: City Pages: 53-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656984 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656984 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:53-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Prichard Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Prichard Title: On the edge: Regenerating a Dublin suburb Abstract: Ballymun is a run-down 1960s high-rise Dublin suburb, the only one of its kind in Ireland. Its towers are conspicuous on the skyline and are one of the first views seen from the airport. Its deprivation has been chronicled by commentators such as Anne Power and it is one of five symbolic estates in her book Estates on the Edge . It has become known for its roaming horses and is the setting for Roddy Doyle novels. In 1997 Ballymun Regeneration Limited (BRL) was set up to manage its design and renewal, and it was with a team led by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard that the Masterplan was prepared. This article is about the ideas and intention of that Masterplan. For there to be real and lasting change, the project has to be much more than just a housing renewal exercise, it must tackle what the team called the four Es-employment, education, environment and empowerment. For Ballymun to grow into a more stable community, it needs to become more than a satellite dormitory, to be in fact a true town with a choice of places to work, learn, relax and shop, with significantly improved transport facilities. These are the ambitions behind, and the opportunities offered by, the Masterplan. This article by the Leader of the Design Team, explains some of the design ideas which aim to improve the environment, along with implementation strategies and reports on progress in the first year of the project. We publish it as a contribution from a practitioner towards understanding the detailed implications of the notion of regeneration. Journal: City Pages: 65-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:65-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Newling Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Newling Title: Questions, Ices and Places Journal: City Pages: 81-91 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656990 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656990 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:81-91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Gottdiener Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Gottdiener Title: Lefebvre and the bias of academic urbanism: What can we learn from the 'new' urban analysis? Journal: City Pages: 93-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656983 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656983 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:93-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophie Watson Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Watson Title: Bodies, gender, cities Journal: City Pages: 101-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:101-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alison Ravetz Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Ravetz Title: A response Journal: City Pages: 105-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656985 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656985 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:105-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Edwards Title: Sacred cow or sacrificial lamb? Will London's Green Belt have to go? Journal: City Pages: 106-112 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:106-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: A planning microcosm: What went wrong at Cowley? Journal: City Pages: 113-117 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:113-117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel Castells Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Castells Title: Urban sustainability in the information age Journal: City Pages: 118-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:118-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Sustainability and the Information City: A conference report Journal: City Pages: 123-135 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656989 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656989 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:123-135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Doreen Massey Author-X-Name-First: Doreen Author-X-Name-Last: Massey Title: Understanding cities Journal: City Pages: 135-144 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:135-144 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Bowman Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bowman Title: The people's home Journal: City Pages: 144-149 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656986 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656986 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:144-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Davey Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Davey Title: Towards Cosmopolis Journal: City Pages: 149-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:149-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Further academic adventures in clubland Journal: City Pages: 151-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:151-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leslie Budd Author-X-Name-First: Leslie Author-X-Name-Last: Budd Title: Offdigital: Why money has always been virtual Journal: City Pages: 155-161 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:155-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonia Page Author-X-Name-First: Antonia Author-X-Name-Last: Page Title: On John Newling's "Questions, Ices and Places" Journal: City Pages: 161-162 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656997 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656997 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:161-162 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Endreview: New spaces Journal: City Pages: 162-168 Issue: 1 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/713656999 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713656999 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:1:p:162-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mike Crang Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Crang Title: Urban morphology and the shaping of the transmissable city Abstract: Some recent work in architecture has begun to think through the implications of an electronically mediated environment - both in terms of new forms of spaces and of changes to existing ones. New possibilities are read as resulting from these new technologies not only in terms of shaping buildings but also in terms of new ways of thinking about existing buildings. This paper traces the work of architects, such as Marcos Novak, who have used this opportunity to think through post-Euclidean architecture, his TransArchitecture. Mike Crang outlines the case made for seeing space as fluid, folded in complex dimensions and eventful. However, such an approach raises political questions about what a plural city might look like. This is explored through the ideas of Lebbeus Woods to suggest that instability of structure may be linked to a progressive politics. City shape, it is suggested, should be thought of a morphology, a logic of changing and transmission, rather than a static shape. Journal: City Pages: 303-315 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:3:p:303-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jorge Otero-Pailos Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Author-X-Name-Last: Otero-Pailos Title: Bigness in context: Some regressive tendencies in Rem Koolhaas' urban theory Journal: City Pages: 379-389 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657027 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657027 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:3:p:379-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Will the real Creative City please stand up? Journal: City Pages: 390-397 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657028 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657028 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:3:p:390-397 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Panu Lehtovuori Author-X-Name-First: Panu Author-X-Name-Last: Lehtovuori Title: Weak places: Thoughts on strengthening soft phenomena Journal: City Pages: 398-415 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:3:p:398-415 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Milan Prodanovic Author-X-Name-First: Milan Author-X-Name-Last: Prodanovic Title: Regional wars and chances for the reconstruction of Balkan cities in a global information society: Part 2. Toward practical policies for the development of the integrative roles of urbanism and telecommunications Journal: City Pages: 416-418 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657025 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657025 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:3:p:416-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Davey Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Davey Title: 'To rethink the city…': A Millennium Challenge Journal: City Pages: 419-422 Issue: 3 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/713657029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/713657029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:3:p:419-422 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: Invisible cities: A phenomenology of globalization from below Abstract: That the city consumes its hinterland, its outlying areas of supply and its cultures and people seems, at best, an overstatement. And yet it is a formulation that Eduardo Mendieta arrives at as a result of a philosophical and ethical examination of a wide range of contemporary studies of urbanization and globalization. Mendieta's analysis begins with a critique of aspects of Saskia Sassen's important work on the territorial bases of globalization. To this he adds two further dimensions: a phenomenological reading that is slanted towards the viewpoint of the oppressed, and a theological reading of cultural and religious phenemona and meanings(s). His approach involves a search for "the invisible cities with the cities that are visible in most urban theory and analysis". What is also involved from an ethical and practical viewpoint is not so much the inclusion of the excluded within the visible city as the dismantling and reconstruction of that city in the interests of the excluded. Journal: City Pages: 7-26 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120057868 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120057868 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:1:p:7-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Surabaya, Indonesia: Local Agenda 21 in the context of radical political reform Abstract: Against a background of unrest and violent demonstrations and the demise of the Suharto regime in Indonesia, Adrian Atkinson highlights the activities of the Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Project (MEIP) in the city of Surabaya. He discusses, how through this project, the Surabaya Urban Forum was established, which in contrast to many Local Agenda 21 forums in the UK, genuinely encouraged "more profound discussions on the nature of politics". In particular, the urban forum was keen to identify itself with civic society rather than the corrupt government and the more technocratic World Bank. However, such bottom-up schemes face major problems in a context such as Indonesia of, for example, implementing participatory techniques alongside centralized forms of governance and of raising awareness in the face of an authoritarian government. While Atkinson's discussion recognizes the need to radically decentralize power and resources, he remains sceptical about the extent to which projects such as the Surabaya Urban Forum can tackle really difficult issues such as inequalities of wealth and income in Indonesia. Atkinson ends by lamenting the lack of consensus as to what "appropriate development" might look like. Journal: City Pages: 47-65 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810123654 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810123654 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:1:p:47-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Safier Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Safier Title: Transforming Shanghai: Landscapes of turbo-dynamic development in China's 'world city' Journal: City Pages: 67-75 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810123397 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810123397 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:1:p:67-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Robins Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Robins Author-Name: Michael Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Edwards Author-Name: Doreen Massey Author-X-Name-First: Doreen Author-X-Name-Last: Massey Title: Debates Journal: City Pages: 77-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120057886 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120057886 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:1:p:77-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Safier Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Safier Title: The struggle for Jerusalem: Arena of nationalist conflict or crucible of cosmopolitan co-existence? Journal: City Pages: 135-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120057921 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120057921 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:2:p:135-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 5-6 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:5-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Patrick Troy Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Troy Title: Change or turbulence Abstract: Recently the rate, scale and causes of urban change have led to large stresses on our cities which have, in turn, led to greater polarization and segregation. Cities have become vulnerable as globalization has reduced their security and reduced their independence. Although the changes have been dramatic there is little apparent reaction or opposition. Some small groups strongly express their opposition to globalization and its attendant destruction of their societies yet the large majority of citizens seem unconcerned. Governments seem to have been 'denationalized' and excuse their inaction, or claim they are unable to prevent the changes, yet seem quite able to use the force of the state to protect private interests. This paper formed the basis of the opening talk at the 'Turbulent Cities' Seminar 2001, organized by the University of East London and sponsored by the Bartlett School UCL and by City. Journal: City Pages: 7-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142817 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142817 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:7-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Edwards Title: Wealth creation and poverty creation Abstract: This paper links an issue which has long been prominent in City - the relationship between international and local processes - and a concern with London. London is at an important stage: after 15 years of de-regulation and weakened democratic institutions it is grappling now with a new governance structure outlined in a recent paper by John Tomaney ( City 5: 2, July 2001) and the preparation of new strategic plans, discussed here last year by Doreen Massey ( City 5: 1, April 2001). The focus here is on the interaction in London of markets for land, housing, commercial property, transport and labour - markets which can be instruments of innovation and dynamism but which can also be vectors of exploitation and inequality. It is argued that London's draft strategic plans have not yet got the measure of this dualism. Journal: City Pages: 25-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:25-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gil M Doron Author-X-Name-First: Gil M Author-X-Name-Last: Doron Title: The Bad Sheets Abstract: The following work represents a recent unauthorized public art project by Gil Doron and the group Transgressive Architecture, consisting of several interventions into urban public space in London, and associated photographic and textual documentation. This project is recorded here in three forms: a critique of the UK Government's influential Urban Task Force report , Towards an Urban Renaissance (1999); a compendium of terms which both suggests the intentions of the project and develops its imagery; and a series of photographs of the 'bad sheets', taken from the film that recorded the individual interventions. This work relates closely to Doron's ongoing research, for example, 'The Dead Zone and the Architecture of Transgression' ( City , 4: 2, July 2000), an exploration of urban 'dead zones' which criticized the organizations, authorities and processes through which spaces become seen as 'void' or 'dead', despite their frequent use by communities outside of the city authorities' 'vision' of urban public space and its 'legitimate' usage. Here the multi-layered metaphor of a sheet, reminiscent of a shroud or tombstone, and placed as 'monuments to street communities who were cleansed from the public space', is used to question the conception of urban public space posited by the Task Force. The project was widely published in the general London and international press,2 bringing increased public attention to an influential report which warrants closer scrutiny than it has otherwise received. Here for the first time, is the full account. Journal: City Pages: 43-59 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142835 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142835 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:43-59 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carl Grodach Author-X-Name-First: Carl Author-X-Name-Last: Grodach Title: Reconstituting identity and history in post-war Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina Abstract: The significance of intercultural relations in the construction--and destruction--of shared urban space in cities worldwide, has assumed a new level of intensity in the current postcolonial, post-Soviet and 'post-modernist' era. Crucially, the 'popular', public, media and political reactions to such increased intensity in 'identity politics', 'ethnic conflict' and the reassertion of 'other cultures' has been, and continues to be either stereotypical or consumerist, in most cases oversimplified, and in many culturally illiterate. Such severe shortcomings in our understanding and ability to find adequate responses to the complex material and meaningful realities of cultural identities and intersections can also be found in academic and intellectual interventions, as in such constructs as the 'Clash of Civilisations' thesis. In positive contrast, this paper by Carl Grodach demonstrates the careful unravelling of complexity, diversity, contestation and contradictions involved in the reconstruction of symbolic urban spaces after violent conflict, and the allied processes of cultural reinterpretation, political reconfiguration and material revaluation which accompany it. The paper analyses the reconstruction and redevelopment of the 16th-century historic centre of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, following the Bosnian Wars of 1992-1995. Reconstruction efforts centre around Stari Most, the 16th-century Ottoman bridge destroyed by Bosnian Croat military in 1993. In Mostar, both international and local organizations are in the process of reinterpreting Bosnia's legacy of Ottoman city spaces. This research and analysis illuminates how such spaces can be central to contemporary projects to redefine group identities and conceptions of place. It provides insight into the ways various groups are attempting to reshape outside perceptions of the city--and Bosnia's ethnic conflict--to articulate a new definition of local identity and ethnic relations and to remake a stable tourist economy through Mostar's urban spaces. Journal: City Pages: 61-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142844 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142844 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:61-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kim Dovey Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Dovey Author-Name: Leonie Sandercock Author-X-Name-First: Leonie Author-X-Name-Last: Sandercock Title: Hype and hope Abstract: Melbourne's Docklands, 200 hectares of land and water nudging the western edge of the central city, is a redundant industrial site typical of many that have been targeted for redevelopment since the 1980s. But the planning and design process has not been typical, and nor has the outcome thus far. This paper documents this process, drawing out certain themes: the heightened importance of design imagery in the construction of desire and legitimacy; the complex relationship between public and private roles in redevelopment; and the perplexing question of the public interest in relation to such flagship projects. This is a story of a market-driven development intended to be free of both planning interference and public investment, and a belated realization that both are necessary. Journal: City Pages: 83-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:83-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guy Baeten Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Baeten Title: Hypochondriac geographies of the city and the new urban dystopia Abstract: This paper questions the 'peculiar epistemological framework of problems' (p. 107) through which the city has come to be considered in the academic and policy arena, in politics of both the Left and Right, and in urban sociology, planning, architecture and other areas of urban study. Baeten argues that contemporary terminology, for example, displays a negativity towards the city, a fear of the unknown city, by turns explicit (in a discourse which favours a lexicon of 'exclusion', 'deprivation' and 'polarization') and implicit (an 'urban renaissance' presumably emerges from an urban Dark Age). In these current projections of dystopia the author identifies parallels with 19th-century obsessions and frameworks of urban morality - the categorization of an underclass, and positioning of the city's poor as 'deserving' or 'underserving'. Baeten uses recent work on Orientalist constructions of the Other in a bid to contest such negative presentation of the city in current urban studies. There are interesting links here with Gil Doron's work in this issue of City. Journal: City Pages: 103-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:103-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Safier Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Safier Title: On estimating 'room for manoeuvre' Journal: City Pages: 117-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:117-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Davey Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Davey Title: In unexpected places Journal: City Pages: 133-136 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810220142880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810220142880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:133-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hilary Russell Author-X-Name-First: Hilary Author-X-Name-Last: Russell Title: If only … Journal: City Pages: 137-140 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/136048102760151078 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/136048102760151078 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:137-140 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ben Campkin Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Campkin Title: From Garden City to deck access and beyond Journal: City Pages: 141-143 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/136048102760151087 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/136048102760151087 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:141-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Urban studies and the present crisis Journal: City Pages: 145-155 Issue: 1 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000007330 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000007330 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:1:p:145-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 165-166 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000024287 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000024287 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:165-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Maguire Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Maguire Author-Name: Paul Hollywood Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Hollywood Title: Introduction: The City in the era of globalization Journal: City Pages: 167-172 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011092 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011092 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:167-172 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: A. Jamie Saris Author-X-Name-First: A. Jamie Author-X-Name-Last: Saris Author-Name: Brendan Bartley Author-X-Name-First: Brendan Author-X-Name-Last: Bartley Author-Name: Ciara Kierans Author-X-Name-First: Ciara Author-X-Name-Last: Kierans Author-Name: Colm Walsh Author-X-Name-First: Colm Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Author-Name: Philip McCormack Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: McCormack Title: Culture and the state: Institutionalizing 'the underclass' in the new Ireland-super-1 Abstract: This paper analyses some of the activities of a community development group connected to a very poor neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland within the context of anti-poverty discourses and types of targeted funding generated by the European Union. Community development groups and discourses are saturated with terms such as the 'social market', 'inclusion' and 'community' that are an interesting combination of progressive politics and concepts recognizably connected to social science disciplines like Anthropology and Human Geography. In this essay, the authors examine a 'community' response to the so-called 'horse protest' in Dublin, a response in large part funded by EU mechanisms geared to combating 'social exclusion'. They also trace back some of the connections between the institutional actors in this community and EU policies and funding mechanisms. Finally, they examine the trajectory of the Republic of Ireland, especially its experience of a booming economy, that has influenced perceptions of, and reactions to, problems in this neighbourhood. This work represents an attempt to merge ethnographic data and policy analysis within one textual frame, and in particular it represents the authors' attempt to understand how certain discursive sign-posts like 'social exclusion' are given content as concrete social-historical processes. Journal: City Pages: 173-191 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011137 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011137 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:173-191 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michel Peillon Author-X-Name-First: Michel Author-X-Name-Last: Peillon Title: Exclusionary protests in urban Ireland Abstract: This article examines those collective protests in urban Ireland that aim at excluding some categories of people from the local area. Travellers, drug-users, asylum-seekers, undesirable services such as rehabilitation clinics or community for mentally ill patients represent the main targets of actions by local residents. The distinctive feature of exclusionary protests are analysed in terms of the issues raised, the targets of the action, the participants and the resources which protestors can mobilize. It is argued that this kind of collective activity is not adequately understood in terms of a culturalist reading of the city. Exclusionary protests emerge only in the context of the social relations which structure city life. Journal: City Pages: 193-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011146 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011146 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:193-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rob Kitchin Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: Kitchin Title: Sexing the city: The sexual production of non-heterosexual space in Belfast, Manchester and San Francisco Abstract: In this paper, Rob Kitchin develops a Foucaultian analysis of the sexual production of non-heterosexual space, tracing out the contingent and contested nature of socio-sexual relations in three cities: Belfast, Manchester and San Francisco. For each city, a basic historical and geographical analysis is produced, charting how discursive and material processes enacted by state and citizens and operating at different scales (region, nation) are grounded locally in particularized ways; how local nuances created through varying social, economic and political context and events create contingent and relational systems of regulation, self-regulation and resistance that manifest themselves in differing socio-spatial productions. Journal: City Pages: 205-218 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011155 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011155 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:205-218 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Declan Kiberd Author-X-Name-First: Declan Author-X-Name-Last: Kiberd Title: The city in Irish culture Abstract: This essay considers the city in Irish culture. Irish nationalist discourse has denounced the city as an English phenomenon, a site of modernity and, as such, of corruption and immorality. However, it is argued here that those readings have been over-emphasized and that the rural/urban split seems far more rooted in British than in Irish culture. A more complex view is being obscured. This article also looks at Joyce's Dublin, an intimate and villagey site of emergent modernity and at recent 'localist' literature. Finally, the possibilities of multi-culturalism as an addition to Irish culture are discussed. Journal: City Pages: 219-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:219-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ronit Lentin Author-X-Name-First: Ronit Author-X-Name-Last: Lentin Title: At the heart of the Hibernian post-metropolis: Spatial narratives of ethnic minorities and diasporic communities in a changing city Abstract: This article begins by positing some theoretical and methodological issues in relation to 'remapping' Dublin's changing ethnic landscape from the viewpoint of its racialized 'others'. 'Mapping' here is an attempt to chart imaginary moments--sketched by racialized members--of the city as human landscape, ever changing to accommodate and encapsulate their shifting spatial needs and desires. The article posits 'minority discourse' as a methodological route and historicizes the racialization of the city through the transition from the gaze of 'the Jew Bloom', Joyce's Hibernian metropolitan other, to the postmetropolis gaze of the 'new Dubliners'. The article argues that no re-mapping project can be undertaken without considering racial harassment and racialization processes, and juxtaposes racialized ethnic populations and Ireland's emerging multiculturalism, based, as I argue, on a degree of disavowal, and, rather than on a 'politics of recognition', on the more appropriate 'politics of interrogation'. The article concludes with a reflection on some methodological issues involved in mapping the city from the viewpoint of its racialized minorities. Journal: City Pages: 229-249 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/136048102200001119 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/136048102200001119 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:229-249 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elisa Joy White Author-X-Name-First: Elisa Joy Author-X-Name-Last: White Title: Forging African diaspora places in Dublin's retro-global spaces: Minority making in a new global city Abstract: The article examines modes in which African immigrants in contemporary Dublin, Ireland are locating themselves, and being located within a society that views them as a challenge to prior notions of Irish identity. The author contends that spaces of minoritization are developing within the city as a means of containing individuals that challenge the myth of homogeneous Irishness. The article explores the presence of new spaces and identities in the current period of globalization and the way in which such developments in Ireland are developing in the context of what the author defines as a 'retro-global' society. Ethnographic data are employed to highlight the new social landscape of Dublin and present the lived-experiences of members of the African Diaspora communities. Journal: City Pages: 251-270 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011128 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011128 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:251-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Janet Foster Author-X-Name-First: Janet Author-X-Name-Last: Foster Title: London: The developers' city? Journal: City Pages: 271-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000011164 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000011164 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:2:p:271-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 277-278 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000051269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000051269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:277-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Byrne Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne Title: Industrial culture in a post-industrial world: The case of the North East of England Abstract: In this article David Byrne takes a theoretical and empirical look at the formation and development of industrial urbanization. Specifically, he looks at two urban industrial city regions and suggests that rather than being doomed by their industrial pasts, they are complex systems which have multiple future trajectories. Here, Byrne's paper explores the experiences and cultures of the North East region in the UK and the Katowice industrial region in Poland, both located in the zones of carboniferous capitalism. Byrne explores how the culture of industrialism and a proletarian class consciousness survives in what is generally considered to be a post-industrial period. Drawing upon the work of Raymond Williams, he suggests that an 'industrial structure of feeling'--the sentiments which inform and construct 'ways of life'--remain a feature for many social groups and not just the proletariat beyond the period of industrialism. Byrne concludes by raising some questions about the links between residual industrial culture and emergent cultural forms, such as ecological and social groups who seek to challenge the character of consumerist capitalism. Journal: City Pages: 279-289 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:279-289 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Hollands Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Hollands Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Changing times for an old industrial city: Hard times, hedonism and corporate power in Newcastle's nightlife Abstract: Here, focusing on the experience of Newcastle, Chatterton and Hollands continue debates around culture, capital and the 'creative' city already initiated in this journal (see Chatterton, 'Will the real creative city please stand up?' in City 4(3) (2000), and Harcup in City 4(2) (2000), for example). Research on the form, origins, regulation and ownership of the city's nightlife lead to an image of a city which in many ways exemplifies patterns of socio-economic adjustment following the decline of manufacturing evident in other UK cities, especially in the north east region. However, 'beset by problems of visible decay, social polarisation, and deprivation from its industrial past', Newcastle also has its distinct idiosyncrasies. The authors argue that in a more thoughtful approach to the city's development, room should be provided for the growth of a genuinely creative, inclusive and regionally specific urban nightlife, less dominated by large-scale corporations, and more responsive to local cultural factors. Their optimistic conclusion is that the opportunities are still there to 'strike a balance between commercial and local need, and the interests of corporate capital and users of the city, whoever they may be'. Journal: City Pages: 291-315 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:291-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fred Robinson Author-X-Name-First: Fred Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Title: The North East: A journey through time Abstract: David Byrne's article in this issue presents a careful analysis of the 'residual' and 'emergent' cultures of England's pre-eminent rustbelt region and the scope for a new consciousness - new 'structures of feeling' - as a basis for change. Here Fred Robinson examines the scope for alternative 'visions' and plans for the region which would be grounded in real material and cultural conditions. From the deprived end of England's regional spectrum, he offers a counterpart to John Tomaney's recent discussion of the potential of London's regional governance ( City , Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001, pp. 225-248) and Michael Edwards' paper on global-local interactions in the South East ( City , Vol. 6, No. 1, 2002, pp. 25-42). Journal: City Pages: 317-334 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037751 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037751 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:317-334 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah Author-X-Name-First: Rajinder Kumar Author-X-Name-Last: Dudrah Title: Birmingham (UK): Constructing city spaces through Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere Abstract: Drawing on qualitative research undertaken in the city of Birmingham, Britain's second city in terms of geographical size and with the largest number of Black people outside of London, this article engages with Black popular cultures and the Black public sphere. The author argues that paying attention to Black public life in the urban centres of Britain provides cues and signs of the importance of popular cultural activity generated by Black Britons and at the same time reveals a remaking of contemporary urban landscapes. Journal: City Pages: 335-350 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:335-350 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcus Doel Author-X-Name-First: Marcus Author-X-Name-Last: Doel Author-Name: Phil Hubbard Author-X-Name-First: Phil Author-X-Name-Last: Hubbard Title: Taking world cities literally: Marketing the city in a global space of flows Abstract: This paper brings two literatures into dialogue. The first is the world-cities literature that explores the strategic importance of key cities in the global economy. The second focuses on the efficacy of city marketing and place promotion in boosting urban competitiveness. It is suggested here that both are fixated on an atomistic conception of urban processes that sees cities prospering on the basis of their indigenous characteristics (e.g. the presence of 'critical infrastructure'). Drawing on poststructural ideas, this place-based perspective is rejected in favour of a relational perspective that reconceptualizes competitive world cities as networked rather than bounded phenomena. The paper concludes that successful city marketing relies on pursuing a spatialized politics of flow rather than a place-based politics of competition. Journal: City Pages: 351-368 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037779 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037779 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:351-368 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Author-Name: Simon Guy Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Guy Title: Digital space meets urban place: Sociotechnologies of urban restructuring in downtown San Francisco Abstract: In this paper Graham and Guy analyse the political and spatial contestations surrounding the rapid recent growth of gentrifying IT-clusters in downtown San Francisco. The emphasis is on how new, high-capacity internet infrastructures and services, and the technoscientific apparatus to maintain, use and apply such infrastructures, are implicated in the restructuring of politics and landscapes of this particular central city. In particular, the authors focus on the complex urban and technological politics surrounding the 'dot-com invasion' of IT entrepreneurs and internet industries to downtown San Francisco. The paper explores how this urban place has been forcefully appropriated as a strategic site of digital capitalism, under intense resistance and contestation from a wide alliance of social movements struggling to maintain the city as a site of Bohemian counter-culture and social and cultural diversity. Journal: City Pages: 369-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:369-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Max Farrar Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Farrar Title: The struggle for paradise Journal: City Pages: 383-391 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037797 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037797 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:383-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elly Tams Author-X-Name-First: Elly Author-X-Name-Last: Tams Title: Creating divisions: Creativity, entrepreneurship and gendered inequality - a Sheffield case study Journal: City Pages: 393-402 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037805a File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037805a File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:393-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Carmona Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Carmona Title: Public space -- Asian Pacific style Journal: City Pages: 403-405 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481022000037805 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481022000037805 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:403-405 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gary Bridge Author-X-Name-First: Gary Author-X-Name-Last: Bridge Title: A comprehensive city? Journal: City Pages: 405-407 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/136048102762028398 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/136048102762028398 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:405-407 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Harris Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: Complexities and contradictions of networked places Journal: City Pages: 407-409 Issue: 3 Volume: 6 Year: 2002 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/136048102762028406 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/136048102762028406 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:6:y:2002:i:3:p:407-409 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Erik Swyngedouw Author-X-Name-First: Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Swyngedouw Author-Name: Maria Kaïka Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Kaïka Title: The making of 'glocal' urban modernities Abstract: Swyngedouw and Kaïka explore some of the classic tensions and preoccupations of urban planners and theorists: emancipation/disengagement, global/local, social justice/neoliberalism. In particular, the authors refer us to the effects of the 'drastic re-assertion of the forces of modernity in the contemporary city. They raise the question' can we still build an enabling and empowering urbanisation process?'. To answer the question they tell various stories of how local-global elites are undermining cultures of everyday life creating a city of the spectacular commodity. They go further to paint a picture of the city as a 'staged archaeological theme park' (p.11). In answer, they suggest that a utopian and localist politics of difference is still possible. Moreover, much can be redeemed from the maelstrom of modernity. They invite us to dwell in the utopian visions of different, more just forms of urbanity emerging from the 'third space' of the margins. Journal: City Pages: 5-21 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810302220 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810302220 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:5-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: Fear and change in the city Abstract: This paper calls for a reorientation of the concerns of urban sociology, and the sociology of deviance in an urban context, in a way that recognises the subjective decision-making processes at work in the representation of cities through these disciplines. The author discusses how, while early studies of the city in classical sociology identified notions of social movement - namely collective social forces with a potential to bring change - sociologists of deviance in the twentieth century severed all links with such studies and chose to describe fear, crime, and hell rather than change. Collective action and innovation were abandoned as analytical issues and the focus placed on anti-social behaviour and disorder (rather than order). Transitional hells and criminal areas became the central scene of enquiry, with the sociological gaze being diverted from more general urban conflicts. The paper develops a debate already started in this journal in Guy Baeten's piece 'Hypochondriac geographies of the city and the new urban dystopia' in City 6:1). As an alternative, Ruggiero argues, twenty-first century urban sociologists might usefully re-focus their investigation, applying conflict theory to urban studies, to stimulate more positive and pro-active debate and action. Journal: City Pages: 45-55 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810302217 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810302217 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:45-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Holden Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Holden Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Designs on the urban: New Labour's urban renaissance and the spaces of citizenship Abstract: The contours of the so-called 'urban renaissance' in British cities have been the subject of increasing amounts of critical attention from urban scholars. In particular, many have noted the exclusionary consequences of the renaissance for urban public spaces in revalorized city centres. In this paper, the authors ask whether New Labour's urban policy might also be opening up new political opportunities for progressive interventions in contests over the meaning of the urban. After considering the influence of New Labour's social liberalism in the recently released Urban White Paper, the authors identify key tensions within British urban policy and show how both the re-scaling of urban governance and the urban design process have emerged as key strategies to overcome these tensions. The emphasis on urban design, it is argued, is opening up a new public sphere through which visions of the 'good city' might be contested. The political possibilities of this emergent public require further empirical investigation. Because it is relatively deterritorialized, it could offer an alternative space of urban citizenship to the over-privileged 'local community'. Journal: City Pages: 57-72 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810302221 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810302221 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:57-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Scott Page Author-X-Name-First: Scott Author-X-Name-Last: Page Author-Name: Brian Phillips Author-X-Name-First: Brian Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips Title: Telecommunications and urban design Abstract: Much of the life of cities is the interaction of deeply embedded structures--of buildings, infrastructures and social relations--with the flows of people, commodities and ideas. The growth in recent decades of intense telecommunications has added a dimension which calls for new understandings, as Stephen Graham has argued ( City 5:3), of the social exclusion and displacement which can follow. In this paper Scott Page and Brian Phillips construct a close analysis of the physical and telecoms networks which unite and predominantly fracture Jersey City, part of the sprawling metropolitan area of New York. The authors propose new ways of representing the co-existence of visible and invisible networks and of understanding their significance for the development of the city. Their purpose is to inform new approaches to urban design in which the city, seen through new lenses, can be further transformed. Journal: City Pages: 73-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810302222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810302222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:73-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John McCarthy Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: McCarthy Title: Regeneration and community involvement Abstract: The city of Chicago has recently experienced significant growth in terms of residential and service sector development in the downtown area. However, at the same time, several parts of the core city continue to suffer from decline, as indicated by loss of population and employment, and associated concentration of disadvantage. The latest initiative to address such urban decline, the federal Empowerment Zone initiative, has been in operation since 1994, and it has brought a number of positive effects. However, one aspect of the initiative that was highlighted by the federal government--that of community involvement--has proved disappointing. While the level of involvement in the strategy development stage of the Chicago Empowerment Zone was high, this inclusive approach was not carried forward to the implementation phase. This has serious implications for the potential longer-term success of the Zone, as well as for similar area-based regeneration initiatives in other contexts. Journal: City Pages: 95-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810302219 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810302219 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:95-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Les Back Author-X-Name-First: Les Author-X-Name-Last: Back Title: Prospects and RetrospectsA flame immune to the wind Journal: City Pages: 107-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810302218 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810302218 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:1:p:107-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Hall Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Hall Title: The end of the city? “The report of my death was an exaggeration”-super-1 Abstract: Do contemporary communications cumulatively undermine the city, culminating in its end? Peter Hall's survey of the available evidence lends support to the claim for the continuing relevance of agglomeration as the “urban glue”. He explores the extent to which telecommuting supplements rather than supercedes face‐to‐face interaction. The classification of urban forms requires, Hall argues, the updating and modification but not the displacement of traditional theories of location. The city survives, then, but Hall's account of urban polarization—a continuing concern of City, which he touches on but does not develop—suggests that it may not be in good health. Journal: City Pages: 141-152 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136769 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136769 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:141-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pavlos Delladetsima Author-X-Name-First: Pavlos Author-X-Name-Last: Delladetsima Title: What prospects for urban policy in Europe? Abstract: On the eve of enlargement, the European Union's cities and regions confront a crisis in the policy environment. Elected governments of towns and regions have struggled unsuccessfully to maintain their established programmes, investments and planning in the face of neo‐liberal economic and welfare policies adopted by national governments and enforced as part of the criteria for membership of the euro zone. Those with the institutional capacity and resources to do so have turned to the patchwork of largely unco‐ordinated EU special programmes to supplement their resources, but have undermined their self‐determination in the process. Recent embryonic attempts at a more systematic and comprehensive approach to European cities and regions, the European Spatial Development Perspective, could perhaps become the basis for a coherent new order. The paper explores these potentialities, but also the risks that the new approach is over‐dependent on a single and rather weak concept—sustainability—and might just become another chapter in the chronology of disjointed initiatives. Journal: City Pages: 153-165 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136741 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136741 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:153-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thomas Maloutas Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Maloutas Title: Promoting social sustainability The case of Athens Abstract: The extension of the European Community has led to the application of policies and strategies (and their underlying concepts and assumptions) generated in one set of national and historical contexts to quite other situations. This paper examines the idea of 'sustainability’—and especially social sustainability—arguing that it is an imperative which has been first de‐socialized and then re‐socialized. It is de‐socialized in that the pursuit of equality is replaced as the central force by the need to make peace with nature. It is re‐socialized through an argument that social inclusion is a necessary condition for making this peace with nature. The paper goes on to demonstrate the timeliness of the sustainability concept for the social democratic parties of Europe, seeking a new basis for legitimation in the post‐fordist period. It ends with a detailed analysis of the failure of this idea to take root effectively in Greece—notably in Athens—where many features of culture, history and social relations have created a context in which it cannot mobilize effective change without 'serious analysis and the development of a wider social awareness’. Journal: City Pages: 167-181 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:167-181 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Etienne Christiaens Author-X-Name-First: Etienne Author-X-Name-Last: Christiaens Title: Rich Europe in poor Brussels The impact of the European institutions in the Brussels Capital Region Abstract: The European Union is transforming many aspects of urban life and policy across a growing proportion of the continent. Maloutas and Delladetsima, in the two preceding articles in this issue, explore some of the contradictions in the EU's practices and guiding concepts. In this paper Etienne Christiaens, a researcher and active citizen of Brussels, examines the EU's impacts in its own back yard. He shows how four years of opportunism, commercial greed and weak governance have led the city and its citizens into an environmental and social situation which puts Europe to shame. He ends, however, by beginning to craft a counter‐strategy in which the material resources and the rich mix of cultures drawn to the city should be democratically managed to capture the positive dimensions of internationalization. Journal: City Pages: 183-198 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136831 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136831 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:183-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Ward Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Ward Title: The limits to contemporary urban redevelopment 'Doing’ entrepreneurial urbanism in Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester Abstract: Since the early 1970s there has been a series of economic and political transitions in the governance of the older industrialized cities of the global north. Grouped together, and commonly referred to as an entrepreneurial 'turn’, this series of discrete but interlocking shifts in how the state intervenes and frames urban governance reveals much about the emergent geographies of neo‐liberalization. Nation states have codified the inter‐urban competition endemic in contemporary capitalism, building upon and reinforcing, rather than ameliorating, uneven economic development. Cities have thus been placed squarely in the front line of delivering national competitiveness. This is in sharp contrast to earlier representations of cities as relics of industrial glories and as financial drains on the nation's resources. In light of this changing portrayal, and building on earlier debates in CITY, this paper draws upon research in Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester to question how the meaning of 'urban redevelopment’ has been re‐constituted in recent years, and in doing so it draws attention to what this might mean for issues of rights to the city. Journal: City Pages: 199-211 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:199-211 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Marvin Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Marvin Author-Name: Tim May Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: May Title: City futures Views from the centre Abstract: Many of the problems of cities, urban governance and public policy are attributed to the absence of 'joined‐up thinking’ within and between levels of government. One dimension of this problem is the relationship between the functional responsibilities of ministries (health, housing, education and so on) and the need to integrate these functions in the whole diverse set of cities and regions where they operate. This paper presents an empirical study of how cities are viewed by public servants in UK central government, reporting a broad span of attitudes and preconceptions, from those for whom the city is virtually invisible through to those for whom the city or region is the potential locus for the generation and integration of policy, interacting with the centre. Journal: City Pages: 213-225 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:213-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carina Listerborn Author-X-Name-First: Carina Author-X-Name-Last: Listerborn Title: Debates Prostitution as 'urban radical chic’. The silent acceptance of female exploitation Journal: City Pages: 237-246 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136804 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136804 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:237-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sara Grivois Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Grivois Title: Reports, Interviews, Reviews Virtual journeys: finding our place/s in the city Journal: City Pages: 247-260 Issue: 2 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000136822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000136822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:2:p:247-260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward Soja Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Soja Title: Writing the city spatially-super-1 Abstract: The centrality of cities to an understanding of historic societies is an assumption shared by most urbanists but it is scarcely evident in the work of other social analysts. It is still possible to write or compile contemporary histories that allot, at best, a chapter to urban phenomena. This may not be because the other social analysts are being obtuse but rather because urbanists have, in the main, not made an adequate case for that centrality. Among the few that have made such a case Edward Soja's work is particularly distinctive. As was noted in an earlier discussion of aspects of his work, Soja's trilogy -- Postmodern Geographies (1989), Thirdspace (1996) and Postmetropolis (2000) -- is 'an exciting enterprise, superbly written, showing great insight and increasing catholicity and generosity towards a wide range of work’ (Catterall, 'It All Came Together in New York? Urban Studies and the Present Crisis’, CITY, Vol.6, No.1, 2002). But it is more than that. It is a reconceptualisation of the field that puts it in touch with and contributes to the recasting of contemporary, transdisciplinary social analysis. It includes, as his personal introduction below to key aspects of his work indicates: a rejection of binary divisions that set, for example, Marxist and postmodern approaches apart; an emphasis on and exploration of the notion of synekism (the stimulus of urban agglomeration), and of the essential spatiality of urban phenomena; and -- unexpectedly, for those still coming to terms with the spatial turn -- a related reconsideration of urban history (including a prequel of 5,000 years added to, and necessitating the rethinking of the established account of, 'the Urban Revolution’). Journal: City Pages: 269-280 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:269-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian Ritchie Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Ritchie Title: Architecture—design in need of a compass Abstract: What role can architecture and architects play in creating more socially and environmentally sustainable cities in the future? This central question of contemporary architecture and urbanism, featured in other recent issues of this journal (with reference to Athens, in Maloutas, CITY 7(2), for example), is here addressed by Ian Ritchie, whose architectural practice is based in London. Ritchie begins by characterising the status quo, where western capitalism 'denies the natural environment’ by exploiting it, and keeps the poor in poverty, causing him to look critically at the idea of 'progress’ itself, and the role of architects and architecture in achieving it. Dramatic changes in attitude and practice are required if architecture is to become more than a product to be consumed, in a world of 'overconsumption’, the author argues. For Ritchie, the architects' responsibilities lie in achieving a balance in the detail of their work between 'economy,’ 'efficiency’ and 'ésthetique’; a balance that should lead to a less demoralising built environment than the one in which many currently live. This method of designing involves attention to sometimes hidden detail. 'If we do not get our cities right at the micro‐level we could well end up with a cumulative effect upon our society far worse than any environmental disaster caused by super‐bugs, toxins or terrorists,’ warns Ritchie, who develops his argument by elaborating some of the processes and techniques through which his own practice works. Journal: City Pages: 281-299 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157487 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157487 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:281-299 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dion Kooijman Author-X-Name-First: Dion Author-X-Name-Last: Kooijman Author-Name: Gerard Wigmans Author-X-Name-First: Gerard Author-X-Name-Last: Wigmans Title: Managing the city Flows and places at Rotterdam Central Station Abstract: Rotterdam Central Station will soon be transformed into a complex transport node with a variety of urban functions, including offices, apartments, shops and entertainment venues. The master plan drawn up by Alsop Architects and published in April 2001 established the national and international aspirations of the city. Local elections in Rotterdam at the beginning of March 2002, however, brought a new party to power: 'Leefbaar Rotterdam’ ('Liveable Rotterdam’), which changed the agenda of local politics dramatically. Safety of people in public places, immigration, and law and order became the new issues, and the Rotterdam Central Station Master Plan was heavily criticized as megalomaniac. Research into the project provides useful input for understanding the processes involved in and governance of the local‐global relationship. The analysis suggests that the values of social democracy are not deeply enough embedded among citizens to prevent the localist agenda from being captured by xenophobic populism. Journal: City Pages: 301-326 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157496 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157496 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:301-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philip Dowdall Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Dowdall Title: Writing the 'architexture’ of the global city Globalization and the birth of modern London Abstract: In this paper Philip Dowdall explores some of the ways in which the discourse of globalization has made itself apparent in the material and cultural fabric of London, and the psyches of the city's inhabitants. The author follows earlier attempts in this journal to describe and analyse the effects of contemporary processes of globalization on the city, and the consequences for those who occupy it (on London, see Michael Edwards and Doreen Massey, in CITY 5(1), for example). Drawing on literary and architectural representations of London from the 17th to the 19th‐centuries, Dowdall points out some surprising but clear parallels between recent discourses on the city's global identity, championed by current Mayor Ken Livingstones attempts to redefine metropolitan identity, and earlier efforts to position London as a gateway to the world. The author sees the city as the focus of continuous self‐conscious re‐invention (340) and writes that 'Britain had to learn how to build globalization into the very foundations of [its] thinking some 300 years before Livingstone believed it to be a necessary means of survival in a competitive global economy’; arguing that the underlying essence of the discourse of globalization has changed little in the meantime. Journal: City Pages: 327-348 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157513 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157513 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:327-348 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophie Churchill Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Churchill Title: Resilience, not resistance A contribution to an expanded urban conversation Abstract: Here, Sophie Churchill explores the contribution of a complementary psychodynamic language, offered by Leonie Sandercock, as a means to 'engage an alternative urban conversation’ -- through for example how we may dream our cities through stories and emotions. The need for this alternative conversation comes from the author's acknowledgement of the inadequacy of most current governance and planning arrangements in taking into account the wider needs of citizens. She also draws our attention to the limitations of resistance identities which foster conflict and confrontation. Using the example of the Birmingham in the UK (see also Frank Webster in Issue 5:1 of CITY) where the author has worked for a partnership organisation called 'City Pride’, the notion of 'resilience’ is developed as a key capacity to be built alongside more standard policy measures. Resilience here is the capacity to negotiate stress and trauma and recover from unforeseen disturbances. While Churchill stresses that resilience can equip cities 'to manage the white waters of 21st‐century change’, through more conciliatory approaches to governance, it is also worth thinking about what may be lost through a rejection of 'resistance’. Journal: City Pages: 349-360 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157504 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157504 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:349-360 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: François Penz Author-X-Name-First: François Author-X-Name-Last: Penz Title: Screen Cities Introduction Journal: City Pages: 361-411 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157595 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157595 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:361-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Slattery Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Slattery Title: Green paradise lost An essay on Veronica Guerin, 'craic’ houses and the Celtic Tiger Journal: City Pages: 413-432 Issue: 3 Volume: 7 Year: 2003 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481032000157540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481032000157540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:7:y:2003:i:3:p:413-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: Imperial geographies and topographies of nihilism Abstract: In this first piece, Eduardo Mendieta considers the relationship between empires, cities and war. It focuses particularly on the emergence of geopolitics as science at the service of empire building and the 20th‐century escalation to total war against cities. The focus, however, is not on European empires, but the American empire, which since the 19th century has developed its own type of geopolitics and means of waging war. Mendieta discusses strategic fire bombing of the Second World War, the implementation of suburbanization policies in the USA after the War, and the recent use of economic sanctions aimed at crippling cities, as in the most recent case, Baghdad. In tandem, he discusses the complicity of world‐historical and ontologizing philosophical perspectives that see wars as conflagrations between forces and fates, leading to the trivialization and exculpation of the devastation of cities and extermination of humans. Journal: City Pages: 5-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000199778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000199778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:5-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nelson Maldonado‐Torres Author-X-Name-First: Nelson Author-X-Name-Last: Maldonado‐Torres Title: The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge Abstract: This essay by Nelson Maldonado‐Torres examines the conjunction of race and space in the work of several European thinkers. It focuses on Martin Heidegger's project of Searching for roots in the West. This project of searching for roots is unmasked as being complicit with an imperial cartographical vision that creates and divides the cities of the gods and the cities of the damned. Maldonado‐Torres identifies similar conceptions in other Western thinkers, most notably Levinas, Negri, Zizeck, Habermas, and Derrida. To the project of searching for roots and its racist undertones, he opposes a Fanonian critical vision that highlights the constitutive character of coloniality and damnation for the project of European modernity. He concludes with a call for radical diversality and a decolonial geopolitics of knowledge. Journal: City Pages: 29-56 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000199787 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000199787 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:29-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Haekwon Kim Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Haekwon Kim Title: Empire's entrails and the imperial geography of “Amerasia” Abstract: Most criticism of American imperialism is founded on theories that take European expansion as their paradigm. Here David Haekwon Kim examines aspects of distinctly American imperialism, specifically urban anticipations of US overseas expansion, the codification of imperial dominion in structures of US foreign diplomacy and the prophetic geography of US domination extending from “Amerasia” to Eurasia. First, Kim offers some stage‐setting through a preliminary account of imperialism cast in the vocabulary of leftliberal theory but compatible with some more radical analytic frameworks. Secondly, he discusses the converging premonitions of American empire experienced by José Martí during his exile in New York City and by José Rizal during his sojourn to San Francisco. Kim concludes by using these considerations to generate a geographic portrait of American dominion in Latin America, the Pacific, Asia and then finally Europe's Orient. Journal: City Pages: 57-88 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000199796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000199796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:57-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Urbanization in a neo‐liberal world Abstract: Europe and North America—the Occident—have adopted the role of the bearers of civilization for a long time, assuming the task to enlightening (or imposing it on) others. 'Development’ in its current form derives from ideas and practices, as Atkinson accurately describes, that have their ideological roots in the rise of capitalism and Christian ethics, and finds their expression and reproduction in the constant obsession with power and wealth. In this essay, Adrian Atkinson questions the ideas, reasons and effect behind the currently widespread development process, instigated and adopted by international development agencies. Its core concern revolves around the opposition of the neoliberal reality against a 'utopian communities paradigm’. The crux of Atkinson's argument is the tension between fatalism which underpins the mono‐dimensional, neoliberal approach to development, and the challenge which is embodied in a host of radical and revolutionary ideas and past movements which assert that we can design and build a world that provides for the needs and reasonable desires of all. Journal: City Pages: 89-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000199000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000199000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:89-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Davide Deriu Author-X-Name-First: Davide Author-X-Name-Last: Deriu Author-Name: Luis Diaz Author-X-Name-First: Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Diaz Title: Prospects and Retrospects Journal: City Pages: 109-114 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000199813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000199813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:109-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Finch Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Finch Title: Reviews Journal: City Pages: 127-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:1:p:127-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Postmortem city Abstract: We tend to see contemporary cities through a peace‐time lens and war as somehow exceptional. In this ambitious paper, long in historical range and global in geographical scope, Steve Graham unmasks and displays the very many ways in which warfare is intimately woven into the fabric of cities and practices of city planners. He draws out the aggression which we should see as the counterpart of the defensive fortifications of historic towns, continues with the re‐structuring—often itself violent—of Paris and of many other cities to enable the oppressive state forces to patrol and subordinate the feared masses. Other examples take us through the fear of aerial bombardment as an influence on Le Corbusier and modernist urban design to the meticulous planners who devised and monitored the slaughter in Dresden, Tokyo and other targets in World War 2. Later episodes, some drawing on previously classified material, show how military thinking conditioned urbanisation in the Cold War and does so in the multiple 'wars’ now under way—against 'terrorism’ and the enemy within . City has carried some exceptional work on war and 'urbicide’ but this paper argues that, for the most part, the social sciences are in denial and ends with a call for action to confront, reveal and challenge the militarisation of urban space. Journal: City Pages: 165-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242148 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242148 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:165-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Samer Ghaleb Saleh Bagaeen Author-X-Name-First: Samer Ghaleb Saleh Author-X-Name-Last: Bagaeen Title: Political conflict, town planning and housing supply in Jerusalem Abstract: In this detailed demographic analysis of the current ethnic composition of Jerusalem, Samer Bagaeen looks at the highly problematic role of urban planning in ethnically polarized cities. He argues that “city planning [in Jerusalem] has been turned into a tool of the [Israeli] government to be used to help prevent the expansion of the city's non‐Jewish population”. Palestinians have, as a result of national and municipal housing policies, been forced to live in cramped conditions, and according to the author's own surveys, overcrowding is now having a deteriorating effect on the physical fabric in the Palestinian quarters of the Old City. Jerusalem has been of ongoing concern for City and this paper is in some respects a continuation of Michael Safier's article on Jerusalem and cosmopolitan co‐existence in Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001. Journal: City Pages: 197-219 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242157 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242157 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:197-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark LeVine Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: LeVine Title: Re‐imagining the “White City” Abstract: The political use of urban planning in the Middle East is the focus of Samer Bagaeen's paper (in this issue) and of earlier work by Safier and Bollens (both in Vol. 5, No. 2, 2001). This paper looks at the politics of UNESCO's recognition of the “White City” in Tel Aviv as a World Heritage Site. LeVine offers a critique of the heritage designation which excludes “Jaffa from the narrative of the region's modern architecture and planning” and argues that UNESCO's award—in its motivation and geographical designation—reinforces the myth that Tel Aviv emerged as a city independently from its Palestinian Arab environment. “The fact is that Palestinian Arabs helped build the town from the start, and continued to work, shop, play and in some cases live there right up to 1948.” LeVine concludes with a plea “to acknowledge the crucial roles played by both Jaffa and Tel Aviv, and their conflicted yet vital relationship, on the development of the two national movements still struggling to find a home in their ancestral land”. Journal: City Pages: 221-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:221-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Moulaert Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Moulaert Author-Name: Hilde Demuynck Author-X-Name-First: Hilde Author-X-Name-Last: Demuynck Author-Name: Jacques Nussbaumer Author-X-Name-First: Jacques Author-X-Name-Last: Nussbaumer Title: Urban renaissance: from physical beautification to social empowerment Abstract: Will culture increasingly become a constellation of highly profitable niche markets, only accessible to the better‐off middle class? And will it therefore join the movement of market fundamentalism that, in many Western societies, has abandoned social housing, emancipatory education and public space for the exclusive game of high profitability investments and upper‐class ideology‐formation, in which the beautification of run‐down urban neighbourhoods plays a leading role? Or are we witnessing a revival of popular culture that will contribute to the integration of excluded groups within the social fabric? This special feature examines these questions, always central ones for City, and explains how strategies to democratize culture offer solutions for the paradoxes (insurmountable contradictions, as the capitalist class would argue) of the workfare state and urban renewal policies. The feature flows from an event organized in Bruges as a challenge and a critique to the city's year as 'Cultural Capital of Europe’ and includes contributions from artists, local historians and activists, a schoolteacher and scholars from the universities. The diversity of voices is intentional. Journal: City Pages: 229-235 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:229-235 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guy Baeten Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Baeten Title: Inner‐city misery Abstract: The geography of urban deprivation is both real and 'imagined’. The combination leads to biased and often quite polarized views of cities, their dynamics and their future. Unfortunately the tendency is to depict poverty and deprivation as ugly, as an 'improper’ part of urban life which should be eradicated and replaced by 'proper’ middle‐class physical constructions and social structures. But research which avoids the 'imagining’ shows that this is an unacceptable view of the the inner city where in fact people, despite their poverty, set up a wide array of social, cultural and economic networks of real meaning, which enable them to enter the labour market, to develop mutual support and to participate in cultural activities of all kinds, just like anybody else. Journal: City Pages: 235-241 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242184 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242184 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:235-241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arantxa Rodríguez Author-X-Name-First: Arantxa Author-X-Name-Last: Rodríguez Title: Integrated Area Development in fragmented cities Abstract: Increased feminization of poverty has become an essential features of a process of two‐speed urban revitalization. It is therefore necessary to contextualize poverty from a gender perspective and to put forward strategies to cope with gendered poverty and exclusion at the neighbourhood and local levels. The essay also provides some examples of innovative initiatives to cope with a particular dimension of gender inequality and exclusion in cities, i.e. poverty of time. To overcome this, new time norms for organizing one's lifetime, one's professional career time and the regulation of the 'time of urban service provision’ can be developed. Several initiatives in Italian, French and Catalan cities have focused on working time and urban services provision schedules to increase women's opportunities to participate in economic and social‐cultural life and thus counter the exclusion spiral in which they had ended up. Journal: City Pages: 241-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:241-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jacques Nussbaumer Author-X-Name-First: Jacques Author-X-Name-Last: Nussbaumer Author-Name: Frank Moulaert Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Moulaert Title: Integrated Area Development and social innovation in European cities Abstract: Mainstream urban regeneration policy operates in fragmented policy domains—physical, economic or technocratic—which paralyse the creative action potentialities of urban and neighbourhood development. Integrated Area Development strategies based on social innovation in development agendas and social relations of governance offer an alternative. Culture plays a significant role here: culture is communication and creation so it is essential to social innovation. The capacity of culture to create bonds enables us to establish the connection between the satisfaction of basic needs, and the various dimensions of social life. Journal: City Pages: 249-257 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:249-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alfons Dewitte Author-X-Name-First: Alfons Author-X-Name-Last: Dewitte Title: Poverty and poverty control in Bruges between 1250 and 1590 Abstract: In this paper Alfons Dewitte charts the changing economic fortunes of the medieval city of Bruges, providing us with an analysis of the transformation of models of poverty relief and their accompanying practices between the middle of the 13th and the late 16th centuries. The story he tells traces a complex dynamic between the Church and State in sharing power and responsibility for Bruges' various groups of poor inhabitants, identified according to their distinct geographic and social positioning in relation to the city's centre, and by turns included or excluded from poverty relief programmes as a result of their categorization as 'inside’ or 'outside’ of the city. Journal: City Pages: 258-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242210 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:258-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gilbert Tournoy Author-X-Name-First: Gilbert Author-X-Name-Last: Tournoy Title: Towards the roots of social welfare Abstract: As the Inquisition unfolded in Spain, the humanist Joan Lluis Vives left Valencia for Paris, and probably settled in Bruges as early as 1512. He travelled Europe and frequented elite intellectual and political circles in France, England and Belgium. It was in Bruges that in 1525 he started writing his De subventione pauperum, to be published there in 1526. This would become the intellectual and ethical basis of European urban poverty relief policies of the 16th century and beyond. In many respects this publication contains the principles of the contemporary active welfare state although, in the 16th century, the Church was still dominant in poverty relief and no social policy could take effect without its passive or active approval. Journal: City Pages: 266-273 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242229 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242229 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:266-273 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Huw Thomas Author-X-Name-First: Huw Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: Identity building and cultural projects in Butetown, Cardiff Abstract: A coalition of property interests and politicians at local and central governmental levels promoted the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay “as a project that was good for the future of Cardiff”. The welfare of the residents of the multi‐ethnic community Butetown played little or no part in the deliberations, and was not to feature in the mission statement of the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. Instead Butetown became the target of negative narratives, which could only be countered by local initiatives built on the mobilization of the historical identity of the multi‐ethnic community that Butetown has always been. The Butetown History and Art Centre with its various activities forms the core of these culturebased bottom‐up redevelopment dynamics. Journal: City Pages: 274-278 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242238 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242238 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:274-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Els Dietvorst Author-X-Name-First: Els Author-X-Name-Last: Dietvorst Title: 'The Return of the Swallows’ Abstract: The community art project 'The Return of the Swallows’ can be viewed as a four‐year quest for individual and collective human creation starting in the Midi neighbourhood of Brussels (Anneessens Square), ending in the Moroccan desert. Using a variety of media, artists recruited from the human melting pot in the neighbourhood first express the pain and hardship of existence, which in the later phases of the project the neighbourhood inhabitants transcend to create and act out their many imagined personalities in life; this poetic sublimation will lead them, flying with the swallows to their roots. Journal: City Pages: 279-288 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242247 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242247 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:279-288 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marijke Leye Author-X-Name-First: Marijke Author-X-Name-Last: Leye Author-Name: Ivo Janssens Author-X-Name-First: Ivo Author-X-Name-Last: Janssens Title: In search of culture Abstract: The starting point of this article is the ever‐changing society in which new meanings of culture, as well as visions generated through social art practice, lead to new interpretations of participation and integration. The article pleads for a culture that cuts through other policy domains in a 'transversal’ way while giving them form and content, thus supporting 'cultural community work’. Kunst en Democratie (Arts and Democracy) considers it its mission to introduce these changes of mind. Journal: City Pages: 288-294 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:288-294 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dominique Puype Author-X-Name-First: Dominique Author-X-Name-Last: Puype Title: Arts and culture as experimental spaces in the city Abstract: Ghent has played a leading role in democratizing cultural practices and processes of consumption, by directing them to the benefit of the city's neighbourhood communities. Through arts and cultural projects, deprived citizens have been mobilized and their power, skills, talents and interests realized, through a process of facilitation that has not—as many projects of social assistance might—focused on their problems. Here, Dominique Puype tells of the successes and potentialities of projects organized in the city under the title Kunst in de Buurt (Arts in the Neighbourhood). Journal: City Pages: 295-301 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242265 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242265 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:295-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marijke Leye Author-X-Name-First: Marijke Author-X-Name-Last: Leye Title: Wijk‐Up (Wake‐up)1 Abstract: Wijk‐Up occupied a special place within Brugge/Bruges 2002. Its main concern was clear from the beginning: Bruges had to be a cultural capital for everybody, with Wijk‐Up as a 'lever of culture’ to bring several population groups closer to the city, not only during the cultural year 2002, but also subsequently. Therefore the initiators chose a social art project: organizing a cultural festival in three neighbourhoods of Bruges. For Wijk‐Up, neighbourhood development and empowering the neighbourhood through cultural activities occupies a central place in the ambitions of creating a lasting co‐operation between the City of Bruges and its cultural institutions. Since Brugge 2002, Wijk‐Up is being continued as a social art experiment of the organization 'Brugge Plus’, sustained by a permanent working alliance between Bruges' houses of culture, City Hall, the neighbourhoods and the Coordinator for Cultural Policy.2 Journal: City Pages: 302-306 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000242274 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000242274 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:302-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Review Journal: City Pages: 307-335 Issue: 2 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000290280 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000290280 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:2:p:307-335 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel Kallus Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Kallus Title: The political role of the everyday Abstract: Through the discussion of housing and its role in the production of the everyday, Rachel Kallus develops the notion of the home as a political arena, exposing the space of everyday life as a battlefield where both national and personal struggles take place. She considers the case of the production of Gilo, a residential quarter built as part of the Israelization process of Jerusalem subsequent to the 1967 war, and its fortification process following the events of the second Palestinian Intifada. These events and the discourse around them are used to examine a process by which the residential environment, the base of everyday life, becomes the guardian of national territory and hence, the center of geopolitical struggle. Journal: City Pages: 341-361 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000313491 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000313491 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:341-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Gandy Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Gandy Title: Rethinking urban metabolism: water, space and the modern city Abstract: 'Water is a brutal delineator of social power which has at various times worked to either foster greater urban cohesion or generate new forms of political conflict’. In the paper which follows, Matthew Gandy explores this statement by looking at the expansion of urban water systems since the chaos of the nineteenth‐century industrial city. In this early period, the relationship between water and urban space can be understood by the emergence of what he calls the 'bacteriological city’, defined by features such as new moral geographies and modes of social discipline based upon ideologies of cleanliness, a move away from laissez‐faire policies towards a technocratic and rational model of municipal managerialism, and a connection between urban infrastructures and citizenship rights. Gandy goes on to discuss that while many cities never ultimately conformed to this model, the last thirty years has seen a fundamental move away from the bacteriological city to a more diffuse, fragmentary and polarized urban technological landscape. Characteristics here include declining investment in urban infrastructures, a desire to meet shareholder rather than wider public needs, oligopolistic structures amongst providers, the marketisation of goods such as water, increased health scares and mistrust from consumers, and polarisation of the quality of service provision. For Gandy, these shifts are better understood by more relational, hybridised, rather than functional‐linear, notions of urban metabolic systems. Journal: City Pages: 363-379 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000313509 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000313509 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:363-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Enzo Mingione Author-X-Name-First: Enzo Author-X-Name-Last: Mingione Title: Poverty and social exclusion in European cities: diversity and convergence at the local level Abstract: In the paper that follows, Enzo Mingione identifies five different models of postwar welfare capitalism. The models were all based around “full” employment, the nuclear family and the regulatory monopoly of the nation‐state. He argues that as a result of economic and demographic change, the very foundations of each model are eroding. As a result certain groups not previously catered for in traditional welfare systems (particularly migrants, single parents, the young, the poorly skilled and low income nuclear families) are now facing social exclusion. Mingione’s analysis has abroad European focus, but also looks at the cases of specific cities (Rennes, Milan and Bremen among others) which demonstrate pressures on welfare services of a varied nature. The variety of local scenarios requires a localised response; though Mingione states that these should include: “three main ingredients: the development of forms of partnership between private and public agencies; activation and professionalisation of new and old institutions in the third sector [and] professional and coordinating abilities on the part of local authorities”. Journal: City Pages: 381-389 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000313482 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000313482 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:381-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Author-X-Name-First: Vittorio Author-X-Name-Last: Magnago Lampugnani Title: Settling in cyber city? Journal: City Pages: 391-402 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000313527 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000313527 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:391-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kolonel Klepto Author-X-Name-First: Kolonel Author-X-Name-Last: Klepto Title: Making war with love: the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army Journal: City Pages: 403-411 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000313536 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000313536 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:403-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Bowman Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bowman Title: Recording industrial landscapes Journal: City Pages: 413-442 Issue: 3 Volume: 8 Year: 2004 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/1360481042000313545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1360481042000313545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:8:y:2004:i:3:p:413-442 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leonie Sandercock Author-X-Name-First: Leonie Author-X-Name-Last: Sandercock Title: Introduction to special feature Journal: City Pages: 3-8 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050120 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050120 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:3-8 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roger Keil Author-X-Name-First: Roger Author-X-Name-Last: Keil Author-Name: Julie‐Anne Boudreau Author-X-Name-First: Julie‐Anne Author-X-Name-Last: Boudreau Title: Is there regionalism after municipal amalgamation in Toronto? Abstract: This article reflects on the results of metropolitan governance restructuring in Canada’s largest city, Toronto, during the 'long 1990s’, the time period roughly between the collapse of international property markets in the late 1980s and the events of 9/11/01. We alsodiscuss more recent developments including the establishment of more moderately liberal and social democratic administrations in Ontario and Toronto. Based on this context, we develop our arguments about globalization and unequal re‐scalings, and the re‐territorialization of political action and social movements. Through a discussion of the search for new 'fixes’ at the city‐regional scale in Toronto, particularly in the sectors of competitiveness, transportation and the environment, we highlight how social movement demands have been rearticulated in the period following revisions of municipal governance mechanisms such as the debates about the municipal charter in Toronto. Journal: City Pages: 9-22 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:9-22 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liette Gilbert Author-X-Name-First: Liette Author-X-Name-Last: Gilbert Title: Resistance in the neoliberal city Abstract: “Democracy generally stops both at the gates of the workplace and the borders of a state.” (Anderson, 2002 , p. 34) “The border seemed to move with me, hanging overhead like a cloud.” (Blaise, 1990 , p. 5) “I now understand that a man’s place in society is the one he takes.” (Tar Angel, 2001)1 Borders, and their iconic images of gates, walls and fences, are ubiquitous representations of immigration policy and experiences. They express the control of territorial boundaries of a nation‐state and its people, distinguishing those inside from those outside. They also represent the physical, social and cultural transition in the lives of those who cross a border to settle in a new nation, and in the lives of the people left behind (Chavez, 2001). Points of arrival are perpetual points of departure in the journey of a migrant. Powerful metaphors of the immigrant journey, borders are determined and maintained by economic and political imperatives constructing the flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies, etc. (Appadurai, 1996). International commercial treaties, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, affirm the permeability of borders. Post‐September 11 discussion on the creation of a North American security perimeter that would allow for a multinational harmonization of counterterrorism efforts without impeding economic relations has generated particular pressures to re‐examine the security of continental borders. Increased border enforcement and technology have been the main harmonization strategies that bring a “high visibility and symbolic value of the border deterrence effort” and thus affirm the control of (some) people’s mobility and flow (Andreas, 2003, p. 6). Economic borders have largely been dismantled under the banner of free trade while security borders have been refortified under the threat of terrorism (even though the north and south borders had very little to do with the September 11 attacks). National security issues have expanded the criminalization of immigration even though legality and illegality are integrally constructed in immigration policy. As Samers (2003, p. 556) argues, “[t]here can be no undocumented immigration without immigration policy, and thus those who are deemed to be 'illegal’, 'irregular’, 'sans papiers’ or indeed 'undocumented’ shift with the nature of immigration policy”. Journal: City Pages: 23-32 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050153 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050153 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:23-32 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gerda R. Wekerle Author-X-Name-First: Gerda R. Author-X-Name-Last: Wekerle Author-Name: Paul S. B. Jackson Author-X-Name-First: Paul S. B. Author-X-Name-Last: Jackson Title: Urbanizing the security agenda Abstract: The meanings of “terrorism” and “anti‐terrorism” are socially constructed and highly contested. Timothy Luke’s (2004) term “propaganda of the deed” suggests that terrorism is linked to a war of signs. Each deed can be mobilized for different interests to energize and embed each act with layers of politics and culture as a frame for retaliation. According to Robert W. Williams, “Contemporary terrorism is characterized by the randomness of its attacks against an entire population or society—attacks which could include such possible effects as the mass destruction of targets and the mass disruption of social life” (Williams, 2003, p. 282). While internationally these definitions of what constitutes terrorism will be played out between powerful governments and international courts (Beck, 2002), domestically, the use of the discourses of terrorism has become not only politicized, but also anchored in existing and expanding domestic policies and programmes. Post‐9/11, in the USA, a conservative political agenda has fuelled attempts to blur the boundaries between dissent or even crimes of property and what the state defines as acts of terrorism, particularly when these involve progressive movements. Although media accounts often focused on 9/11 as an abrupt departure or turning point, less attention has been paid to the continuities with political divisions and power relations that existed prior to the fall of the Twin Towers. This paper examines how interests across the political spectrum have sought to discursively frame terrorist threats to the city and to redefine what it means to have security in the city. We further explore the contradictions that arise when a conservative state, right‐wing and progressive movements seek to re‐position themselves domestically within a drastically altered geopolitics. Specifically, we outline the ways in which were repression of progressive movements were normalized by the anti‐terrorist frame. Journal: City Pages: 33-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050228 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050228 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:33-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joe Grengs Author-X-Name-First: Joe Author-X-Name-Last: Grengs Title: The abandoned social goals of public transit in the neoliberal city of the USA Abstract: A preface and a bus rider’s story: “two‐tiered” transit system in the making? Imagine a bus stop in a typical working‐class neighbourhood of inner‐city Los Angeles, a city with an extraordinary array of peoples and cultures. The bus pulls up with standing room only, filled with a variety of people: Mexican, Salvadoran, Korean, Filipino and African American; men and women going to jobs, some of them janitors, some street vendors. People on the bus include women clutching children and grocery bags, kids going to school, elderly folks off to the Senior Centre. The ride is like always: hot, noisy and desperately crowded. The riders come from decidedly different backgrounds, yet share the same experience daily—jostled against one another, staring blankly out cracked windows, minding their own business, intent on getting where they need to go. And getting it over with as quickly as possible. In another part of town, people of a different income class are riding in a new train. They come from the suburbs, clacking away at laptops and sipping cappuccino on their way to downtown jobs. These are people taking advantage of what Mike Davis (1995, p. 270) calls “the biggest public works project in fin de siecle America”, an ambitious series of commuter rail lines that were budgeted at $183 billion over 30 years (Sterngold, 1999). These train riders choose to leave their cars at home to avoid the maddening freeway jams of Los Angeles. Some ride the train on principle. Trains are, after all, better for the environment. Back on the inner‐city bus … someone’s handing out leaflets and talking about forming a union—of bus riders? First in English then in Spanish, the organizer tells riders how the train that’s always in the newspapers is costing more than planners expected, and that politicians now propose to take money away from buses to keep building the train lines. Then the organizer talks about racial discrimination. Racial discrimination? What do buses have to do with racial discrimination? Journal: City Pages: 51-66 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050161 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050161 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:51-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matti Siemiatycki Author-X-Name-First: Matti Author-X-Name-Last: Siemiatycki Title: The making of a mega project in the neoliberal city Abstract: Canadian cities are widely recognized for their effective provision of public transportation. Both Montreal and Toronto are often cited as models of public transit, with system performance and ridership figures comparable to the best in the world, including Europe, the USA and Australia. The busway network in Ottawa is internationally acclaimed as an innovative and successful alternative to capital‐intensive urban rail systems (Cervero, 2001). In 1996, Vancouver was acknowledged as the North American Transit System of the Year by the American Public Transit Association. These Canadian transit systems experienced their greatest capital expansion as a result of public‐sector planning and financing, and each system is currently operated predominantly by public‐sector corporations. Yet at the beginning of the 21st century, private‐sector involvement in the planning, financing and operation of public transit has become increasingly popular in Canada. Seen as latecomers in experimenting with private‐sector involvement in the public transit industry, some Canadian systems have now begun to outsource the operation and maintenance of bus or rail services to private firms. Journal: City Pages: 67-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050336 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050336 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:67-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kenneth M. Reardon Author-X-Name-First: Kenneth M. Author-X-Name-Last: Reardon Title: Empowerment planning in East St. Louis, Illinois Journal: City Pages: 85-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500128629 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500128629 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:85-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Brenner Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Brenner Author-Name: Nik Theodore Author-X-Name-First: Nik Author-X-Name-Last: Theodore Title: Neoliberalism and the urban condition Abstract: Over two decades ago, the term “restructuring” became a popular label for describing the tumultuous political‐economic and spatial transformations that were unfolding across the global urban system. As Edward Soja (1987: 178; italics in original) indicated in a classic formulation: Restructuring is meant to convey a break in secular trends and a shift towards a significantly different order and configuration of social, economic and political life. It thus evokes a sequence of breaking down and building up again, deconstruction and attempted reconstitution, arising from certain incapacities or weaknesses in the established order which preclude conventional adaptations and demand significant structural change instead […] Restructuring implies flux and transition, offensive and defensive postures, a complex mix of continuity and change. In the 1980s and early 1990s, scholars mobilized a variety of categories—including, among others, deindustrialization, reindustrialization, post‐Fordism, internationalization, global city formation, urban entrepreneurialism, informalization, gentrification and sociospatial polarization—in order to describe and theorize the ongoing deconstruction and attempted reconstitution of urban social space. These concepts provided key intellectual tools through which a generation of urbanists could elaborate detailed empirical studies of ongoing urban transformations both in North America and beyond. In the early 2000s, such concepts remain central to urban political economy, but they are now being complemented by references to “neoliberalism,” which is increasingly seen as an essential descriptor of the contemporary urban condition. This widening and deepening interest in the problematic of neoliberalism among urban scholars is evident in the papers presented in this special issue of CITY: all deploy variations on this terminology—“neoliberalism,” “neoliberal,” “neoliberalized,” “neoliberalization,” and so forth—in order to interpret major aspects of contemporary urban restructuring in North American cities. At the same time, like earlier analysts of urban restructuring, the contributors to this special issue reject linear models of urban transition, emphasizing instead its uneven, contentious, volatile and uncertain character. Indeed, each of the contributions included here suggestively illustrates Soja’s conception of restructuring: whether implicitly or explicitly, each postulates a systemic breakdown of established forms of urban life (generally associated with postwar, Fordist‐Keynesian capitalism) and the subsequent proliferation of social, political, discursive, and representational struggles to create a transformed, “neoliberalized” urban order. Journal: City Pages: 101-107 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500092106 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500092106 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:101-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Baker Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Title: Religious faith in the exurban community Abstract: In this case‐study of Milton Keynes in the UK, Christopher Baker looks at how new urban forms and phenomena have affected the ability of the Christian Church to engage with the community. Drawing on North American concepts such as Joel Garreau’s 'Edge City’ and Ed Soja’s 'Exopolis’, he uses the term 'exurban communities’ as 'a generic description of those urban spaces that have developed over recent years as a result of continuous urban decentralization’. These postmodern spaces are characterized by consumerism and privatization. The Church, held back by a 'quasi‐rural and romanticized’ image of itself in which it operates as the heart of the community, has been unable to adjust to these newly decentralized urban forms. To become relevant once more Baker concludes that it must reconceive urban community as a 'process of flows’ rather than a geographical place. Building on previous work in CITY linking theology and urbanism (see Andrew Davey’s 'Theology, theory and urban praxis’, in CITY 7(3), pp. 419--422, for example), this paper develops a useful contribution to the current debate in the UK about the future role of the church. At the same time the author provides a critique of the neoliberal city, linking to the themed material in this issue, arguing against the 'postmodern gospel of salvation’, driven by a belief in happiness through technology and material comfort, and of '…the current notion of individualism which is expressed in terms of the right and freedom to consume whatever is required, regardless of the cost to others’. Journal: City Pages: 109-123 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050344 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050344 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:109-123 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex M. Deffner Author-X-Name-First: Alex M. Author-X-Name-Last: Deffner Title: The combination of cultural and time planning Abstract: Writers on the city have only rarely focussed on how time is spent and how time is managed as part of planning. Alex Deffner gathers together and develops this work (most recently Arantxa Rodiguez’s paper in CITY vol 8 no 2) and argues that the planning of time is increasingly important: the opening hours of public and private services, the relationship of work rhythms, travel patterns and (especially) cultural practices need to be considered together. He shows how important it is that 'time planning’ is linked with planning for cultural development and presents the argument through an analysis of Athens. The paper relates issues of time to some of the dilemmas of cultural planning: What are the strengths and weaknesses of culture‐led urban regeneration? Should the focus be on high or popular culture? Should it be on spatial or time planning? And, finally, should the emphasis be on the past, the present or the future? Journal: City Pages: 125-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500091140 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500091140 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:125-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Wilks‐Heeg Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Wilks‐Heeg Title: Liverpool echoes Journal: City Pages: 143-145 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050385 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050385 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:143-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nic Coetzer Author-X-Name-First: Nic Author-X-Name-Last: Coetzer Title: Touring Jozi Journal: City Pages: 145-147 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:145-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Communities in common Journal: City Pages: 147-149 Issue: 1 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500050351 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500050351 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:1:p:147-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zygmunt Bauman Author-X-Name-First: Zygmunt Author-X-Name-Last: Bauman Title: Seeking shelter in Pandora’s box Abstract: 'Progress’ has reached a point at which it engenders mounting fear and insecurity. As a response, Zygmunt Bauman argues, we seek substitute forms of satisfaction that appear to guard us against danger. One such substitute is the Sports Utility Vehicle (considered at greater length in Eduardo Mendieta’s contribution to this issue). These fears and the attempt to escape them are increasingly played out in cities. In the massive urban agglomerations of 'the developing world’ such progress takes the form of an increasingly gross and exploitative imbalance between town and country which creates severe problems that were once, though not once and for all, addressed with extreme difficulty, in the cities of 'the developed world’ Cities, in a sad reversal of progress, have now reached the point where they are characterized, instead of by the one‐time external wall that protected residents against external enemies, by a multiplicity of internal walls protecting some residents against others within the city. What is needed, though, is not more privatized spaces but more public spaces in which the city and civilization can be rebuilt. Journal: City Pages: 161-168 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500196949 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500196949 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:161-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Switching cities off Abstract: In this follow‐up to a piece originally published in City 8(2), Stephen Graham offers a detailed portrait of the tactics and techniques of contemporary urban warfare. As cities have become more reliant than ever on networks, and as their infrastructures have become more fragile due to the vagaries of neoliberal privatization, urban‐based warfare, which targets the systems—informational, medical, agricultural, and technological—that sustain the civilian populations of cities, has had disastrous consequences. Although terrorists have chosen to target urban infrastructures in an attempt to disrupt modern urban life, Graham suggests that the greater threat to metropolitan existence comes from systematic attempts by traditional powers, such as the United States, to disrupt urban networks, thereby effectively 'switching cities off’. Policies of what Graham calls 'deliberate demodernization’ have become the hallmark of US air power. Although such policies are thought to bring about asymmetrical military advantage, they also place civilian populations at risk. Such policies represent thus perpetuation of total war in a different key. Graham concludes by calling for further research into the new geopolitics of infrastructural warfare. Journal: City Pages: 169-194 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500196956 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500196956 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:169-194 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: The axle of evil Abstract: Exposing one of the latest manifestations of anti‐urbanism today, Eduardo Mendieta dissects in this essay the production, dissemination, and consumption of a new discourse of urban fear. He takes as his starting point the SUV, or Sport Utility Vehichle, which simultaneously represents and replicates the main tropes of this discourse. In the image of the gas‐guzzling, martial‐like SUV, Mendieta sees a 'double negation of the urban.’ Insofar as the SUV, like a tank, runs roughshod over the urban environment while it simultaneously displays its own conspicuous consummation of scare resources, it encapsulates the inherently anti‐urban sentiment of the new American imperialism. Whether on the streets of the wealthiest American cities and suburbs or the beleaguered streets of Baghdad, were it is thevehicle of choice for private and public occupation forces alike, the SUV represents the excesses of neoliberalism at work. Journal: City Pages: 195-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500196980 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500196980 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:195-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Max Pensky Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Pensky Title: Memory, catastrophe, destruction Abstract: For some time now, urban theorists have looked for inspiration to the pioneering metropolitan works of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish literary critic who tragically took his own life in 1940 while attempting to flee Nazi‐occupied France. In this essay, philosopher Max Pensky examines some of the key components of Benjamin's description of modern, urban life. Specifically, he contrasts Benjamin's understanding of the modern capitalist city as a locus of both myth making and breaking with Sigmund Freud's attempt to equate the urban experience with psychic development itself. While both Freud and Benjamin suggest that the modern city is a site of collective memory, Pensky argues that Benjamin's dialectical approach is, in the end, more capable of capturing the redemptive, or utopian, potential of the urban environment. Despite surface similarities, Freud and Benjamin's analysis of urban psychic life are actually quite distinct and lead to very different conceptions of the city's relation to both individual and collective psychic experience. Journal: City Pages: 205-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500196998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500196998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:205-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gail Weiss Author-X-Name-First: Gail Author-X-Name-Last: Weiss Title: City limits Abstract: City limits are to be seen not only as geographical and temporal boundaries but also as perceived and effective horizons imposed by social arrangements. Making use of both philosophical and fictional resources, Gail Weiss develops an inter‐corporeal cartography of the city that explores how these horizons impinge on people's lives. Drawing on the work of Merleau‐Ponty and Elizabeth Grosz, this paper moves from the demise of a 'dead‐end street’ as represented in G. Naylor's novel 'The Women of Brewster Street’ to some critical individual turning‐points in Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway’ (for further discussion of the relevance of Virgina Woolf's work see Jeri Johnson, 'Literary Geography: Joyce, Woolf and the City’, City 4(2), pp. 199--214). One such turning point is the death, a suicide, of one of Woolf's characters who refuses to pay the price of adapting to the established rhythms of the city. That such constraints can be challenged is suggested, though in this case not entirely satisfactorily, by the architectural example of Peter Eisenham's Wexner Center for the Performing Arts in the city of Columbia, USA. Constraints, limits and horizons have, then, to be seen as also potential sites of opportunity, 'in‐between’ spaces, where social transformation is possible. Journal: City Pages: 215-224 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500197004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500197004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:215-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Fox Gotham Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Fox Author-X-Name-Last: Gotham Title: Theorizing urban spectacles Abstract: In this paper Kevin Fox Gotham critically explores a number of urban festivals in the US city of New Orleans, namely Mardi Gras, the Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Essence Festival (previous articles in City have looked at similar topics—see for example Tony Harcup (Vol. 4, No. 2) in relation to Leeds, and Kim Dovey and Leonie Sandercock (Vol. 6, No. 1) in relation to Melbourne. Gotham’s central concern is to develop a critical theory of urban spectacles, using the ideas of Guy Debord and Henri Lefebvre, to highlight the conflicts and struggles over meanings of local celebrations, highlight the irrationalities and contradictions of converting cities into tourist spectacles, and wider concerns about the relationship between tourism and local culture. Rather than seeing this spectacularisation of local cultures as simply negative or positive, Gotham discusses how tourism is a conflictual and contradictory process that simultaneously disempowers localities and creates new pressures for local autonomy and resistance. Detailed ethnographic material is used to show how local festivals have become 'battlefields of contention’, with different groups and interests attempting to produce them for their own ends. In the face of globalised forms of cultural production and consumption that limit creativity, we hear voices from local actors who use urban spectacles to sow seeds of dissent, create breeding grounds for reflexive action and launch radical critiques of inequality. Journal: City Pages: 225-246 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500197020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500197020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:225-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: 'The city’ as perverse metaphor Journal: City Pages: 247-254 Issue: 2 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500197038 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500197038 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:2:p:247-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Urban development Abstract: 'Perhaps the planning process is inherently “out of control”’, writes Adrian Atkinson in this article (see City 8(1), pp.89--108 for a related discussion). A refusal to take responsibility for our settlements as they grow in uncontrolled ways, alongside unsustainable inputs of non‐renewable fuels sets the tone for this deeply questioning article. Atkinson laments that in our 'post‐modern’ world we 'avoid looking at the larger picture and thus the causes of worsening conditions’, but also urges us to 'return to more strategic thinking’ embedded in participatory planning processes. Atkinson focuses on the global south where increasing social conflict and insecurity and degraded environmental conditions are a universal accompaniment to urbanization. More worryingly, current urbanization is not associated with industrialization, and leaves huge swathes of the population disconnected. Drawing on case studies from local initiatives in the global south, Atkinson concludes that planning processes are tolerated in the global South as long as they focus on charity work amongst the poor. Transforming local initiatives into systemic change requires’a shift in our collective consciousness and taking hold of the means to determine how our future will be organized’. Journal: City Pages: 279-295 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392548 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392548 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:279-295 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: Dichotomies and contemporary social movements Abstract: In this essay Vincenzo Ruggiero explores the dichotomy between theories of new social movements that draw upon rationalist/resource‐mobilization approaches and those that focus on collective identity and cultural difference as key motivators. Taking contemporary social movements (CSMs) engaged in opposition to globalizing neo‐liberalism (from anti‐G8 protests to the World Social Forums) as the focus of analysis, the paper argues that because 'the different components of the movement have extremely diversified needs’ it is as difficult for activists as it is for researchers to identify a common purpose or set of unifying principles. However, Ruggiero suggests that by refusing to succumb to traditional organizational 'leader‐follower’ paradigms, CSMs begin to resemble the 'free city’ of 'the multitude’, which so bewildered Kreon's messenger from the dictatorial city‐state of Thebes. The multitude do not speak with one voice, however, and in this 'movement of movements’ we find rejectionists that eschew all forms of engagement with capitalism's economic and social manifestations, international solidarity activists building resistance 'from below’ with grass roots movements around the world, and finally regulators and reformers who seek to utilize existing legal and democratic resources to constrain and encourage corporations into more pro‐social and pro‐environmental behaviour. Ultimately, though, CSMs are attempting to work through the eternal conflict between reason and utopia—imagining Rimbaud's new life while, as Marx implored, changing the existing world, or as Ruggiero puts it—'between real achievement and contestation of the official notion of the real’. Journal: City Pages: 297-306 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392571 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392571 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:297-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bülent Diken Author-X-Name-First: Bülent Author-X-Name-Last: Diken Title: City of God Abstract: Well over a millennium and a half ago, Augustine distinguished between two cities: the Heavenly City and the Earthly City. While one was the site of all that was holy and spiritual, the place of faith, the other was foul and wicked, the realm of the flesh. Such dichotomies, expanded into a full‐fledged binary logic, persist in the way that we think about cities today. But as Bülent Diken shows in these reflections on João Fernando Meirelles' film—entitled, appropriately enough—City of God, cities today are bound up with the very things they try to exclude: ghettos, slums, and shanty‐towns. Binary urban logics in fact produce more grey than they do black and white. The notorious favela outside of Rio that is the subject of Meirelles' film is simultaneously included and excluded from all that Rio represents. It is at once a dumping ground for the city's byproducts—the (human) waste generated by its own development—and its products. It is a zone beyond the civilized city, which, as the city's inverted, carnivalesque, image, makes the very idea of civilization possible. It is, in other words, the lawless state of exception that proves the law. In this careful and original analysis of Meirelles' stunning film, Diken employs the work of Žižek and Agamben, among others, to illustrate the ways in which the favela—the state of urban exception, the space supposedly outside the law and outside civilization, where life is reduced to mere existence—is not outside the city, but within its very center. 'All contemporary urban space,’ Diken explains, 'is organized according to the logic of the favela’. Journal: City Pages: 307-320 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392589 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392589 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:307-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Rogers Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Rogers Author-Name: Jon Coaffee Author-X-Name-First: Jon Author-X-Name-Last: Coaffee Title: Moral panics and urban renaissance Abstract: As cities around the world are re‐shaped by urban renewal policies underpinned by a concern with enhancing quality of life, tensions inevitably arise about whose quality of life is enhanced, and at whose expense? In this piece, Rogers and Coaffee critically interrogate the effects of quality of life policies which target UK city centres. Their particular concern here is with the exclusion of young people from the spaces of the city and from the policy processes which seek to re‐shape those spaces. They explore these issues through an analysis of the ways in which the agencies promoting Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne’s urban renaissance have positioned young people’s various uses of the city centre. Their paper highlights the exclusionary consequences of single‐minded attempts to enhance quality of life which fail to give recognition to the diversity of lifestyles or urban populations, thereby displacing and dispersing some populations to the margins. Nonetheless, Rogers and Coaffee also find evidence of alternative approaches, which might go some way to fostering a more diverse urban public realm. Journal: City Pages: 321-340 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392613 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392613 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:321-340 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivaylo Ditchev Author-X-Name-First: Ivaylo Author-X-Name-Last: Ditchev Title: Communist urbanization and conditional citizenship Abstract: In this essay, Ivaylo Ditchev plays with the theory and reality of the Eastern European utopian project of the communist period, tracing their effort to create an urban form that erased the spatial contradictions of human settlements, and promote a way of living in line with socialistic values. From the theory, Ditchev uncovers two competing visions for the ideal socialist territoriality, based on either an ameliorated form of concentration or a decentralization of population to erase the division between core and periphery. Yet as Ditchev illustrates, the daily reality of living under communist spatial organization of population was far from the utopia envisioned by their theoreticians: 'mobility and urbanization did not become a tool of liberation, but one of tightening control over the population’. We are shown how stringent internal restrictions on travel and settlement shaped complex geometries of citizenship, where the privilege of mobility contributed to definitions of status, appropriate individual behaviour and quality of life. Ditchev concludes that the communist countries of Eastern Europe achieved an internal level of conditional citizenship based on legitimacy of mobility that presaged such trends on the world stage. Journal: City Pages: 341-354 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392621 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392621 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:341-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth Stanton Author-X-Name-First: Gareth Author-X-Name-Last: Stanton Title: Peckham tales Abstract: Urban ethnographic work is still relatively rare in mainstream urban studies and yet it may be an essential component. Some of the promise of such work is indicated by this paper. Inspired by the Mass Observation movement of the late 1930s and a recent challenge by Kevin Robins as well as work by Henri Lefebvre and Zygmunt Bauman, it enacts a search for the modalities of community in the south London district of Peckham. Starting with media tales, Stanton encounters iconic buildings, ethnic dimensions of meat, consumption worlds, religious tales, and ends with an explicit relic of Empire. Of some of the black churches he comments that they represent religious globalization and their cries for an end of ethnic suffering through redemptive love of Christ say much for histories which remain hidden and untold. What is in effect an essential companion piece for this emerging take on the cultural complexities of 'glocal’ realities is Elisa Joy White's 'Forging African diaspora places in Dublin's retro‐global spaces: Minority making in a new global city’, City 6(2), 2002, pp. 251--270. Journal: City Pages: 355-369 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:355-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oliver Ressler Author-X-Name-First: Oliver Author-X-Name-Last: Ressler Title: Alternatives Abstract: This is the fourth 'Alternatives’ section in City (see issue 8(1) for our opening statement and first piece discussing the uprising in Argentina; issue 8(3) for the second piece from the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army; and issue 9(2) for the third piece featuring a blog discussion. The Alternatives section focuses on alternative responses of resistance, autonomy, hope and creativity within the contemporary city. We explore, discuss and engage with groups and individuals who are developing alternative urban visions, practices and policies. We encourage material of a variety of types and from a variety of sources, especially from those which fall outside formal institutions and ways of doing things. In this issue, we present the billboard interventions by artist Oliver Ressler. In his work Ressler encourages us to relate to the city in new ways, and he challenges everyday streetscapes with alternative messages of how to organize economic and social life. His innovative and provocative interventions have been displayed, legally and illegally, in cities throughout the world. In the following pages, some are displayed. Journal: City Pages: 371-379 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392670 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392670 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:371-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carina Listerborn Author-X-Name-First: Carina Author-X-Name-Last: Listerborn Title: How public can public spaces be? Journal: City Pages: 381-388 Issue: 3 Volume: 9 Year: 2005 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810500392688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810500392688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:9:y:2005:i:3:p:381-388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lila Leontidou Author-X-Name-First: Lila Author-X-Name-Last: Leontidou Title: Urban social movements: from the 'right to the city’ to transnational spatialities and flaneur activists Journal: City Pages: 259-268 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600980507 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600980507 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:259-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ana Paula Beja Horta Author-X-Name-First: Ana Paula Beja Author-X-Name-Last: Horta Title: Places of resistance Abstract: This paper examines the changing nature of spatial discourses and the dynamics of grassroots organizing in the migrant squatter settlement of Cova da Moura, in the periphery of Lisbon. It focuses on official discourses on this neighbourhood and the ways in which these have shaped local collective organizing. The first part of the paper maps out the origins and development of the settlement, focusing on the emergence of migrant neighbourhood‐based organizations. The second part explores how dominant official discourses and policies have produced, in the last three decades, an ideology of illegality and of ghettoization. The discourses of space are understood in relation to the concrete social and historical conditions in which they emerge. In the third part, special emphasis is given to the processes of negotiation, and resistance produced by local collective mobilization. It is argued that the ideologies of illegality and ghettoization have been a major driving force in shaping power relations and the nature of social action and collective consciousness. At the broader level, the paper draws on the case study of Cova da Moura to illustrate how grassroots mobilizing in slum neighbourhoods needs to be understood in the battleground of competing forces for the social production of space. This spatial politics constitutes the meeting place where domination meets resistance, where collective struggles become expressions of a greater awareness for the intersection of oppression, marginalization, exploitation and space. Journal: City Pages: 269-285 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600980580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600980580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:269-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Afouxenidis Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Afouxenidis Title: Urban social movements in Southern European cities Abstract: This paper discusses some of the ideas presented by Toni Negri concerning the impact of urban social movements, especially his suggestion that such movements are in a position to radically alter the capitalist urban system since the metropolis incorporates the idea of the single, unitary mass as well as of the collective mass, in actions such as general strikes. After a critical examination of this analysis, the paper places emphasis on political culture and introduces the concept of 'deferentially intertwined cultures’, where citizens irrespective of ideological, political or social differences and temporary conflicts, essentially reproduce specific types of cultural politics. These are symbiotic rather than conflicting cultures and tend to legitimize private appropriation and exploitation of urban space. This is illustrated by looking at the role of civil society in the city of Athens with regard to combating urban pollution and mobilizing for the Olympic Games. Journal: City Pages: 287-293 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600980622 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600980622 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:287-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola Montagna Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Montagna Title: The de‐commodification of urban space and the occupied social centres in Italy-super-1 Abstract: This paper will describe the social uses of urban space by an urban movement actor, the Venetian 'occupied social centre’ Rivolta. It considers the occupied social centres (OSCs) in Italy as heterogeneous experiences that rely on illegal occupations of disused buildings and their self‐management. They become social and de‐commodified spaces where activists set up political and cultural initiatives. Self‐managing and self‐organization are the principles through which the occupants organize political and social activities. In this paper I will provide a general overview of this heterogeneous archipelago and interpret the Rivolta as a proactive and multidimensional movement actor that challenges a widespread view that occupations of urban space take the form of ghettos. Journal: City Pages: 295-304 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600980663 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600980663 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:295-304 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Hodkinson Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Hodkinson Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Autonomy in the city? Abstract: This paper is about the emergence of social centres and their role in both the development of autonomous politics and the growing urban resistance movement in the UK to the corporate takeover, enclosure and alienation of everyday life. In European terms, social centres are not new and, as Montagna in this issue demonstrates, have played a particularly important role in the political and cultural world of Italy's autonomist scene. Previously marginal in British radical movements, since the eruption of global anti‐capitalism in the late 1990s, the number of occupied or legalized social centres and other autonomous spaces in the UK has been on the increase, playing crucial roles in confrontational politics from reclaiming public space to mass mobilizations such as the G8 summit at Gleneagles. This paper, written by action researchers heavily implicated in the social centre movement, critically examines the experience of social centres so far and offers some thoughts on their future development. Journal: City Pages: 305-315 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600982222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600982222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:305-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fivos Papadimitriou Author-X-Name-First: Fivos Author-X-Name-Last: Papadimitriou Title: A geography of 'Notopia’ Abstract: The expansion of information and telecommunication technologies has resulted in the emergence of new urban virtual cultures, while the social, technological and economic impacts of these cyber‐cultures have already been felt. This study categorizes and gives the main characteristics of some urban cyber‐groups and cyber‐cultures (for instance, categories of hackers, hacktivists) and attempts to explore their activities as emerging urban social movements. These activities take place in a sub‐space of the Internet, which we may name 'Notopia’ (no + topos, in greek µη τóπoς), this being a space of unmapped, unidentifiable, nameless places. It is suggested that cyber‐groups/cyber‐cultures might be explained by the ideologies they often subscribe to, whilst the structural aspects of urban cyber‐cultures should be examined in more detail, so as to derive a better understanding of their social characteristics and thus, of our future digital cities. Journal: City Pages: 317-326 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600982289 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600982289 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:317-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes Author-X-Name-Last: de Souza Title: Social movements as 'critical urban planning’ agents Abstract: Curiously, even progressive planners usually share with their conservative counterparts the assumption that the state is the sole urban planning agent. This paper outlines that even if the state is sometimes controlled by more or less progressive forces and even influenced by social movements, civil society should be seen as a powerful actor in the conception and implementation of urban planning and management. Drawing on examples from urban social movements in Latin America, in particular favela activism, the sem‐teto movement and participatory budgeting, it explores how civil society can conceive, and even implement, complex, radically alternative socio‐spatial strategies. This can be seen as part of a genuine attempt at 'grassroots urban planning’. Journal: City Pages: 327-342 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600982347 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600982347 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:327-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karolos‐Iosif Kavoulakos Author-X-Name-First: Karolos‐Iosif Author-X-Name-Last: Kavoulakos Title: The emergence, development and limits of the alternative strategy of the urban movements in Germany Abstract: The decline of urban movements has mainly been attributed to changes of political context. Using elements of social movement theory and the regulation approach this paper explores the course of alternative movements in Germany during the last three decades. The closed political opportunity structure in the 1970s favoured the emergence of radical anti‐statist alternative movements, which aimed to develop an autonomous sector beyond the market and the state. The gradual opening of the opportunity structure during the next two decades weakened the autonomous and radical orientation of alternative movements and favoured their institutionalization. The conclusion highlights the limits of the alternative strategy of the urban movements. Alternative movements contributed to the abolishment of the state monopoly in welfare, but failed to promote social equality. As a result, in the post‐Fordist era the opportunities to claim for radical changes have been limited. Journal: City Pages: 343-354 Issue: 3 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600982370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600982370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:343-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 141-143 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701467586 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701467586 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:141-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth A. Jones Author-X-Name-First: Gareth A. Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Author-Name: Maria Moreno‐Carranco Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno‐Carranco Title: Megaprojects Abstract: Mexico is experiencing a series of debates about the shape of its cities. Most observers draw deeply pessimistic observations, noting a growing commodification of the urban landscape, high levels of crime and violence, social and spatial polarisation, state withdrawal and a general lack of innovative architectural design. Globalisation is widely held to be a root cause of these problems. Pressure to attract global capital and to cater for globalisation’s 'winners’ have provoked government support for a series of megaprojects that seem to offer diluted representations of national or regional identities, anodyne design and architectural motifs. This paper looks at two of the largest megaprojects in Latin America, Santa Fe in Mexico City and Angelópolis in Puebla. We argue that, seen through everyday practice, these global spaces are highly differentiated and present forms of spatial appropriation and possibilities of transformation and subversion. Everyday contestation reveals 'the local production of the global’. Journal: City Pages: 144-164 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701395969 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701395969 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:144-164 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eleni Portaliou Author-X-Name-First: Eleni Author-X-Name-Last: Portaliou Title: Anti‐global movements reclaim the city* Abstract: The paper examines the city as an object of contestation from the point of view of the grassroots. After discussing the city as a transforming field of social movements and grassroots mobilizations from the 19th to the 20th century, it examines the action of the recent anti‐global or alternative global movements on the city. It focuses especially on the foundation of the European Social Forum during November 2002, in Florence, on the World Charter on the Right to the City, brought forward for discussion at the meeting of the World Social Forum, as well as on the anti‐war movement. As an active member of the Greek and European Social Forum and having been aware of the theoretical discourse on urban social movements, the author argues that new formations of social movements—the 'movement of movements’—are reviving and reshaping, at least in Europe, the meaning of the urban, having the city as a base of their activities and as an object of contestation from their own point of view. *This is the paper referred to in the introduction to our special feature in issue 10.3 “Urban social movements: from the 'right to the city’ to transnational spatialities and flaneur activists” Journal: City Pages: 165-175 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701396009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701396009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:165-175 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wendy Pullan Author-X-Name-First: Wendy Author-X-Name-Last: Pullan Author-Name: Philipp Misselwitz Author-X-Name-First: Philipp Author-X-Name-Last: Misselwitz Author-Name: Rami Nasrallah Author-X-Name-First: Rami Author-X-Name-Last: Nasrallah Author-Name: Haim Yacobi Author-X-Name-First: Haim Author-X-Name-Last: Yacobi Title: Jerusalem’s Road 1 Abstract: Road 1 is a four‐ to six‐lane divided carriageway that runs north--south through Jerusalem and separates Israeli and Palestinian sectors. We argue that this thoroughfare brings the frontier into the centre of Jerusalem while at the same time contributing to Israeli spatial continuity. In many ways, Road 1 functions like the bypass roads of the Occupied Territories, which may cause more long‐term damage than the infamous separation barrier, simply because roads are among the most enduring of urban interventions. The paper investigates Road 1 as both standard inner city infrastructure and cultural artefact, where speed, aesthetics and modernisation are intertwined. Even in a city like Jerusalem, where sectarian views are extreme, our findings demonstrate the difficulty of separating political and urban expediencies. Journal: City Pages: 176-198 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701395993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701395993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:176-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shipra Narang Author-X-Name-First: Shipra Author-X-Name-Last: Narang Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 199-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701423563 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701423563 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:199-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Cities after oil—1: 'Sustainable development’ and energy futures Abstract: One facet of City over the years has been a rather dark foreboding that the trajectory of urbanisation around the world is accumulating problems that refuse to be solved and that in the foreseeable future we will see some kind of apocalyptic collapse. In New Orleans we saw one version of this, in other cities there may be others yet to reveal themselves. This paper is one of a trilogy that focus on the 'sustainable development’ of cities and that, by the end, spells out a rather specific scenario of collapse as a consequence of energy starvation that we will, in all likelihood, be seeing unfold over the coming decades. Here we take a distanced view of the whole 'sustainable development’ and 'sustainable cities’ discourse, concluding that it has become diffused and lost in a welter of fragmented analyses, hopes and small projects that, prima facie, is failing to address deteriorating environmental conditions. The point, however, is that the real source of unsustainability of our civilisation lies in its extreme and increasing reliance on fossil fuels which, in the coming decades will be declining in availability. This paper makes a preliminary assessment of the relationship between 'development’ and its demand for energy, noting the consistent avoidance of any meaningful assessment of this or what should be done in an effective way to avoid an emerging crisis. This will surely reveal itself with the progressive difficulty, and thence impossibility, of satisfying our energy demands in a situation where the widely held belief in the imminent rapid growth of alternative sources of energy proves to be without foundation. The next paper in the trilogy looks at the reasons why our society is so blind to the tragedy ahead and the third sketches the probable trajectory of the collapse of our civilisation and the consequence of this for the future of cities both in the north and the south. Journal: City Pages: 201-213 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701422896 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701422896 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:201-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicholas You Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Author-X-Name-Last: You Title: Sustainable for whom? The urban millennium and challenges for redefining the global development planning agenda-super-1 Abstract: One of the aims of City is to combine an analysis of trends, policy and action. In this issue, we introduce a new feature in City, a column titled 'Forum’, which aims to present commentary on current global urban policies and, in the process, engages with practitioners and policymakers who are responsible for setting much of the global urban development agenda. We would like this section to focus on major global policy developments, milestones and recent thinking relating to urbanisation and the challenges faced by cities. In 1996, at the time of the second UN Conference on Human Settlements in Istanbul, City carried a thought‐provoking interview with Nicholas You of UN‐HABITAT (then known as UNCHS), on the Habitat Agenda and the future of the urban world (Habitat II in focus. 'Towards a habitable future: an interview with Nicholas You’, City, 1996, 1(3--4), pp. 83--110). Ten years down the road, we requested him to make the first contribution to 'Forum’ and share his reflections on the relevance of the Habitat Agenda goals in today’s rapidly urbanising, culturally and socially complex, conflict‐ridden world. He provides us with a practitioner’s perspective on the challenges faced by cities today, and points out the achievements as well as the failures of the international community, national and local governments, in living up to the promises they made to cities and city‐dwellers.   Shipra Narang   Forum Editor Journal: City Pages: 214-220 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701396017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701396017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:214-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: O. A. K'Akumu Author-X-Name-First: O. A. Author-X-Name-Last: K'Akumu Title: Sustain no city: An ecological conceptualization of urban development Abstract: In the current sustainable urban development discourse, a distinct school of urban ecology has emerged based on the ecological conceptualization of urban development. Four main theoretical strands can be isolated, viz. urban growth, urban political ecology, ecological footprints of cities, and urban metabolism. This forum paper faults these 'organicist metaphors’ on the score that they shy away from the logical reality of their implications—that if the city is organic, it has to die for the sake of sustainability. The paper follows this implication to the logical end just to demonstrate the contradiction in the ecological analogies; given the stance of the analogists is that sustainability can be achieved by keeping the cities from dying. Its conclusion teases the urban ecology school to consider the sell‐by dates of cities. Hopefully, this challenge may awaken us to the contradiction of this stance. Journal: City Pages: 221-228 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701395829 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701395829 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:221-228 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Beer Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Title: Thoughtful territories: Imagining the thinking power of things and spaces Abstract: This debate article considers the questions concerning the intelligence or thinking powers of things and spaces, and suggests that these issues now need to receive detailed attention in the development of social, cultural and urban theories of digitalisation. By outlining the implications of a set of existing and forthcoming technologies, this piece claims that we now need to begin to imagine the near future so as to keep up with what is commonly described as social and cultural speed up. The paper concludes by drawing upon the recent 'non‐fiction’ work of the cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling to begin to imagine the form that the 'things’ of the future might take. The central argument of the piece is that Sterling’s attempts to set a new design agenda should also be considered by those interested in understanding the social and cultural transformations of the digital age. Journal: City Pages: 229-238 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701395845 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701395845 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:229-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Bell Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Bell Title: Mall gluts, category‐killers and edge nodes Journal: City Pages: 239-244 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701395951 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701395951 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:239-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Abstract: In order to be able to move beyond neoliberalism there has to be a theoretical paradigm that can contribute to charting the characteristic silences and blind spots that give plausibility to neoliberalism and implausibility to its contestation. The paradigm of normal social science that underlies mainstream urban studies, though valuable within limits, cannot ultimately chart such gaps and distortions. This essay—one of a series—seeks to sketch and illustrate an alternative paradigm, a 'revolutionary’ or 'weird’ approach to social science/knowledge. It draws on: work by Derrida, contemporary non‐academic sources including the arts, particularly two murals by Joel Bergner; on work from and/or on relatively distant pasts, in philosophy, drama and history; and on recent studies of aspects of contemporary society, particularly neoliberalism and its contestation. Reference is made particularly to entrapment and disjunctions in general and prisons in particular. Neoliberalism is 'located’ here within a dislocated series of time‐spaces. Individual figures and types (including immigrants, 'mediators’ and political leaders) are represented as moving, with varying degrees of consciousness, individually and/or collectively, across these dislocated time‐spaces. It is argued that work along these lines provides an intellectual and exploratory basis for a paradigm for social science/knowledge that can contribute to a New International, one that is able to mediate, re‐assess and inform the contestation and supersession of neoliberalism and associated disjunctions. Journal: City Pages: 245-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701469723 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701469723 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:2:p:245-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 273-276 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701787033 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701787033 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:273-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roy Scranton Author-X-Name-First: Roy Author-X-Name-Last: Scranton Title: Walls and shadows Abstract: This paper discusses the American occupation of Baghdad as the author experienced it, as a soldier in the United States Army. It considers issues related to the urban nature of his war experience and the way that the occupation seemed to work in and affect the city. Specifically, it looks at how the military occupation’s focus on defense created a segregated city, dividing Americans from Iraqis in ways that served not only to terrorize the population but to undermine the occupation itself. The paper examines the complex dynamics of urban occupation from the author’s particular vantage, exploring how technology, doctrine, psychology, and tactics interrelate in the high‐stress combat environment. Drawing wider conclusions from his experience, the author argues that the occupation of Baghdad offers a bleak vision of our urban future, a future where security for the few promotes a violent anarchy for the many, a future of walls and the shadows they cast. Journal: City Pages: 277-292 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701687993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701687993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:277-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Cities after oil—2 Abstract: In line with a general foreboding emerging from the analysis of the future of our cities—and indeed concerning our civilisations as such—that has made its appearance in the pages of CITY, this paper investigates in detail how civilisations collapse. It looks at the systemic forces that produce the general self‐consciousness of civilisations that leads to their relinquishing responsibility for their own future. In the case of our civilisation we can see a number of ingredients that include an early adoption of individualistic thinking that tends to the belief that looking after one’s self is better for society than trying to look after society as such (to précis Adam Smith). The postmodern condition and the unalloyed pursuit of consumption in our age is, however, altogether more extravagant than any past civilisation and this paper goes into considerable detail on the way in which our passion for the automobile has come to possess our culture and is screening out any realistic sense of responsibility for what is now looking like a catastrophic collapse ahead. This paper is the centrepiece of a trilogy appearing in the pages of CITY. The first paper appeared in the last issue and pointed both to the failure of the debate on sustainable development (and sustainable cities) and our dependence of vast throughputs of energy that in a few short years will start to dry up. In the next issue, I will be presenting the most likely scenario of collapse that will be unfolding over the coming decades, finishing with a discussion of how we need to conceptualise this and do what we can to survive the consequences. Journal: City Pages: 293-312 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701682960 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701682960 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:293-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Brady Thomas Heiner Author-X-Name-First: Brady Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Heiner Title: Foucault and the Black Panthers-super-1 Abstract: This paper unearths the relation between French philosopher Michel Foucault and the US Black Panther Party (BPP). I argue that Foucault’s shift from archaeological inquiry to genealogical critique is fundamentally motivated by his encounter with American‐style racism and class struggle, and by his engagement with the political philosophies and documented struggles of the BPP. The paper proceeds in four steps. First, I assess Foucault’s biographies and interviews from the transitional period of 1970--72 that indicate the fact and nature of this formative encounter. Second, I turn to some of the writings of BPP leaders and to the theme of politics and war as they articulated it. Third, I address this same theme of politics as war as it gets taken up and rearticulated by Foucault between 1971 and 1976, with an eye to the degree to which the philosophies and struggles of the Black Panthers silently, yet profoundly, inform Foucault’s genealogical work. I conclude by raising some ethical and political questions pertaining to the criteria of truthful speech in scholarly discourse. Journal: City Pages: 313-356 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701668969 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701668969 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:313-356 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Banlieues, the Hyperghetto and Advanced Marginality: A Symposium on Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts Journal: City Pages: 357-363 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701668993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701668993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:357-363 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sylvie Tissot Author-X-Name-First: Sylvie Author-X-Name-Last: Tissot Title: The role of race and class in urban marginality Journal: City Pages: 364-369 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:364-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elisa Joy White Author-X-Name-First: Elisa Author-X-Name-Last: Joy White Title: (Un)ghetto fabulous Journal: City Pages: 370-377 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669025 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669025 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:370-377 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: Putting space in its place Journal: City Pages: 378-383 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701676657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701676657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:378-383 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: Penalized spaces Journal: City Pages: 384-390 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669124 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669124 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:384-390 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: Marginal economies and collective action Journal: City Pages: 391-398 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669132 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669132 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:391-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Janet Abu‐Lughod Author-X-Name-First: Janet Author-X-Name-Last: Abu‐Lughod Title: The challenge of comparative case studies Journal: City Pages: 399-404 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669140 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669140 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:399-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Virgílio Borges Pereira Author-X-Name-First: Virgílio Borges Author-X-Name-Last: Pereira Title: Class, ethnicity, Leviathan and place Journal: City Pages: 405-412 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669165 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669165 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:405-412 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mario Luis Small Author-X-Name-First: Mario Luis Author-X-Name-Last: Small Title: Is there such a thing as 'the ghetto’? Journal: City Pages: 413-421 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669173 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669173 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:413-421 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Björn Surborg Author-X-Name-First: Björn Author-X-Name-Last: Surborg Title: 'Reclaim the City!’—a review of the special session at the 2007 Association of American Geographers’ annual meeting Journal: City Pages: 422-427 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669207 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669207 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:422-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Armitage Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Armitage Author-Name: Joanne Roberts Author-X-Name-First: Joanne Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts Title: On the eventuality of total destruction Journal: City Pages: 428-432 Issue: 3 Volume: 11 Year: 2007 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810701669215 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810701669215 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:11:y:2007:i:3:p:428-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802079496 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802079496 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ash Amin Author-X-Name-First: Ash Author-X-Name-Last: Amin Title: Collective culture and urban public space Abstract: This paper develops a post‐humanist account of urban public space. It breaks with a long tradition that has located the culture and politics of public spaces such as streets and parks or libraries and town halls in the quality of inter‐personal relations in such spaces. Instead, it argues that human dynamics in public space are centrally influenced by the entanglement and circulation of human and non‐human bodies and matter in general, productive of a material culture that forms a kind of pre‐cognitive template for civic and political behaviour. The paper explores the idea of 'situated surplus’, manifest in varying dimensions of compliance, as the force that produces a distinctive sense of urban collective culture and civic affirmation in urban life. Journal: City Pages: 5-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933495 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933495 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:5-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Robowar™ dreams Abstract: This paper seeks to open up to critical scrutiny the attempts currently being made to re‐engineer post‐cold war US military power to directly confront global south urbanisation. Through analysing the discourses produced by US military commentators about 'urban warfare’, and the purported military, technological and robotic solutions that might allow US forces to dominate and control global south cities in the near to medium‐term future, the paper demonstrates that such environments are being widely essentialised as spaces which necessarily work to undermine the USA’s military’s high‐technology systems for surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting. The paper shows how, amid the ongoing urban insurgency in Iraq, widescale efforts are being made to 'urbanise’ these military systems so that US military forces can attempt to assert high‐tech dominance over the fine‐grained geographies of global south cities in the future. This includes an examination of how, by 2007, US forces, in close collaboration with the Israeli military, had already begun to implement ideas of robotised or automated urban warfare to counter the complex insurgencies in Iraq. The paper concludes with a critique of the urban and robotic turns in US military doctrine. Journal: City Pages: 25-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933511 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933511 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:25-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Hall Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Hall Title: London voices, 1957--2007 Abstract: The book London Voices London Lives: Notes from a Working Capital, published in summer 2007, has two affinities: written by Michael Young’s successor at the Institute of Community Studies, it appeared almost exactly fifty years after Family and Kinship in East London, and it presents the edited raw material of the interviews used in writing the book Working Capital, published in 2002. This paper, based on the 2007 Michael Young Lecture, contains reflections on the use of interview material as sociological evidence, and presents some major themes of the new book. The old working‐class communities based on strong kinship ties, a central theme of Family and Kinship, still survive but are under siege as children enter the middle class and leave London, and as their places are taken by immigrants and gentrifiers. In consequence, they are among the few relatively unhappy places in early 21st‐century London. Journal: City Pages: 50-63 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933529 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933529 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:50-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sara González Author-X-Name-First: Sara Author-X-Name-Last: González Author-Name: Geoff Vigar Author-X-Name-First: Geoff Author-X-Name-Last: Vigar Title: Community influence and the contemporary local state Abstract: This paper assesses contemporary power relations between the local state, capital and community interests in managing urban area development. It draws on work conducted under a Framework V EU project called SINGOCOM, focusing on one case among nine studied.-super-1 The case of the Ouseburn Valley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is mobilised to show how, despite comparatively well‐organised community interests, the local state and its approach to urban development are still the determining key factors in understanding built environment outcomes. Yet the local state is heavily constrained in its actions by: its cultures and practices; its financial and intellectual resources; a highly centralised governance context; and a pervasive discourse of neo‐liberalism. The case also highlights the contradictions inherent in state commitments to public participation and the role of communities in shaping development outcomes, especially given these constraints. Journal: City Pages: 64-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:64-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Cities after oil—3 Abstract: In this third and last instalment of 'Cities after Oil’, I envision the stages through which 'modern’ civilisation will collapse over the coming decades. The first essay analysed the discourse on sustainability and how this has abjectly failed to deflect what has become a fatal global development trajectory. The essay focused on the coming decline in available energy and the inability of our civilisation to function without vast and increasing energy supplies. The second essay looked at the general parameters of 'the collapse of civilisations’ and then in detail at two key aspects of our civilisation that are driving it over the edge, namely, suburban living and the obsession with the automobile. It is not at all clear how fast and through what stages the collapse will unfold because there are many variables which will interact differentially and depend crucially on political decisions taken—and possibly major conflicts—along the way; however, we can be sure that in general the decline will be inexorable. By the latter decades of this century, a radically altered world will have emerged, with a greatly reduced population living surrounded by the defunct debris of modernity, comprised of fragmented and largely self‐reliant political entities. Our complex, 'globalised’ world of megastates and technological hubris will be but a fading memory. The impacts of global warming and other environmental legacies of our age will reduce the options for reconstruction, possibly fatally. The essay ends by surveying the attempts in the shadows of our current civilisation to envisage and even live 'alternatives’ that might be seeds of the reconstruction of a civilisation viable within the resource and environmental constraints that can be expected to prevail. Journal: City Pages: 79-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933768 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933768 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:79-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sako Musterd Author-X-Name-First: Sako Author-X-Name-Last: Musterd Title: Banlieues, the Hyperghetto and Advanced Marginality: A Symposium on Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts Abstract: It is difficult to exaggerate the importance for urban and social studies of Loïc Wacquant’s work (and indeed its relevance to political debate). As a contribution to bringing out and following up the importance of his most recent book, Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, we have already published eight assessments (11:3, pp. 357--421), to which we now add Sako Musterd’s paper, 'Diverse Poverty Neighbourhoods: Reflections on Urban Outcasts’. We intend to publish Wacquant’s response in 12.2. Journal: City Pages: 107-114 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933776 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933776 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:107-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Author-Name: Ramor Ryan Author-X-Name-First: Ramor Author-X-Name-Last: Ryan Title: ¡Ya Basta! The Zapatista struggle for autonomy revisited Abstract: This is the sixth 'Alternatives’ section in CITY (previously we have featured work from Argentina, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army; global bloggers, and rogue billboarders and artists). The Alternatives section focuses on alternative responses of resistance, autonomy, hope and creativity which might provide new visions and ideas for the contemporary city. We explore, discuss and engage with groups and individuals who are developing alternative urban visions, practices and policies. We encourage material of a variety of types and from a variety of sources, especially from those which fall outside formal institutions and ways of doing things. In this issue of CITY, our 'Alternatives’ section returns to one of the most inspiring and important revolutionary movements in the contemporary world—the Zapatistas of Mexico (see Sophie Style in Vol. 4, No. 2 of CITY for our first discussion of the Zapatistas). Since their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in 1994, they have provided a beacon of hope: as a working example of living autonomously despite capitalism, and as an effective opposition to neo‐liberal economic policies. In the following pages, we have two pieces which revisit their struggle. The first is from Ramor Ryan, Irish writer, revolutionary and long‐time supporter of the Zapatistas. He reflects on the contradictions between the disorientating and often problematic experiences of international solidarity, and the more solid experiences of the Zapatista autonomous municipalities in practice. The second is a report from a recent fieldtrip which I took to the heart of this revolution. Thirty of us from the University of Leeds journeyed deep into the Chiapas mountains to spend time with, and learn from, the Junta del Buen Gobierno (Good Government Committee) of the fourth Rebel Zone, known as Corazón del Arcoiris de la Esperanza (Heart of the Rainbow of Hope). What we include here is an extract from a meeting and subsequent questions with the Junta where we explored how they work and the challenges they face and the hopes they have. The Zapatistas continue to inspire and inform all of us as to how we can make a new kind of radical politics, together, every day, which aims to be inclusive, relevant and which at the same time develops a critique and response to capitalist social relations and neo‐liberal economic policies. It is an honour to be able to support them in these pages. But as the Zapatistas say, don’t follow us, be a Zapatista wherever you are! Journal: City Pages: 115-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933800 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933800 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:115-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dave O’Brien Author-X-Name-First: Dave Author-X-Name-Last: O’Brien Author-Name: Pablo Bose Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Bose Author-Name: Christopher Harker Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Harker Title: The limits of critical approaches Journal: City Pages: 126-131 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810801933792 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810801933792 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:126-131 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: Abstract: 'We were under strict orders to remove only bodies. But there were lots of people on the roofs or leaning out of the windows of their houses. They were crazy with fear and thirst. They screamed, begged and cursed us. But we had a boatload of bodies, some probably infectious. So we saved the dead and left the living.’(Vincent, one of the workers charged with the task of removing dead bodies in post‐Katrina New Orleans)-super-1 Journal: City Pages: 132-143 Issue: 1 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802079520 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802079520 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:1:p:132-143 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 145-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802319488 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802319488 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:145-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: The production of urban space in the age of transnational mega‐urbes Abstract: There is no philosopher who should be more closely associated with '68 than Lefebvre, especially if it is recognized that this historical moment had to do with the explosion of the urban, and a concomitant assault on the colonization of everyday life by the technocratic forces of capitalist commercialization. This paper aims to briefly underscore the three pivots around which Lefebvre’s work gravitates and how they are both intervention and reflections on the explosion of the urban in the second half of the 20th century. Journal: City Pages: 148-153 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802259320 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802259320 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:148-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Author-Name: Korinna Thielen Author-X-Name-First: Korinna Author-X-Name-Last: Thielen Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 154-160 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802261243 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802261243 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:154-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Hudson Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Hudson Title: Mr Science and Mr Democracy Abstract: The exhilarating technical innovation, speed of development and unashamed ambition of Chinese urban centres should be welcomed as a direct challenge to the painful negativity of Western planning. But a Maglev train and a Five‐Year Plan represent only a partial, and one‐sided, re‐engagement with China’s century‐long struggle to embrace and reconstitute the modern. For Shanghai, or any other Chinese city, to take a place alongside quattrocento Florence and the melting pot of Chicago, it needs more than just iconic buildings and a few hundred kilometres of metro. China is again grappling with the idea of the modern, and nowhere is this more manifest than in the changing nature and understanding of the city. China’s fractured experience of modernity combined with the peculiar social and economic development of the post‐1980s reforms may offer an exemplary case study of the relationship between social agency and technical innovation and expertise. Journal: City Pages: 161-170 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802167002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802167002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:161-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marc Blecher Author-X-Name-First: Marc Author-X-Name-Last: Blecher Title: Into space Abstract: Many scholars argue that capitalism relentlessly reshapes space in accord with its own implacable pursuit of growth and profit. In accounts based on the USA, the agent of change is either the anarchic mechanisms of the capitalist economy or the specific, purposive machinations of the bourgeoisie. By contrast, in France—at least in Paris—the efforts of the Bonapartist state radically to restructure urban space in conformity with the needs both of capitalist development and state power are well documented. As in Bonapartist France, the maturation of Chinese capitalism has vastly increased the scale of urban construction and planning. Moreover, in both countries this work has been carried out by a developmental state intensely focused on fostering that rapid capitalist growth. Yet in China, the very capitalism promoted by the state has, dialectically, begun to interfere with the capacity of the state to regulate and rationalize urban development. Journal: City Pages: 171-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802176425 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802176425 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:171-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leslie Shieh Author-X-Name-First: Leslie Author-X-Name-Last: Shieh Author-Name: John Friedmann Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Friedmann Title: Restructuring urban governance Abstract: In urban China, neighbourhoods are administratively demarcated and under the management of Neighbourhood Residents’ Committees, officially recognized as self‐governing grassroots organizations. The increase in their responsibilities and authority, introduced in the late 1990s to help alleviate the burden of welfare service provision on local government, is the focus of this neighbourhood reform under the 'Community Construction’ policy and program. Our intent in this paper is to understand the emerging forms of self‐governance in urban neighbourhoods. A background section briefly maps the pressures on existing governing institutions, the origins of the policy and its long‐term objectives. Formulated by the central government and relayed down the administrative hierarchy to urban Neighbourhood Committees throughout the country, is by its very nature top‐down. In seeking an endogenous rather than Western perspective informed by liberal democracy concepts, the core of our paper presents the stories of three Nanjing Neighbourhood Committee Directors who were asked to talk about what neighbourhood self‐governance means to them. Their utilitarian perspectives, shaped by the realities of their daily work, remind us of the need to focus on the impacts on community life brought about through local action within the Chinese party--state structure. Journal: City Pages: 183-195 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802176433 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802176433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:183-195 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michal Lyons Author-X-Name-First: Michal Author-X-Name-Last: Lyons Author-Name: Alison Brown Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Brown Author-Name: Zhigang Li Author-X-Name-First: Zhigang Author-X-Name-Last: Li Title: The 'third tier’ of globalization Abstract: In recent years, China’s major trading cities have witnessed rapid social, cultural and physical change which has accompanied the country’s boom in manufacturing and exports. A small but increasingly significant element of this growth has been the China--Africa trade in small‐scale manufactured goods. The opening of China’s economy has created new spaces for migrant entrepreneurs capturing a share of international value chains, transforming social and business relations, and reconfiguring urban space. This paper draws on a pilot study by the authors of African migrants in Guangzhou in 2007, active in the exports to the African sub‐continent. Findings challenge established models of global city growth, identifying the collective importance of individual entrepreneurs in promoting a trade which has significant impacts on African cities, while creating new interactions with identifiable, distinctive and unanticipated impacts on this dynamic host city. Journal: City Pages: 196-206 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802167036 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802167036 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:196-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward Denison Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Denison Title: Building Shanghai Abstract: Located at one of the key gateways to the world’s most populous country, Shanghai has long enjoyed a neoteric image. Today, as one of the world’s largest and fastest growing cities, this image is dutifully sustained as Shanghai offers unprecedented opportunities for domestic and international architects who have enjoyed considerable commercial success while helping to transform the urban landscape from an ageing, dense and relatively low‐rise setting into a modern, multifaceted and ubiquitously high‐rise conglomeration in little under two decades. However, the scale of change and such narrow timeframes belie a broader narrative that deconstructs the pervasive and arguably superficial image of the city. By adopting a wider historical view, the city’s radical modernity appears more as an evolutionary rather than revolutionary process in which key issues such as rapid development, urban continuity and the dominance of foreign architects all have played an important role in shaping the city since the mid‐19th century. This paper explores these issues from the perspective of Shanghai’s urban fabric and the socio‐economic influences that have helped to shape it, revealing, in the process, potentially instructive parallels between the past and present that in turn might better inform urban practices in the future. Journal: City Pages: 207-216 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802166988 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802166988 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:207-216 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Xuefei Ren Author-X-Name-First: Xuefei Author-X-Name-Last: Ren Title: Architecture and China’s urban revolution Abstract: This paper seeks to understand the transformation of built environments in Chinese cities through the lens of transnational architectural production. I examine why private developers and government bureaucrats have opted for international architects to design their mega projects, as well as the consequences. I argue that the transformation of the symbolic capital embodied in architectural design is the key to understanding such preferences. Through two case studies in Beijing, the paper shows how the symbolic capital of architectural design is transformed into economic, political, and cultural capital by various segments of the transnational capitalist class, and how tensions and controversies are generated in the course of using foreign architecture to brand Chinese cities. Journal: City Pages: 217-225 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802167044 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802167044 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:217-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Li Xiangning Author-X-Name-First: Li Author-X-Name-Last: Xiangning Title: 'Make‐the‐Most‐of‐It’ architecture Abstract: Following contemporary Chinese literature, poetry and cinema, contemporary Chinese architecture has, since the 1990s, stepped onto an international stage. Going with the credits established globally, some Chinese architects’ works were influenced by the concept of 'La Chinoiserie’. This paper investigates different attitudes towards the concept of 'La Chinoiserie’ and strategies architects have been taking as responses to it. Works of Chinese architects including Yung Ho CHANG, WANG Shu, Ma Qingyun, LIU Jiakun and many others, are examined here. As a conclusion, this paper argues that instead of retreating to Chinese cultural tradition and finding nostalgic motifs for design, we might seek architectural positions responsive to massive change at the urban scale. A new value system in making judgments about contemporary Chinese architecture needs to be developed. Journal: City Pages: 226-236 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802167010 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802167010 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:226-236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shannon May Author-X-Name-First: Shannon Author-X-Name-Last: May Title: Ecological citizenship and a plan for sustainable development Abstract: In a small rural village in the mountains of Northeastern China, a transnational conglomerate is building an internationally lauded 'prototype’ for rural urbanization in China. More than a master plan for sustainable development, Huangbaiyu is representative of the new power relations and claims of ecological citizenship that acceptance of the dynamics of global warming generates. Four hundred families are to be relocated and their lives radically altered to determine if rural populations can be allowed urban privileges, without putting the 'planet in peril’. Despite its promise of equity, the rationality that has made William McDonough’s master plan for sustainable development in China internationally lauded is the same logic that ensures that existing resource distribution inequalities continue. Journal: City Pages: 237-244 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802168117 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802168117 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:237-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Debra Lam Author-X-Name-First: Debra Author-X-Name-Last: Lam Title: The reality of environmental sustainability in China-super-1 Abstract: In the past two decades, China has impressed the world with its rapid economic growth and urbanization which has been responsible for eliminating much of the world’s abject poverty. Its continued high single‐digit growth promises to bring both societal improvements and growth concerns. From environment degradation to energy shortages, many studies have been conducted on the technologies and methods that might ameliorate these growing problems. The Chinese government has promulgated numerous environmental and development laws, decrees and policies, as the push for sustainable development showcased in the next Five‐Year Plan demonstrates. Sceptics give little credit to China’s sustainable development rhetoric and are correct in raising the issues of local government compliance and lack of public participation and support. But what differentiates this policy from past environmental rhetoric is that sustainable development presents itself to the Chinese as a real solution for a pressing issue. The 11th Five‐Year Plan reveals that choice and the need to quickly enact sustainable development policy to maintain national stability. China has reached a point where it is desperate for energy, fearful of social instability and economically able to take action for sustainable development. Never before has this combination coincided with an emboldened environmental civil society and increased international pressure and aid. This combination of factors bodes well for China’s urban sustainability policy. Journal: City Pages: 245-254 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802193453 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802193453 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:245-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robin Balliger Author-X-Name-First: Robin Author-X-Name-Last: Balliger Author-Name: James DeFilippis Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: DeFilippis Author-Name: Luna Vives Author-X-Name-First: Luna Author-X-Name-Last: Vives Author-Name: Andrew Davey Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Davey Title: Post‐Fordism, sound and urban space Journal: City Pages: 255-265 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802166962 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802166962 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:255-265 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Abstract: 'The crime you see now, it’s hard even to take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it… But I don’t want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don’t understand.’-super-1 'Despite the praise Nelson Mandela received from 'First World’ leaders for heralding great restraint through this transition in our troubled land, nothing could convince those same leaders to check their own ancient eye‐for‐an‐eye, knee‐jerk response and their resulting offensive of 'Shock and Awe’ on the women and children of Baghdad.’-super-2 Journal: City Pages: 266-278 Issue: 2 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802319512 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802319512 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:266-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 279-282 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802614714 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802614714 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:279-282 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ken Hillis Author-X-Name-First: Ken Author-X-Name-Last: Hillis Title: Building the Cartesian Enlightenment Abstract: The built form of the Los Angeles region manifests key ideals first cultivated within what Habermas refers to as the Enlightenment bourgeois public sphere. In its use of space and communication technologies, LA is an unanticipated monument to those eighteenth‐century Cartesian theories and practices that conceive of subjectivity and space as infinite, promote their mutual division, and encourage the modern subject to imagine itself as conceptually disembodied. Once conceptually disembodied, this subject comes to increasingly rely on practices of representation for communicating itself and its ideas to others. These practices begin with printed texts and now center on electronic networks. I historicize the connections between the LA region’s vast geography and the ideology of early boosters such as interurban railroad magnate, Henry Huntington, who, in 1912, proclaimed that the city could 'extend in any direction as far as you like’. The intersection of geography and boosterism in LA would necessitate ever greater reliance on transportation and communication technologies. These technologies would be used by conceptually disembodied subjects to strive toward the individualist ideal of a private place in the sun organized according to an idea of nature reduced to 'real estate’. I theorize both the conception of homelessness and its material reality in the city of angels in order to illustrate how privatizing Enlightenment ideals have been put into everyday practice in Los Angeles. I also examine homelessness as a means to better understand how space and subjectivity are linked in contemporary urban ideologies. In so doing, I probe the relationship between mobile bourgeois subjects organized according to the logics of representation and how publicly homeless bodies seem to 'talk back’ to and refute the logic of these subjects. Journal: City Pages: 283-302 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802480686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802480686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:283-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert G. Hollands Author-X-Name-First: Robert G. Author-X-Name-Last: Hollands Title: Will the real smart city please stand up? Abstract: Debates about the future of urban development in many Western countries have been increasingly influenced by discussions of smart cities. Yet despite numerous examples of this 'urban labelling’ phenomenon, we know surprisingly little about so‐called smart cities, particularly in terms of what the label ideologically reveals as well as hides. Due to its lack of definitional precision, not to mention an underlying self‐congratulatory tendency, the main thrust of this article is to provide a preliminary critical polemic against some of the more rhetorical aspects of smart cities. The primary focus is on the labelling process adopted by some designated smart cities, with a view to problematizing a range of elements that supposedly characterize this new urban form, as well as question some of the underlying assumptions/contradictions hidden within the concept. To aid this critique, the article explores to what extent labelled smart cities can be understood as a high‐tech variation of the 'entrepreneurial city’, as well as speculates on some general principles which would make them more progressive and inclusive. Journal: City Pages: 303-320 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802479126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802479126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:303-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John R. Short Author-X-Name-First: John R. Author-X-Name-Last: Short Title: Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics Abstract: This study examines the relationship between the increasing globalization of the Summer Olympics and the effect on host cities. The impact of the Games on city structure, the competition to host the Games, the selling of the Games to urban communities and the opportunities, the dangers of the city as a focus of global media attention and the role of the Games in the global city imaginary are critically discussed. Journal: City Pages: 321-340 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802478888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802478888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:321-340 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Björn Surborg Author-X-Name-First: Björn Author-X-Name-Last: Surborg Author-Name: Rob VanWynsberghe Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: VanWynsberghe Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Mapping the Olympic growth machine Abstract: Theories of growth machines and urban regimes have informed the study of urban political economy for more than three decades, but these theories remain focused on intra‐urban processes. Using a case study of the bidding process and the planning of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, we explore the transnational dimensions of the urban growth machine and explore common aspects between the growth machine and regime theory literature and the literatures on the entrepreneurial city and transnational urban policy transfers. Through its evolving networks with other urban regimes, Vancouver’s growth machine provides a ready forum in which local elites can acquire specialized knowledge on new urban entrepreneurial strategies elsewhere. Actors situated in different parts of the local growth machine are establishing various connections with urban regimes in other cities, in what is best understood as a nascent growth machine diaspora. Growth machine and regime theories remain valid in their basic conceptualization and maintain their strength through their adaptability to various contexts, but can be enriched by analyses of policy circuits, travelling theories and learning networks. Journal: City Pages: 341-355 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802478920 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802478920 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:341-355 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Phil Jones Author-X-Name-First: Phil Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: Different but the same? Abstract: In many ways the process of realizing urban developments in the UK today, with the emphasis on partnership working, community involvement and sustainability, is significantly different from the process as it operated during the post‐war building boom. In other respects, however, there are some striking similarities. This paper looks at the same redevelopment area examined by Porter and Barber’s (2006) article in City, but places it within its historical context. Through telling a story of redevelopment in Birmingham from the post‐war reconstruction to the present, the significant shifts in governance arrangements—particularly refiguring the role of the local state—are highlighted. At the same time, however, significant continuities are found, in particular the desire to assemble large sites for 'comprehensive’ redevelopment. Journal: City Pages: 356-371 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802478987 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802478987 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:356-371 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daryl Martin Author-X-Name-First: Daryl Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: 'The post‐city being prepared on the site of the ex‐city’-super-1 Abstract: This article investigates a development of recent buildings close to the English M62 motorway in order to assess the evolving nature of the urban environment in Northern English cities. This motorway has been promoted as an integral part of various regional strategies for economic regeneration and a selection of these proposals is reviewed. The article then describes several buildings and businesses found at Junction 27 of the motorway, close to the city of Leeds. The writings of Augé, Easterling and Keiller are used to provide a commentary on the emerging exurban landscape along the motorway. The article explores the form provincial cities such as Leeds are taking next and considers whether their economic and social centres of gravity can still be found in the inner urban areas. The article concludes by questioning the sustainability of urban growth facilitated by the motorway network and premised on individual car use. Journal: City Pages: 372-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802479001 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802479001 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:372-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ariadne van de Ven Author-X-Name-First: Ariadne Author-X-Name-Last: van de Ven Title: Photographing people is wrong Journal: City Pages: 383-390 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802594338 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802594338 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:383-390 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurence J.C. Ma Author-X-Name-First: Laurence J.C. Author-X-Name-Last: Ma Title: Changing urban form, with Chinese characteristics Journal: City Pages: 391-393 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802479043 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802479043 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:391-393 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Saraswati Raju Author-X-Name-First: Saraswati Author-X-Name-Last: Raju Title: Thinking neoliberalism, thinking geography Journal: City Pages: 394-397 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802479068 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802479068 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:394-397 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Yassin Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Yassin Title: Can urbanism heal the scars of conflict? Journal: City Pages: 398-401 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802479084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802479084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:398-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (14) Another city is possible? Reports from the frontline Journal: City Pages: 402-415 Issue: 3 Volume: 12 Year: 2008 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810802614821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810802614821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:3:p:402-415 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902826788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902826788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharon M. Meagher Author-X-Name-First: Sharon M. Author-X-Name-Last: Meagher Title: Declarations of independence Abstract: Extending Giorgio Agamben’s analysis, I argue that The Declaration of Independence founds the American state of exception. The failure of British colonial rule to recognize the full rights of its colonists is the exception that justifies the suspension of British law for the sake of preserving natural law. But that exception quickly becomes the rule as the nation is founded and developed. Jefferson’s agrarian ideal depends on both the city and the immigrant in complex ways. Both are eventually incorporated into the nation as necessary evils—as on‐going threats that justify a permanent state of emergency. The sovereign authority therefore legitimates the supposedly exceptional circumstances that require the suspension of constitutional rights and the imposition of military operations in the civil sphere. Increasingly, the threat of the city and the immigrant Other legitimizes the USA as a permanent state of exception. A new locus of the state of exception is the rurban area. Neither urban nor rural, it is a threatened place, a marginalized place. As such, it draws marginalized people, the paradigm of whom is the immigrant. In this paper I focus on the particular case of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Hazleton leads a US movement of 'rurban’ towns that have passed laws targeting Latino immigrants. While this movement is intended to usurp federal sovereign authority on the grounds that the federal government has failed in its responsibilities to control its southern border, the rhetoric and strategies that Hazleton employs mimic the national ones from which they supposedly declare their independence. Journal: City Pages: 5-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726376 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726376 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:5-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: Social movements in the face of criminal power Abstract: In the context of contemporary capitalism, emancipative social movements must resist intimidation not only through official repression by the state apparatus (through police’s brutality and sometimes through military interventions); the illegal, criminal side of capitalism also threatens emancipative struggle. Within this framework, the real and potential role of the 'hyperprecariat’ (i.e., the workers who depend on—and often were expelled to—the informal sector in semi‐peripheral countries, and who work and live under very vulnerable conditions) is a key one. Criminal attempts to co‐opt, to silence, to neutralize the social force of emancipative social movements have been already a daily experience in several cities and countries. The main trouble for emancipative urban movements is that the 'enemies’ they have to face inside segregated spaces, and who belong to the 'hyperprecariat’, do not seem to be—strictly in terms of social class—'enemies’ at all. 'Micro‐level warlords’ such as drug traffickers operating in the sphere of retail sales recruit their 'soldiers’ (and are themselves recruited) among poor, young people in the shanty towns. Nevertheless, these armed young people frequently intimidate and repress urban activists. Considering this problem, emancipative social movements have to learn to be a countervailing power not only regarding the state apparatus and the legal side of capitalist economy, but also in relation to ordinary criminal forces—which are usually totally adapted to capitalist values, 'logic’ and patterns of behaviour. The aim of this paper is to discuss the 'new’ challenges for social movements in the context of what I termed a 'phobopolis’ -- a city whose inhabitants experience a very complex situation of diffuse violence and widespread fear -- and considering the role of the 'hyperprecariat in guns’. The present paper analyses examples primarily from Brazil (Sections 1 and 2), but also from Argentina and South Africa (first part of Section 3), before elaborating the theoretical contributions (in the last part of Section 3). Journal: City Pages: 26-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902770788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902770788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:26-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Göran Therborn Author-X-Name-First: Göran Author-X-Name-Last: Therborn Author-Name: K.C. Ho Author-X-Name-First: K.C. Author-X-Name-Last: Ho Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 53-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726178 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726178 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:53-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Donald M. Seekins Author-X-Name-First: Donald M. Author-X-Name-Last: Seekins Title: 'Runaway chickens’ and Myanmar identity Abstract: In terms of its landscape, design, and central location within the country, Burma’s (Myanmar’s) new capital of Naypyidaw, established in 2005, reflects the aspirations of its founder, Senior General Than Shwe, head of the State Peace and Development Council military junta. His goals have been not only to enhance state security through the new capital’s central location and relative isolation, but also to construct a new 'Myanmar identity’ based on ethnic--racial unity rather than political pluralism. The author concludes that the decision to quit the old capital Rangoon was made because of its long history of popular unrest and its central role in the historical development of an insurgent tradition of 'revolutionary nationalism.’ Journal: City Pages: 63-70 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:63-70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Beng‐Lan Goh Author-X-Name-First: Beng‐Lan Author-X-Name-Last: Goh Author-Name: David Liauw Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Liauw Title: Post‐colonial projects of a national culture Abstract: The search for alternative architectural expressions in the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, has seen a shift from regionalistic and Malay revivalist architectural models to a trend labeled as Middle Eastern eclecticism, best exemplified by the new city of Putrajaya. This paper delineates and analyses these architectural shifts in these two 'capital’ cities from the Independence to contemporary eras in terms of shifting contestations over what is 'national’ in modern Malaysian history. Highlighting changing material and imaginative drives behind attempts to manifest power of the nation and their consequences on the architecture of these two cities, this paper shows how Malaysian architecture has moved from expansive imaginations in the Independence era to narrow albeit spectral imaginations of Islamic exclusivity characterized by the turn to Middle Eastern symbolisms toward the new millennium. This evolutionary architecture, we argue, must be understood in terms of the growing enmeshment of Malaysian nationalism within global political Islam which has led to the preeminence of Islamic over Malay identifications. The Malaysian case throws up post‐colonial predicaments of national architectural pursuits as nationalist politics become entangled with global identity politics complicating and, ironically, undermining original nationalistic desires to construct alternative modernist models rooted in local sensibilities. Journal: City Pages: 71-79 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726210 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726210 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:71-79 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Douglas Webster Author-X-Name-First: Douglas Author-X-Name-Last: Webster Author-Name: Chuthatip Maneepong Author-X-Name-First: Chuthatip Author-X-Name-Last: Maneepong Title: Bangkok Abstract: This paper explores tensions inherent in the role of Bangkok as both a cosmopolitan, outward looking metropolis and national capital of a country where 'Outer Thailand’ selects governments, demanding a hinterland orientation from the metropolis. The situation is exacerbated by frequent changes of regime, often involving contestation in Bangkok’s open spaces. Although the original raison d’être of the city was as the national capital of Siam, the capital function has become less important since the mid‐20th century, presenting both risks, for example security, as well as benefits, such as monumental architecture, to residents of the metropolis. A fundamental misalignment has developed between Bangkok’s political and socio‐economic roles. In essence, this means that Outer Thailand puts governments in power, but residents of the metropolis play a key role in removing them from power. Journal: City Pages: 80-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726236 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726236 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:80-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William S. Logan Author-X-Name-First: William S. Author-X-Name-Last: Logan Title: Hanoi, Vietnam Abstract: Hanoi, like most capital cities, performs functions at three levels. It is home to its residents and provides local level services for them. But it also has a role as a city for all citizens of the Vietnamese state, performing capital city functions across the entire national territory as well as beyond national borders. Hanoi is especially interesting because of the uneasy way in which it has been forced to share power internally with Ho Chi Minh City in the south—Hanoi maintaining political and cultural sway but its rival becoming stronger in economic and demographic terms. Externally, it has struggled for recognition, having been regarded as capital of a weak political state open to the interventions of the Chinese, French, Americans and the Soviet Union. This paper argues that Hanoi’s double vulnerability has made its rulers acutely aware of the need to demonstrate the city’s power as a capital city—or at least to give the semblance of power—through urban planning and architectural design, the building of heroic monuments and the naming of city features after key historic events and people. Major events and projects have become an important way in which the Vietnamese government has sought to strengthen Hanoi’s place—and hence its own—in the national consciousness. The regime also continues to push on with efforts to make a future Hanoi dominant both within the Vietnamese urban hierarchy and as the country’s undisputed international metropolis. Journal: City Pages: 87-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726251 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726251 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:87-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Walsh Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Author-Name: Nittana Southiseng Author-X-Name-First: Nittana Author-X-Name-Last: Southiseng Title: Vientiane Abstract: Vientiane is a city that has always stood in opposition or contrast to its surroundings. When first established, it contrasted an urban centre with surrounding rural areas from which surplus was extracted to support the activities of the urban elite. Through its existence, it has provided a centre of power to counter or be opposed to Ayutthaya, Luang Prabang and Chiang Mai. This could be aligned along ethnic lines or, internally among the Lao people, between the religious and political division between Vientiane and Luang Prabang. In the Communist world, the city contrasted its religious and ceremonial role with the temporal state and its monuments to legitimacy, which remain half‐built and lifeless in the cityscape. The city also acted as a symbol of the competing Communist ideologies prevalent in the region. In the emerging post‐Communist world, Vientiane represents once again a central organizing function and a surrounding environment which is supposed to be the subject of direction but which more commonly wishes to establish space in which to pursue income gathering opportunities and entrepreneurial activities. It also exists as one of the 10 capital cities of ASEAN and has acted as a location in which cross‐border state level agreements are made which the Lao state has little technical capacity to enact without considerable external support. In each manifestation of opposition, remnants of the opposition have lingered, notwithstanding regular episodes in which the city has been almost completely destroyed. Many of those remnants are also symbolic of the external power which has been called upon to substantiate and legitimize the claim to power that the city controller has made and tried to enforce. Hence, the city’s markets, monuments, temples (wats), fields and roads are evidence of the divisions in the past. Journal: City Pages: 95-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726277 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726277 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:95-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jenn‐hwan Wang Author-X-Name-First: Jenn‐hwan Author-X-Name-Last: Wang Author-Name: Shuwei Huang Author-X-Name-First: Shuwei Author-X-Name-Last: Huang Title: Contesting Taipei as a world city Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the contesting process in building Taipei as the world city in Taiwan’s current democratic transition period. Special attention is paid to the dwindling status of Taipei as the world city due to the North‐South political divide in the national politics in which the ruling party supports its politically based city in the south as contesting with Taipei in the north where the opposition party has been dominant. We argue that this North‐South divide provides a favorable environment for the ruling party to mobilize and maintain its support in the south as against the north which has nevertheless resulted in the declining status of Taipei in the international city competition. Journal: City Pages: 103-109 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726293 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726293 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:103-109 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Porio Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Porio Title: Shifting spaces of power in Metro Manila Abstract: In this paper, the author argues that to preserve their primacy and dominance, national capitals construct and assert representations and projects of power before the nation and the world. Metro Manila or the national capital region (NCR) serves as the major locus and staging area of capital building strategies and assertions by the state and elite power as well as by the resistance of subaltern groups. The ways that flows of transnational capital, politics, and ideas are organized and channeled into the capital’s spatial and social fabric are mediated by local and national politics. In the Philippines, three major forces have shaped the process of capital city building and assertion during the past two decades, namely: (1) the decentralization of national government functions to the local government units of cities, municipalities, and provinces; (2) the democratization of socio‐political life; and the (3) nation’s bid to be globally competitive where its major insertion to the global economy is anchored on labor migration, business process outsourcing services, and light export‐oriented industries. These processes have raised questions regarding the quality of life and sustainability of the NCR, posing challenges to its continuing dominance, desirability, and representation of the nation‐state. In international media, contradicting images of high‐rise buildings in the financial district and urban poor settlements are presented to highlight these issues. These contradictions have presented erosions and challenges to the national capital’s project of hegemony and dominance, in part because of the multiple ways that state power, capital, and democratic movements have become decentralized (multi‐sited), heterogeneous, and porous. These processes are reflected in the shifting spaces, symbols, and representations of power in, and of, the national capital. Journal: City Pages: 110-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:110-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wilmar Salim Author-X-Name-First: Wilmar Author-X-Name-Last: Salim Author-Name: Benedictus Kombaitan Author-X-Name-First: Benedictus Author-X-Name-Last: Kombaitan Title: Jakarta Abstract: Jakarta as the capital of Indonesia has exercised strong political power over the nation since the colonial era. The old and new order regimes have retained that position by introducing symbols to represent a dignified center. This political power has also strengthened its economic development. The recent political movement following the fall of Soeharto led to the strengthening of other cities, especially in Java. Decentralization processes have led to the formation of new symbols in other regional cities and these emerging urban centers have grown in important ways. This paper will discuss the dominance of Jakarta and its relations with other cities in Indonesia. It explores the development of Jakarta in relation to other big cities and the possibility that the decentralization would create regional cities as 'rivals’ of Jakarta. It concludes that although the other cities in Indonesia have increased their significance as regional centers through economic growth, they remain a shadow of Jakarta’s dominance patterns. Nevertheless, there is an opportunity for other cities to represent the alternative non‐political symbols in contrast to the Indonesian capital. Journal: City Pages: 120-128 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726335 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726335 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:120-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Habibul Haque Khondker Author-X-Name-First: Habibul Author-X-Name-Last: Haque Khondker Title: Dhaka and the contestation over the public space Abstract: This paper examines the growing contestations over public space of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, between Islamic and secular groups since the country’s independence in 1971. The contestations illustrate the deeper ideological competitions between the secular, liberal and right‐wing religious ideologies in a country where 85% of the 150 million people are Muslims. The city’s public space has been the site of a prolonged struggle and the negotiated juxtaposition of both civic and sacred spaces reflecting a spirit of accommodation and tolerance. The recent contestations reflect a rising tide of political Islam in a society with roots in secularism. Journal: City Pages: 129-136 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726343 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726343 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:129-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Alternatives Journal: City Pages: 137-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902771240 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902771240 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:137-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Hollands Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Hollands Title: Cultural workers of the world unite, you’ve nothing to lose but your theatres Journal: City Pages: 139-145 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902771265 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902771265 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:139-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: Greece’s winter of discontent Journal: City Pages: 146-149 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902770754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902770754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:146-149 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Beth Rose Middleton Author-X-Name-First: Beth Rose Author-X-Name-Last: Middleton Title: Where the river meets the city: Tracing Los Angeles’ social and environmental movements Journal: City Pages: 150-152 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726384 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726384 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:150-152 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kari Forbes‐Boyte Author-X-Name-First: Kari Author-X-Name-Last: Forbes‐Boyte Title: Whiteout? Gentrification and colonialism in inner‐city Sydney Journal: City Pages: 153-156 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:153-156 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Trevor J. Barnes Author-X-Name-First: Trevor J. Author-X-Name-Last: Barnes Title: Taking small things all the way to the Bank Journal: City Pages: 156-158 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902726434 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902726434 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:156-158 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (15) Elite squads: Brazil, Prague, Gaza and beyond Journal: City Pages: 159-171 Issue: 1 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902826796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902826796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:1:p:159-171 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 173-175 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903083488 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903083488 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:173-175 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Brenner Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Brenner Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: Cities for people, not for profit Journal: City Pages: 176-184 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903020548 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903020548 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:176-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: From critical urban theory to the right to the city Abstract: The right to the city is becoming, in theory and in practice, a widespread, effective formulation of a set of demands to be actively thought through and pursued. But whose right, what right and to what city? Each question is examined in turn, first in the historical context of 1968 in which Henri Lefebvre first popularized the phrase, then in its meaning for the guidance of action. The conclusion suggests that exposing, proposing and politicizing the key issues can move us closer to implementing this right. Journal: City Pages: 185-197 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982177 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982177 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:185-197 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Brenner Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Brenner Title: What is critical urban theory? Abstract: What is critical urban theory? While this phrase is often used in a descriptive sense, to characterize the tradition of post‐1968 leftist or radical urban studies, I argue that it also has determinate social--theoretical content. To this end, building on the work of several Frankfurt School social philosophers, this paper interprets critical theory with reference to four, mutually interconnected elements—its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible. On this basis, a brief concluding section considers the status of urban questions within critical social theory. In the early 21st century, I argue, each of the four key elements within critical social theory requires sustained engagement with contemporary patterns of capitalist urbanization. Under conditions of increasingly generalized, worldwide urbanization, the project of critical social theory and that of critical urban theory have been intertwined as never before. Journal: City Pages: 198-207 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902996466 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902996466 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:198-207 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kanishka Goonewardena Author-X-Name-First: Kanishka Author-X-Name-Last: Goonewardena Title: Urban studies, critical theory, radical politics: Eight theses for Peter Marcuse Abstract: The celebration of Peter Marcuse’s 80th birthday at the Right to the City conference in the fall of 2008 provided a poignant moment to reflect on the circumstances under which urban studies, critical theory and radical politics have come together so instructively in his own life and work. An adequate consideration of these involves not only the personal and political dimensions of his exemplary career, but also the world‐historical forces that triangulated radical thought, revolutionary politics and metropolitan life in the 20th century. Their trans‐Atlantic trajectories—from the revolutionary conjunctures between the world wars through military--Keynesian restorations of capital to the uneven globalization of neoliberal imperialisms—raise a challenging question concerning the legacies and possibilities of critical urban theory. How has urban studies learned from and contributed to critical theory, in response to the demands of radical politics? In this paper, I reflect on the relevance of the Frankfurt School and Henri Lefebvre in particular for drawing a balance sheet on critical urban theory following the experiences of modernism and postmodernism, while suggesting that its future now rests on the delivery of a radical politics based on a revolutionary conception the Right to the City—one capable of doing justice to the utopian moments alive in an Age of Empire and a Planet of Slums. Journal: City Pages: 208-218 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982219 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982219 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:208-218 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katharine N. Rankin Author-X-Name-First: Katharine N. Author-X-Name-Last: Rankin Title: Critical development studies and the praxis of planning Abstract: Planning theory shares with critical urban theory an orientation toward normative political questions and a 'politics of the possible’. Beyond those broad contours, however, it is fair to say that only a thin slice of planning theory takes up the normative commitments of critical urban theory: to challenge the violence of capitalism, to seek out the agents of revolutionary social change and to interrogate the ends in relation to the means of practice. In this paper I aim to develop such normative orientations in planning theory by drawing on theoretical resources in the cognate field of critical development studies. The professional practices which both critical development studies and planning theory take as their object of study share a duplicitous relationship to processes of capitalist accumulation and liberal notions of benevolent trusteeship. Yet, critical development studies has clearly done a better job of tracing the entanglements of projects of improvement with projects of empire. When such theorizations about development are brought to bear on the more subtle object of urban planning, here too the flagrancies of liberal benevolence can be exposed and challenged. The paper is organized into three sections that take up key domains in which I believe planning theory can draw (or has drawn) productively from critical development studies to strengthen its capacity to envision and defend the right to the city. These are (a) the relationship of planning to imperialism and globalization, (b) resistance and the cultural politics of agency, and (c) the contributions of transnational feminism to a praxis of solidarity and collaboration. Journal: City Pages: 219-229 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902983233 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902983233 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:219-229 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roger Keil Author-X-Name-First: Roger Author-X-Name-Last: Keil Title: The urban politics of roll‐with‐it neoliberalization Abstract: Urban politics has changed during a generation of neoliberalization. This paper argues that next to the notions of roll‐back and roll‐out neoliberalization, which have been put forward to explain this change, a third concept might be helpful: roll‐with‐it neoliberalization. The three concepts refer to phases, moments and contradictions in neoliberalization. Roll‐with‐it neoliberalization captures the normalization of governmentalities associated with the neoliberal social formation and its emerging crises. The paper outlines an immanent critique of roll‐with‐it neoliberalization to determine possible consequences for urban politics in this current phase: (a) neoliberal governmentality has been generalized to the point that it does not have to be established aggressively and explicitly and (b) the far‐reaching crises of regulation that have gripped the capitalist urban system as a result of neoliberal roll‐out now demand new orientations in collective action that involve both 'reformed’ neoliberal elite practices and elite reaction to widespread contestation of neoliberal regulation. The paper differentiates two ideal types of urban political discourses at the current conjuncture and adds a progressive alternative that points beyond the neoliberal agenda. While the previous era created governance conflicts around social cohesion and economic competitiveness, the current debate moves to new sectors of social concern, which broaden the agenda of urban politics to encompass fields traditionally not included in considerations on urban political regulation. The paper concludes that while roll‐with‐it neoliberalization has changed the game and moved the boundaries of urban politics, it has also created new contradictions that demonstrate its own unsustainability as a mode of regulation. As the financial and economic architecture of global neoliberalism fails, and communities world wide are thrown into the maelstrom of crisis, urban politics and the actors that make it need to be reimagined. Journal: City Pages: 230-245 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902986848 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902986848 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:230-245 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oren Yiftachel Author-X-Name-First: Oren Author-X-Name-Last: Yiftachel Title: Critical theory and 'gray space’: Mobilization of the colonized Abstract: The paper draws on critical urban theories (CUT) to trace the working of oppressive power and the emergence of new subjectivities through the production of space. Within such settings, it analyzes the struggle of Bedouin Arabs in the Beersheba metropolitan region, Israel/Palestine. The paper invokes the concept of 'gray spacing’ as the practice of indefinitely positioning populations between the 'lightness’ of legality, safety and full membership, and the 'darkness’ of eviction, destruction and death. The amplification of gray space illuminates the emergence of urban colonial relations in a vast number of contemporary city regions. In the Israeli context, the ethnocratic state has forced the indigenous Bedouins into impoverished and criminalized gray space, in an attempt to hasten their forced urbanization and Israelization. This created a process of 'creeping apartheid’, causing the transformation of Bedouin struggle from agonistic to antagonistic; and their mobilization from democratic to radical. The process is illustrated by highlighting three key dimensions of political articulation: sumood (hanging on), memory‐building and autonomous politics. These dynamics underscore the need for a revised CUT, which extends the scope of spatial--social critique and integrates better to conditions of urban colonialism, collective identity and space, for a better understanding of both oppression and resistance. Journal: City Pages: 246-263 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982227 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982227 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:246-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bruno Flierl Author-X-Name-First: Bruno Author-X-Name-Last: Flierl Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: Urban policy and architecture for people, not for power Abstract: The form and meaning of cities change historically with changes in the political and economic structures in which they are embedded. Both economic and political relationships are critical; changes in one sphere do not automatically lead to changes in the other. The absence of the market relationships that so widely determine the shape of capitalist cities is not a guarantee that cities free of those relationships will be democratic. Further, even within existing relationships of power, subcurrents shaped by varying internal ideological and external national and international relationships exert their influence. The history of Berlin over the last century is an extreme example of such changing influences, which can be traced in detail in the specifics of its built structure. Discussions between Bruno Flierl and Peter Marcuse date to the year of the 'turn’ (Wende) in East Germany, 1989/1990, when Marcuse was teaching and conducting research in Weimar and in East Berlin. The dialogue among these friends has continued over the years, most recently at the conference on 'The Right to the City’ held at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin, in November 2008. The following text documents some of the main elements of this ongoing conversation between two critical urbanists. Journal: City Pages: 264-277 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982235 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982235 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:264-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Heinz Steinert Author-X-Name-First: Heinz Author-X-Name-Last: Steinert Title: Culture industry cities: From discipline to exclusion, from citizen to tourist Abstract: Using historical and contemporary examples (the 19th‐century Vienna Ringstraße and 'rent barracks’, the early 20th‐century 'Red Vienna’ Gemeindebau, yesterday's Plattenbau East and West, today's urban sprawl, the recent international prison architecture and the new Berlin Potsdamer Platz) cities are analyzed as 'domination built in stone’, that is, examples of 'culture industry’. With few exceptions the ruling class also determined labor architecture, that is, how the proletariat lived in factory settlements, public housing and urban sprawl. History shows that claiming a 'right to the city’ needs more than a struggle against the very effective claim of capital on the same city: radical new ideas for a politicized 'architecture from below’. Journal: City Pages: 278-291 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982243 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982243 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:278-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Slater Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Slater Title: Missing Marcuse: On gentrification and displacement Abstract: Peter Marcuse's contributions to the study of gentrification and displacement are immense, not just when measured in theoretical development, but in analytical rigour, methodological influence, cross‐disciplinary relevance and intellectual--political commitment to social justice. However, his contributions have been conveniently missed in the disturbing 21st‐century scholarly, journalistic, policy and planning rescripting of gentrification as a collective urban good. This paper charts and exposes the politics of knowledge production on this pivotal urban process by critically engaging with recent arguments that celebrate gentrification and/or deny displacement. I explain that these arguments not only strip gentrification of its historical meaning as the neighbourhood expression of class inequality; they are also analytically defective when considered alongside Marcuse's conceptual clarity on the various forms of displacement in gentrifying neighbourhoods. Understanding and absorbing Marcuse's crucial arguments could help critical urbanists breach the defensive wall of mainstream urban studies, and reinstate a sense of social justice in gentrification research. Journal: City Pages: 292-311 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982250 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982250 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:292-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthias Bernt Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Bernt Author-Name: Andrej Holm Author-X-Name-First: Andrej Author-X-Name-Last: Holm Title: Is it, or is not? The conceptualisation of gentrification and displacement and its political implications in the case of Berlin‐Prenzlauer Berg Abstract: Building on Peter Marcuse’s definition of displacement, this paper examines Berlin’s urban renewal policy since the 1990s and studies how different definitions of displacement support different policy alternatives. It argues that the conceptualisation of displacement is not merely an academic exercise, but has enormous political implications. We show how theoretical differences in the definition of displacement have been taken up by policy‐makers and used as justification for the withdrawal from 'welfarist’ politics of market intervention to be replaced by advisory services to individual tenants. We argue that social scientists are partly responsible for this change and call for more critical intervention of scholars into public debates and a clearer specification of policy alternatives. Journal: City Pages: 312-324 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:312-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Albert Scharenberg Author-X-Name-First: Albert Author-X-Name-Last: Scharenberg Author-Name: Ingo Bader Author-X-Name-First: Ingo Author-X-Name-Last: Bader Title: Berlin’s waterfront site struggle Abstract: In the summer of 2008, a local social movement in Berlin successfully challenged the city’s currently largest harbor front development project 'Media Spree’. While the project, which aims to attract and develop creative industries, is a model of neo‐liberal urbanism, the paper demonstrates that in a contested city, urban development cannot adequately be explained by 'top‐down’ approaches focusing on neo‐structuralist arguments, but that it is rather the result of a complex negotiation process. The paper thus makes the case for the relevance of analyzing social movements for understanding urban development. Journal: City Pages: 325-335 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982938 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982938 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:325-335 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie‐Anne Boudreau Author-X-Name-First: Julie‐Anne Author-X-Name-Last: Boudreau Author-Name: Nathalie Boucher Author-X-Name-First: Nathalie Author-X-Name-Last: Boucher Author-Name: Marilena Liguori Author-X-Name-First: Marilena Author-X-Name-Last: Liguori Title: Taking the bus daily and demonstrating on Sunday: Reflections on the formation of political subjectivity in an urban world Abstract: This paper explores the reasons behind people’s engagement in political action, particularly the marginalized and threatened. Using the example of the marches against immigration reform in the USA, the paper follows immigrant women in an effort to understand what made them participate in those demonstrations despite risks of deportation, lack of experience in demonstrating and fear. Based on fieldwork with domestic workers in Los Angeles, we suggest that in a condition of urbanity (understood as a historically situated condition characterized by a mode of living based on interdependencies, mobility, uncertainty and speed), there is much continuity between everyday life and political events. Everyday life is constituted by personal biographies, which we define as the accumulation of experience and emotional trajectories. Most social movement theories tend to emphasize the extraordinariness of political events, focusing on ruptures with everyday life. In this paper, we argue that radical urban theory ought to remain closer to the feelings experienced in political practice, bringing the obvious continuities into theoretical development. Journal: City Pages: 336-346 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982870 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982870 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:336-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Justus Uitermark Author-X-Name-First: Justus Author-X-Name-Last: Uitermark Title: An in memoriam for the just city of Amsterdam Abstract: This paper shows how the just city of Amsterdam came to live, celebrates its achievements and mourns its death. The paper suggests that an equitable distribution of scarce resources and democratic engagement are essential preconditions for the realization of a just city. Social movements of Amsterdam struggled hard to make their city just and they had considerable success. However, in the late 1980s, social movements lost their momentum and, in the late 1990s, neoliberal ideologies increasingly pervaded municipal policies. Whereas urban renewal was previously used to universalize housing access and optimize democratic engagement, it is now used to recommodify the housing stock, to differentiate residents into different consumer categories and to disperse lower income households. Part of the reason that these policies meet so little opposition is that the gains of past social struggles are used to compensate the most direct victims of privatization and demolition. Future generations of Amsterdammers, however, will not enjoy a just city. Journal: City Pages: 347-361 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982813 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982813 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:347-361 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: The 'Right to the City’ in the context of shifting mottos of urban social movements Abstract: In order to explain the traction, which the right to the city slogan currently enjoys within urban resistance movements and beyond, this paper contextualizes its emergence in the shifting framework of postwar political--economic regimes and then traces and compares the different versions of this motto, which has become a defining feature of urban struggles not just in the Euro‐American core, but around the world—though with different meanings. It distinguishes a radical Lefebvrian version from more depoliticized versions as widely used in the global NGO context, problematizing the latter for limiting the participatory demand to inclusion within the existing system. The conclusion opens up the question of the implications of the current crisis for the right to the city movement. Journal: City Pages: 362-374 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810902982755 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810902982755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:362-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roy Scranton Author-X-Name-First: Roy Author-X-Name-Last: Scranton Title: War kids Journal: City Pages: 375-377 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903083496 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903083496 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:2-3:p:375-377 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 379-382 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903425846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903425846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:379-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Cities as Battlespace: The New Military Urbanism Abstract: The latest in an ongoing series of papers on the links between militarism and urbanism published in City, this paper opens with an exploration of the emerging crossovers between the 'targeting’ of everyday life in so‐called 'smart’ border and 'homeland security’ programmes and related efforts to delegate the sovereign power to deploy lethal force to increasingly robotized and automated war machines. Arguing that both cases represent examples of a new military urbanism, the rest of the paper develops a thesis outlining the scope and power of contemporary interpenetrations between urbanism and militarism. The new military urbanism is defined as encompassing a complex set of rapidly evolving ideas, doctrines, practices, norms, techniques and popular cultural arenas through which the everyday spaces, sites and infrastructures of cities—along with their civilian populations—are now rendered as the main targets and threats within a limitless 'battlespace’. The new military urbanism, it is argued, rests on five related pillars; these are explored in turn. Included here are the normalization of militarized practices of tracking and targeting everyday urban circulations; the two‐way movement of political, juridical and technological techniques between 'homeland’ cities and cities on colonial frontiers; the rapid growth of sprawling, transnational industrial complexes fusing military and security companies with technology, surveillance and entertainment ones; the deployment of political violence against and through everyday urban infrastructure by both states and non‐state fighters; and the increasingly seamless fusing of militarized veins of popular, urban and material culture. The paper finishes by discussing the new political imaginations demanded by the new military urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 383-402 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298425 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298425 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:383-402 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rowland Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Rowland Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Author-Name: Paul Willis Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Willis Title: Transparent cities: Re‐shaping the urban experience through interactive video game simulation Abstract: Traditional notions of urbanism have focused on the cultures, social life and institutions of cities. Yet within cities new forms of sociability and freedom have been granted through active engagement with simulated alternatives to urban space. These, at least partially, substitute, mediate and otherwise extend the meaning and experience of urban life. While the urban experience has long been overlaid by intersubjective images from literature, cinema and other media, the interactive turn represented by video gaming, in plausible social worlds, appears capable of modifying this experience. Super‐popular video games and the cohorts of their players force a greater elasticity to descriptors of the constitution of urban social life. For those who more or less inhabit these interactive alternatives, subjective viewpoints and understandings of the possibilities of urban space and experience appear to be opened up. Our empirical material suggests that the 'real’ urban world is partially mediated by these worlds, and extended through the freedom of roaming both types of setting. Thus experience is influenced, reformatted, blurred and reworked by stepping between real and simulated urban spaces. We suggest that senses of urbanism have been founded on an understanding of place as a unitary and unifying space and that simulation has opened the way to a new vantage point in which play, interactivity, experimentation and fantasies of elective identity produce subtly different ways of engaging with, and re‐imagining, urban space. Journal: City Pages: 403-417 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:403-417 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fulong Wu Author-X-Name-First: Fulong Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Neo‐urbanism in the making under China’s market transition Abstract: This paper describes the rise of 'urbanism’ in China. Following Louis Wirth, urbanism here refers to a way of life characterized by anonymous, heterogeneous and diverse social relations. In contrast to the lack of urbanism in Mao’s era, urbanism is being promoted under China’s market transition. We critically examine how urbanism is used as a new accumulation strategy, or 'urbanization‐as‐accumulation’. Monotonic urban landscapes are thus transformed into exotic and transplanted mosaics. We illustrate this with the example of the 'neo‐urbanism residence’ as a suburbia for the affluent in China. This 'accumulation through transforming the built environment’ echoes the recent 'urban renaissance’ in the West. Journal: City Pages: 418-431 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:418-431 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kirsteen Paton Author-X-Name-First: Kirsteen Author-X-Name-Last: Paton Title: Probing the symptomatic silences of middle‐class settlement: A case study of gentrification processes in Glasgow Abstract: This paper critiques the use of gentrification within urban policy by examining gentrifiers’ neighbourhood practices. Strategies of gentrification are increasingly used to attract people and capital to places of 'decline’ in order to combat the effects of uneven development. Policy experts and governments believe middle‐class settlement creates 'cohesive’, socially mixed communities. However, such a strategy may have serious unintended and paradoxical consequences. Despite widespread application we know little about the outcomes of gentrification within urban policy. This paper seeks to rectify this by critically examining the hegemony of gentrification. This is explored empirically by examining the practices of gentrifiers. Hegemony normalises governance, which essentialises middle‐class settlement and legitimates their residential practices, over those of working‐class communities. Analysis of changes in the Park area in Glasgow reveals that incoming residents’ choices and practices centre around the consumption of segregation. The paper argues that bringing middle‐class groups into the debate and foregrounding their autonomy not only helps in aiding the evaluation of these policies; it elucidates how their practices actually impact upon working‐class communities, the supposed beneficiaries of their arrival. Journal: City Pages: 432-450 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298524 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298524 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:432-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Pink Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Pink Title: Urban social movements and small places Abstract: In this paper I consider the significance of smaller urban contexts for the comparative analysis of contemporary urban social movements. Existing literature on urban social movements tends to focus on how they are manifested in big cities. Here I suggest that the questions they address might be addressed equally usefully in relation to smaller urban settlements. In doing I take the Slow City (Cittàslow) movement (whose member towns have populations of less that 50,000) as a case study. Through an analysis of three domains of the movement’s activity (the transnational; the national and its relationships with the state; and the local context) I examine how, by connecting local concerns with wider environmental issues, Cittàslow is implicated in processes of social change. Journal: City Pages: 451-465 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:451-465 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editor's introduction Journal: City Pages: 466-470 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903425853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903425853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:466-470 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bruno Flierl Author-X-Name-First: Bruno Author-X-Name-Last: Flierl Title: Peter Marcuse and the 'Right to the City’ Journal: City Pages: 471-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298631 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298631 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:471-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Woessner Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Woessner Title: Rescuing the 'Right to the City’ Journal: City Pages: 474-475 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298656 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298656 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:474-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Hamnett Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Hamnett Title: The new Mikado? Tom Slater, gentrification and displacement Journal: City Pages: 476-482 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298672 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298672 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:476-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes Author-X-Name-Last: de Souza Title: Cities for people, not for profit—from a radical‐libertarian and Latin American perspective Abstract: This paper offers a brief response to 'Cities for People, Not for Profit: Introduction’ by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer, which introduces City’s homonymous special issue. Additionally, very short remarks on a few other papers included in the same special issue are also provided, for the sake of a better clarification of some aspects of my critique. These are made from a political and cultural viewpoint which partly supplements, partly challenges the authors’ Eurocentric and Marxist perspective. Journal: City Pages: 483-492 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298680 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298680 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:483-492 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Cities after oil (one more time) Journal: City Pages: 493-498 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298706 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298706 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:493-498 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Title: The bantustan sublime: reframing the colonial in Ramallah Abstract: Ramallah has emerged as the de facto capital of a truncated Palestinian proto‐state. The centralization of economic, political, cultural and recreational activity, the influx of migrants and diasporic returnees, the rise of new middle classes and a relative social openness all signal the possibility of the nucleus of real urbanity. The rhythms and patterns of everyday urban life are palpable; cultural and sub‐cultural life are pronounced and women have achieved a relative degree of social and spatial freedom. Yet Ramallah is a city under siege—encamped and militarily surrounded. It exists in a curious liminality: tethered between indirect colonial occupation and the restless mobilization of local urbanity—neither directly occupied nor free, besieged but somehow vibrant. In its spatialization of new Palestinian wealth and power Ramallah has rewritten the coordinates of local politics, generated new class and professional interests and forged new consumption‐based subjectivities. Here, an elite‐driven production of space intertwines with and often complements the changing mechanisms and tools of Israeli control by reinforcing a burgeoning 'regime of normalization’. The city has begun to detach from wider scales of action and concern. Centralization, in this case, means an increased bantustanization and the disintegration of national strategy in return for local and contained micro‐freedoms. The self‐styled capital of the state‐to‐come becomes a node in the consolidation of precisely the colonial structures that will indefinitely delay such a realization. In this the most stark and physical manifestation of the singularity of 'post‐colonial colonialism’ a transience, at the heart of the crisis of Palestinian politics, consolidates: reality is suspended; national fates deferred; a solution postponed. Journal: City Pages: 499-509 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298771 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298771 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:499-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Loïc Wacquant Author-X-Name-First: Loïc Author-X-Name-Last: Wacquant Title: Chicago fade: putting the researcher’s body back into play Abstract: The second piece of the series depicts a highly meaningful incident of physical interaction outside the ring while the ethnographer was conducting fieldwork in a boxing gym, tracking the fabrication of the pugilistic habitus through apprenticeship (Wacquant, 2004). In a painful haircutting session, the author receives not only a black‐American style fade, but confirmation of his full membership in the group. This text emphasizes the fundamental importance of accounting for ethnographer’s lived experience as intersubjective and embodied; it is through our lived bodies in action that we relate to the world that is shared with the informants (Merleau‐Ponty, 1962; Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992; Crossley, 1996). Here ethnography emerges as a corporeal activity that plumbs the processes through which knowledge of a particular culture becomes acquired and deployed, the researcher being an active, socially constituted agent producing effects in the field (Wacquant, 2009).   Paula Lökman, Scenes and Sounds Editor Journal: City Pages: 510-516 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298797 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298797 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:510-516 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Title: Thinking the urban: on recent writings on philosophy and the city Journal: City Pages: 517-530 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298938 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298938 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:517-530 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts an urban studies and the present crisis: (16) Comrades against the counterrevolutions: bringing people (back?) in Journal: City Pages: 531-550 Issue: 4 Volume: 13 Year: 2009 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903425861 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903425861 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:13:y:2009:i:4:p:531-550 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 1-3 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604811003732396 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604811003732396 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:1-3 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: In defense of theory in practice Abstract: The relation between theory and practice is tricky. Sometimes theory seems irrelevant under the pressures of everyday crises; sometimes the problems of practice seem so overwhelming as to leave no room for theory. This paper argues that theory, specifically critical theory, is an indispensable part of effective practice, and in turn rests on practice for its understanding and analysis. Examples are given from several current struggles: homelessness, around disaster recovery, mortgage foreclosures, and others in the US. Journal: City Pages: 4-12 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:4-12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Weiping Wu Author-X-Name-First: Weiping Author-X-Name-Last: Wu Title: Drifting and getting stuck: Migrants in Chinese cities Abstract: Residential mobility patterns are an important indicator of the future socioeconomic standing of rural--urban migrants in the urban society. In Chinese cities there are significant barriers for migrants to settle permanently. Given this context and housing choices available to migrants, what types of housing career do they follow once in the city? Drawing from survey data from three large cities, this paper studies migrant intra‐urban residential mobility through three lenses—temporal patterns, spatial trajectories and tenure shifts. The majority of migrants are renters and remain so despite a lengthy residence in the cities. They experience a high level of mobility over time, but the trajectories of their moves are spatially confined and involve few tenure shifts. Journal: City Pages: 13-24 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:13-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 25-32 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604811003638320 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604811003638320 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:25-32 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joe Austin Author-X-Name-First: Joe Author-X-Name-Last: Austin Title: More to see than a canvas in a white cube: For an art in the streets Abstract: Graffiti art is neither 'simply graffiti’ nor 'simply art’, but a new kind of visual cultural production that exceeds both categories. Graffiti art moved beyond the neo‐dada/pop art strains of (post)modern (galleried) painting and took the next dialectical step, out into the streets: no longer paintings on canvas that mimic the image‐strewn city walls, but the city walls themselves as the canvas for new image‐making. Street art has read the signs of this historic move correctly, and has followed graffiti art in 'taking place’ in the public sphere of the public square. These new art forms are an enhancement to contemporary urban living, a welcome growth in the living city, a disruption of the unexamined assumptions connecting urban visual culture and the existing social order. Another art city is now possible if the art in the street is taken seriously. Journal: City Pages: 33-47 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529142 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529142 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:33-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jeff Ferrell Author-X-Name-First: Jeff Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrell Author-Name: Robert D. Weide Author-X-Name-First: Robert D. Author-X-Name-Last: Weide Title: Spot theory Abstract: Contemporary graffiti is a distinctly, if not exclusively, urban phenomenon; flowering over the past few decades from the social and cultural complexities of city life, it cannot be understood outside its urban context. Here we offer an interpretation of graffiti as a fluid urban practice, based in large part on our many years of writing graffiti in cities around the USA and beyond. In particular, we attempt to develop a situated spatial analysis of graffiti—to map graffiti’s engagement with the urban environment through an analysis of the spots that writers choose for painting graffiti. This grounded theory of graffiti spots supplements existing understandings of graffiti as a subcultural endeavor and urban phenomenon, and emphasizes the liquidity of urban space and its meaning. It also directly counters the simplistic assumptions about graffiti and the city embedded in the 'broken windows’ model of crime and crime control. Journal: City Pages: 48-62 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903525157 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903525157 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:48-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luke Dickens Author-X-Name-First: Luke Author-X-Name-Last: Dickens Title: Pictures on walls? Producing, pricing and collecting the street art screen print Abstract: When graffiti writing was transferred onto canvas for sale during the Manhattan art boom of the 1980s, it was widely felt to have 'sold out’ to the exploitative interests of the art establishment and become a 'post‐graffiti’ art movement. In contrast, recent British street art demonstrates the capacity to be both more critical and complicit in the influential spheres of art and commerce. Yet, despite growing recognition of these 'new directions in graffiti art’, there remains little critical attention to how such post‐graffiti aesthetic practices are mobilized, not simply by the heroic tactics of the lone male street artist, but by a significant body of cultural intermediaries, institutions and firms. Established in 2002 by the notorious street artist, Banksy, and his agent, the photographer Steve Lazarides, Pictures on Walls Ltd (POW) was a company that in many ways stood at the cutting edge of these developments. As such, it serves as a rich case study of the ways street art can be understood as a sophisticated form of creative industry. Specifically, as a key way of buying into the street art scene, the limited edition POW screen print is used here to exemplify a cultural economy that is both rooted in the contemporary city, and poised at an intersection between the urban and the virtual. Following the printing, pricing and collecting of such products, this research traces street art from its production in the fashionable art district of Hoxton, east London, and into the everyday lives of a passionate group of Internet collectors and fans. Journal: City Pages: 63-81 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903525124 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903525124 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:63-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Halsey Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Halsey Author-Name: Ben Pederick Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Pederick Title: The game of fame: Mural, graffiti, erasure Abstract: This paper examines the logics and limits of graffiti management at a key site within an Australian city. Using writers’ narratives, we examine attempts to control the type of graffiti (script) against efforts to control its location (bleed). Our central claim is that both these strategies demand that graffiti only speak its name when it (visually) ceases to be itself—that the 'best’ graffiti, bureaucratically speaking, is that which functions as its own form of erasure. We conclude by posing and responding to the key question: under what conditions is graffiti permitted to exist? Journal: City Pages: 82-98 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903525199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903525199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:82-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alison Young Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Young Title: Negotiated consent or zero tolerance? Responding to graffiti and street art in Melbourne Abstract: This paper critically considers the recent history of graffiti regulation in one municipality. It draws upon my experience of being appointed to develop a Draft Strategy on Graffiti for the City of Melbourne in 2004. My appointment was based upon the several years I had spent as a criminologist and socio‐legal researcher, engaging with the communities of graffiti writers and street artists in Melbourne and internationally. The aim was to develop a Strategy that would take a more progressive approach to graffiti and street art management, and the proposed policy focused upon notions of 'negotiated consent’ to the presence of graffiti or street art and 'zones of tolerance’ with varying degrees of self‐regulation by graffiti writers or external regulation by police and council authorities. Despite widespread support for the Strategy, the Council elected instead to pursue a policy of zero tolerance combined with a discretionary permit system. The paper examines the fate of this particular attempt to think differently about graffiti, and engages critically with the more conventional approaches put in place instead. It considers the policy‐making process in a manner informed both by autobiographical experience and by some recent writings on graffiti and the city, community and communication. Journal: City Pages: 99-114 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903525215 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903525215 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:99-114 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: The wars on graffiti and the new military urbanism Abstract: An ever‐expanding number of urban authorities have declared 'war’ on graffiti. This paper explores the role the wars on graffiti have played in the creeping militarization of everyday life in the city. Wars on graffiti have contributed to the diffusion of military technologies and operational techniques into the realm of urban policy and policing. Furthermore, new Western military doctrines of urban warfare have sought to 'learn lessons’ from the wars on graffiti (and other crime) in their efforts to achieve dominance over cities in both the global South and the Western 'homeland’. The blurring of war and policing has deepened with the declaration of wars on terror. The stakes have been raised in urban social control efforts intended to protect communities from threats of 'disorder’ such as graffiti, for the existence of even 'minor’ infractions is thought to send a message to both 'the community’ and 'enemies within’ that there are vulnerabilities to be exploited with potentially more devastating consequences. Increasingly, there is a convergence around the notion that situational crime prevention strategies are crucial in combating both graffiti and terror threats, because even if graffiti writers and terrorists don’t share the same motivations, they do exploit the same urban vulnerabilities. The paper concludes with a critical reflection on what graffiti writers might be able to teach us about how to evade and/or contest the militarization of urban life. Journal: City Pages: 115-134 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903545783 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903545783 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:115-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paula Lökman Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Lökman Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 135-136 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604811003644187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604811003644187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:135-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Scott Burnham Author-X-Name-First: Scott Author-X-Name-Last: Burnham Title: The call and response of street art and the city Journal: City Pages: 137-153 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903528862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903528862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:137-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zephyr Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Zephyr Title: The city Journal: City Pages: 154-155 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529217 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529217 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:154-155 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colt .45 Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Colt .45 Title: Our culture is your crime Journal: City Pages: 156-157 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:156-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eine Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Eine Title: Shutters Journal: City Pages: 158-159 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529209 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529209 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:158-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Civil Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Civil Title: Learning the city Journal: City Pages: 160-161 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529159 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529159 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:160-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James Cochran (aka Jimmy.C) Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Cochran (aka Jimmy.C) Title: Aero soul city Journal: City Pages: 162-163 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529183 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529183 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:162-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: Social disorder and the criminalization of indolence Journal: City Pages: 164-169 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903529084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:164-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Slater Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Slater Title: Still missing Marcuse: Hamnett’s foggy analysis in London town Journal: City Pages: 170-179 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604811003633719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604811003633719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:170-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Hamnett Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Hamnett Title: 'I am critical. You are mainstream’: a response to Slater Journal: City Pages: 180-186 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903579287 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903579287 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:180-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edesio Fernandes Author-X-Name-First: Edesio Author-X-Name-Last: Fernandes Title: Fear and hope in Brazilian cities Journal: City Pages: 189-192 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298805 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298805 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:189-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: O.A. K’Akumu Author-X-Name-First: O.A. Author-X-Name-Last: K’Akumu Title: Asserting the nature of man as a zoon politikon—the case for a political dimension of sustainable urban development Journal: City Pages: 193-199 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903298821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903298821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:193-199 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David W. Hill Author-X-Name-First: David W. Author-X-Name-Last: Hill Title: Unstable identities in the networked city Journal: City Pages: 199-202 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903538051 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810903538051 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:1-2:p:199-202 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 231-233 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.495866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.495866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:231-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: The urban impossible: A eulogy for the unfinished city Abstract: This paper extends the debate on the right to the city through the idea of the urban impossible. The starting premise is the fundamental and age‐old question—what actually is a city, what do we want it to be and who should be involved in its making? The right to the city is not just a movement for material rights, but also the right to shape, intervene and participate in the unfolding idea of the city. Cities, then, are living organic, conflictual entities that are constantly remade and recast in thousands of ways through everyday encounters. In different moments, new possibilities for radically different cities open up. The city, then, is an unfinished, expansive and unbounded story. The urban impossible demands a much wider political imaginary to intervene in the unfolding story of the city and calls for a radical appetite for change to inform the work of urban researchers. The agenda becomes not so much about what the city currently is or what it was, but more about what it could become, what it has never been. I outline some directions that this kind of research agenda needs to take; in particular, the need to develop a broad critique of the urban growth machine and developing processes and mechanisms for more participatory and direct forms of urban democracy. This is the urban impossible: being simultaneously within, against and beyond the current urban condition. Like an Alice in Wonderland who has found herself in the city, we need to dream six impossible cities before breakfast. Journal: City Pages: 234-244 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:234-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Steven Flusty Author-X-Name-First: Steven Author-X-Name-Last: Flusty Title: The emperor’s used clothes, or, places remade to measure Abstract: In a world of acceleration, where the urban experience is mediated through, and lived as, perpetual mobility, what does travel writing mean for cities? As the consumers’ worlds of reading possibilities open across dizzying, overwhelming panoramas of seductive cities and distant, mediated sensations, are the spaces of writers’ worlds transformed as well, with ever more cosmopolitan connection and restless identities of place? In this piece, Flusty presents a sampling of scenes from an emergent world urban system five centuries under construction and counting, shaped by the ruthless competition among cities to become the next destination, the next Great City. Journal: City Pages: 245-267 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482256 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482256 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:245-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: Frank Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Title: Triangulating utopia: Benjamin, Lefebvre, Tafuri Abstract: Assuming merit both in critiques of utopianism, such as those leveled by Jane Jacobs, and defences of utopian visions by David Harvey among others, this paper addresses what seems the dilemma that one must choose between visionary but unrealistic utopianism and stultifying submission to a status quo in the interests of realism and draws a solution from aspects of the views of Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre and Manfredo Tafuri. Key dimensions of their approaches employed are, respectively, the 'dialectical structure of awakening’, 'transduction’ and the ideological dimension of utopianism. The paper concludes by indicating implications for urban theory and practice suggested by its putative escape from a realism/visionary dilemma. Journal: City Pages: 268-277 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:268-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Volker Eick Author-X-Name-First: Volker Author-X-Name-Last: Eick Title: A neoliberal sports event? FIFA from the Estadio Nacional to the fan mile Abstract: With more than 200 member associations the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the world. Founded in 1904 as an Old Boys Network, from the 1980s onwards, it turned football into a global business and the FIFA World Cup into its main product, thus generating billions of euros from sponsors, the sports and media industry, from host nations and host cities. Every four years and for a time period of four weeks, FIFA invades cities, beforehand setting rules and regulations the applicants for holding the event have to obey to—including but not limited to infrastructure demands, advertisement regulations, safety and security rules. Taking the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany as an example, the purpose of the paper is twofold: it firstly asks, using Jessop’s approach about promoting and adjusting global neoliberalism through strategies of neostatism, neocorporatism and neocommunitarianism (2002), whether and if so to what extent FIFA can be described as a neocommunitarian but neoliberalizing global institution shaping and being shaped by 'actually existing neoliberalism’ (Brenner and Theodore, Antipode 34(3), pp. 349--379, 2002). In the second section, the World Cup is taken as an empirical example for how and in which forms neoliberalization FIFA‐style shapes and is shaped by the urban form, that is, the commercialization and commodification of (public) space and its hierarchization. In the same line, the 'safety, order and security’ complex (SOS) and its strategies and tactics demanded by FIFA are analyzed in terms of humanware, software and hardware. The paper concludes by showing that the nonprofit FIFA has been able to determine not only the glocal football market, but as well the urban form, the respective security networks, and the tax‐free absorption of profits from state and private actors before, during and after World Cups. Journal: City Pages: 278-297 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:278-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mike Hodson Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Hodson Author-Name: Simon Marvin Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Marvin Title: Urbanism in the anthropocene: Ecological urbanism or premium ecological enclaves? Abstract: Earth scientists now argue that the current geological era should be re‐named the anthropocene to better reflect the impact of humans in reshaping planetary ecology. Urbanism encompasses the social, economic and political processes most closely linked to the rapid transformation of habitats, destruction of ecologies, over use of materials and resources, and the production of pollutants and carbon emissions that threaten planetary terracide. Consequently, the key concern for 21st‐century global urbanism is to critically understand the wider societal and material implications of strategic responses to the pressures of climate change, resource constraint and their interrelationships with the global economic crisis. Eco‐cities, eco‐towns, eco city‐states, floating cities and the like represent particular, and increasingly pre‐eminent, forms of response. These types of response appear to promote the construction of ecologically secure premium enclaves that by‐pass existing infrastructure and build internalised ecological resource flows that attempt to guarantee strategic protection and further economic reproduction. If this is so this raises difficult issues as to what is left for those outside of these privileged enclaves. The search for more equitable and just forms of response requires understanding what types of alternatives to such bounded and divisible ecological security zones could be developed that contribute towards the building of more inclusive collective planetary security. In this respect, the aim of this paper is to ask: what styles of urbanism do these transformations contribute to the production of, what are the consequences of these emerging styles and what alternatives to them are being constructed? Journal: City Pages: 298-313 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482277 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482277 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:298-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Where do we stand? Progress in acknowledging and confronting climate change and 'peak oil’ Abstract: This paper reviews the current state of public debate concerning the problems of 'climate change’ and 'peak oil’. Following a short analysis of what is at stake, a number of documents are reviewed, together with the public reception which some of these have encountered. There is still almost no admission that effective action to halt global warming will mean putting the global economy into sharp reverse and that peak oil will in any case have the same effect. As the political process gradually comes to acknowledge at least the basic facts, so an increasing literature of denial is appearing to reassure the public that there is nothing to worry about. Nevertheless, the 'Transition Towns/Cities’ movement, that does acknowledge the challenge, is spreading rapidly amongst a certain segment of the population and involving many local authorities. However, the academic world of urban concern has yet to open its eyes to what lies in store. The paper ends with a brief analysis of the current planning process in London showing that the challenges are apparently accepted but what this will mean in terms of altered future reality and how to plan in that context is still absent. Journal: City Pages: 314-322 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482284 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482284 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:314-322 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: NION, Brand Hamburg (Initiative Not in Our Name, Marke Hamburg) Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: NION, Brand Hamburg (Initiative Not in Our Name, Marke Hamburg) Title: Not in our name! Jamming the gentrification machine: a manifesto Abstract: The Alternatives section of City focuses on alternative responses of resistance, autonomy, hope and creativity within the contemporary city. We explore, discuss and engage with groups and individuals who are developing alternative urban visions, practices and policies. We encourage material of a variety of types and from a variety of sources, especially from those which fall outside formal institutions and ways of doing things. In this issue of Alternatives we continue the recent debate in this journal on the 'Right to the City’. In November 2009, a group based in Hamburg, Germany, produced a manifesto entitled 'Not in Our Name!’. It was highly critical of the current strategy of the city authorities who were seen to be turning the whole city into a brand for the benefit of wealthy residents, business elites and tourists. The manifesto was widely circulated on the web through their website at http://nionhh.wordpress.com/ which has received a huge amount of commentary. We republish the manifesto in English in the spirit of continuing the debate. Journal: City Pages: 323-325 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482344 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482344 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:323-325 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dennis Hardy Author-X-Name-First: Dennis Author-X-Name-Last: Hardy Title: Colin Ward. Writer, social theorist and anarchist, 1924--2010 Journal: City Pages: 326-327 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482352 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482352 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:326-327 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Goodway Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Goodway Title: Obituary of Colin Ward Journal: City Pages: 328-330 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.495869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.495869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:328-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron Johnston Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Johnston Title: Capitalising on social capital Journal: City Pages: 331-333 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482353 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482353 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:331-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: In the end there will be little else for us to do but shop Journal: City Pages: 334-338 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.482355 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.482355 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:334-338 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall and others Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall and others Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the urban crisis: (18) 'Detained at her majesty’s pleasure…’ (a dialogue on the implications of a volcanic interruption to the plans of those attending a geography conference in Washington) Abstract: This compilation of a dialogue arising from a volcanic interruption to the travel plans of many of those attending the conference of the American Association of Geographers in Washington covers the period 17 April, when the conference still had three days to go, to 26 April, when return flights to Europe were well under way. It is included here as a further contribution to the series, 'Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the urban crisis’. The series began as an analytical, descriptive and exploratory response to 9/11 and to the failure of urban and socio‐spatial studies to come together in relation to what urbanization is and means now. That failure, it has been argued, has several dimensions: the absence of a comprehensive inter‐, trans‐, and/or post‐disciplinary basis, and of a reach that takes in the full extent of human experience and of its implications for action/praxis. This is not to deny, of course, that there is rich and complex work available in the field but, rather, to focus on what is missing and how this can be remedied. That the series would have to include an ecological/environmental dimension was indicated at an early stage in its development.-super-1 The nature and significance of this un‐integrated domain is explored here through the experience and reflections of members and associates of the CITY network either directly experiencing or focusing on the human consequences of the volcano’s invasion of 'airspace’. About half of the correspondence compiled here took the form of personal replies to CITY Editor, Bob Catterall; the rest was shared directly between members of the group(about twenty people). The compilation has been very lightly edited so as to exclude the email addresses of those involved and, in one case, the identity of a colleague, referred to here as Cassandra, who prefers to be anonymous. Retention of the often very informal mode of expression used in emails is deliberate. References to CITY’s work, whether commendatory or critical, have been retained as centrally relevant to how a largely academic journal can make a useful contribution -- including a sense of fun as well as of high seriousness -- to matters of such urgency. Our thanks to Sasha Vidakovic for allowing us to use two of the posters from his set, 'Oko moje glave’.-super-2 Journal: City Pages: 339-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.495868 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.495868 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:3:p:339-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 353-354 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.510363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.510363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:353-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: The need for critical theory in everyday life: Why the tea parties have popular support Abstract: Everyday life is where the results of the social, economic and political systems in which we live are manifest and directly experienced—where the societal shapes and is shaped by the individual. The everyday exploitation, oppression and discontent created by the prevailing system meet many forms of progressive, system‐challenging resistance. Most can be absorbed from above by the system, using both formal repression and a pervasive acquiescence‐inducing manipulation of everyday life. The present economic crisis and the failure of traditional liberal responses open a crack in the efficacy of this manipulation through which new and dangerous resistance might emerge. One defensive response of the system to that danger is displacement: turning that resistance into neo‐conservative, right‐wing 'family values’‐oriented actions that counter system challenges from below. The tea parties in the USA are a prime example. The displacement operates both at the societal and ideological level and at the individual everyday and psychological level. If the displacement could be countered and redirected towards its actual causes, it might strengthen rather than conflict with progressive resistance. Journal: City Pages: 355-369 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496229 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496229 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:355-369 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Dobraszczyk Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Dobraszczyk Title: Petrified ruin: Chernobyl, Pripyat and the death of the city Abstract: This paper offers a reading of urban ruin through a personal experience: a visit I made to the Chernobyl site in October 2007—first to the destroyed reactor and then to the ruined buildings of Pripyat, using my own photographs as documents. The paper situates this experience in the context of wider representations of technological ruin and the city. Pripyat may not be a city, let alone a metropolis, but its scale as a ruin is unique in the post‐war period. In the West, the ruined city usually only presents itself in fictive representations: that is, in literature and film and not in the flesh, so to speak. Experiencing the ruins of Pripyat may invite thoughts about the value, or otherwise, of industrial ruin; its unprecedented scale invites an altogether different meditation on the ruin of the city as a whole and perhaps, too, of civilisation itself. Journal: City Pages: 370-389 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:370-389 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: Sustainability as ideological praxis: The acting out of planning’s master‐signifier Abstract: The rise and rise of sustainability in urban and social policy circles has transformed the discursive terrain of urban politics. In 2009, Gunder and Hillier argued sustainability is now urban planning’s central empty signifier, offering an overarching narrative around which practice can be oriented. This paper takes up the notion of sustainability as an empty/master‐signifier, arguing that the recognition of its nominal status is central to understanding how it operates to produce ideological foundation. Drawing upon a series of interviews and focus groups with urban and social policy makers and practitioners in Vancouver, Canada, Zizek’s 1989 critique of the cynical functioning of contemporary ideology is used to interpret the city’s engagement with sustainability. Focusing on 'social sustainability’ it is argued that sustainability has provided a quilting point that has enabled new social and urban policy‐related partnerships and organizational agendas to be developed. However, this coherence remains unstable and plagued by questions of signification due to the radical negativity of the master‐signifier, where efforts at definition and agreement are haunted by the non‐presence of sustainability. It is argued that this framing of sustainability as ideological conduit in Vancouver helps explain the co‐presence of transformative rhetoric and business‐as‐usual. Using Zizek’s critique of cynical reason in contemporary ideology, interview data is drawn upon to show how many practitioners seek to distance themselves from sustainability, but at the same time continue to act it out anyway. In conclusion, the sobering politics of Zizek’s critique of contemporary ideology are considered in the light of growing urban problems. Journal: City Pages: 390-405 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.492603 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.492603 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:390-405 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Robins Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Robins Title: Cosmopolitanism and good‐enough cosmopolitanism: Encounter with Robin Denselow and Charlie Gillett Abstract: This paper seeks to address the significance of world music through the category of cosmopolitanism, and of what I term good‐enough cosmopolitanism. It does so by way of an encounter with two major mediators of world music based in the UK, Charlie Gillett and Robin Denselow. The intention is to explore ways in which to think about the broader cultural significance of this music, including its continuities with earlier forms of popular music. And its argument is that music provides possibilities to think about cosmopolitan issues in rather distinctive ways—in ways that are different from the lines of thought currently being developed in contemporary mainstream sociology. I am thinking of cosmopolitanism, not in terms of an ideological or identitarian position, but, rather, in terms of a stance or disposition towards the world involving an enlarging imagination and modality of thought. I am interested, then, in the cultural--political potential inherent in the music agenda. Journal: City Pages: 406-424 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496230 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496230 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:406-424 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 425-426 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.510365 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.510365 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:425-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharon M. Meagher Author-X-Name-First: Sharon M. Author-X-Name-Last: Meagher Title: Critical thinking about the Right to the City: Mapping garbage routes Abstract: Through the examination of two critical analyses of garbage politics, I argue that both can benefit from the insights of a critical urban theory as developed by Marcuse, Brenner and Mayer. At the same time, I argue that bringing garbage into the analysis both underscores the importance of certain key features of critical urban theory—especially its focus on everyday life and the Right to the City as a collective moral rather than legal claim cashed out by individuals while at the same time demonstrating the importance and necessity of including a focus on environmental crises and issues that emerge in the global South. Journal: City Pages: 427-433 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496209 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496209 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:427-433 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Some critical reflections on being critical: Reading for deviance, dominance or difference? Abstract: One of the most exciting aspects of the papers gathered together in 'Cities for People, Not for Profit’ was the over‐arching desire to articulate a renewed vision for critical urban theory (see City 13(2/3), especially Brenner et al. (2009), Marcuse (2009) and Brenner (2009)). Across the collection, a distinction is drawn between an emancipatory 'critical’ urban theory and 'mainstream’ approaches to the city which naturalise existing forms of injustice. In this piece I offer some brief reflections on a couple of the key elements of this critical/mainstream distinction. I argue that critical urban theory offers a crucial corrective to mainstream approaches to social conflict, which tend to see difference from the 'mainstream’ as deviance. But in order to offer a politically potent alternative to the mainstream, critical urban theory must do more than identify and critique those forms of domination and injustice perpetrated in the name of the 'mainstream’. For in the end, reading the city only for dominance risks having the same political effect as mainstream analyses which read the city for deviance—both approaches tend to naturalise forms of domination which must be transformed and to obscure important forms of difference which can point the way to radical alternatives. Not only must we avoid reading difference as deviance, we must also find ways to identify, nurture and participate in ongoing collective efforts to make different and more just kinds of cities through the practice of critical urban theory. In developing this argument, I draw some of the contributions from 'Cities for People, Not for Profit’ into dialogue with some of the contributions to City’s recent feature on 'Graffiti, Street Art and the City’ (City 14(1/2) (see Figures 1 and 2). Journal: City Pages: 434-441 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496213 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496213 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:434-441 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: The city to come: Critical urban theory as utopian mapping Abstract: Critical urban theory is a reflexive project with practical intent that engages our present situation in order to map humane paths to the future. At the heart of critical urban theory is the critique of the actually existing city and the unmasking of the ways in which its topography has been the result of different economic, political, social and cultural processes that are neither ad hoc nor inevitable. As a deconstructive/constructive project, critical urban theory can be considered as the tracing of a utopian map aiming at the city to come. Critical urban theory should be considered as the invocation of the city that is to come—the dwelling of the properly realized humanity. This city to come is configured as the topos where humans may fashion their humanity in accordance with their freedom—the contours of such a city are traced by the proclamation of the right to the city, which is to be understand as the right to have rights. Journal: City Pages: 442-447 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496207 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496207 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:442-447 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Suzanne Vallance Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne Author-X-Name-Last: Vallance Author-Name: Harvey Perkins Author-X-Name-First: Harvey Author-X-Name-Last: Perkins Title: Is another city possible? Towards an urbanised sustainability Abstract: Sustainable development has proved to be a most compelling concept, generating enthusiasm across the political spectrum, endorsement from various sectors and industries, and high levels of support from certain individuals. As a corollary, one could argue that the city’s right to exist (Catterall, City 12(3), pp. 402--415, 2008) must now be articulated in terms of sustainability; indeed urban sustainability is an alluring goal for many cities. Unfortunately, the idea’s popularity has not necessarily led to appreciable benefits or improvements for the residents of urban areas, or for those (both human and non‐human) in areas from which cities draw their sustenance. There are even indications that the pursuit of urban sustainability may cause more problems than it solves. We argue that this is, in part, because the sustainable city is often treated as a site wherein particular policies, programmes and strategies may be enacted, with the 'urban’ prefixed unreflectively to simplistic versions of the concept emphasising bio‐physical environmental goals. Such approaches neglect the city as a complex of social, economic, cultural and political concerns and, consequently, very little progress has been made in terms of synthesising these myriad and often conflicting aims. As an alternative, this paper explores the possibilities associated with treating the urban as a condition, and outlines some of the ways in which cityness contributes to an urbanised sustainability. Journal: City Pages: 448-456 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496217 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496217 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:448-456 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: The brave new (urban) world of fear and (real or presumed) wars Journal: City Pages: 457-463 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496220 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496220 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:457-463 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Gentrification will eat itself. Taking theory to the playground: Lefebvre for kids Journal: City Pages: 464-469 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:464-469 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giorgio Hadi Curti Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio Hadi Author-X-Name-Last: Curti Title: Imaginary matter(s) Journal: City Pages: 470-472 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496224 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496224 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:470-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ellie Miles Author-X-Name-First: Ellie Author-X-Name-Last: Miles Title: The great outdoors: Exploring the history of New York’s preservation movement Journal: City Pages: 473-475 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.496227 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.496227 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:473-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (19) There is no return? Abstract: It might seem that an apocalyptic obsession has taken hold in/of recent issues of City. It is argued here that it is a crucial and dangerous gap in much academic and public discussion to which this seeming obsession is pointing. Continuing the detailed work across genres and disciplines which has characterised the series of endpieces, this episode turns to a particular book in urban studies and planning and to a play as a basis for addressing the gap. What do Searching for the Just City: debates in urban theory and practice, edited by Peter Marcuse and others, and August Wilson’s play, Joe Turner’s come and gone, contribute separately and together, to our understanding of urgent questions of survival and of possible courses of action? Journal: City Pages: 476-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.510666 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.510666 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:4:p:476-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 487-490 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.529740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.529740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:487-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Introduction: Welcome to the urban desert of the real Journal: City Pages: 491-496 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511863 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511863 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:491-496 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Things pictures don’t tell us: In search of Baltimore Abstract: With a brilliance that captures 'places photographed in all their fucked‐up grandeur,’ (Alvarez, 2009, p. 414), the HBO series The Wire has seared unforgettable images of Baltimore and American urbanism into the imaginations of a vast, transnational audience. But we have known, ever since Benjamin and Sontag, that cinematography and photography can reinforce stereotypes, appropriate identities, and violate people and places through the assertion of epistemological power. Today, critical visual theory is going mainstream. Almost no‐one views photographs anymore as unproblematic reflections of reality, and popular culture has become a fragmented and politicized media landscape of niche audiences that have learned the lessons of postpositivist cynical sophistication all too well. In this hostile climate, can we redeem the simple, innocent snapshot? I think we should try. Armin Lobek’s (1956) Things Maps Don’t Tell Us provides the inspiration for a simple, constructive, and critical approach that acknowledges the limits of visual representation while avoiding the costs of innovative yet negative theories defined by disillusionment. Journal: City Pages: 497-528 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.512436 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.512436 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:497-528 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rowland Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Rowland Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Author-Name: David Beer Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Beer Title: The ivorine tower in the city: Engaging urban studies after The Wire Abstract: The Wire has been viewed as a panoptic and institutional dissection of the dysfunctions of late capitalist urbanism. The accomplishment and totality of this vision has perhaps provoked introspection by academics pondering their internal efficacy (engaging students through teaching) and external relevance (through the communication of research around urban problems). On both of these fronts, academic work arguably faces a crisis as new media forms of this kind compete to 'teach’ audiences about the city. We argue that this raises two key implications. First, that The Wire and its ilk represent a more public accessing of many of the social problems that urban studies has traditionally monitored. This suggests a need for more andragogic modes of teaching that lead mature audiences, both inside and outside the academy, toward greater understandings of urban problems. Second, the series can be related to sociological perspectives that have challenged university‐based research to be critical, relevant and of utility to deprived communities (and of a distinct hue from others stemming from government and business). We argue for elongated research and short‐term engagement practices to produce a synthetic, or ivorine, tower that, while appearing distant from public debates, works effectively in both domains. Journal: City Pages: 529-544 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.512435 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.512435 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:529-544 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: From soft eyes to street lives: The Wire and jargons of authenticity Abstract: In terms of its ability to hold the attention of the viewer and to require an engagement with hundreds of characters and numerous complex institutions and organisations in over 60 hours of real‐time television, David Simon and Ed Burns’ television drama, The Wire, offers the prospect of a new 'socio‐spatial imagination’. Drawing on the work of C. Wright Mills and Theodore Adorno I argue that 'fictional’ social critique in the form of the televisual novel can be a more effective medium than mainstream social science for revealing the spaces and people that capitalism has left behind. Journal: City Pages: 545-557 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.512443 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.512443 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:545-557 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roy Scranton Author-X-Name-First: Roy Author-X-Name-Last: Scranton Title: Going outside The Wire: Generation Kill and the failure of detail Abstract: A TV miniseries developed from embedded reportage, in which reality and fiction seamlessly merge, Generation Kill presents a curious and troubling follow‐up to David Simon and Ed Burns’ much‐lauded series The Wire. Generation Kill shows The Wire’s creators’ concern for verisimilitude and ethnographic detail, but in its narrow scope, lack of context and wholesale identification with the lower‐echelon American soldiers who are its subject, the series fails in exactly the ways The Wire seemed important and successful: sketching what Frederic Jameson called 'that enormous and threatening, yet only dimly perceivable, other reality of economic and social institutions’. It is the argument of this paper that Generation Kill was a missed opportunity, and that in contrast to The Wire, it fails to tell us much about the people who inhabit the contemporary battlefield, how institutional and social structures shape their lives, and how war happens today in the city. Journal: City Pages: 558-565 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511835 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511835 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:558-565 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Author-Name: Shipra Narang Suri Author-X-Name-First: Shipra Narang Author-X-Name-Last: Suri Title: Two world urban forums. What happened in Rio? Where does it lead? A discussion Journal: City Pages: 566-585 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:566-585 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daryl Martin Author-X-Name-First: Daryl Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: A poetic urbanism: Recreating places, remade to measure, but from the inside out Abstract: This commentary offers a reflection on Flusty’s piece 'The Emperor’s Used Clothes, or, Places Remade to Measure’ in City 14(3). It is argued that Flusty uses the imagination as a methodological device for transforming our understanding of the urban experience and, in doing so, invites a comparison with the English Romantic poet S.T. Coleridge. In addition to outlining stylistic similarities in their work, this commentary argues that Flusty’s analysis of the generic development of cities globally offers an example of how Coleridge’s theories of the imaginative faculty can be applied today. Extended from their origins where they offered analytical insight into the processes of poetic writing, Coleridge’s theories are shown, via Flusty, to be of value in augmenting our comprehension and representations of contemporary city life. Journal: City Pages: 586-591 Issue: 5 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511823 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511823 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:586-591 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Woessner Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Woessner Title: A new ontology for the era of the New Economy: On Edward W. Soja’s Seeking Spatial Justice Journal: City Pages: 601-603 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:601-603 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Title: Rights, politics and strategy: A response to Seeking Spatial Justice Journal: City Pages: 604-606 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525083 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525083 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:604-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Seeking Spatial Justice: Some reflections from Sydney Journal: City Pages: 607-611 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:607-611 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jon Liss Author-X-Name-First: Jon Author-X-Name-Last: Liss Title: In Virginia … desperately Seeking Spatial Justice Journal: City Pages: 612-615 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525305 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525305 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:612-615 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jane Wills Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Wills Title: Academic agents for change Journal: City Pages: 616-618 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525086 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525086 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:616-618 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Bridging theory and practice Journal: City Pages: 619-621 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525087 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525087 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:619-621 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Davey Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Davey Title: Confronting the geographies of enmity Journal: City Pages: 622-624 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525089 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525089 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:622-624 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: Seeking the urban common: Furthering the debate on spatial justice Journal: City Pages: 625-628 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:625-628 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Robins Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Robins Author-Name: Kevin Robins Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Robins Author-Name: Rüdiger Benninghaus Author-X-Name-First: Rüdiger Author-X-Name-Last: Benninghaus Author-Name: Nejla Osseiran Author-X-Name-First: Nejla Author-X-Name-Last: Osseiran Author-Name: Elena Marushiakova Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Marushiakova Author-Name: Vesselin Popov Author-X-Name-First: Vesselin Author-X-Name-Last: Popov Author-Name: Huub van Baar Author-X-Name-First: Huub van Author-X-Name-Last: Baar Author-Name: Monika Metyková Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Metyková Author-Name: Kostadin Kostadinov Author-X-Name-First: Kostadin Author-X-Name-Last: Kostadinov Author-Name: Jan Hanák Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Hanák Author-Name: interviewed by Monika Metyková, Brno, May 2009 Author-X-Name-First: interviewed by Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Metyková, Brno, May 2009 Author-Name: Hedina Tahirović Sijerčić Author-X-Name-First: Hedina Tahirović Author-X-Name-Last: Sijerčić Author-Name: Juliette de Baïracli Levy Author-X-Name-First: Juliette de Baïracli Author-X-Name-Last: Levy Author-Name: Adrian Marsh Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Marsh Author-Name: Matthieu Chazal Author-X-Name-First: Matthieu Author-X-Name-Last: Chazal Author-Name: T.G. Ashplant Author-X-Name-First: T.G. Author-X-Name-Last: Ashplant Author-Name: Ilona Tomova Author-X-Name-First: Ilona Author-X-Name-Last: Tomova Author-Name: Mariella Mehr Author-X-Name-First: Mariella Author-X-Name-Last: Mehr Author-Name: Thomas Busch Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Busch Author-Name: Tímea Junghaus Author-X-Name-First: Tímea Author-X-Name-Last: Junghaus Author-Name: Thomas Busch Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Busch Author-Name: Tímea Junghaus Author-X-Name-First: Tímea Author-X-Name-Last: Junghaus Author-Name: Garth Cartwright Author-X-Name-First: Garth Author-X-Name-Last: Cartwright Author-Name: Carol Silverman Author-X-Name-First: Carol Author-X-Name-Last: Silverman Author-Name: Sonia Tamar Seeman Author-X-Name-First: Sonia Tamar Author-X-Name-Last: Seeman Title: Code unknown: Roma/Gypsy montage Abstract: Roma/Gypsies have rarely figured in mainstream social theory; they have, rather, been a topic of 'specialist’ interest. The aim of this feature is, in some small way, to address the issue of Roma culture and society in a mainstream context. More than considering a neglected group, it suggests that there is something positive and constructive to be learned from the Roma and their experiences—something to be learned from a people who have invariably been considered as problematical. Roma have a distinctive significance in the context of a changing Europe, and they also merit serious consideration in urban theory. Yet they have never figured in mainstream spatial politics. They have never received spatial justice. Through the assembling of a broad range of contributions, mostly concerning the eastern side of Europe, I have sought to bring out something of the broad range of perspectives and discourses concerning Roma culture. The aim has been to make an argument by way of a montage, and, moreover, to make the argument through ways of telling that expand the definition of 'academic’. Journal: City Pages: 636-705 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525073 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525073 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:636-705 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Introduction: welcome to the urban desert of the real, Part II Journal: City Pages: 706-708 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525841 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525841 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:706-708 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antony Bryant Author-X-Name-First: Antony Author-X-Name-Last: Bryant Author-Name: Griselda Pollock Author-X-Name-First: Griselda Author-X-Name-Last: Pollock Title: Where do Bunnys come from? From Hamsterdam to hubris Abstract: The Wire has not only been identified as one of the greatest television studies of the destitution of the modern American city through the genre of the police procedural, but it has also been hailed as a modern work of tragedy. The strength and depth of its characters confer upon them the tragic status of brave and courageous individuals battling the vagaries of fate. For Simon and Burns, the contemporary gods are, however, the faceless forces of modern capitalism. While acknowledging the necessity for such a cultural reading of the dramaturgy and genuinely tragic pathos achieved by the collaborative writing and creative vision led by David Simon and Ed Burns, this paper challenges this reading since it risks reducing African Americans to passive, albeit tragic victims of all‐powerful forces. It also inhibits the possibility of imagining agency and action. Tracking one character, Colonel Howard 'Bunny’ Colvin, who has not been fêted or celebrated in the subsequent popular and academic debates about The Wire, the authors argue that Colvin represents a figure of exception in the overall scheme. In several key spheres—creative policing, the drug trade and in education—he is a figure of action. Thus the paper reads this character through the prism of the political theory of Judith Shklar who denounces 'passive injustice’ and indifference to misfortune, calling for informal relations of everyday democracy and active citizenship in line with a series of diverse critics of contemporary American urban social relations (Lasch, Sennett). The question of action as itself a form of diagnosis and responsibility leads back to Gramscian concepts of the organic intellectual and to Hannah Arendt. Without losing sight of the fact that The Wire is a fictional drama, the paper argues that narratological analysis of one character can contribute imaginatively to the field of social and political theory while using its affective capacity to situate the viewer/reader in the dilemmas of social practice that the crisis portrayed in The Wire so forcefully represents. Journal: City Pages: 709-729 Issue: 6 Volume: 14 Year: 2010 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525338 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.525338 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:6:p:709-729 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 1-3 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.557295 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.557295 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:1-3 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Gray Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Gray Author-Name: Gerry Mooney Author-X-Name-First: Gerry Author-X-Name-Last: Mooney Title: Glasgow’s new urban frontier: 'Civilising’ the population of 'Glasgow East’ Abstract: Focusing on Glasgow’s East End, home to the 2014 Commonwealth Games, this paper explores the ways in which narratives of decline, 'blight’ and decay play a central role in stigmatising the local population. 'Glasgow East’ represents the new urban frontier in a city that has been heralded in recent decades as a model of successful post‐industrial transformation. Utilising Löic Wacquant’s arguments about advanced marginality and territorial stigmatisation in the urban context, we argue that narratives of decline and redevelopment are part of a wider ideological onslaught on the local population, intended to pave the way for low grade and flexible forms of employment, for punitive workfare schemes and for upwards rent restructuring. To this end, the media and politicians have played a particularly important role in constructing Glasgow East as a marker of a 'broken Britain’. While the focus of this paper is on Glasgow’s East End, the arguments therein have a wider UK and global resonance, reflected in the numerous cases whereby stigmatised locales of relegation are being re‐imagined as elements in wider processes of neo‐liberalisation in the city. Journal: City Pages: 4-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:4-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Jayne Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Jayne Author-Name: Phil Hubbard Author-X-Name-First: Phil Author-X-Name-Last: Hubbard Author-Name: David Bell Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Bell Title: Worlding a city: Twinning and urban theory Abstract: Twinning is a practice that creates formal and informal political, economic, social and cultural relationships between cities throughout the world. Despite its prevalence there has been relatively little academic attention paid to twinning. Indeed, where writers have considered city twinning they have tended to describe local institutional structures and programmes of events rather than theorising the importance of twinning as a global practice. Although producing a detailed picture of current twinning arrangements, existing research has thus glossed over the wider significance of twinning. In this paper, we argue that there is much to be gained from a more focused and sustained theoretical engagement with twinning. We do this by highlighting the twinning activities of the city of Manchester (UK), drawing out two key dimensions of twinning, namely, hospitality and relationality, which reveal twinning as a symptomatic urban process. In doing so we signpost the important contribution that research into twinning can make to broader debates within urban theory. Journal: City Pages: 25-41 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:25-41 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maroš Krivý Author-X-Name-First: Maroš Author-X-Name-Last: Krivý Title: Speculative redevelopment and conservation: The signifying role of architecture Abstract: Urban processes of speculative redevelopment and conservation are often understood as opposed to each other. In the following paper, my aim is to question this assumption by exploring similarities of the two processes with regard to the way they understand, shape and produce architecture. I analyse mediation between speculative redevelopment and conservation on one side and architecture on the other side. Architecture has a double role: as a sign of itself and as a signifier of the mentioned processes. By means of architecture, a specific form of temporality, that denies historicity and operates with a static notion of time, is mediated by both speculative redevelopment and conservation. Journal: City Pages: 42-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539056 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539056 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:42-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 63-65 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.554074 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.554074 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:63-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Núria Benach Author-X-Name-First: Núria Author-X-Name-Last: Benach Title: The spatial perspective in action Journal: City Pages: 66-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539015 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539015 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:66-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Abel Albet Author-X-Name-First: Abel Author-X-Name-Last: Albet Title: Spatial justice: Where/when it all comes together Journal: City Pages: 69-72 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:69-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: The words and the things Journal: City Pages: 73-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539022 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539022 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:73-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Hall Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Hall Title: Great title, wrong book Journal: City Pages: 78-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:78-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: The spatial metaphorics of justice: on Edward W. Soja Journal: City Pages: 81-84 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539058 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539058 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:81-84 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: Spatial causes, social effects: A response to Soja Journal: City Pages: 85-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539048 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539048 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:85-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gilda Haas Author-X-Name-First: Gilda Author-X-Name-Last: Haas Title: Mapping (in)justice Journal: City Pages: 87-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539016 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539016 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:87-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward Soja Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Soja Title: Spatializing justice—Part II Journal: City Pages: 96-102 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.554075 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.554075 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:96-102 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachael Unsworth Author-X-Name-First: Rachael Author-X-Name-Last: Unsworth Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 103-104 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539049 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539049 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:103-104 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Bliss Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Bliss Title: The Urbal Fix Journal: City Pages: 105-119 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.539059 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.539059 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:105-119 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher Harker Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Harker Title: Theorizing the urban from the 'south’? Journal: City Pages: 120-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511825 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511825 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:120-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pablo Mendez Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendez Title: Pitting morality against the harms of market freedom Journal: City Pages: 123-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.511830 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2010.511830 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:123-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (21) Work and action: from The Wire to Hamlet Journal: City Pages: 126-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.557591 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.557591 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:1:p:126-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 133-134 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.584479 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.584479 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:133-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Knowles Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Knowles Title: Cities on the move: Navigating urban life Abstract: This paper explores the imaginative and analytical potential of 'journeys’ in understanding the fabric and fabrication of cities and urban lives. Journeys foreground navigational skill offering a grounded way of thinking about contemporary mobilities and the interpenetration of distant worlds. This paper suggests some of the ways in which journeys matter and make matter, in flesh and stone, co‐creating social interactions, social relationships and, ultimately, the social morphologies to which all of these things accumulate, drawing some of the small quiet contours of the contemporary global world. It suggests that journeys provide powerful intersections from which to observe, ask questions and act. These explorations are developed by taking some of the people I have met in the course of my research over the last years out for a city walk in Montreal, Fuzhou, Hong Kong, Addis Ababa and its Somali borderlands. Evoking a deeper aesthetic sense of these journeys than words alone make possible are the accompanying photographs of three artists/photographers.-super-1 Journal: City Pages: 135-153 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568695 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568695 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:135-153 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Kolb Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Kolb Title: Many centers: suburban habitus Abstract: New patterns of suburban development in America after 1945 offered space for modes of life different from the social habits of those moving from crowded cities. Over time those habits changed, and then they kept on changing as new kinds of networks developed, so that now much of the built pattern of suburbia lags behind social activities and roles. What happens when so many connections in suburban life become electronic rather than spatial? This paper recalls two kinds of suburbs, discusses the mutual interaction of social roles and spatial patterns, then the polycentric habitus that has increasingly replaced hierarchical oppositions of center to periphery, in spatial planning, in organization structures and in modes of knowing. This is liberating but also surveyed by panoptic observers. These cannot be completely evaded, but openness in the interplay of architecture and social norms can lead to unexpected social formations and local creativity. Suburbia is evolving in ways that will better express and inculcate a polycentric habitus that it helped create. Journal: City Pages: 155-166 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568701 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568701 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:155-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: Medellín and Bogotá: The global cities of the other globalization Abstract: Two cities from Colombia, Medellín and Bogotá, are studied as exemplars of the ways in which globalization and colonialism have shaped and continue to shape the cartographies of global mega‐urbanization. The first part offers a discussion of the processes of political integration without territorial unification that characterized the development of the emergent nations in Latin America after independence in the early part of the 19th century. In the next section we focus directly on the object investigation by looking at a crucial period in the history of Colombia, the period of a bloody and savage civil war called La Violencia [The Violence], which lasted from 1946 through 1957, which resulted in a political compromise called the National Front (1958--78). In the last section we look at the 1980s and 1990s as periods in which 'the wars of the peace’ of the stalemate between two forms of military violence turned into 'drug wars’ that spawned a paramilitary para‐state. These two Latin American cities offer the face of the reverse of globalization, namely, the globalization of the drug trade and the paramilitarization of de‐colonial, neo‐imperialized nations. Journal: City Pages: 167-180 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568706 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568706 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:167-180 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachael Unsworth Author-X-Name-First: Rachael Author-X-Name-Last: Unsworth Author-Name: Sue Ball Author-X-Name-First: Sue Author-X-Name-Last: Ball Author-Name: Irena Bauman Author-X-Name-First: Irena Author-X-Name-Last: Bauman Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Author-Name: Andrew Goldring Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Goldring Author-Name: Katie Hill Author-X-Name-First: Katie Author-X-Name-Last: Hill Author-Name: Guy Julier Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Julier Title: Building resilience and well‐being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks Abstract: Regeneration policy in the UK has failed to deliver real gains for many of the inner‐city neighbourhoods that it was meant to help, but particularly those on the margins of our most prosperous and affluent city centres. In Leeds in 2008 an independent group of professionals came together through a project called 'Margins within the City’ to challenge thinking about regeneration in the city. We wanted to find new ways of understanding the neighbourhoods in the rim around the city centre, uncover the potential of these neighbourhoods for future resilience and well‐being and suggest ways forward. A year‐long programme of action research was undertaken to pilot an approach to investigating the social networks, skills and enterprise, and under‐utilised land and buildings in a case study neighbourhood. This paper shows the approach and method for the research, the cross‐cutting themes within the findings and the recommendations for future policy development. It suggests that if social and physical connections are mended, established and extended, then perceptions can be radically changed, resource and ecological leaks plugged, and under‐utilised potential more fully realised. Journal: City Pages: 181-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:181-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Title: Assemblage and critical urbanism Abstract: This paper offers a discussion of what assemblage thinking might offer critical urbanism. It seeks to connect with and build upon recent debates in City (2009) on critical urbanism by outlining three sets of contributions that assemblage offers for thinking politically and normatively of the city. First, assemblage thinking entails a descriptive orientation to the city as produced through relations of history and potential (or the actual and the possible), particularly in relation to the assembling of the urban commons and in the potential of 'generative critique’. Second, assemblage as a concept functions to disrupt how we conceive agency and critique due to its focus on sociomaterial interaction and distribution. Third, assemblage, as collage, composition and gathering provides an imaginary of the cosmopolitan city, as the closest approximation in the social sciences to the assemblage idea. The paper is not an attempt to offer assemblage thinking as opposed, intellectually or politically, to the long and diverse traditions of critical urbanism, but is instead an examination of some of the connections and differences between assemblage thinking and strands of critical urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 204-224 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:204-224 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Brenner Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Brenner Author-Name: David J. Madden Author-X-Name-First: David J. Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Author-Name: David Wachsmuth Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Wachsmuth Title: Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory Abstract: Against the background of contemporary worldwide transformations of urbanizing spaces, this paper evaluates recent efforts to mobilize the concept of 'assemblage’ as the foundation for contemporary critical urban theory, with particular attention to a recent paper by McFarlane (2011a) in this journal. We argue that there is no single 'assemblage urbanism’, and therefore no coherence to arguing for or against the concept in general. Instead, we distinguish between three articulations between urban political economy and assemblage thought. While empirical and methodological applications of assemblage analysis have generated productive insights in various strands of urban studies by building on political economy, we suggest that the ontological application favored by McFarlane and several other assemblage urbanists contains significant drawbacks. In explicitly rejecting concepts of structure in favor of a 'naïve objectivism’, it deprives itself of a key explanatory tool for understanding the sociospatial 'context of contexts’ in which urban spaces and locally embedded social forces are positioned. Relatedly, such approaches do not adequately grasp the ways in which contemporary urbanization continues to be shaped and contested through the contradictory, hierarchical social relations and institutional forms of capitalism. Finally, the normative foundations of such approaches are based upon a decontextualized standpoint rather than an immanent, reflexive critique of actually existing social relations and institutional arrangements. These considerations suggest that assemblage‐based approaches can most effectively contribute to critical urban theory when they are linked to theories, concepts, methods and research agendas derived from a reinvigorated geopolitical economy. Journal: City Pages: 225-240 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:225-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maros Krivy Author-X-Name-First: Maros Author-X-Name-Last: Krivy Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: On 'the urbanism of nothing’ Abstract: The following informal discussion by e‐mail arose in the process of discussing the issue title for 15.1. It began from a sense, frequently explored in City, that urbanism, at the same time as 'the urban revolution’ or 'The Age of Cities’ is being uncritically asserted, is on the edge of a possibly terminal crisis and that some(not all) manifestations described as 'rurban’ are a sign of this. Maros Krivy's exploratory paper in that issue on 'Speculative redevelopment and conservation…’ suggested, particularly in the illustration that he labelled '“Nothing” at the place of the former Guman factory’, a possible intersection, no more than that, between the two lines of thought. The ensuing discussion is presented here, very lightly edited. The topic of moving beyond a condition of 'nothingness’ announced in the original issue title and taken up in that editorial is touched on here by Anna Richter and taken up again in the editorial to this issue.   Bob Catterall Journal: City Pages: 241-249 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568718 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568718 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:241-249 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Social or spatial justice? Marcuse and Soja on the right to the city Abstract: This paper offers a brief comparative reading of how Peter Marcuse and Edward Soja conceptualise the spatiality of justice and the right to the city. The work of both of these authors has been featured in City in recent issues, and while there are clear differences in their approaches, I argue that there are also points of convergence. In particular, both Marcuse and Soja insist that working towards the 'right to the city’ is not only a matter of re‐ordering urban spaces, it is also a matter of attacking the wider processes and relations which generate forms of injustice in cities. In making this case, the paper provides an illustration of my belief that both Marcuse and Soja are right in arguing that a commitment to the 'right to the city’ can serve as the 'common cause’ or 'glue that binds’ for radical theorists and activists across their differences. Journal: City Pages: 250-259 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568723 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568723 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:250-259 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward W. Soja Author-X-Name-First: Edward W. Author-X-Name-Last: Soja Title: Response to Kurt Iveson: 'Social or Spatial Justice? Marcuse and Soja on the Right to the City’ Journal: City Pages: 260-262 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:260-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 263-263 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568720 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:263-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ulf Treger Author-X-Name-First: Ulf Author-X-Name-Last: Treger Title: City of creative privatisation: Fly posting and the public realm in Bremen Abstract: Creative and cultural production, especially on the part of independent no‐ or low‐budget projects, rely on self‐made flyers, stickers and posters to publicise their events and existence. The city of Bremen, just like many other cities, however, increasingly regulates and privatises billboards and even walls, rubbish bins and electric wiring boxes. Subscribing to a decisively Floridian discourse of creativity, talent and success, urban administrations aim to attract creative potential to their urban cores whilst simultaneously prohibiting creative uses of public spaces and surfaces. At first sight perhaps a minor matter, especially when considering the extensive debates around the privatisation of public spaces, such containment measures result in a dispossession in a double sense: firstly, surfaces in the public realm that are not (yet) economically exploited are commodified and thereby withdrawn from their free usage and secondly, these surfaces are managed and controlled by agencies that are not subject to direct democratic influence. Journal: City Pages: 264-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568721 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568721 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:264-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jamison R. Miller Author-X-Name-First: Jamison R. Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: Arts and culture in urban redevelopment: It's not all bad Journal: City Pages: 268-269 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568724 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568724 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:268-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Hodkinson Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Hodkinson Title: Can we really ride the urban tiger of global capitalism? Journal: City Pages: 270-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568727 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:270-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniel Makagon Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Makagon Title: Planning for the unintended, unexpected and accidental Journal: City Pages: 273-275 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568729 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.568729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:273-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (22) Mediations, entrapment and counterrevolution Abstract: With a focus on the acute decline in the quality of social life that accompanies the model of socioeconomic development and associated urbanisation that 'the West’ has exported to 'the Rest’, this endpiece returns to notions of mediations (looking once again at Hamlet as currently mediated) that might deepen our understanding of its/our times, and to notions of entrapment and counterrevolution, and to the possibility of moving beyond such obstructions. This would involve, to resurrect a much abused notion, much abused by positivism and by mechanistic forms of materialism, a science of society in the making, one that goes beyond, without losing, the enthusiasm for radical change and sense of evident blockages experienced in the here and now. Journal: City Pages: 276-284 Issue: 2 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.584480 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.584480 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:2:p:276-284 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 285-288 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.613304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.613304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:285-288 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Allen J. Scott Author-X-Name-First: Allen J. Author-X-Name-Last: Scott Title: Emerging cities of the third wave Abstract: I argue that three distinctive waves of urbanization can be recognized, each of them associated with a major historical phase of capitalist development. The leading edges of capitalism today can be typified in terms of a basic cognitive--cultural system of production that is transforming the economic foundations of many large metropolitan areas all over the world. This turn of events is evident in two further aspects of urbanization processes at the present time. First, a new division of labor is strongly under way with major implications for the restratification of urban labor markets and urban social life. Second, the economic and social transformations currently evident in large urban areas are provoking significant changes in the physical milieu and built form of the city, from gentrification to what I call aestheticized land use intensification. I attempt to synthesize important elements of the discussion by means of a disquisition on the city and the world, in which I point to some of the more outstanding institutional failures within the current system of neoliberal local--global development. Journal: City Pages: 289-321 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595569 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595569 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:289-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathryn Kramer Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn Author-X-Name-Last: Kramer Author-Name: John Rennie Short Author-X-Name-First: John Rennie Author-X-Name-Last: Short Title: Flânerie and the globalizing city Abstract: In this paper we review the history and current revival of flânerie, assessing it as a lens for understanding and representing cities undergoing globalization. We will examine a strong connection of artist--flâneuristic and sociological practices in 21st-century transnational terms that nevertheless recall the heroic flânerie of the 19th century. We will emphasize a more Baudelairean cast to contemporary flânerie as a practice of subjective mediation that establishes an ever-expanding, sensory connectivity among individuals in the streets, producing in the process vibrant documents of cities in transformation. We discuss the decisive impact of the flâneuse on the global stage. Finally, we will look at today's interurban circuits—for example, the global art biennial/art fair circuit—along which treads a new kind of flâneur/flâneuse—the global nomad. Journal: City Pages: 322-342 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:322-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dan Swanton Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Swanton Title: Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis: Part Two Journal: City Pages: 343-346 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.610153 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.610153 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:343-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kim Dovey Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Dovey Title: Uprooting critical urbanism Abstract: This paper engages the debate between assemblage thinking as an emerging body of critical urban theory and the desire to contain it within a framework of urban political economy. I take critical urban theory to mean the broad intellectual engagement with the ways in which cities and urban spaces are implicated in practices of power. Assemblage thinking moves outside a strict political economy framework and embodies different ontologies of power and place, yet this is not a shift away from criticality. Such thinking connects disparate threads of current urban theory as it opens new modes of multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary research geared to urban design and planning practices and therefore to potentials for urban transformation. To contain emerging assemblage theory under political economy is to neuter it and potentially produce conservative forms of practice. The framework of urban political economy brings enormous explanatory power to our understanding of cities and will develop most effectively if it does not consume its offspring. Journal: City Pages: 347-354 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595109 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595109 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:347-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq Author-X-Name-Last: Simone Title: The surfacing of urban life Abstract: The apparently constitutive structures of urban life and its surfaces are assembled in complex relationships of mutual implication and divergence that envision and stabilize urban life into vastly uneven patterns of capacity. Still, the built and social forms that urban dwellers rely upon to recognize and operate with this unevenness constantly intersected in ways that generate constant yet provisional spaces and times of experimentation of uncertain but actual effect and reach. Specific locations come to inhabit conditions, constraints and possibilities which are at one and the same time both the same and different. This process is demonstrated here in terms of one of Southeast Asia's largest markets. Journal: City Pages: 355-364 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595108 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595108 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:355-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ignacio Farías Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio Author-X-Name-Last: Farías Title: The politics of urban assemblages Abstract: In this short response I would like to address some of the criticisms made by Neil Brenner, David Madden and David Wachsmuth (2011) to the programme of urban studies presented in the volume Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies (Farías and Bender, 2009). I will do this by addressing some crucial differences between this approach and the project of critical urban studies, which, as Brenner et al. noted, is not thoroughly discussed in the aforementioned volume. I think there are four fundamental matters to be discussed: the style of cognitive engagement (inquiries or critique), the definitions of the object of study (cities or capitalism), the underlying conceptions of the social (assemblages or structures) and the envisaged political projects (democratization or revolution). Obviously these pairs of concepts don't represent clear-cut distinctions. They do, however, signalize differences of emphasis making up the politics of urban assemblages. Journal: City Pages: 365-374 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:365-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Title: On context Abstract: In this paper, I seek to extend the debate on assemblage and critical urbanism by both responding to Brenner et al.'s critique of my earlier paper, 'Assemblage and Critical Urbanism’, and by attempting to prompt further questions and debate. I reflect on three issues that Brenner et al. discuss: the role of ontology in assemblage thinking; the relations between assemblage and political economy; and the approach assemblage brings to questions of the 'context of contexts’. I conclude the paper with a note on the generative potential of assemblage thinking. Journal: City Pages: 375-388 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595111 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595111 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:375-388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Ten Years After 9/11 Journal: City Pages: 389-391 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.610189 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.610189 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:389-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: The tabooed after-life of 9/11 Abstract: This paper makes three major points: 1 The interpretation placed on the events of 9/11, and specifically its use to ground a so-called 'war on terror’, has been used to buttress conservative political power through restrictions on democracy. 2 Most major decisions about what to do to deal with the events of 9/11 have been made by, and in the interests of, a narrow segment of the population, those in positions of economic and political power. 3 Those decisions were legitimated ideologically by a set of taboos that have restricted discussion to narrow issues having to do with secondary matters, leaving fundamental questions involving criteria of equity, social justice and democracy off the agenda of public discourse and tabooed. The conclusion is that a vigorous bout of critical theory and planning is today needed if such criteria are to be publicly debated and applied. Journal: City Pages: 392-406 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:392-406 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: The politics of terror and the neoliberal military minimalist state Abstract: The decade anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attack is considered from the standpoint of three trends that synergized what can be called a new form of governmentality. First, the author considers the recrudescence of the military-surveillance state that in a paternalistic and biopolitical fashion must do its utmost to secure the 'safety’ of its population. Second, and simultaneously, the triumph of the neoliberal ideology that spells the dismantling of the welfare state, and deep cuts in so-called “entitlements”. Third, the author considers how the rise of the neoliberal military minimalist state may be related to the recent demographic trends that mark a pronounced de-urbanization in the Midwest (the “Heartland”), and population growth in the South and Southwest. Journal: City Pages: 407-413 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.604165 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.604165 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:407-413 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jill Williams Author-X-Name-First: Jill Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: Protection as subjection Abstract: Border and immigration enforcement has been central to post-9/11 national security efforts, resulting in unprecedented resource allocations at and beyond the physical borders of the USA. This paper brings together feminist and postcolonial examinations of post-9/11 military interventions with examinations of US--Mexico border enforcement to examine a relatively unexplored aspect of US border enforcement policy—state-based 'humanitarian’ efforts to reduce undocumented migrant deaths associated with unauthorized entry. Based on a discursive analysis of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press releases, CBP and Border Patrol videos and public statements, industry publications, state policies and congressional hearing transcripts, this paper examines the way in which 'humanitarian’ objectives (i.e. reducing migrant deaths) have been integrated into US border enforcement discourse and policy. In particular, I draw on feminist and postcolonial theory to examine the gendered and racialized discursive maneuvers through which undocumented migrants are transformed from potential 'terrorist threats’ or 'criminals’ into 'vulnerable victims’ deserving of assistance. I argue that gender and race are key to producing politically powerful and legible discourses of rescue and vulnerability and draw into question a contingent politics of life predicated on ideologies of gender, race and nation. In doing so, I bring a feminist postcolonial analytic framework to understandings of US--Mexico border enforcement efforts in order to query how gendered and racialized rescue narratives are key to justifying violent state projects that re-assert hegemonic power relations in the post-9/11 world. Journal: City Pages: 414-428 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595919 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595919 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:414-428 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Steven Flusty Author-X-Name-First: Steven Author-X-Name-Last: Flusty Title: From The Republic remixed Abstract: This Socratic dialogue responds to a recent propensity in popular discourse, wherein a spate of smugly mouthed platitudes have been flippantly proclaiming the death of privacy as fait accompli. In the course of this dialogue two key accomplices to that ongoing killing, in conjunction with the occasional interloper, justify and challenge one another's motivations, the consequences of one another's actions, and the resultant transformations and deformations of bodies politic that have accrued thereby over the past ten years. Journal: City Pages: 429-432 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.607019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.607019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:429-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Title: An era and its end Abstract: In the Arab world, the War on Terror operated as a logic of 'erasure’ that was never just about destruction. Through twin modalities of representation and interpellation it sought to deconstruct political community, in actions so forceful and over-determining that they would render subjects hollowed out, creating empty vassals ripe for re-making. The walling, enclosure, demolition ushered in by this era were always accompanied by a consumerist and normative underbelly--a subjectifying dimension that sought to re-figure subjects along dominant axes of values. It is in this sense that the War on Terror and its affective registers seeped into people s everyday lives and their senses of self, inflecting sensibility, creating taboos, manipulating memory. This was a dominant order of things that was to be almost instantly shattered in the spring of 2011, when popular revolts not only swept away the local apparatuses through which the war was normalized but signalled the undeniable emergence of an 'authentic’ Arab subject; a subject no longer willing to tolerate invisibility or distortion and ready to re-appropriate the very terms of representation. Journal: City Pages: 433-440 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.608506 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.608506 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:433-440 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paula Lokman Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Lokman Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 441-442 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595113 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595113 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:441-442 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Will Montgomery Author-X-Name-First: Will Author-X-Name-Last: Montgomery Title: Sounding the Heygate estate Abstract: The Heygate estate at London's Elephant and Castle is a highly visible relic of Southwark Council's vigorous housing construction programme in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now almost empty and facing demolition, it is to be replaced by a private development. The estate is a late example of the modernist style in British social housing: a style that is widely perceived to have failed and to have engendered numerous social problems. This paper draws an analogy between the radical impulse in modernist architecture and the aesthetics of sound art. One method of catching a momentary echo of the suggestion of alternative worlds hidden in the fabric of such buildings, it is argued, is through an investigation of the acoustic environment. The paper closes with a description of a sound art project undertaken by the author in and around the Heygate estate. Journal: City Pages: 443-455 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595114 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595114 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:443-455 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shahd Wari Author-X-Name-First: Shahd Author-X-Name-Last: Wari Title: Jerusalem: One planning system, two urban realities Abstract: Participation in the production of space and using it is one of the important aspects of the Right to the City to which a city's inhabitants are entitled. This article discusses how the Israeli urban planning system and law contribute to the production of space in the divided city of Jerusalem, how they are systematically institutionalized to realize ideological and geopolitical aims of the national level of the state, on the administrative bureaucratic level of the system, while ignoring the different spatial and urban realities of the city's two ethno-national groups; Israelis and Palestinians. This effectively produces different outcomes for the different ethno-national groups inhabiting the city; it facilitates the existence and growth of one group and limits that of the other ensuring the Right to the City of Israeli Jews, while depriving the Palestinians, to an extreme degree, from their Right to the City in Jerusalem. Journal: City Pages: 456-472 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595115 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595115 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:456-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andy Merrifield Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Merrifield Title: The right to the city and beyond Abstract: One of Henri Lefebvre's last essays, “Quand la ville se perd dans une métamorphose planétaire”, published in Le monde diplomatique in 1989, is by far one of his most enigmatic. The title alone says bundles; an atypically downbeat Lefebvre is on show, two-years before death, dying like his cherished traditional city: when the city loses its way, he says, when it goes astray, in a planetary metamorphosis. This article mobilizes Lefebvre's valedictory lament. It does so to problematize his very own thesis on “the right to the city”, especially in the light of recent bourgeois re-appropriation. The discussion tries to rework and reframe Lefebvre's celebrated late-60s' radical ideal, propelling it into the contemporary neo-liberal global context, negating it by moving beyond it, affirming in its stead a “politics of the encounter”. If a concept didn't fit, somehow didn't work, Lefebvre insists that we should always ditch that concept, abandon it, give it up to the enemy. So, too, perhaps, with the right to the city. The political utility of a concept, Lefebvre says, isn't that it should tally with reality, but that it enables us to experiment with reality, that it helps us glimpse another reality, a virtual reality that's there, somewhere, waiting to be born, inside us. A politics of encounter, I suggest, forces us to encounter ourselves, concretely, alongside others; it doesn't make facile, abstract rights claims for something that's now redundant in an age when planetary urbanization has become another circuit of capital. Journal: City Pages: 473-481 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595116 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595116 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:473-481 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Regina Mantanika Author-X-Name-First: Regina Author-X-Name-Last: Mantanika Author-Name: Hara Kouki Author-X-Name-First: Hara Author-X-Name-Last: Kouki Title: The spatiality of a social struggle in Greece at the time of the IMF Abstract: The €110 billion bailout offered to the Greek government in May 2010 by the so-called troika (comprising of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union) was not only the largest of its kind in Western history to date, it also marked the entrance of Greek society into a period of extreme turmoil, with profound changes in the standard of living and the everyday reality of large segments of the population. The country's extensive public sector saw wage reductions, pension decreases and tax rises. In the private sector mass lay-offs and redundancies became widespread, as did wage reductions and renegotiations of labour contracts. Against this turbulent backdrop an extraordinary event would soon take place in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki. In early 2011, the beginning of the largest mass hunger strike on European soil saw 300 undocumented migrants, mostly of Maghrebi origin, demand the legalisation of all undocumented migrants in the country. Regina Mantanika and Hara Kouki, Athens-based researchers and activists, trace the chronology of the strike in the city by looking at the series of different spaces—both public and private—that took turns in hosting it: the Law Faculty of the University of Athens, in which the migrants were quickly made unwelcome; the private mansion in which they found shelter and finally, the public hospitals to which many of them were transferred and in which they ended their strike. Mantanika and Kouki offer us the preliminary findings of their research on these spaces' dynamics, the way in which they interacted with the strike and how the strike itself transformed some of these spaces in return. I can hardly think of a more appropriate topic and paper with which to launch my term as editor of the Alternatives section of City, a section set to engage and discuss 'with groups and individuals who are developing alternative urban visions and practices’. Here we have an extraordinary such example: the practice of a small number of people who nevertheless forced us to rethink the distinctions between private and public, between local and foreign, between a struggle for life and for death. In a historical conjuncture where alternatives are desperately sought but seldom found, where the public retreats in the face of the private, tracing the spatiality of this newly encountered social struggle is a much needed and rewarding exercise. Antonis Vradis, Alternatives Editor Journal: City Pages: 482-490 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.596324 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.596324 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:482-490 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: Abstract: What appears to be a Greek crisis is a focus for the penultimate episodes of this series of 'Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis’, initiated in 2001 as a response to 9/11. That event, the destructive incursion into US space, and the unfolding events that revealed its impact on Western consciousness, particularly as defined by powerful elites, was taken as at least symptomatic of 'the present crisis’. That destructive incursion defined a specific 'coming together’ of 'the West and the Rest’. If the capture and death of Osama bin Laden, the events and developments of 'the Arab spring’, and the European 'financial’ crises, of which Greece (as both insider and outsider) provides the most dramatic example, lead to changes in the definition of that coming together, what remains a constant in this series is the crisis of the model of development and urbanisation which 'the West’ exported to the Rest and in which it now, though reluctant to face the fact, finds itself entrapped, still haunted and incapacitated by spectres (a discussion that owes much to Derrida's 'hauntological’ work on spectres), able to assume, invoke but not deliver civilisation and 'the city’.  This deliberately eccentric series, excentric to the established pieties of the social sciences, returns to some of the notions and narratives previously explored in the light of aspects of three recent (and equally excentric) publications, Revolt and Crisis in Greece (edited by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou), Magical Marxism (Andy Merrifield) and Payback (Margaret Atwood). The project seeks to bring together a range of disciplines on a transdisciplinary rather than an interdisciplinary basis. This continues to involve a series of experiments in 'critical epic’, resurrecting and redirecting the much abused notion -- much abused by mainstream urban studies, by positivism and by mechanistic forms of materialism -- of a science of society in the making, one that 'brings people (back) in’ and seeks to go beyond, without losing, the enthusiasm for radical change and sense of evident blockages ('entrapments’) experienced in the here and now. It is thus particularly attentive to cultural as well as economic dimensions of 'the crisis’, with an emphasis on the political dimension that is pre- rather than post-political. Journal: City Pages: 491-497 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.613617 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.613617 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:3-4:p:491-497 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: Editorial comments Journal: City Pages: 499-508 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.634579 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.634579 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:499-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Themis Chronopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Themis Author-X-Name-Last: Chronopoulos Title: The neoliberal political--economic collapse of Argentina and the spatial fortification of institutions in Buenos Aires, 1998--2010 Abstract: This paper demonstrates how social and political conflict is inscribed in urban space by focusing on the neoliberal political--economic collapse of Argentina, which was a conflict-ridden process with ordinary people protesting against institutions responsible for the neoliberalization of the economy. These protests affected the architecture of banking and government institutions, especially in Buenos Aires, which is the political and financial center of Argentina. Facing popular unrest and continuous political mobilizations, these institutions decided to physically fortify themselves and in the process displayed their vulnerability and illegitimacy. The fact that spatial fortification became a permanent feature of state institutions but only a temporary feature of international banks, raises questions about the way that neoliberalism operates and the way that blame for neoliberal failures is allocated. It also provides hints about the unsatisfactory political--economic outcome that emerged after the collapse, despite the fact that orthodox neoliberalism was at least rhetorically abandoned. Journal: City Pages: 509-531 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595107 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595107 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:509-531 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Harm Kaal Author-X-Name-First: Harm Author-X-Name-Last: Kaal Title: A conceptual history of livability Abstract: The quest for livability is currently a key urban issue throughout the world. Judging from policy programs, political manifestos and business philosophies, maintaining or improving a city's degree of livability appears to be one of the main concerns of a variety of actors, ranging from the spheres of local and state government to civil society and business. Critical urban geographers have characterized livability as a 'discursive frame that both enables and legitimates entrepreneurial policy initiatives’. Building on this critical interpretation of livability discourse this paper studies livability from the perspective of (urban) democracy. Through an investigation of the conceptual history of livability in the Netherlands, views on urban governance and citizenship are identified. The paper makes clear that over the past half a century, the concept of livability has played various roles in different contexts. In the late 1950s, livability emerged as a key concept in Dutch rural geography against the background of concerns over rural citizenship. In the 1960s and 1970s, livability was at the core of post-materialist values that rose to prominence in the urban arena. Urban social movements used the concept to contest the excesses of the prevailing growth-centered urban politics and the doctrine of modern functionalism. In the 1970s and 1980s livability was also used by urban government to promote a new kind of active citizenship, while in the 1990s livability was increasingly used by urban government and housing corporations to influence the social composition of urban neighborhoods. Journal: City Pages: 532-547 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595094 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595094 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:532-547 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dan Swanton Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Swanton Title: Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis: Part Three Journal: City Pages: 548-551 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.634227 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.634227 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:548-551 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Acuto Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Acuto Title: Putting ANTs into the mille-feuille Journal: City Pages: 552-562 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609021 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609021 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:552-562 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katharine N. Rankin Author-X-Name-First: Katharine N. Author-X-Name-Last: Rankin Title: Assemblage and the politics of thick description Journal: City Pages: 563-569 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.611287 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.611287 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:563-569 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hillary Angelo Author-X-Name-First: Hillary Author-X-Name-Last: Angelo Title: Hard-wired experience Journal: City Pages: 570-576 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609023 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609023 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:570-576 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bertie Russell Author-X-Name-First: Bertie Author-X-Name-Last: Russell Author-Name: Andre Pusey Author-X-Name-First: Andre Author-X-Name-Last: Pusey Author-Name: Paul Chatterton Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterton Title: What can an assemblage do? Journal: City Pages: 577-583 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:577-583 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: Template urbanism Journal: City Pages: 584-588 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:584-588 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Ten Years After 9/11: Part Two Journal: City Pages: 589-590 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.634223 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.634223 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:589-590 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vanessa A. Massaro Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa A. Author-X-Name-Last: Massaro Author-Name: Emma Gaalaas Mullaney Author-X-Name-First: Emma Gaalaas Author-X-Name-Last: Mullaney Title: The war on teenage terrorists Abstract: This paper interprets a recent, aggressive state crackdown on public gatherings of African American youth in the streets of Philadelphia's commercial districts against the backdrop of historical geographies of race and disinvestment. Drawing on news accounts and government publications, and deploying theories of securitization and space, it joins those who argue that the performance of security in everyday spaces works to conceal the social relations undergirding the post-9/11 security state. We consider how city officials and others have constructed the collective figure of the 'flash mob’ as a perpetrator of urban terrorism and the subject of state intervention. We trace the application of this subjectivity to individual bodies marked by age, race and class, thereby revealing how the latest strategic move in a historic reinforcement of the US ghetto sustains and feeds off of newly heightened and intertwined anxieties about the sources of criminality, violence and terror. If the venal urban geopolitics of Philadelphia reproduces long-standing spatial segregation and social inequality, it does so by exploiting newly emerged nationalist identities and under the auspices of antiterrorist legislation. More broadly, then, this paper argues for closer attention to the social warrant of racialized space and of banal terrorism in the constitution of state power. Journal: City Pages: 591-604 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.630856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.630856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:591-604 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Is it all coming together? Thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: Abstract: What remains a constant in this series is the crisis of the model of development and urbanisation which 'the West’ exported to the Rest and in which it now, though reluctant to face the fact, finds itself entrapped, still haunted and incapacitated by spectres, able to assume, invoke but not deliver civilisation and 'the city’. This deliberately eccentric series, excentric to the established pieties of the social sciences, returns to some of the notions and narratives previously explored in the light of aspects of three recent (and equally excentric) publications, moving on from the first of these, Revolt and Crisis in Greece (edited by Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou), to the second, Magical Marxism (Andy Merrifield,) leaving the third, Payback (Margaret Atwood), for the last of the series. There is a continuing focus on the Greek insurrection which is now extended -- drawing on a distinction between revolutionary and radical spaces and times -- to aspects of the OccupyWallStreet movement. The project seeks to bring together a range of disciplines on a transdisciplinary rather than an interdisciplinary basis. This continues to involve a series of experiments in 'critical epic’, moving across spaces and times and their attempted appropriations, seeking to resurrect and redirect the much abused notion -- much abused by mainstream urban studies, by positivism and by mechanistic forms of materialism, -- of a science of society in the making, one that 'brings people (back) in’ and seeks to go beyond, without losing, the magic of the enthusiasm for radical change and sense of evident blockages ('entrapments’) experienced in the here and now. It is thus particularly attentive to cultural as well as economic dimensions of 'the crisis’, with an emphasis on the political dimension that is pre-rather than post-political. Journal: City Pages: 605-612 Issue: 5 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.635026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.635026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:5:p:605-612 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 613-617 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.645387 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.645387 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:613-617 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Title: The 'Arab Spring’ and the city Abstract: 'Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa, das Gespenst des Kommunismus’ ('A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism’): thus Marx and Engels captured the zeitgeist at the turn of the 20th century, beckoning in the process revolutionary changes and brighter tomorrows for Europe's working class. Today, it is as if those very words were being revived—adapted by numerous observers to fit the current socio-political processes in the Arab world. This time around, it's the Arab elite being haunted and the spectre is that of democracy. However, is such a depiction remotely accurate? Journal: City Pages: 618-624 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.632900 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.632900 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:618-624 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Author-Name: May Jayyusi Author-X-Name-First: May Author-X-Name-Last: Jayyusi Title: The will to revolt and the spectre of the Real Journal: City Pages: 625-630 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.632902 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.632902 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:625-630 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Title: Beyond the return of the 'slum’ Journal: City Pages: 631-635 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.644750 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.644750 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:631-635 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Title: Rhetoric of the 'slum’ Abstract: Despite Gilbert's recent identification of the 'return of the slum’ as a dangerous trend (2007), scholars such as Rao (2006) assure us that there is a broader theoretical interest in applying the term 'slum’ in a normative sense, as it offers a new analytic framework for understanding the global cities of the South. Using the recent politics of large-scale slum evictions in Indian cities, this paper explores this tension, asking if a theoretical return to slums can help generate new narratives of poverty, serving as an important site in which historiographies of neoliberalisation in the global South can be unfolded and addressed. It underscores the need for a new direction in collecting ethnographies of the urban poor in India as they negotiate the current political and policy drive for creating 'slum-free’ cities, conscious that the resulting spatial articulation could possibly reveal how formal and informal geographies connect with each other in increasingly multiple and complex ways. As this paper argues, what is needed in the context of contemporary urban change involving harsh and often violent slum eradication strategies is perhaps not 'slum as theory’ but a sincere engagement with in-depth, empirical case studies that clarify much of the uncertainty surrounding the spatialisation of urban poverty. Journal: City Pages: 636-646 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609002 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609002 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:636-646 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Brand Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Brand Author-Name: Julio D. Dávila Author-X-Name-First: Julio D. Author-X-Name-Last: Dávila Title: Mobility innovation at the urban margins Abstract: With the consolidation of democratic governments in the 1980s and 1990s, wholesale evictions of entire neighbourhoods ceased to be a solution to urban problems in Latin America. This paper discusses an example of a new generation of municipal programmes aimed at physically upgrading informal settlements while integrating them both physically and socially into the fabric of the city. In Medellín, a city with a recent history of violence and social inequality, the audacious use of well-established ski-slope aerial cable-car technology in dense and hilly low-income informal settlements was followed by major neighbourhood upgrading comprising new social housing, schools and other social infrastructure, as well as support to micro-enterprises. Although lack of mobility contributes to social inequality and poverty, the paper argues that the introduction of quick-fix highly visible transport technology on its own is unlikely to help reduce poverty. Although urban upgrading programmes and the symbolic value of cable-car systems have instilled among the local population a feeling of inclusion and integration into the 'modern’ city, they can also be understood as mechanisms for the 'normalisation’ of informal sectors of the city. Journal: City Pages: 647-661 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609007 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609007 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:647-661 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sunil Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Sunil Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Title: The research--policy dialectic Abstract: Since the 1980s, research has significantly improved understanding of rental housing in the Global South. This has informed, albeit sporadically, policy reports emanating from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) that are yet to be translated into policy. Policymakers continue to doggedly pursue 'ownership’ as the preferred housing tenure; renting is viewed as exploitative—tenants are seen to be the victims of unscrupulous landlords. Of course, there are exploitative landlords but research in urban Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean finds such landlordism to be exceptional. To the contrary, there is overwhelming evidence of the contribution that rental housing makes: to enhance residential mobility, improve labour market and livelihood opportunities, accommodate gender and cultural concerns, and strengthen social and economic networks. Despite the 'virility of research’ findings, the key question is: why are policymakers reluctant to explore the rental housing option? Is it simply because their views are based on the 'exploitation’ myth? Is it that the perceived short-term political advantage present in the mantra of 'ownership’ accounts for the 'impotence of action’ in formulating a rental housing policy? Alternatively, could it be that real estate interests are so powerful that governments have lost the room for manoeuvre? Journal: City Pages: 662-673 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:662-673 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Simon Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Simon Title: Situating slums Abstract: This paper comprises two intertwined reflective threads—my own engagements with and perceptions of different phases of Alan Gilbert's work, and a critical perspective on 'slum(dog) fever’—the recent and often decontextualised fixation on slums, with which Alan has engaged. The first section briefly surveys Alan Gilbert's contributions to the broader Geography, Development and Housing literatures, situating them in the context of evolving debates and policy agendas. This sets the scene for a more detailed discussion of changing definitions and discourses around the concept of 'slums’ and Alan's recent interventions about the resuscitation or re-emergence of 'cities without slums’ agendas. The third section of the paper addresses the challenge of scale, exploring how data, (tele)visual depictions, discourses and policy debates about slums and their inhabitants transcend—or perhaps transgress—geographical scales in often simplistic and culturally deterministic ways, not least through popular films like Slumdog Millionaire. Finally, the focus shifts to the uniqueness or distinctiveness of individual slums as places, homes and sites of identity and citizenship formation, citing particular iconic examples from the literature and media. Journal: City Pages: 674-685 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609011 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609011 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:674-685 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nazia Parvez Author-X-Name-First: Nazia Author-X-Name-Last: Parvez Title: Visual representations of poverty Abstract: In spite of revolutionary advances in technology, the history of photography has been plagued with the same questions, with photographs proving problematic on more than one level. Two central and interrelated questions are recurrent. Firstly, to what extent do photographs provide 'objective’ renderings of reality? And secondly, if visual representation is not an objective and disembodied process, how is it mediated by culture, reflecting and reinforcing wider societal beliefs. This is echoed in the choice of subject matter, editing and framing of narratives, with photographs becoming a kind of ideological currency. This paper questions 'Western’ portrayals of Africa, focusing on photographic representations of the Kroo Bay slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Finding itself in a post-conflict situation and positioned between different actors who recognise the currency of photographs, the community is caught in a kind of proxy war. Whether consciously or not, whichever party can effectively manage how it is represented is in a position of relative authority to engage with and reinforce particular narratives—which may culminate in a strengthening of their own relative position in the form of increased donations and greater access. Representation, thus, eclipses reality and what we are left with are mere images of the truth. The end result in such a scenario is the further entrenchment of the status quo. Journal: City Pages: 686-695 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:686-695 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth A. Jones Author-X-Name-First: Gareth A. Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: Slumming about Abstract: Slums are categorised as having a deficit of infrastructure, income and adherence to norms and a surfeit of dirt, disease, violence and other pathologies. Slums are spaces of stigma, regardless of improvements to material or social conditions. This paper is concerned with how stigmatic representations of slums might be tackled. The paper considers how urbanists might understand the relationship between slums and aesthetics. Identifying different aesthetic registers, the paper argues that art projects can contest how aesthetics are constructed and how stigma may be challenged. Journal: City Pages: 696-708 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609017 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609017 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:696-708 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Deborah Potts Author-X-Name-First: Deborah Author-X-Name-Last: Potts Title: Shanties, slums, breeze blocks and bricks Abstract: In 2005, the Zimbabwean government demolished huge swathes of low-income housing throughout the country's urban centres. This was one of the most radical reshapings of any country's urban housing patterns in the world's recent history. Yet any attempt to understand this event in relation to the current central concerns about the housing of the urban poor of agencies like UN Habitat, or the world's Millennium Development Goals, would only be partially helpful. So broadly are the parameters of what are deemed to be 'slums’ drawn in such approaches that it has become difficult to evaluate where interventions should start and which policies might be most effective for improving living standards. The previous distinctions between housing types and problems for which housing specialists had argued—for example, that not all illegal housing types are slums—have slipped away. This paper argues that such distinctions proved to be crucial when analysing the demolitions in Zimbabwe, which centred on the legality of housing and not its inadequacy. Journal: City Pages: 709-721 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.611292 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.611292 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:709-721 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Gilbert Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Gilbert Title: Epilogue Journal: City Pages: 722-726 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609019 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609019 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:722-726 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dan Swanton Author-X-Name-First: Dan Author-X-Name-Last: Swanton Title: Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis -- Part Four Journal: City Pages: 727-730 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.644730 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.644730 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:727-730 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Title: Encountering, describing and transforming urbanism Abstract: In this paper, I present some concluding reflections on the 'Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis’ debate that has taken place in the last few issues of City. Prompted by the eight insightful commentaries in the debate, I consider just three sets of contributions and limitations that assemblage thinking brings to making sense of and developing alternatives to contemporary urbanism: on encountering urban life, on the limits of description and on the possibilities for a radical urban commons. I argue that assemblage thinking provides a set of useful perspectives for conceptualising and intervening in urbanism, and that its potential can only be realised in conjunction with different urban critical, activist and marginalised knowledges. Journal: City Pages: 731-739 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.632901 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.632901 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:731-739 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Wachsmuth Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Wachsmuth Author-Name: David J. Madden Author-X-Name-First: David J. Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Author-Name: Neil Brenner Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Brenner Title: Between abstraction and complexity Abstract: Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations. In engaging with the limits and possibilities of recent assemblage-based work in urban studies, our concern has been to help forge new analytical tools for deciphering emerging patterns of planetary urbanization, which have unsettled the coherence and viability of earlier intellectual frameworks. As urbanization is changing, so too must urban theory change, and it must do so in ways that provide critical purchase on emergent sociospatial divisions, conflicts, struggles and transformations at all spatial scales and across divergent places and territories. To this end, responding to several strands of the debate on assemblage urbanism that has unfolded in previous issues of City, here we clarify our meta-theoretical stance, address several methodological questions and reiterate our arguments regarding the importance of a reinvigorated geopolitical economy of planetary urbanization. We insist on the importance of abstraction as a necessary methodological moment in any reflexive approach to urban knowledge formation. Journal: City Pages: 740-750 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.632903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.632903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:740-750 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ugo Rossi Author-X-Name-First: Ugo Author-X-Name-Last: Rossi Title: Shanghai and the limits of the global-city literature Abstract: Rising Shanghai: state power and local transformation in a global megacity, edited by Xiangming Chen. Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis and London, 2009, 280 pp., ISBN 9780816654888, US$25.00 (pbk). Journal: City Pages: 751-753 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609028 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609028 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:751-753 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Mills Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Mills Title: Desire, disorder and design: metropolitan threats and urban sexual citizenship in post-war London Abstract: The spiv and the architect: unruly life in postwar London, Richard Hornsey, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2010, 328 pp., ISBN 9780816653157, US$24.95 (pbk). Journal: City Pages: 754-756 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.609029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:754-756 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ted Rutland Author-X-Name-First: Ted Author-X-Name-Last: Rutland Title: Re-remembering Africville Journal: City Pages: 757-761 Issue: 6 Volume: 15 Year: 2011 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.595595 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2011.595595 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:15:y:2011:i:6:p:757-761 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes Author-X-Name-Last: de Souza Title: The city in libertarian thought Abstract: There are many examples of aversion to the city and city life among classical anarchists, as well as of an exaggerated positive valuation of nature and rural life. This 'urbanophobia’ is certainly simplistic; but it was or has been by no means the sole or even the most representative position in the course of the history of libertarian thought. In this text, I aim to show the complexity of libertarian approaches to the city in the 19th and 20th centuries, using as examples, respectively, the works of Élisée Reclus and Murray Bookchin. Additionally, and in a brief way, I also try to summarise what seems to be the utility of such a discussion for contemporary purposes, drawing inspiration and examples from the recent Latin American experience in terms of urban movements' spatial practices. All these contributions are examined considering three foci: (1) the opposition between city and countryside; (2) the (anti-)ecological dimension of urbanisation; (3) strategies for socio-spatial change. Journal: City Pages: 4-33 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662376 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662376 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:4-33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yousuf Al-Bulushi Author-X-Name-First: Yousuf Author-X-Name-Last: Al-Bulushi Title: Learning from urban revolt Abstract: This paper brings into conversation two texts that were written 40 years apart—Society of the Spectacle in 1967 and The Coming Insurrection in 2007—and yet share great lines of continuity. Both texts are situated within their economic, cultural and political conjunctures in order to ground their theoretical contributions. The paper emphasizes the important influence that urban rebellions in Watts and the Parisian banlieues had upon both texts, and in so doing, highlights the over-looked debt these theoretical projects owe to marginalized and racialized populations in struggle. Henri Lefebvre's theory of autogestion is developed as a mediator between the two books, and as a way to engage their theories through the eyes of a more obviously spatial and Marxist thinker. The argument expands upon the spatial perspective central to both texts, while highlighting the urban implications of both their conjunctural analyses of capitalism and the territorial nature of the adequate forms of resistance that Debord and The Invisible Committee propose in the form of workers' councils and metropolitan communes. These two works provide a foundation for a heretical Marxist tradition that both remains loyal to something we can continue to call Marxism, even as it departs from and extends this tradition in new and exciting directions by way of what Debord calls detournement. The paper concludes with an examination of Frantz Fanon's writings on spontaneity and the relevance of the discussion for contemporary political praxis. Journal: City Pages: 34-56 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662368 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662368 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:34-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leslie Sklair Author-X-Name-First: Leslie Author-X-Name-Last: Sklair Author-Name: Laura Gherardi Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Gherardi Title: Iconic architecture as a hegemonic project of the transnational capitalist class Abstract: Identifying the drivers of actually existing capitalist globalization as the transnational capitalist class, this paper suggests that theory and research on its agents and institutions could help us to explain how the dominant forms of contemporary iconic architecture arise and how they serve the interests of globalizing capitalists. We define iconic architecture in terms of buildings and/or spaces that are famous, and that have distinctive symbolic and aesthetic significance. The historical context of the research is the thesis that the production and representation of architectural icons in the pre-global era (roughly before the 1960s) were mainly driven by those who controlled state and/or religious institutions, whereas the dominant forms of architectural iconicity in the global era are increasingly driven by those who own and control the corporate sector. The argument is illustrated with reference to debates around the politics of monumentality in architecture; the relationship between iconic architecture and capitalist globalization; and an explanation of why these debates are being overtaken by critical and uncritical conceptions of architectural iconicity derived from an analysis of the use of iconicity and similar terms in the discourses of major architecture and architect--developer firms and mass media presentations of their work. Journal: City Pages: 57-73 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662366 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662366 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:57-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Asu Aksoy Author-X-Name-First: Asu Author-X-Name-Last: Aksoy Title: Riding the storm: 'new Istanbul’ Abstract: Istanbul is faced with a fundamental dilemma: on the one hand, there is the logic of globalizing the city that is animated and driven by a top-down political ambition; with its drive for wealth creation and increase in the standard of living, for some of its inhabitants at least, through producing the city as a real-estate proposition. And, on the other, there is the principle of the public city with its concern over the common good—inclusive citizenship, the ecological profile, the historic identity and public culture of Istanbul. As the city is colonized by the logic of real-estate-driven growth, becoming globally open, it is losing another kind of openness—the kind of openness that has allowed citizens of all kinds to coexist, and allowed disadvantaged, marginal and incoming migrant communities to survive and make a space for themselves in the city. As Istanbul now becomes a megacity on the trajectory of becoming a regional powerhouse, composed of a fragmentary landscape of gated communities, residential complexes, recreational zones and tourist areas, it ceases to be a real city. Historic districts take their toll in this process, becoming, mono-functional, and in fact, dead spaces. The challenge for civic actors in Istanbul is to negotiate an argument for the public city to survive. The only way for the public city argument to make any headway today is to take into account the fact that the growth-based politics has a popular appeal and support. What is needed is a new kind of critical politics that is able to manage and steer the real-estate-based growth for the public city argument. This is no less a challenge than one of finding a way to ride the storm that is caused by the 'new Istanbul’. Journal: City Pages: 93-111 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662373 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662373 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:93-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B. Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers Author-Name: Magdalena Sabat Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena Author-X-Name-Last: Sabat Title: Re-making a Landscape of Prostitution: the Amsterdam Red Light District Abstract: The Amsterdam Red Light District is locally and internationally significant as one of the oldest venues for visible and legal urban prostitution. Internationally it is perceived as a free-for-all zone of entertainment, a kind of 'theme park’ for adult fun. Locally the Red Light District is a controversial place that stirs debates on Dutch 'progressive’ policies, the impact of cultural globalization and importantly, whether or not prostitution should be allowed to exist in this kind of visible format in Amsterdam's center. Recent urban planning changes in the area, instigated by City authorities, show the Red Light District is directly implicated in municipal gentrifying efforts, efforts that put at risk historic margins like the Red Light District. The paper introduces themes that will be discussed in depth by the special feature contributors: the red light district as a 'moral region’, historical and legislative perspectives, political understanding and enactment of 'liberal’ policies and municipal use of these concepts to self-brand, commercial and aesthetic character of the zone in view of the global sex industry, and the role of artists as cultural producers and marginal gentrifiers. This introductory paper to the special feature on the Red Light District of Amsterdam offers an overview of key perspectives on red light zones and specifically addresses how the Amsterdam Red Light District both fits, and is an exception to visible urban zones of prostitution. Journal: City Pages: 112-128 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662372 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662372 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:112-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel B. Aalbers Author-X-Name-First: Manuel B. Author-X-Name-Last: Aalbers Author-Name: Michaël Deinema Author-X-Name-First: Michaël Author-X-Name-Last: Deinema Title: Placing prostitution Abstract: Amsterdam's red-light district is the paradigmatic case of window prostitution, but it is not a stable case: both the regulatory context of prostitution in the Netherlands and the socio-spatial dynamics of the district have changed throughout the years. This paper advances our understanding of 'prostitution and the city’ in at least two ways. The first refers to the evolution of prostitution in the last two centuries and the often-paradoxical effects of changing regulation, in particular the 1911 morality laws and the 2000 legalization of window prostitution. In both cases, prostitution, in parallel to the civilizing of other manners, is relegated to increasingly confined spaces and as such banned from 'normal’ social life. While reducing the visibility of prostitution in 'normal’ life, it increases the visibility in these spatially confined zones known as red-light districts. The second involves contemporary policies that aim to remake the red-light district. The recent 'Plan 1012’ of the City of Amsterdam concentrates brothels in an ever-smaller red-light district. Paradoxically, formal regulation also pushes part of the commodified sexual activities out of the red-light district and into informal circuits that are far less spatially bound. The plan is promoted as one that favours women's rights, but it is first and foremost the City's way of maintaining and furthering the public--private growth coalition that aims to improve the conditions for safe investment by turning a notorious red-light district into an extension of the highly expensive city centre—in other words, state-assisted or 'third wave’ gentrification. Journal: City Pages: 129-145 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:129-145 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gail M. Zuckerwise Author-X-Name-First: Gail M. Author-X-Name-Last: Zuckerwise Title: Governmentality in Amsterdam's Red Light District Abstract: On 1 October 2000, the ban on brothels was lifted in the Netherlands, marking an intervention in the nature and structure of the country's prostitution industry by legalising sex work. Various perspectives contributed to the debates and deliberations that resulted in the Netherlands' prostitution policy, while dominant discourses accounted for the primacy of sex workers' rights and the security of the sex industry. Less than 10 years later, policymakers and municipal authorities in Amsterdam began casting doubts on the country's approaches towards prostitution, and discourses have shifted away from the situations of sex workers and the security of their industry. Prostitution has become increasingly considered in terms of its contextualisation in the city. The situation or subjectivities of the prostitutes is undermined by the socio-cultural significance and quality that is attributed to the spaces of sex work. This paper introduces Foucault's concept of governmentality along with scholarship that develops and critiques his ideas in relation to space and subjectivity. The current situation in Amsterdam's Red Light District illustrates how governmentality is productive for analysing contemporary cultural policies and industries that redefine the concept and significance of culture through its relationships to the social life and space of the city. Journal: City Pages: 146-157 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662365 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662365 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:146-157 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Phil Hubbard Author-X-Name-First: Phil Author-X-Name-Last: Hubbard Title: Afterword: exiting Amsterdam's red light district Journal: City Pages: 195-201 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662362 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662362 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:195-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William Tabb Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Tabb Title: Cities for people and people for systemic change Journal: City Pages: 203-206 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:203-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: The 20:12 express: destination? Journal: City Pages: 207-215 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662375 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662375 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:207-215 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paula Lökman Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Lökman Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 220-220 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662374 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662374 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:220-220 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Mubi Brighenti Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Mubi Author-X-Name-Last: Brighenti Author-Name: Cristina Mattiucci Author-X-Name-First: Cristina Author-X-Name-Last: Mattiucci Title: Visualising the riverbank Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic observation of a tract of urban riverbank in the city of Trento, in northern Italy, we attempt to link phenomenological observation of social interaction in public places with larger political concerns about contemporary urban public space. While agreeing with Low et al. (Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space & Cultural Diversity. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005) that in order to foster public spaces it is necessary to accommodate the differences in the ways social classes and ethnic groups use and value urban sites, we also argue that one should be wary of planning hubris—which can occur in even 'good-willed’ planning, and leads to the creation of domesticated and formalised, but also inherently restricted, spaces for encountering differences. Journal: City Pages: 221-234 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662378 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662378 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:221-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sissi Korizi Author-X-Name-First: Sissi Author-X-Name-Last: Korizi Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: From innocence to realisation Journal: City Pages: 237-242 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:237-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Schrader Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Schrader Author-Name: David Wachsmuth Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Wachsmuth Title: Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, the state and space Journal: City Pages: 243-248 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662371 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662371 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:243-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Myrto Tsilimpounidi Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tsilimpounidi Author-Name: Aylwyn Walsh Author-X-Name-First: Aylwyn Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Title: Merry Crisis-mas (from Greece) Journal: City Pages: 249-252 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662379 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662379 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:1-2:p:249-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Abstract: May 1968 was defeated in a sense, with the people going back and living conventional lives, but at the same time it was a milestone of change of mind. It inspired new cultural and political imaginations and the creation of alternative cultures, anti-capitalist, anti-war, anti-colonial, and against conventional logic. And it was surrounded by student uprisings in the USA and by Prague 1968 and broader openings in many world areas, which boosted the effect of May 1968. 'I would object to comparisons with Greece 43 years later, and we still do not know whether the Greek May of 2011 (celebrated in the picture) or 2012 (the pivotal election) is successful yet. But the banner really makes the point that the May of 2011 and all that followed, also inspires alternative cultures and imaginations against the hegemony of neoliberal neocolonialism, so it is anticapitalist too, against the new more exploitative face of capitalism and the democratic deficit that it creates. Though it is surrounded by insulting and racist remarks from abroad, it draws solidarity only from single intellectuals who see its pioneering intervention that might snowball and lead to a change of mind throughout Europe, against conventional logic which has the banks in power rather than parliamentary democracy. (Leontidou)-super-1 Professor Lila Leontidou was discussing her photograph of a year ago which shows a banner posted by the Theatre du Soleil in Syntagma to, as she puts it, 'celebrate solidarity between Athens and Paris.' 'Solidarity in Greek', she continues, 'is "allilegyi", which means literally "close (egys) to each other (allilous)". Indeed, the Left Party of Syriza on the rise in the 2012 May elections and now, has made allilegyi the basic discourse of their political campaign. To those who attack them (everybody does these days, media and politicians attack them harshly with the scare of the Greek drachma), these people say that they do have a chance if they draw "allilegyi" from abroad.'-super-2 'Athens', she concludes, 'is as massive as Paris, and as young and inventive as that.' Professor Leontidou was speaking before the June 17 election. Syriza has since significantly increased its vote but failed to win the election.-super-3 But the movement against 'conventional logic' to which she refers, 'against the hegemony of neoliberal neocolonialism, i.e. anti-capitalist too, against the new more exploitative face of capitalism and the democratic deficit that it creates', seems set to continue.-super-4 The 'conventional logic which has the banks in power rather than parliamentary democracy' has come to seem more fragile and unacceptable, even if the prospect of parliamentary democracy itself has also come to seem more fragile and questionable. This issue of CITY seeks to chart and analyse the struggle between this conventional and enshrined logic and an alternative logic emerging from the potentially transformative solidarities, within and across movements, nations, moments of time, across the face of, and towards a new future for, the planet. Journal: City Pages: 265-268 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.702869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.702869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:265-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andy Merrifield Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Merrifield Title: The politics of the encounter and the urbanization of the world Abstract: This article encounters the politics of the encounter. It tries to reframe another way of thinking about progressive urban politics. It encounters Althusser, who wrote some of the nicest and profoundest lines on the encounter, and it encounters Lefebvre, with his notion of the urban as the site of encounters. It equally encounters the Occupy movement and in so doing encounters space, urban space, specifically a reworked conception of centrality. Althusser's proverbial rain rains ordinary urban rain, elements that have encountered one another because of a swerve, induced by encounters created by prior swerves, those that created, go on creating, new densities of connections ripe for further swerves. The clinamen strikes, rains rain so hard on the old order, on the old city, that the swerve has created a new world urban order, the plane of immanence for new encounters, for an aleatory materialism of bodies encountering other bodies in public. Such is the Occupy movement. People here encounter other people within and through urban space; the urban confers the reality of the encounter, of the political encounter, and of the possibility for more encounters. It becomes the site as well as the nemesis of the encounter, its positive, unifying capacity as well as its negative, demonic charge of dissociation. Journal: City Pages: 269-283 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:269-283 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Vanolo Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Vanolo Title: The political geographies of Liberty City Abstract: Liberty City is a virtual city, created for use with several versions of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), a best-selling series of video games concerning the world of crime. Millions of people all over the world have spent large amounts of time exploring this virtual space, making the city an important cultural artefact and a meaningful landmark in the urban imaginary on a global scale. The aim of this paper is to analyse Liberty City in terms of the imagined urban political geographies nested in the aesthetics of this space in the video game GTA IV. In order to develop this analysis, a theorization of urban politics will be presented, where politics is identified as consisting of representation, government and contestation. The paper will introduce methodological notes concerning the analysis, carried out mainly on the basis of a personal exploration of Liberty City. The paper then outlines the neoliberal political unconscious embedded in the urban dimension of Liberty City and proposes final theoretical reflections on the possible relations between the urban, the political and the aesthetics of video game practices. Journal: City Pages: 284-298 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662377 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662377 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:284-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lila Leontidou Author-X-Name-First: Lila Author-X-Name-Last: Leontidou Title: Athens in the Mediterranean 'movement of the piazzas' Spontaneity in material and virtual public spaces Abstract: Mediterranean cities are carrying Gramsci's concept of spontaneity into the 21st century through massive social movements after the 'Arab Spring'. This paper explores the ways in which the material and virtual cityscape interact with socio-political transformation during the 'movement of the piazzas' in Athens, Greece. After a discussion of the importance of urban informality, porosity and land-use mixtures for social cohesion, of creeping ghettoization in some enclaves and of the perils of urbicide, we proceed to an analysis of grassroots action in Athens in comparison with different cities of the Mediterranean and beyond. Social movements are placed in their respective local and global context--their recurrent material landscapes and their cosmopolitan virtual spaces of digital interaction. This analysis leads to reflections on the possible role of popular spontaneity in democratization and in European integration at the grassroots level, against the onslaught of neoliberalism and accumulation by dispossession. Journal: City Pages: 299-312 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687870 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687870 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:299-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Introduction: From a mainstream to a critical narrative Journal: City Pages: 313-314 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.702871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.702871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:313-314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: Marxists, libertarians and the city Abstract: Cities for people, not for profit. Critical urban theory and the right to the city, Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer (eds). Routledge, London and New York, 2012, 284 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-60178-8, US$39.95 (pbk). Journal: City Pages: 315-331 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687871 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687871 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:315-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Cummins Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Cummins Title: NEOutopia: Architecture and the Politics of 'the New' Journal: City Pages: 332-336 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.689126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.689126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:332-336 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesco Sebregondi Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Sebregondi Title: Notes on the potential of void Abstract: The Heygate estate is stuck, not only in its process of demolition and reconstruction, but also in a timeworn debate confronting its narrated past with the speculative future about to replace it. In the paper, the focus is shifted to the material presence of the place today--as a void in the bustling city. Turned into an overactive filming location, the Heygate's void helped constructing a ruined image of the council estate. Its derelict façades serve today as a valorising background for the shiny new developments that surround it; in the landscape thereby constructed, the estate's failure and its promised solution are told together. However, the Heygate's void is also a place--a suspended, indeterminate one. Rousing us from our accustomed urban experience, voids like the Heygate are propitious places to start thinking and engaging in a transformation of the city, beyond its mere regeneration. Journal: City Pages: 337-344 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687873 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687873 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:337-344 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louis Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Louis Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Title: Looking backward Abstract: New buildings and public spaces constructed in London today are typified by claims about an architectural capacity to transform both the physical fabric and mental conceptions of the city. However, beyond marketing hype, what kind of social processes and aesthetic qualities are being restructured and re-codified? And how does London's emerging spatial form relate to the consolidation of the capital's well-recognised political and economic role as a centre of international investment? Here, I return to some remarks made by Henri Lefebvre in The Survival of Capitalism about 'neo-modern' ideologies of economic growth and urban development. By comparing the urban ideologies of late-Victorian and early 21st-century London, I argue that what appears to be driving contemporary development is--in spite of the high-tech 'second nature' of global capitalism--an unreconstructed mode of urban rent-seeking. Journal: City Pages: 345-354 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687876 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687876 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:345-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes Author-X-Name-Last: de Souza Title: Introduction: Where do we stand? New hopes, frustration and open wounds in Arab cities Abstract: The popular uprisings that erupted in December 2010 in Tunisia and spread like wildfire in the Maghreb and Middle East demand an honest appraisal, after a year of protests and conflicts. Undoubtedly, the 'Arab Spring' has brought about major change: dictators have been ousted (Ben Ali, Mubarak, Saleh), killed (Gaddafi), while others have seen their conception of absolutist power irrevocably shaken (Assad). Even in the relatively 'calm' context of Morocco, King Mohammed VI has been forced to make concessions. However, the ousting of Mubarak in Egypt has not equated with the fall of the old regime, and the army has remained central to the 'transition'; Libya's situation following on the death of Gaddafi is by no means clear; and repression in Syria continues, unabated. Meanwhile, the one example of smooth 'regime change', Tunisia, has also witnessed the recent electoral victory of the moderate Islamist party Al-Nahda, seemingly quashing in the process the hopes of an emergent secular democracy; this, in one of the region's most educated countries with a sizeable middle class and professional female population, ostensibly eager to protect its 'progressive' gender status by regional standards.1 Time to rethink hopes and prospects; time to attempt some form of balance sheet. Journal: City Pages: 355-359 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687877 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687877 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:355-359 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ahmed Kanna Author-X-Name-First: Ahmed Author-X-Name-Last: Kanna Title: Urban praxis and the Arab Spring Journal: City Pages: 360-368 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:360-368 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nadia Taher Author-X-Name-First: Nadia Author-X-Name-Last: Taher Title: 'We are not women, we are Egyptians' Journal: City Pages: 369-376 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:369-376 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David J. Madden Author-X-Name-First: David J. Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: Poor man's penthouse Abstract: The Pruitt--Igoe Myth: An urban history, directed by Chad Freidrichs, 2011, 83 minutes. Journal: City Pages: 377-381 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:377-381 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Schwellenangst? Towards the city of anti-capitalist critique Abstract: Towards the city of thresholds, Stavros Stavrides. Published under Creative Commons licence 3.0 by professional dreamers, 2010, 153 pp., €16, ISBN 978-88-904295-3-8. Journal: City Pages: 382-385 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.687882 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.687882 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:382-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the great transformation: (2) Nature, Marx's 'Old Mole', and 'Robinson' Abstract: What kinds of investigation could serve as an approach to social transformation that questions the project of planetary urbanisation and its representation as 'the urban revolution'? Do they suggest that it will require a rediscovery of sentient nature informed by and informing a new materialism, and a related reconstruction of communalism, even a rediscovery of 'the city' (and 'the country', which is perhaps the rural and agrarian dimension of 'civilisation')? It is within the agenda set by these two questions that the future of urban and socio-spatial studies and their utility is considered in this series. This second episode gives further attention to the notion and relevance of sentient nature, to the basis for a new materialism and the related reconstruction of communalism, with particular reference to Marx's 'old mole', and a focus on Patrick Keiller's novel and illuminating approach, implicit and explicit, to these topics in his recent work ('Robinson in Ruins' and 'The Robinson Institute'). Journal: City Pages: 386-388 Issue: 3 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.702872 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.702872 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:3:p:386-388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 391-394 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.717740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.717740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:391-394 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Class-ifying London Abstract: Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class of 2002 ends with a clarion call for a post-industrial, post-class sensibility: 'The task of building a truly creative society is not a game of solitaire. This game, we play as a team.' Florida's sentiment has been echoed across a broad and interdisciplinary literature in social theory and public policy, producing a new conventional wisdom: that class antagonisms are redundant in today's climate of competitive professionalism and a dominant creative mainstream. Questions of social justice are thus deflected by reassurances that there is no 'I' in team, and that 'we' must always be defined by corporate membership rather than class-based solidarities. The post-industrial city becomes a post-political city nurtured by efficient, market-oriented governance leavened with a generous dose of multicultural liberalism. In this paper, we analyze how this Floridian fascination has spread into debates on contemporary urban social structure and neighbourhood change. In particular, we focus on recent arguments that London has become a thoroughly middle-class, post-industrial metropolis. We evaluate the empirical claims and interpretive generalizations of this literature by using the classical tools of urban factorial ecology to analyze small-area data from the UK Census. Our analysis documents a durable, fine-grained geography of social class division in London, which has been changed but not erased by ongoing processes of industrial and occupational restructuring: the central tensions of class in the city persist. Without critical empirical and theoretical analysis of the contours of post-industrial class division, the worsening inequalities of cities like London will be de-politicized. We suggest that class-conscious scholars should only head to Florida for Spring Break or retirement. Journal: City Pages: 395-421 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:395-421 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maria Kaika Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Kaika Title: The economic crisis seen from the everyday Abstract: The proliferating numbers of a new population of urban poor in the Western world--who I call here nouveau poor--is a phenomenon equally (if not more) significant as the emergence of the Indignados and Occupy movements, and calls for urgent attention from the part of critical urban studies. This phenomenon forces us to re-evaluate the analytical categories within which we study urban poverty (gender, age, ethnicity, marginality, etc.) and prompts us to focus on commonality, rather than difference, when it comes to collectively reclaiming the 'right to the city'. Focusing on the political, social and affective consequences of the presence of nouveau poor on the streets of Athens, I argue that the shock waves that Greece's nouveau poor send down Europe's spine are partly due to the fact that Athens' new ranks of beggars are not migrants, junkies, alcoholics or homeless; they do not fall in any of the familiar categories of the urban 'other' or 'subaltern'. As they belonged, until very recently, to the mainstream aspiring middle classes, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to 'other' them, ignore them or dismiss them politically, or socially. The presence of Europe's very own ranks of middle class-come-poor begs for a reconceptualisation of the link between urban theory and praxis. Journal: City Pages: 422-430 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696943 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696943 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:16:y:2012:i:4:p:422-430 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jenna M. Loyd Author-X-Name-First: Jenna M. Author-X-Name-Last: Loyd Title: The fire next time Abstract: Rodney King's beating by Los Angeles Police Department officers, and their subsequent acquittal by an all White jury sparked the first "multicultural riot" in Los Angeles in 1992. Twenty years since the time of the uprising, the vigilante murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Florida brought thousands across the country into the streets to protest the disposability of Black male life. Since writing this essay, Rodney King has passed away, his death also premature. This essay discusses how the lives of these two Black males are connected through the commonsense White supremacist myth of inherent Black violence. It goes on to discuss the relations of violence that structure the vastly different cities in which they found themselves. Justice for Trayvon is broader than the criminal justice system. It will mean grappling with how urban and suburban lives in the US are violently separated by fortification and targeted policing, no less than predatory mortgage lending, decades of uneven federal investments, and a militarized economy. Making claims for a right to the city, then, rests on transforming militarized landscapes and the White supremacy that naturalizes foreclosed futures. Journal: City Pages: 431-438 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:16:y:2012:i:4:p:431-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Author-Name: Nick Wolff Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Wolff Title: Introduction: Re-writing London and the Olympic City: Critical implications of 'Faster, Higher, Stronger' Journal: City Pages: 439-445 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.713171 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.713171 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:439-445 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Olympics 2012 security Journal: City Pages: 446-451 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696900 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696900 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:446-451 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mike Raco Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Raco Title: The privatisation of urban development and the London Olympics 2012 Journal: City Pages: 452-460 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:452-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kompreser Collective Author-X-Name-First: Kompreser Author-X-Name-Last: Collective Title: Athens 2004 Journal: City Pages: 461-467 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:461-467 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Author-Name: Nick Wolff Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Wolff Title: Games Monitor Journal: City Pages: 468-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696914 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696914 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:468-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Introduction: Towards a renewal of critical praxis Journal: City Pages: 474-475 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.717741 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.717741 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:474-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharon M. Meagher Author-X-Name-First: Sharon M. Author-X-Name-Last: Meagher Title: Unsettling critical urban theory Journal: City Pages: 476-480 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696926 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696926 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:476-480 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: Moving beyond 'Cities for People, Not for Profit' Journal: City Pages: 481-483 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696927 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696927 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:481-483 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Storey Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Storey Title: Out on the streets Abstract: Hobos, hustlers and backsliders: homeless in San Francisco, Teresa Gowan. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2010, 340 pp., ISBN 9780816669677, US$24.95 (pbk). Journal: City Pages: 484-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.662369 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.662369 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:4:p:484-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the great transformation: (2) Nature, Marx's 'Old Mole', and 'Robinson' Abstract: What kinds of investigation could serve as an approach to social transformation that questions the project of planetary urbanisation and its representation as 'the urban revolution'? Do they suggest that it will require a rediscovery of sentient nature informed by and informing a new materialism, and a related reconstruction of communalism, even a rediscovery of 'the city' (and 'the country', which is perhaps the rural and agrarian dimension of 'civilisation')? It is within the agenda set by these two questions that the future of urban and socio-spatial studies and their utility is considered in this series. This second episode gives further attention to the notion and relevance of sentient nature, to the basis for a new materialism and its relevance for social transformation, with particular reference to Marx's 'old mole', and a focus on Patrick Keiller's novel and illuminating approach, implicit and explicit, to these topics in his recent work ('Robinson in Ruins' and 'The Robinson Institute'). Journal: City Pages: 486-493 Issue: 4 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.717743 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.717743 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:16:y:2012:i:4:p:486-493 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Abstract: 'Danger. Deep excavations. Deep water. Private property. Keep out’ If we were to seek to tell the story of our current moment, global and domestic, in five words, these could perhaps hardly be bettered. It is a moment of economic, social and environmental danger. Deep excavations abound, both neoliberal and alternative. Some, many, a multitude might learn to swim in these waters, but others have already claimed them: 'Private property. Keep out.’ There are, of course, other ways of telling the story. A much more specific one runs: 'As the economic crisis for the industrial economies is far from over -- but a spring of resistance movements is challenging governments in their blatant support for financial capital -- a new phase of neoliberal capitalism seems to be on the horizon.’ We start here with this more specific telling, first as told in three sentences (of which the above is the first), and as further presented and explored in this issue of CITY, returning eventually to the 'Danger’ sign and its landscape. The specific telling focuses on what the new phase of neoliberalism, if that is what it is, imposes in terms of deliberate socioeconomic outcomes, and then on alternative needs, on what is needed in order to overcome these impositions. Journal: City Pages: 495-499 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.726796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.726796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:495-499 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Hodkinson Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Hodkinson Title: The new urban enclosures Abstract: The ongoing crisis of global capitalism has served only to intensify the past four decades of neoliberal restructuring of cities across the world. In this paper I critically reflect on a literary aspect of the neoliberalising city academic discourse that is too often left untheorised or underplayed—the prevalence of contemporary urban enclosure. My aim is twofold: to synthesise theories of old and new enclosure with more familiar understandings of neoliberal urban processes; and to then apply this framework to the British housing experience of the past four decades. In doing so, I argue that enclosure is not only a metaphor for contemporary urban policy and processes but also provides an explanation for what is taking place. The paper concludes with some brief thoughts on how today's 'urban commoners’ might contest the new urban enclosures by finding common cause around visions and practices of a 'new urban commons’. Journal: City Pages: 500-518 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:500-518 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christopher McMichael Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: McMichael Title: 'Hosting the world’ Abstract: Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a case study, this paper will explore how security measures for sports mega-events have been steadily militarized with policing operations comparable to war planning. It will be argued that this is representative of the 'new military urbanism’ in which everyday urban life is rendered as a site of ubiquitous risk leading to the increased diffusion of military tactics and doctrines in policing and policy. While the interpenetration between urbanism and militarism has often been studied against the context of the War on Terror, the paper will argue that in the case of South Africa this has primarily been accelerated by a pervasive social fear of violent crime, which has resulted in the securitization of cities, the remilitarization of policing and the intensification of a historical legacy of socio-spatial inequalities. The South African government used the World Cup to 'rebrand’ the country's violent international image, while promising that security measures would leave a legacy of safer cities for ordinary South Africans. However, using military urbanism as a conceptual backdrop, the case studies presented in the second part of the paper argue that policing measures were primarily cosmetic and designed to allay the fears of foreign tourists and the national middle class. In practice, security measures pivoted around the enforcement of social control and urban marginalization while serving as a training ground for an increasingly repressive state security apparatus. The paper will conclude with a discussion of how the global crossover between militarism and urbanism threatens to stimulate and rehabilitate deeply entrenched authoritarian tendencies in South Africa. Journal: City Pages: 519-534 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709363 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709363 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:519-534 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Dalakoglou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Dalakoglou Title: Beyond Spontaneity Abstract: This article argues for the analytical potentials of the concept of spontaneity in our effort to understand critically the socio-spatial dynamics of Athens, but especially the contemporary collective protest actions in the city. Such critical understanding emerges as a significant task given the current urgency to grasp the capitalist crisis and the collective reactions to it. However, taking into account the re-configuration of extreme-Right violence in the streets of Athens, the article attempts to revisit the Marxist dichotomy between spontaneity and non-spontaneity. Via an anthropological critique of this distinction, the paper suggests an additional point of focus beyond spontaneity. Journal: City Pages: 535-545 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.720760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.720760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:535-545 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Myrto Tsilimpounidi Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tsilimpounidi Title: Athens 2012 Abstract: Resistant performances in Athens have gathered momentum over the last year, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. The singular compelling imagery of 'occupying’ as a form of resistance is its multiplicity of voices—the collective mobilisation of the 'multitude’. Yet, the force and urgency of a collective resistance lies in the individual untold stories of its proponents. Rather than glorify the movement as a faceless entity, this paper embraces the daily stories, struggles and wounds of occupation, by using photographs. Resistant performances are connected with existing social conditions: austerity measures, mass immigration and 'crisis’. Such narratives of globalisation and empire building are transforming central areas and traditional notions of Athenian identity, giving birth to a new street-level language that has twisted, innovated and filled in the gaps of a culture's hegemonic discourse. The paper analyses both protests and specific examples of street art as visual markers of the shifting, complex discourses of power struggles, marginality and counter-cultures that establish a new reality that must be seen and heard. Journal: City Pages: 546-556 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:546-556 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Introduction: Moving On Journal: City Pages: 557-557 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.726797 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.726797 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:557-557 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: Beyond austerity urbanism and creative city politics Journal: City Pages: 558-559 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.720759 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.720759 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:558-559 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Introduction: Spotlight on Olympic Rio: Critical implications of 'Faster, Higher, Stronger’ Journal: City Pages: 561-562 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.723474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.723474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:561-562 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes Author-X-Name-Last: de Souza Title: Panem et circenses versus the right to the city (centre) in Rio de Janeiro: A short report Journal: City Pages: 563-572 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709725 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709725 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:563-572 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Cummins Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Cummins Title: NEOutopia: Architecture and the Politics of 'the New’: Part Two Journal: City Pages: 573-575 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.713172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.713172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:573-575 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caspar Pearson Author-X-Name-First: Caspar Author-X-Name-Last: Pearson Title: New Labour—new renaissance Abstract: This paper explores the term 'urban renaissance’ in relation to the historiography of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy. It examines the place of the Renaissance in cultural history and considers how it has, since its inception, been utilised by writers to reflect on the present. The paper situates the urban renaissance within the context of New Labour rhetoric at the time of the Millennium. It argues that the idea of renaissance can, in this instance, be connected to a kind of millenarianism that was reflected in public rhetoric regarding the city and in a number of building projects. Journal: City Pages: 576-594 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:576-594 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: city-bound collective Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: city-bound collective Title: Notes on NEOutopia Journal: City Pages: 595-606 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.696924 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.696924 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:595-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Krzywoszynska Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Krzywoszynska Title: We are all surprised by action: Writing materials from a cultural perspective Abstract: Material powers: cultural studies, history and the material turn, edited by Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce. Routledge, London, 2010, 214 pp., ISBN 9780415603140, CAN$55.95 (pbk). Journal: City Pages: 607-609 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709407 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709407 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:607-609 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the great transformation: (3) Research, Marx's 'Old Mole’, and 'Robinson’/Keiller's Journey Abstract: Recently, there has in some circles been an influential return to Marxist political economy and historical materialism in and around an updated version of the critical theory elaborated by the Frankfurt School, and in partly overlapping circles of largely post-Marxist (the post-ness is too often taken-for-granted) discussions, there has been talk of assemblage and of 'new materialisms.’ This series, in seeking to build a bridge between and beyond these two tendencies, Marxist and post-Marxist, returns to the characterisation of the earlier series ('Is it all coming together?’) of the dominant model of development and urbanization, adding to its particular concerns the realities and notion of 'nature’. Turning to the relevant knowledges and practices that might illuminate and help to guide us beyond the realities of that model, it continues with its series of experiments in 'critical epic’, moving across spaces and times from the early civilisations to the present and beyond, making critical use of a wide variety of re-tellings and analyses, seeking to resurrect and redirect the much abused notion -- much abused by mainstream urban studies, by positivism and by mechanistic forms of materialism -- of an accessible science of society in the making, one that 'brings people’, and now nature, '(back) in’. In moves towards an accessible science, the series as a whole seeks to rescue and enhance ordinary appreciation of nature and of enthusiasm for the commons and related radical change, largely extra-disciplinary knowledge, from a marginalisation and blockages ('entrapments’) by the market and by academe . It draws at this stage on Patrick Keiller's semi-fictional documentary Robinson in Ruins, and the relevance to it of Marx's notion of the 'old mole’ of revolution or radical transformation. Though this series does not question the value of current critical, and some mainstream, studies in sociology, geography and the humanities in their coverage of aspects of the crisis, it does question their adequacy for understanding the full extent of the present possibly terminal stage of 'the urban revolution’ and of the appropriate means for changing it. In so doing it seeks ultimately to direct attention away from an excessive preoccupation with the negative experience of marketisation and neoliberalism toward the positive prefigurative evidence for the possibility of a great transformation based on a re-natured communalism. It is thus particularly attentive to biophiliac, psycho-social, and cultural responses to, as well as economic dimensions of, 'the crisis’, with an emphasis on the political dimension that is pre- rather than post-political. Journal: City Pages: 610-620 Issue: 5 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.726798 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.726798 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:5:p:610-620 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: “It's not for us…”? Abstract: 'It's not for us and all the promises of affordable homes and local jobs is nothing but hot air and the real people benefiting are the large businesses.' The words of a homeless youth in temporary housing in one of the boroughs adjacent to the London Olympics site. Nearby some residents of an estate claim that their proposed displacement/replacement/'development' is 'social cleansing in the name of … corporate objectives.’ Do such claims apply universally to working class and many 'middle class’ people that find themselves enmeshed in such development(s)? If so, could it be otherwise? This issue of CITY follows out the contradictions of these and related developments in six other contexts. In European borderlands, Henrick Lebuhn notes that not just the nature of border control but also that of urban citizenship is at issue. In U.S. cities (and beyond) Joshua Long looks at the counter-claim for respecting and enhancing the essential 'weirdness’ of particular cities as contrasted to the marginalizing uniformities that corporate objectives seek to impose. Looking across the European and North American experience Margit Mayer seeks to define a way beyond the proferred alternatives of austerity urbanism or 'creative city’ politics. Looking into the fast-approaching future, two further and apparently exclusively paths are sketched out by, on the one hand, Andy Merrifield who looks towards hopeful vistas of reconceptualised 'non-work’ beyond the accelerating progress/regress of planetary urbanization, and, on the other hand, by Adrian Atkinson, who looks from the emerging evidence of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA), though currently marginalized, towards a future in which agrarianism will become central as urbanization declines and collapses. In a final context, the endpiece looks backwards as well as forwards - from the Renaissance through Romanticism, Marxism, social science, critical theory and materialisms, old and new - seeking tools for understanding and surpassing these apparently contradictory presents and futures. Journal: City Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.772382 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.772382 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: First world urban activism Abstract: The paper looks at contemporary urban activism as it mobilizes around policies and conflicts characteristic of the comparatively privileged Western cities of the global North. It first analyzes the particularities of neoliberal urbanism and its implications for (divisions between) urban social movements, and secondly looks at how today's movements might move beyond their current predicaments, which lie in the tensions between more and less privileged movement groups occupying rather different strategic positions. Corresponding to the widespread trend of creative city politics, a sector of urban movements has flourished that benefits from innovative policies fostering alternative and (sub)cultural activism; on the other hand, various movements mobilizing around the intensifying trends of austerity urbanism have largely remained at a distance from leftist, autonomous and countercultural movements. The divides are beginning to be bridged in new forms of (post-)Occupy collaborations that bring together austerity victims and other groups of urban 'outcasts’ with (frequently middle-class-based) radical activists, allowing both to acknowledge their differences. This, it is argued, constitutes a necessary condition for struggles against the exclusivity of neoliberal urbanism to be effective. Journal: City Pages: 5-19 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.757417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.757417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:5-19 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andy Merrifield Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Merrifield Title: The planetary urbanization of non-work Abstract: This paper extends an earlier discussion on 'The Politics of the Encounter and the Urbanization of the World’ (City 16 (3): 269--283). There, I outlined what a politics of the encounter is and might constitute, how it can be seen as a reframed politics of the urban and how it depends on a certain constituency coming together. With the development of urban society (as Lefebvre outlines it), the possibility for sustained and continued encounters between people will grow. But these encounters can be both affirmative attractions (like Occupy) and negative repulsions (like riots). In this present paper, Lefebvre's argument is taken a step further, because, he thinks, there's something else 'immanent’ in urban society: a propensity to create 'post-work’ conditions. This provocative thesis is voiced in an overlooked book called La pensée marxiste et la ville (1972). A shift from cities to urban society is, for Lefebvre, correspondingly a shift from the world of steady work to informal work, or at least to 'post-salaried’ work; and this in the developed as well as developing countries. What Lefebvre says about the city--urban dialectic chimes with what Fredric Jameson recently said about Marx's manufacture--modern industry dialectic: that the passage from the former to the latter necessarily results in the formation of unemployment. We can paraphrase Jameson to express Lefebvre's own thesis, a thesis I want to explore in more detail in what follows: unemployment is structurally inseparable from the dynamic of urbanization and its expansion on a planetary scale, which constitutes the very nature of capitalism as such. The paper is extracted from a book, The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization, due to appear with the University of Georgia Press in April 2013. Journal: City Pages: 20-36 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754176 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754176 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:20-36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Henrik Lebuhn Author-X-Name-First: Henrik Author-X-Name-Last: Lebuhn Title: Local border practices and urban citizenship in Europe Abstract: Since the first signing of the Schengen Agreement in 1985, Europe's borders have been changing profoundly. New actors, rules and institutions have emerged and transformed the character of the European border regime. This paper argues that cities play a crucial role in this process. They have become an important arena, where the re-categorization and re-scaling of spaces and borders, and the expansion and diversification of the modes of control and enforcement within Europe take place. These dynamics are contradictory, however, as examples from Germany and Italy show: on the one hand, local state agencies, as well as private and semi-private institutions on the local scale increasingly participate in the monitoring and in the enforcement of migrants' legal statuses. On the other hand, local actors and institutions are also carving out place-specific spaces of rights and recognition for migrants. This dual process turns the urban realm into a conflictive site of negotiating, shaping and interconnecting local practices of border control and urban citizenship, and in effect renders European cities an uneven landscape of urban borderspaces. Journal: City Pages: 37-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.734072 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.734072 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:37-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joshua Long Author-X-Name-First: Joshua Author-X-Name-Last: Long Title: Sense of place and place-based activism in the neoliberal city Abstract: The past decade has witnessed an outpouring of scholarship on the neoliberal city. Most of the widely read work on this topic has been theoretical, critical and tends to explore the larger political and economic mechanisms that structure urban space, foster social injustice and incite activism. However, missing from this body of literature is a recent critical study that examines the role of place theory and place-based resistance to neoliberal globalization in an urban context. This study draws from empirical research in North America to reveal the creative, complex and often contradictory ways some urban communities actualize a local sense of place in reaction to pervasive neoliberal forces. This paper suggests that employing a sense of place perspective may shed light on the ways local activists are prioritizing the local scale in an attempt to negotiate the complex and even contradictory policies evident in the current neoliberal period. Journal: City Pages: 52-67 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:52-67 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 68-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754178 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754178 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:68-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Diana Lee-Smith Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Lee-Smith Title: Which way for UPA in Africa? Abstract: This paper reviews a synthesis, made in late 2010, which identified the major issues arising from the East and Central African data as: the relationship of UPA to food security and poverty; whether it recycles waste effectively; and what was happening in terms of policy response. The paper updates the analysis and examines it in relation to issues raised by data from Southern Africa. The capacity of UPA to recycle nutrients, especially on the highly efficient crop--livestock backyard farms, signifies its potential role in making cities sustainable. Investigating the reasons for positive policy environments in some places, or the vested interests that mitigate against support for urban farming—especially by the poor—in other places, suggests that emerging farmers' networks or institutions that support them need to engage with larger political processes in order to take advantage of a potentially productive economic sector. Journal: City Pages: 69-84 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754177 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754177 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:69-84 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Readjusting to reality Abstract: Modern civilisation has been driven by the notion that things can but go onwards and upwards with two versions of the vision being one of urbanisation in the context of technological and economic progress contrasted with another that saw the eventual achievement of a society of easy living and social equality. Over the past three decades, drowned out by the sheer noise of the modern consumer society, the optimism has ebbed away and the future seems not only increasingly uncertain but also potentially catastrophic in the face of global warming and declining energy resources. Changes are starting to take place, indicating new directions in urban development, initially in the local provisioning of food through urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) growing rapidly almost everywhere in the world. Whilst food security is, in many cities, the primary consideration, there are many other concerns, motivations, starting points and means of organising UPA initiatives. This paper analyses the background to the growth of UPA and describes some contrasting examples. It ends with a return to the consideration of where, in the longer term, the UPA movement may be going, speculating on an eventual re-ruralisation of populations and the decline of cities. Journal: City Pages: 85-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:85-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Author-Name: Nick Wolff Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Wolff Title: Introduction: Full circle to London Journal: City Pages: 97-98 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754189 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754189 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:97-98 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Watt Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Title: 'It's not for us’ Abstract: This paper examines the much-hyped 2012 Olympic Games 'legacy’ in relation to the displacement experiences of lower-income East Londoners. The paper begins by outlining the overall context of housing-related regeneration including the reduced role for social housing, especially council (public) housing in London. It then sets out a framework for understanding how regeneration, state-led gentrification and displacement are intertwined, as well as how such processes have been contested. The paper examines these issues in greater depth with reference to case studies of the inhabitants of two working-class spaces in the London Borough of Newham, an Olympics host borough. The first study is based on the Carpenters Estate, a council housing estate in Stratford that is facing potential demolition, and the second focuses on young people living in a temporary supported housing unit. These studies illustrate how the 2012 Olympics, alongside other regeneration schemes, is changing the nature of space and place from the perspective of existing East London residents and how gentrification is implicated in such transformations. Neither the Carpenters Estate residents nor the young people think that the Olympics and other regeneration schemes in Newham are primarily occurring, if at all, for their benefit—indeed, displacement processes may well mean that they are no longer able to live in their current neighbourhood. The Olympics legacy is for others, not for them. Journal: City Pages: 99-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:99-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zia Salim Author-X-Name-First: Zia Author-X-Name-Last: Salim Title: Global perspectives on urban gating Abstract: Gated communities: social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments, edited by Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku. Earthscan, London, 2010, 160 pp., ISBN 9781844075195, US$96 (hbk). Journal: City Pages: 119-121 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:119-121 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (5) Materialisms, old and new: theory, sources, and praxis (an introduction) Abstract: One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot, for lack of a de-familiarising agenda, one that leads to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalized and naturalized forms and processes of late capitalist urbanization, normalized by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation into a 'planetary future’. Critical urban theory presents/presented a step forward but it is losing some critical momentum and thus purchase on present and future realities in its neglect of aspects of its own intellectual heritage, of 'extra-scientific’ resources including the cognitive aspect of the arts/humanities and ordinary experience ('the university of the streets’), and in its too restrictive theoretical, spatial and temporal foundations.1 It thus, to a significant extent, fails to give an adequate account, a representational and ethical/normative accounting, of 'the great transformation’ of marketisation/capitalism as told and analysed notably by Polanyi and Marx, and to the possibilities of and its relationship to praxis for a post-marketised/capitalist great transformation. We need a purposeful reading of the full range of the lived materialities of the planet (not just abstracted away into a distinctly immaterial usage of the notion of the 'planetary’ and, indeed, of 'urbanization’). We need in fact a sensuous materialism, an old but still unrealized project. This, the first of two futher episodes, is a brief retrospective and prospective survey, drawing on earlier work in this series and sketching in future directions, of such a materialism (materialisms, old and new): theory, sources and praxis. Journal: City Pages: 122-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.772384 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.772384 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:1:p:122-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: 'We stay' Journal: City Pages: 127-129 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.789184 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.789184 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:127-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Schafran Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Schafran Title: Discourse and dystopia, American style Abstract: This paper examines the recent growth in the popular media of new discourses of decline focused on the American suburb. This new discursive twist, which appropriates language traditionally reserved for inner cities, is rooted in both the city/suburb dialectic, which has long dominated American urbanism, and the empirical realities of the foreclosure crisis and changing geographies of poverty in the American metropolis. Scholars should be concerned about the rise of this new discourse, as it reinforces a dialectic long since outdated, roots decline in a particular geography rather than examining the root causes of the crisis, and has potentially deleterious effects on communities already facing social and economic struggle in the wake of foreclosure. Linked as this discourse is to academic research on the suburbanization of poverty, it gives pause to those scholars who would speak in terms of 'suburban decline'. Journal: City Pages: 130-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765125 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765125 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:130-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kirsten Forkert Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten Author-X-Name-Last: Forkert Title: The persistence of bohemia Abstract: This paper is a reflection on bohemia, both as a historical and a contemporary phenomenon. It explores bohemia as an expression of and a response to the contradictions of both 19th-century bourgeois society and present-day neo-liberal society. It begins with an examination of the origins of bohemia in 19th-century Paris and follows its expansion and popularisation through the 20th century. The paper then focuses on Berlin as a paradigmatic example of present-day bohemia in its globalised and industrialised form; Berlin is significant in this context for two reasons: first, because it has become a global destination for followers of a bohemian lifestyle as described below, and second, because the concept of bohemia has been incorporated into property speculation and economic development policy discourses. Drawing on Barthes' definition of myth as an imaginary solution to unresolvable contradictions, Elizabeth Wilson characterises bohemia as a 'cultural myth about art in modernity, a myth which seeks to reconcile art to industrial capitalism, to create for it a role in consumer society' (Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, 3. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000). The author is in agreement with Wilson, but would add that for contemporary bohemia, there is a further contradiction to be resolved: between the desire for a personally meaningful, exciting and glamorous lifestyle and the lucrative nature of this lifestyle for post-industrial capitalism. The author originally came from an arts practice background, then entered academic research as a way of trying to understand the incorporation of culture into capitalism. This text forms part of this investigation. Journal: City Pages: 149-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:149-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karl Spracklen Author-X-Name-First: Karl Author-X-Name-Last: Spracklen Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Beverley Spracklen Author-X-Name-First: Beverley Author-X-Name-Last: Spracklen Title: The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds Abstract: The communicative potential of city spaces as leisure spaces is a central assumption of political activism and the creation of alternative, counter-cultural and subcultural scenes. However, such potential for city spaces is limited by the gentrification, privatization and eventization of city centres in the wake of wider societal and cultural struggles over leisure, work and identity formation. In this paper, we present research on alternative scenes in the city of Leeds to argue that the eventization of the city centre has led to a marginalization and of alternative scenes on the fringes of the city. Such marginalization has not caused the death of alternative Leeds or political activism associated with those scenes-but it has changed the leisure spaces (physical, political and social) in which alternative scenes contest the mainstream. Journal: City Pages: 164-178 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765120 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765120 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:164-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Featherstone Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Featherstone Title: Being-in-Hull, Being-on-Bransholme Abstract: The objective of this paper is to investigate the sociological and existential situation of the inhabitants of Bransholme, a peri-urban council estate on the northern edge of Hull, in the context of the current economic downturn and contemporary regeneration discourses. In 'reading' life on the estate against economic decline and regeneration practices, I aim to show why the latter cannot really succeed because they are premised on (a) a failure to understand the situation of the socially excluded and (b) injustices and inequalities hard-wired into the very form of late capitalism itself. In light of this thesis, my claim is that only large-scale changes to the neo-liberal socio-economic system will save Hull, and as a consequence, the people of Bransholme, because only this will oppose the 'winner takes all', exclusive neo-liberal politics Meagher discusses in her 2009 work on 'urbs sacra' and 'rurban America' and offer hope for some kind of spatial justice. In order to reach this conclusion, I divide my paper into three sections. First, I explore recession, decline, dislocation and the socio-economic condition of the city. Second, I consider regeneration as discourse and offer some theoretical considerations towards the development of what I call 'the language game of post-Thatcherite hyper-rational utopianism' which constructs the de-industrialised city as a business to be saved through the advance of market principles. Finally, I turn to thinking about life on the estate through reference to my own ethnographic observations in order to suggest that the condition of the excluded is not somehow a natural state, but rather an effect of their immersion in a temporal and spatial environment, which has been destroyed by market forces premised on the objectivity of processes such as creative destruction. Thus, I explore 'Being-in-Hull' and 'Being-on-Bransholme' in terms of notions of territoriality, marginality and what I call 'the culture of despair' in contemporary working-class life. Journal: City Pages: 179-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765648 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765648 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:179-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Hamnett Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Hamnett Author-Name: Tim Butler Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Butler Title: Re-classifying London: a growing middle class and increasing inequality Abstract: The paper is a response to Davidson and Wyly. While we agree with them that class and class conflict is an important element of cities, we disagree with many of their claims and assertions regarding our work. In particular, we argue that the growth of the middle class does not mean that we consider the working class unimportant or to have largely disappeared as they suggest. This is to muddle empirical findings and political agendas. The working class is still clearly present, even though it has shrunk. Nor does the growth of the middle class imply that inequality has become unimportant. On the contrary, we argue that the growth of the middle class is one of the key reasons why London has become more unequal. We take issue with their claim that the middle class does not exist, and we argue that their analysis of 2001 census data, while interesting, does not look at the changes which have taken place over time. Journal: City Pages: 197-208 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:197-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Charles Travis Author-X-Name-First: Charles Author-X-Name-Last: Travis Title: From the ruins of time and space Abstract: Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (2001[1939]) serves as an avant-garde guide to the streetscapes and zeitgeist of post-colonial Dublin in the 1930s, and illuminates Jonathan Raban's perspective that 'one man's city is the sum of all the routes he takes through it, a spoor as unique as a finger print'. Joseph Hassett and Declan Kiberd have respectively observed that O'Brien's mise en abyme reflects the 'concentric enfolding of modern urban events', and that the 'very geography of Dublin, with its fiercely independent villages and suburbs', may have served as the template for the novel's multiple narrative lines and hyper-real depiction of place. This paper explored O'Brien's novel by focusing Giambattista Vico's 'Historical Arcs', Mikhail M. Bahktin's 'Historical Poetics' and Guy Debord and the International Situationists' concept of the dérive through the lens of a Geographical Information System (GIS). This 'digital hermeneutic' approach (to borrow Umberto Eco's term) created a means to visualize and parse the confluences of critical theory, the palimpsest of history and the overlapping narrative lines and multi-dimensional spaces of Dublin at play within At Swim Two Birds. Inspired by the Dadaists, the Surrealists, as well as the critical interventions of Henri Lefebvre and Walter Benjamin, this paper's study draws upon psychogeographical practices and idiosyncratic GIS techniques in an attempt to sidestep (in Bob Catterall's phrase) the standard 'linear approach of much social and socio-spatial "science"' and 'mainstream urban studies' to visualize, map, engage and 'game' O'Brien's kaleidoscopic, hyper-urban, post-colonial perspective. Journal: City Pages: 209-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754191 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754191 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:209-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 234-234 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765651 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765651 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:234-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yves Cabannes Author-X-Name-First: Yves Author-X-Name-Last: Cabannes Author-Name: Isabel Raposo Author-X-Name-First: Isabel Author-X-Name-Last: Raposo Title: Peri-urban agriculture, social inclusion of migrant population and Right to the City Abstract: Two main questions are addressed in this paper, namely: to what extent can urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) contribute to the social inclusion of migrants? And does UPA practised by urban farmers of foreign origin contribute to the expansion of biodiversity in cities? A comparative analysis of current peri-urban agriculture practices in Lisbon and London was carried out in allotment gardens and other spaces far from the centre in and on the edges of these capital cities. In both cases, a significant proportion of the migrant population is involved in two different frameworks: regulated in London and non-regulated in Lisbon. The paper concludes that patterns of social inclusion are quite city specific: urban farming communities from the Cape Verde islands maintain and strengthen community bonds through their activity but this does not necessary lead to better social integration within the wider Portuguese society. In London, migrants of foreign origin become part of an integrated communitarism on an individual basis. Concerning the contribution of peri-urban agriculture to biodiversity, evidence gathered strongly suggests that urban farmers of foreign origin do contribute to broadening biodiversity primarily in Lisbon and to a lesser extent in London. Final observations note to what extent these urban practices contribute to the Right to the City and thus if they are, more broadly, of an emancipatory and transformative nature. Journal: City Pages: 235-250 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765652 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765652 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:235-250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 251-252 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.777549 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.777549 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:251-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Pithouse Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Pithouse Title: NGOs and urban movements Abstract: This article notes that in South Africa the relationship between grassroots organisations and NGOs has often been fractious - to the point that there have been a number of rebellions against NGOs on the part of grassroots organisations. It also notes that NGOs have sometimes reacted in a plainly authoritarian manner to grassroots critiques. And, more positively, it also notes that some NGOs have developed positive and valued relationships with grassroots organisations. However it cautions that an NGO's position on economic questions i.e. whether it is broadly liberal or socialist - offers no a priori indication of its approach to praxis. The article argues that praxis, in the sense of thinking through and working out how NGOs can relate to grassroots organisations in an enabling manner, needs to be taken seriously and that constructive discussion in this regard should be encouraged rather than suppressed. Journal: City Pages: 253-257 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.754175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.754175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:253-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: NGOs and social movements Journal: City Pages: 258-261 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.777551 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.777551 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:258-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kate Driscoll Derickson Author-X-Name-First: Kate Driscoll Author-X-Name-Last: Derickson Title: Justice and the politics of urban development Journal: City Pages: 262-264 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.765131 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.765131 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:262-264 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (6) Three ecologies Abstract: One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot, for lack of a de-familiarising and recontexualising agenda, one that leads to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalised and naturalised forms and processes of late capitalist urbanisation, normalised by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation into a planetary future. Critical urban theory presents/presented a step forward but it is losing some critical momentum-hence the rise of assemblage theory-and thus purchase on present and future realities in its neglect of aspects of its own intellectual heritage, of 'extra-scientific' resources including the cognitive aspect of the arts/humanities and ordinary experience ('the university of the streets'), and in its too restrictive theoretical, spatial and temporal foundations. This episode begins a recontextualisation of that agenda in the light, particularly, of Gouldner's study of Romanticism and Classicism as deep structures in sociology, and Guattari's notion of 'three ecologies' in relation to praxis-that is, an interacting and critical mutuality of theorised practice and practised theory. Journal: City Pages: 265-270 Issue: 2 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.789205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.789205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:2:p:265-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Making Cities Shift Journal: City Pages: 271-273 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.815484 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.815484 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:271-273 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mehmet Bariş Kuymulu Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Bariş Author-X-Name-Last: Kuymulu Title: Reclaiming the right to the city: Reflections on the urban uprisings in Turkey Abstract: The spark that drew Istanbul into a fire of protest and uprising was initially set off by a modest 'occupy style' peaceful resistance, staged against the destruction of an historically public park, an urban commons, in order to make way for yet another shopping mall in Istanbul. Following explicit police violence against the protestors, who were openly discredited by the government for being a few looters, the urban centers of Turkey saw a full-fledged uprising, gathering considerable international steam as well. Analyzing the path of this social mobilization flowing from Gezi Park to larger geographical scales of the urban, the national, and beyond, this article situates the urban uprisings in Turkey in the conceptual background of the right to the city, coined by Henri Lefebvre at the time of Parisian uprisings in 1968. The article further argues in the end that, if this revolutionary energy is to be channeled into a lasting social transformation, the Kurdish movement and the labor movement-historically, the two main motors of Turkey's democratization-should catch up with the protestors on the ground. Journal: City Pages: 274-278 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.815450 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.815450 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:274-278 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq Author-X-Name-Last: Simone Author-Name: Achmad Uzair Fauzan Author-X-Name-First: Achmad Uzair Author-X-Name-Last: Fauzan Title: On the way to being middle class Abstract: As millions of urban residents in the majority world attain middle-class status, there is not only a great deal of ambiguity as to what exactly being middle class is, but also an occlusion of many efforts residents themselves have made to attain this status. Because multiple routes have been pursued to improve livelihoods, as well as different conditions and support, there is also a growing ambivalence about the various implications of this attainment. At times, the performance of such status seems to require relinquishing important livelihood practices. While availed of increased consumption, assets and relative autonomy, many such residents are wary of the heightened vulnerabilities that new forms of livelihood and individuation posit. As increased accumulation has been predicated on both the changing global positions of national production systems and the long-term incremental efforts of residents themselves, how the divergent implications of these distinct routes to middle-class status are negotiated on a day-to-day basis are critical issues for the elaboration of urban politics. Focusing on Jakarta, the paper considers some of the ways in which an emergent middle class have improved livelihoods and opportunities, as well as how they hedge their bets in the pursuit of lifestyles and norms conventionally associated with middle-class status. Journal: City Pages: 279-298 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:279-298 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Class analysis for whom? Abstract: In a valuable and engaging critique, Hamnett and Butler conclude that our analysis of the socio-spatial dimensions of inequality in London originates from a 'parallel universe', that it is 'bizarre' for us 'middle-class university professors' to claim that 'the middle class does not exist,' and that our approach involves 'looking into the rear view mirror or class structure in the 1840s.' In this paper we provide a response, and we reiterate the urgent need for class-conscious politics and method in contemporary urban research. Dominant narratives of postindustrial transnational urbanism tend to erase any concern for class conflict, as old occupational structures that once closely reflected locally-observable relations of production are replaced by a much more intricate and respatialized occupational matrix of positions that (when analysed in conventional ways) creates an aspirational mirage of utopian middle-class opportunity. Yet the materialist conditions of capitalist urbanization intensify class antagonisms, while polarizing social relations within domains typically understood as 'middle-class' (including the professoriate). At the same time, the Right has hijacked traditional Left commitments to radical openness to difference and contingency, thus diverting critical energies away from fundamental challenges to class inequality into the safer technocratic territory of managing inequalities with a creative, de-classified menu of friendly-sounding policies of inclusion, mixing, tolerance, and social sustainability. One way to challenge this dangerous trend involves a fusion of multivariate quantitative analysis with contemporary critical social theory (drawing on Žižek and others) to account for the new multidimensional relations of postindustrial occupational structures within the increasingly severe class antagonisms of capitalist urbanization. Journal: City Pages: 299-311 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795327 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795327 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:299-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city Abstract: This paper engages with a recent set of critical arguments concerning the 'post-crisis city' and the political economy of 'austerity urbanism'. The focus of the discussion is on practical interventions in the vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses. In this way, it opens a further line of argument about urbanism under conditions of austerity, alongside analyses of the formal politics of austerity or the possibilities of urban activism in these settings. Its concern is with forms of urban intervention that re-work orthodoxies of urban development as usual: in particular the timescales that inform conventional development models; the understandings of use around which sites are planned and designed; and the ways in which value is realized through the production of urban spaces. The argument centres on European contexts of austerity urbanism, drawing on critical examples of urban design and occupation in the region's largest economies. Such urban strategies are concerned with a politics and a practice of small incursions in material spaces that seek to create a kind of 'durability through the temporary'. Journal: City Pages: 312-324 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795332 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795332 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:312-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nate Gabriel Author-X-Name-First: Nate Author-X-Name-Last: Gabriel Title: Mapping urban space Abstract: In this paper, I engage with the notion of the city as capitalist space, focusing on the specific actors that come together to realign economically heterogeneous spaces into the monolithic, capitalist city. By tracing the role of cartographic practice in enacting the city as a space of industrial economic production in the 19th century, I show how maps helped to bring the capitalist city into view by 'drawing together' cartographers, city managers and ordinary citizens, enabling the apprehension of the city as an economic object by emphasizing a specific understanding of what cities looked like, how they worked and what happened in them. In addition, I examine the place of urban nature within this emerging urban imaginary, and its role as a counterweight to the purported totality of the capitalist city. To illustrate these points, historical maps drive a discussion of the specific case of Philadelphia, focusing on two events that coincided with the expansion of the industrial city: the consolidation of the city in 1854 and the establishment of Fairmount Park in 1868. The paper concludes with a discussion of the political possibilities that are opened up by an assemblage-oriented approach for examining the early development of cities. Journal: City Pages: 325-342 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.798478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.798478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:325-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Harris Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: Concrete geographies Abstract: Through a focus on the concrete geographies of transport infrastructure in contemporary Mumbai, this paper develops a critical engagement with assemblage theory and the global city. It details how international consultants, contractors, investors and investment, as well as materials, techniques and technologies, have helped sustain and strengthen Mumbai's relations, associations and flows of global reach. In so doing, it demonstrates how 'global city-ness' is generated and articulated through diverse human and non-human components. However, the paper argues this exploration of socio-material assemblages needs to be combined with an analytical probing of the comparative imaginations, discursive categories, elite coalitions and uneven geographies involved. By drawing on post-structuralist theories of globalisation while emphasising the practices, visions and agendas of specific social groups in Mumbai, the paper aims not only to provoke new empirically grounded dialogue between assemblage thinking and critical urbanism, but also to encourage alternative ways of imagining and planning the global city. Journal: City Pages: 343-360 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.798884 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.798884 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:343-360 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Part Four Journal: City Pages: 361-364 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795329 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795329 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:361-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adriana Allen Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Author-X-Name-Last: Allen Author-Name: Alexandre Apsan Frediani Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre Author-X-Name-Last: Apsan Frediani Title: Farmers, not gardeners Abstract: Sites of urban agriculture are often contested urban open spaces. In the current dominant ideal of the 'competitive' and 'global' city, little recognition is given to the potential benefits of urban agriculture, beyond beautification, subsistence or therapeutic purposes. In this context, urban agriculture is often viewed as an activity performed by 'gardeners', either contributing to individual well-being or reducing the costs of maintenance of public spaces. A less 'tolerant' perspective perceives such 'gardeners' as squatters inhibiting cities' productivity. By contrast, urban agriculture enthusiasts advocate the recognition of the right to farm in the city as an essential condition for either food security or food sovereignty. This paper argues that urban agriculture can also be interpreted as a means to claim, nurture and propagate alternative views on spatial justice, place and citizenship-making, defying the maldistributional and misrecognition patterns that typically produce and reproduce unequal urban geographies. Drawing from a four-year research collaboration in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) undertaken by the authors at the Development Planning Unit (DPU) with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), People's Dialogue and the Ghana Federation of the Urban Poor, the analysis examines the trajectories of female and male farmers working under different and fast-changing land tenure systems across the Accra-Ashaiman corridor. Adopting an environmental justice perspective, the analysis explores the extent to which urban agriculture might constitute a practice through which marginalised groups might actively claim spaces of daily sociability and political articulation within the city. Journal: City Pages: 365-381 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.796620 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.796620 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:365-381 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: 'Emerging cities of the third wave' Revisited: Part One Journal: City Pages: 382-383 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.815452 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.815452 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:382-383 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Allen J. Scott Author-X-Name-First: Allen J. Author-X-Name-Last: Scott Title: Retrospect Abstract: This is a retrospective view of an earlier paper published in City. I briefly revisit the main arguments of that paper, with special reference to (a) the resurgence of urban growth as the new cognitive-cultural economy has gathered steam in recent years; (b) the new division of labor that is appearing in major world cities and the concomitant restratification of urban society; and (c) the formation of a polycentric and polyvocal urban mosaic in global capitalism. Journal: City Pages: 384-386 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.807013 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.807013 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:384-386 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: The city of cognitive-cultural capitalism Abstract: Allen Scott's theorization of "cognitive-cultural capitalism" is a landmark contribution that situates today's urban-economic transformations in the long history of capitalist frontiers of uneven development. Yet Scott is a bit too cautious, too deferential to the monster he's mapped. In this essay, I develop a more critical analysis of cognitive-cultural capitalism as the co-evolutionary culmination of planetary urbanization and technological change, in a 'noosphere of neoliberalization.' A new social physics is under construction with the planetary commodification and colonization of the global attention span. Journal: City Pages: 387-394 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.807014 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.807014 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:387-394 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharon M. Meagher Author-X-Name-First: Sharon M. Author-X-Name-Last: Meagher Title: The darker underside of Scott's third wave Abstract: Allen Scott's analysis of how cognitive-cultural capitalism affects urban development is provides a compelling analysis of how knowledge cities are emerging around the globe. But the analysis needs to be supplemented by studies that focus on cities in the poorest states that are now expected to compete as world cities. Journal: City Pages: 395-398 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.807012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.807012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:395-398 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: AlternativesIntroduction Journal: City Pages: 399-399 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795326 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795326 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:399-399 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shannon Walsh Author-X-Name-First: Shannon Author-X-Name-Last: Walsh Title: 'We won't move' Abstract: What happens when the Right to the City is understood as the right to reoccupy the inner city by middle-class suburbanites? In the self-styled Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg, the writing is on the wall, literally. Graffiti reading, 'We won't move' on the roof of Revolution House begins to tell the story of hipster-styled urban gentrification in the city. These processes force a radical reinvention of the meaning of the right to the city, of centrality and of accumulation by dispossession. Journal: City Pages: 400-408 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795330 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795330 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:400-408 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Wachsmuth Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Wachsmuth Title: For the Possibility of Another World: Tributes to Neil Smith (1954-2012): Part Two Journal: City Pages: 409-410 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.798883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.798883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:409-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ola Söderström Author-X-Name-First: Ola Author-X-Name-Last: Söderström Title: Urban constellations yesterday and today Journal: City Pages: 411-413 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795333 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795333 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:411-413 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Cummins Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Cummins Title: Perspectives and contingencies Abstract: 'The way in which the essay appropriates concepts is most easily comparable to the behaviour of a man who is obliged, in a foreign country, to speak that country's language instead of patching it together from its elements, as he did in school. He will read without a dictionary. If he has looked at the same word thirty times, in constantly changing contexts, he has a clearer grasp of it than he would if he looked up all the words meanings [...] Just as learning remains exposed to error, so does the essay as form; it must pay for its affinity with open intellectual experience by the lack of security, a lack which the norm of established thought fears like death.' (T. W. Adorno, 'The Essay as Form' 1 ) Journal: City Pages: 414-418 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.798885 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.798885 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:414-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (7) Locating Gezi Park Abstract: One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot lead to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalized and naturalized forms and processes of late capitalist urbanization, normalized by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation into a 'planetary future'. Critical urban theory presents/presented a step forward but it is losing some critical momentum - hence the rise of assemblage theory - and thus purchase on present and future realities in its neglect of aspects of its own intellectual heritage, of 'extra-scientific' resources including the cognitive aspect of the arts/humanities and ordinary experience ('the university of the streets'), and in its too restrictive theoretical, spatial and temporal foundations. This episode continues a recontextualisation of that agenda in the light, particularly of the occupation this summer of Gezi Park in Istanbul and Guattari's notion of 'three ecologies' in relation to praxis - that is, an interacting and critical mutuality of theorized practice and practised theory. Journal: City Pages: 419-422 Issue: 3 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.815485 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.815485 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:3:p:419-422 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: End without end? Journal: City Pages: 423-425 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.829642 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.829642 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:423-425 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Title: Past the end, not yet at the beginning Abstract: Egypt today sits at a temporal disjuncture of revolutionary potential-already past a form of politics that has been overthrown but not yet near its replacement. This means both a contraction of time as the pace and intensity of revolt, in a society now all but ungovernable, regularly upends institutional planning and calculation; it also means that previously stable instruments of rule are rendered unviable. That is, more than simply an acceleration of time, what defines this period is a non-reformist desire for a radical break with the past. More than anything else it was the Muslim Brotherhood-led government's failure to recognize the character of this time that spelled its end. By relying on the very same-that is, its predecessor's-instruments and mechanisms of subjection (security, torture, paternalism) they failed to realize that something fundamental had shifted in the relationship between subject and authority. No doubt the risks after 'June 30th' are real and grave; the potential of the army consolidating a hold it never relinquished over institutional politics has grown. Yet the flurry of talk about coups, legitimacies, legalities and electoral politics misses the temporal specificity of this disjuncture and implicitly raises, yet again, the false choice between Liberals and Islamists. Part of the impasse, this paper argues, is our dependence on a politics of alterity that while rightly occupied with debunking European conceits of universalism and correcting historical narrative, leaves us unable to think outside the shadow of the figure of 'the West'. Yet to recognize the experimentation with new and concrete universalities in which Egypt leads us all, we need to urgently forget 'the West'; not simply to provincialize it, but to really forget it. Journal: City Pages: 426-432 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.829632 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.829632 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:426-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Author-Name: Alexandra Warwick Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra Author-X-Name-Last: Warwick Title: Unnoticed apocalypse Abstract: The slogan 'capitalism is crisis' is one that has recently circulated swiftly around the global Occupy movement. From Schumpeter to Marx himself, the notion that the economic cycles instituted by capitalism require periodic crises as a condition of renewed capital accumulation is a commonplace. However, in a number of recent texts, this conception of crisis as constituting the very form of urban capitalist development itself has taken on a more explicitly apocalyptic tone, exemplified by the Invisible Committee's influential 2007 book The Coming Insurrection, and its account of what it calls simply 'the metropolis'. 'It is useless to wait', write the text's anonymous authors, 'for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement.... The catastrophe is not coming, it is here.' In considering such an apocalyptic tone, this paper thus situates and interrogates the text in terms both of its vision of the metropolis as a terrain of total urbanization and its effective spatialization of the present as itself a kind of 'unnoticed' apocalypse: the catastrophe which is already here. It does so by approaching this not only apropos its place within contemporary debates surrounding leftist politics and crisis theory but also via its imaginative intersection with certain post-1960s science fiction apocalyptic motifs. What, the paper asks, does it mean to think apocalypse as the ongoing condition of the urban present itself, as well as the opening up of political and cultural opportunity for some speculative exit from its supposedly endless terrain? Journal: City Pages: 433-448 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812345 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812345 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:433-448 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefano Bloch Author-X-Name-First: Stefano Author-X-Name-Last: Bloch Title: Hollywood as waste regime Abstract: With this paper I enter the discussion on waste with the example of the cast-off mattress. In Los Angeles, mattresses left out at curbsides and in alleyways are picked up, put on trucks and brought to mattress recycling centers as part of subsistence scavenging. However, some mattresses also end up in local prop houses and eventually are used as set dressing on films. Once brought into the circulation of objects within the cultural industry of Hollywood, a cast-off and often soiled, ripped and stained mattress attains revalorization through its symbolic role as a functional mattress on screen. Based on ethnographic fieldwork within the film industry, I use the example of a mattress plucked from the street and used in the film Fight Club (1999) to discuss Hollywood as an alternative waste regime. Journal: City Pages: 449-473 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812348 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812348 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:449-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Lancione Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione Title: Telescopic Urbanism and the Urban Poor: Symposium Journal: City Pages: 474-475 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.829638 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.829638 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:474-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ash Amin Author-X-Name-First: Ash Author-X-Name-Last: Amin Title: Telescopic urbanism and the poor Abstract: In 2003, UN-Habitat warned that by 2030 around a third of the world's 9 billion humans could be suffering from multiple deprivations, living in slum-like conditions in the world's cities. Urban attention is beginning to turn to this problem, and to questions of sustainable urban competitiveness and growth, but without much referencing of the one to the other. This paper claims that the city of the future is being looked at through the wrong end of the binoculars, with 'business consultancy' urbanism largely disinterested in the city that does not feed international competitiveness and business growth, and 'human potential' urbanism looking to the settlements where the poor are located for bottom-up solutions to well-being. The paper reflects on the implications of such an urban optic on the chances of the poor, their areas of settlement and their expectations of support from others in and beyond the city. While acknowledging the realism, inventiveness and achievements of effort initiated or led by the poor, the paper laments the disappearance of ideas of mutuality, obligation and commonality that telescopic urbanism has enabled, in the process scripting out both grand designs and the duty of distant others to address the problems of acute inequality and poverty that will continue to plague the majority city. Journal: City Pages: 476-492 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812350 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812350 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:476-492 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ananya Roy Author-X-Name-First: Ananya Author-X-Name-Last: Roy Title: Spectral futures Abstract: This essay interrogates the concept of the city as a space of universal rights and collective futures. With a focus on how the urban poor are integrated into the city through processes of differentiated inclusion - the people with papers versus those without - it suggests that a politics of agonism rather than a politics of the social whole be considered in analyzing and imagining urban futures. Situated in the context of urban change in India, it argues that such agonism can also be the basis of a politics of solidarity, one that can disrupt the entrepreneurial logic of the world-class city. Journal: City Pages: 493-497 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812351 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812351 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:493-497 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Title: Metabolic inequalities in Mumbai Abstract: In this piece, I argue that a focus on metabolic inequalities offers an important route away from the traps of 'telescopic urbanism' outlined by Ash Amin. Drawing on research in Mumbai, especially on sanitation and water, I position a 'metabolic lens' in contrast to a 'telescopic lens'. I argue that a focus on the networks of metabolic inequality by necessity takes us away from any separating out of a 'business' and 'human potential' city (and the attendant risks Amin warns of), and takes us instead through neighbourhoods and villages, municipal offices and corporate practices, pipes and irrigation, the political use of rainfall, and so on. Such a critical grounding demands a rejection of the elite coding of modernity's metabolisms and the production of an alternative metabolic politics at each stage of the network. Journal: City Pages: 498-503 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812354 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812354 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:498-503 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Title: The calculus of telescopic urbanism Abstract: Developing Amin's invocation of a telescopic urbanism as more than a visual metaphor, this paper seeks to rethink its epistemological and methodological focus, resisting at the same time the tendency to oversimplify the relationship between the different optics he outlines. Threatened by a dominant meta-narrative of a numerically driven calculus, this paper identifies an opportunity in Amin's telescopic urbanism to reject the 'big-data' approach to the city. In this context, it challenges the narrow assumptions about planetary urbanization rooted in a quantitative veneer and a statistical dependency that is arbitrary and ahistorical. Moving beyond our current obsession with the ethos of enumeration, it identifies the need for a situated knowledge that accommodates the statistical alongside the anecdotal outlining not just a thesis on the urban poor but also rethinking the episteme of the city as a machine for learning. Journal: City Pages: 504-509 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812355 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812355 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:504-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Neuwirth Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Neuwirth Title: More telescopic urbanism, please Abstract: Squatters and street vendors are key to equitable growth in the developing world and granular research is needed on their linkages to the so-called formal structures of the economy and society. Journal: City Pages: 510-516 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812357 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812357 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:510-516 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ayona Datta Author-X-Name-First: Ayona Author-X-Name-Last: Datta Title: Encounters with law and critical urban studies Abstract: Providing a critical reflection on Ash Amin's 'telescopic urbanism' this piece suggests that despite a burgeoning scholarship on governmentality, critical urban studies has not taken into account the role of law in obstructing or facilitating the struggles for right to the city and urban commons. It argues that rights cannot be realised through top-down political imperatives or gargantuan social engineering models. Neither can they simply be a matter of subaltern resistance and social organisation among the urban poor against the state. It argues that for much of the urban poor, the politics around right to the city is often focused on a politics of entitlement that is based on concrete and symbolic encounters with law in urban spaces. These encounters change the ways that the urban poor rethink their approaches, aspirations and futures in the city with respect to state, law and urban citizenship. Put another way, exclusion from the city and its urban commons transforms the relations between a public right to the city and a more private and intimate right to gendered freedom and capacity in everyday life. The future of progressive urban studies will be to reverse its continued silencing of the private and intimate city and bridge the divisive boundaries it has created between state-citizen, public-private, city-slum and centre-periphery. Journal: City Pages: 517-522 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812364 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812364 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:517-522 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adele Lee Author-X-Name-First: Adele Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: Post-conflict Belfast Journal: City Pages: 523-525 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812365 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812365 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:523-525 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liam O'Dowd Author-X-Name-First: Liam Author-X-Name-Last: O'Dowd Author-Name: Milena Komarova Author-X-Name-First: Milena Author-X-Name-Last: Komarova Title: Three narratives in search of a city Abstract: This paper highlights the role of narratives in expressing, shaping and ordering urban life, and as tools for analysing urban conflicts. The paper distinguishes analytically between two prominent epistemological meta-narratives in contemporary urban studies and multiple ontological narratives in a given city-in this case Belfast. The first meta-narrative represents cities as sites of deepening coercion, violence and inequality and the second sees them as engines of new forms of transnational capitalism. Both are marked by the strategy of specifying 'exemplar' or 'paradigm' cities. The core of the paper addresses how these two meta-narratives map onto and interact with, three contemporary ontological narratives of urban regeneration in Belfast. We conceive of narratives-epistemological and ontological-as analytical tools and objects of analysis but also as tools for social action for competing political and economic interests and coalitions. While in the urban studies literature Belfast is typically studied as an exemplar 'conflict city', it is now being promoted as a 'new capitalist city'. In the context of post-Agreement Belfast, we explore not only the 'pull' of exemplar narratives but also resistances to them that are linked to multiple and hybrid senses of place in the city. We conclude that any significant move beyond the exigencies of rampant commodification or recurring inter-communal antagonism must firstly, encourage new forms of grassroots place-making and, secondly, reform of Belfast's (and Northern Ireland's) fragmented governance structures. Journal: City Pages: 526-546 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812366 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812366 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:526-546 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: Alternatives Agency of the street Journal: City Pages: 547-547 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812367 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812367 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:547-547 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yannis Kallianos Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Kallianos Title: Agency of the street Abstract: The dynamic of the street in political struggles is not to be found merely in the fact that it is the space for visibility and representation, but also in that it is the space where potential emancipatory action and non-mediated modes of social conduct can play out. This paper will examine this notion of the street in the context of events of unrest and crisis in Athens from 2008 until 2012. The paper argues that the irregular changes of social, economic and political features in the city during that period transformed public space from primarily a 'space for representation' and a 'space of representation' to the site/space allowing the subversion of social relations in times of crisis. Journal: City Pages: 548-557 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812368 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812368 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:548-557 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Title: Forum NGOs and Social Movements: Convergences and Divergences: Part Two Journal: City Pages: 558-559 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.798882 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.798882 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:558-559 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yves Cabannes Author-X-Name-First: Yves Author-X-Name-Last: Cabannes Title: Urban movements and NGOs Journal: City Pages: 560-566 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.795328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.795328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:560-566 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Pollio Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Pollio Title: If the Revolution is not tweeted but choreographed Journal: City Pages: 567-569 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.812370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:567-569 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (8) Relocating Egypt and the West Abstract: The Arab spring and the simultaneous Greek struggles and now the Turkish and Egyptian struggles of 2013 have been presented in 'the West' largely as opportunities for the 'the East' to catch up with modern, secular democratic society. But could it be the other way round? Could it be that Egypt, for example, in challenging the pieties and self-assurance of the West's positive characterization of itself has, as Nasser Abourahme claims in this issue, changed their relative positions, that the West is being in effect relocated behind Egypt? This episode in the series 'Towards the Great Transition' considers that claim in the light of that possible and long overdue transition, particularly in the context of the discussion of planetary urbanization, continuing to consider whether urban studies and the socio-spatial sciences have the tools to do justice to what is happening. In so doing it draws on another debate on this issue, on Telescopic Urbanism, as introduced by Ash Amin, and particularly as discussed by Ananya Roy with particular reference to India. Journal: City Pages: 570-575 Issue: 4 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.829669 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.829669 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:570-575 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Reversing urbanization? Journal: City Pages: 577-579 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.847144 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.847144 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:577-579 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Author-Name: Julie Viloria Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Viloria Title: Readjusting to reality 2: Transition? Abstract: This is a sequel to another paper-also entitled 'Readjusting to Reality', published in City 17 (1)-that focused on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA) as a vital component of the downward passage from our energy-intensive modern world to one where we will have to live more in tune with our ecological context, with re-localised economies that live on local resources and production. This paper focuses on the Transition Movement that is growing rapidly around the world, aimed at responding more broadly to the emerging energy and climate change problematic, ahead of what otherwise can be expected to be the collapse of our globalised economy and the social aspirations and political structures that this has created. The Transition Movement, by contrast, is concerned to develop positive responses that reintegrate local communities, living in harmony within their local worlds. The heart of the paper, however, focuses on the current tumult of protest movements and demonstrations around the world, enquiring as to what these are trying to achieve, how effective they are in achieving their ostensible aims and, in the final analysis, whether the inchoate aspirations are in practice realisable. The discussion places the present manifestations in the context of past revolutions and their motivations to ask whether we might expect growth in the current protest movements to yield genuine change to resolve the issues they are attempting to address, warning that these could, rather, end in authoritarian, even tyrannical responses. The paper ends by suggesting that the Transition Movement, relating as it does back to anarchist movements of the past, presents a realistic resolution to the problematic of revolution as well as addressing the emergent energy and climate change problematic. A tailpiece to the paper asks whether Transition is relevant not only to the global North but also to cultures elsewhere, illustrating this with a description of an emergent Transition Initiative in the Philippines. Journal: City Pages: 580-605 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827843 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827843 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:580-605 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Buser Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Buser Author-Name: Carlo Bonura Author-X-Name-First: Carlo Author-X-Name-Last: Bonura Author-Name: Maria Fannin Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Fannin Author-Name: Kate Boyer Author-X-Name-First: Kate Author-X-Name-Last: Boyer Title: Cultural activism and the politics of place-making Abstract: In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft, Bristol (UK), we argue that cultural activism provides new political prospects within the wider context of global capitalism through the cultivation of a shared aesthetics of protest. By cultivating aspects of shared history and a mutual enthusiasm for creative practice as a form of resistance, Stokes Croft has emerged as a 'space of nurturance' for creative sensibilities. However, we note how Stokes Croft as an autonomous space remains open-ended and multiple for activists interested in promoting different visions of social justice. Journal: City Pages: 606-627 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827840 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827840 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:606-627 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Gilbert Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Gilbert Title: How to help, and how not to help, the poor in the megacities of the South Abstract: Generalising about urban governance and the urban poor across most of the globe is unhelpful. Unfortunately, I see far too many current examples of that disease. Latin America is not China and is most certainly not like most of Africa or the Indian subcontinent. A recent paper in this journal argued that every city in the South suffers from poor and corrupt management. While accepting that such a diagnosis is true of too many cities, this paper offers an antidote. It explains how Bogotá, Colombia, was transformed from a bankrupt and excessively politicised city into one that is quite well run. Unfortunately, Bogotá also demonstrates that progress follows an uncertain path and corruption reappeared in spectacular form when the electorate voted in a dishonest mayor. If Bogotá is no longer quite the model of competent management it once was, it demonstrates that decent government is possible in the South. That is a vital ingredient if the quality of life of poor people is to improve. Journal: City Pages: 628-635 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827838 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827838 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:628-635 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caspar Pearson Author-X-Name-First: Caspar Author-X-Name-Last: Pearson Title: EUtopia? The European Union and the Parlamentarium in Brussels Abstract: This paper explores the European Parliament's new visitors' centre in Brussels, the Parlamentarium. It examines how the Parlamentarium and its displays might be related to various conceptions of European Union (EU) territoriality, mediating between an 'informational' conception of the EU and one that is grounded in a more traditional idea of place. The paper argues that the Parlamentarium seeks to make sense of the multi-centred, multi-scaled spatial organisation that characterises the EU and that, by promoting the notion of an extensive European cityspace, it attempts to create for the EU a compelling visual and spatial imaginary. In some senses, the Parlamentarium might be seen to take on the functions of the capital city that the EU lacks. The paper also explores a number of contradictions and points of tension within the Parlamentarium, noting that it seems to be a constitutional centre without a constitution, and a place in which meaning appears to be fragmentary and fleeting. Examining the 'televisual' aspect of many of the displays, the paper argues that the exhibition both promotes the European ideal of unity in diversity and, simultaneously, casts doubt upon it. The Parlamentarium seeks to act as an agent for the creation of European subjectivity. Whether the type of postmodern imagery that it deploys is sufficient for this task remains open to question. Journal: City Pages: 636-653 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827862 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827862 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:636-653 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Introduction: Why it's (still) kicking off everywhere Journal: City Pages: 654-656 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.846593 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.846593 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:654-656 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: One hundred and forty characters will not be changing the world Abstract: Drawing on a background of community organising experience and the work of Paolo Freire and Hamid Dabashi, this response to Paul Mason's Why It's Still Kicking of Everywhere explores some of the limits of seeing the current wave of uprising and rebellion through a Eurocentric lens, and challenges us both to look to broader histories of struggle from around the world and work towards developing new theory as we seek to understand today's uprisings on their own terms. Journal: City Pages: 657-660 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827844 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827844 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:657-660 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: In the middle of a revolution ... so where the hell is Stringer Bell? Abstract: According to Paul Mason's account of 2011, we are in the middle of a revolution; a moment of social upheaval that must be measured against 1848, 1917 and 1968. This article assesses Mason's eloquent description of capitalist crisis by distinguishing between three different parts of it: ideological failure, politico-ideological refusal and social change. Slavoj Žižek's theories of ideology and recent commentary on 2011's revolutionary events are drawn upon to develop three sequential arguments relating to these three moments of crisis. First the paper argues that an obvious ideological failure (of neoliberalism) does not guarantee any kind of ideological rejection, by either political left or right. By extension, we must reassess the political and/or ideological refusal that characterizes many of the protest movements that were ignited by the recent economic crisis. Crucially though, this valuing of politico-ideological refusal cannot come at the expense of normative action. The paper concludes by exploring Žižek's tripartite revolutionary persona - Jack Bauer, Homer Simpson and Stringer Bell. Out of these three characters, Stringer Bell is identified as a key figure of inspiration for critical urbanists. A purveyor of illegitimate goods whose very existence relies on his non-incorporation of the 'legitimate' world of corrupt capitalism can provide a template for those who argue for another type of city. Journal: City Pages: 661-670 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827845 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827845 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:661-670 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: Still? Abstract: As the clock ticks, the global uprisings eloquently and thoroughly described by Paul Mason keep appearing across the globe: at the most unexpected of places, all the time. Yet what keeps happening, still, denotes anything but still-ness. Journal: City Pages: 671-673 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:671-673 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Reporting on the unreported with Paul Mason: Scenes from Sydney, 2011 Abstract: This article engages with Paul Mason's 2012 book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions from the perspective of a place where things have not quite 'kicked off' - Sydney, Australia. Through this engagement, I argue that Mason's book provides a useful framework for interrogating the political dynamics of events in a range of places beyond those which feature in its pages. Mason emphasises the importance of relationships between alienated young people, the (sub)urban poor, and organized labour in the events he considers. I apply this frame to examine the potentials and limits of three events that took place in Sydney in 2011; a major union campaign against public sector cuts, the public launch of the community organising efforts of the Sydney Alliance, and the formation of Occupy Sydney. The article concludes with some discussion of the need to extend Mason's work by paying more attention to the translation, as well as the transmission, of political repertoires from place to place. Journal: City Pages: 674-682 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:674-682 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Introduction: 'Emerging Cities of the Third Wave' Revisited: Part Two Journal: City Pages: 683-684 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.847225 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.847225 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:683-684 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Allen J. Scott Author-X-Name-First: Allen J. Author-X-Name-Last: Scott Title: Response to Meagher and Wyly Abstract: In this response, I acknowledge that the theory of cognitive-cultural capitalism needs to pay more attention to problems of urban poverty. I also indicate how this theory provides critical insights into the Marxian idea of "general intellect." Journal: City Pages: 685-687 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:685-687 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward W. Soja Author-X-Name-First: Edward W. Author-X-Name-Last: Soja Title: Regional urbanization and third wave cities Abstract: I discuss first how Allen Scott and my research careers have intertwined around trying to make practical and theoretical sense of the restructuring process. More recently, we have both advocated radically new models for making sense of restructuring, Scott promoting the notion of cognitive cultural capitalism as a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism, while I have been arguing that the vary nature of the urbanization process has been transformed in a shift from metropolitan to regional urbanization. After looking at the metropolitan and regional urbanization models, I briefly discuss the connections between Scott's and my approaches, ending with a critique, urging Scott to be more spatial in his analyses and more flexible in his political economy approach. Journal: City Pages: 688-694 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:688-694 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Therese Kenna Author-X-Name-First: Therese Author-X-Name-Last: Kenna Title: The city: complex, material, imagined and lived Journal: City Pages: 695-698 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:695-698 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Liberatory struggles for housing Journal: City Pages: 699-702 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.827856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.827856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:699-702 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (9) Where is the planet in 'planetary urbanisation'? Abstract: Where is the planet in much of the work on 'planetary urbanisation'? Largely off-stage, it has to be said. This instalment seeks - drawing from some of the material introduced in this series, notably Patrick Keiller's film, Robinson in Ruins and David Abram's book, Becoming Animal, as well as from Adrian Atkinson's contribution in this issue, 'Readjusting to reality 2 Transition?', Andy Merrifield's recent book, The Politics of the Encounter: Urban theory and protest under planetary urbanisation, and pointing towards Marx's late agrarian-inclined work-to indicate some of the gaps and silences in the academic field, and to provide some necessary infilling and new/old orientations, developing a transdisciplinary rather than interdisciplinary, approach Journal: City Pages: 703-710 Issue: 5 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.847560 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.847560 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:5:p:703-710 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Beyond 'the street' and 'the slum' Journal: City Pages: 713-715 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.869082 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.869082 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:713-715 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Title: 'The street' and 'the slum': Political form and urban life in Egypt's revolt Abstract: How, after two years of revolt that if anything were meant to shift the very terms of political subjectivity, do we make sense of what appears to be the unlikely popularity of Egypt's latest military rulers? Much of the commentary and imagery would seem to suggest that the military, garbed in revolutionary cover, have succeeded where countless others have failed in postcolonial polities and achieved some kind of hegemony and broad consensus. By contrast, this article argues that if the military have been able to seize the initiative to drive themselves as a populist wedge between restoration and revolution this is not because they have attained consent but because they have been able to mobilize organizational and discursive machinery much more quickly and effectively than anyone else. That is, to take advantage, in this interstitial temporal space between end and beginning, of the organizational weakness of Egypt's revolutionary street politics. A weakness only magnified in the rush to electoral politics. What this disjuncture, underlines, then, with increasing urgency, is not the question of "voluntary servitude" but the question of form. Both the party and the much-heralded horizontality of 'the street' appear lacking; the latter capable of sublime insurrectional moments-the re-enacted rupture-but not the necessary sustained assault on institutions. The form-to-come will have to emerge from the struggle itself, and the article gestures to the possibility of new collectivities that might be found in the coordination between the revolutionary subjectivities and networks that emerged from the revolt and the life-worlds of Egypt's 'informal' urban poor that have both participated in and provided the enabling conditions of revolt. Journal: City Pages: 716-728 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.864485 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.864485 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:716-728 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Blair Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Blair Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Title: From alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street: Neoanarchism and the new spirit of the left Abstract: Neoanarchist politics have become increasingly hegemonic on the North American left. Tracing its emergence during the Seattle WTO demonstrations in 1999 to its recent incarnation in the Occupy Wall Street movement, this article argues that neoanarchism's attempts to "change the world without taking power" pose serious theoretical and practical problems for emancipatory politics today. The text also examines recuperation as a factor in social movement decline, arguing that the incorporation of social movement themes is constructing a "new spirit of capitalism" that both addresses widespread demand for a more ethical world while simultaneously insulating itself from critique - a process facilitated by significant ideological resonance between neoanarchism and neoliberalism. Journal: City Pages: 729-747 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849127 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849127 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:729-747 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yael Allweil Author-X-Name-First: Yael Author-X-Name-Last: Allweil Author-Name: Rachel Kallus Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Kallus Title: Re-forming the political body in the city: The interplay of male bodies and territory in urban public spaces in Tel Aviv Abstract: This paper aims to rethink the city-nation relationship as overlapping spatial oeuvres where political communities are produced and negotiated. It examines negotiations over inclusion and exclusion from the Israeli political body conducted in enclaves along the Tel Aviv shoreline by seemingly marginal groups of men. The groups studied-homosexual cruisers at Independence Park, the Circle of Drummers at the Dolphinarium and SUV drivers at North Shore cliffs-assert themselves as part of the national political body by making claims to two of Israel's founding mechanisms: masculinity and territory. Negotiations involve appropriation of distinct territories in the urban public space through a mutual re-shaping of territory and male bodies. The examination of these surprising 'urban design' practices, where public spaces are means to negotiate social inclusion, proposes an analytical framework for understanding gender as a bodily and therefore spatial mechanism for identity construction and social struggle. While city and nation are often studied as competing political spheres, this paper identifies city and nation as overlapping spatial oeuvres, where the political body is being formed via concrete sites and bodily performances. Journal: City Pages: 748-777 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849128 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849128 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:748-777 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Debra Benita Shaw Author-X-Name-First: Debra Benita Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw Title: Strange zones: Science fiction, fantasy and the posthuman city Abstract: Science fiction has long been concerned with imagining cities of the future but contemporary 'posturban' cities are 'strange zones' where the future has already happened. How we live in these spaces is a challenge to accepted ideas about what it means to be human and, indeed, what it means to have a future. How then can critical urban theory engage with the new definitions of 'life' emerging from the biological sciences and their effects in urban space? Drawing on theories of posthumanism, this paper explores the contemporary city through a reading of China Miéville's fantasy novel Perdido Street Station, which exposes the imaginative potential of monsters and magic for developing new and resistant metropolitan mythologies. Journal: City Pages: 778-791 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849132 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849132 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:778-791 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Costas Lapavitsas Author-X-Name-First: Costas Author-X-Name-Last: Lapavitsas Title: The financialization of capitalism: 'Profiting without producing' Abstract: Financialization is a systemic transformation of capitalism that has occurred during the last four decades. This paper shows that the concept of financialization originates in Marxist theory, though its meaning remains unclear. It then proposes a theory of financialization as rooted in the altered behaviour of the fundamental agents of capitalist accumulation, including non-financial corporations, banks and workers. Finance has reshaped the activities of all three, also resulting in new forms of profit. It follows that opposing financialization is a complex process that involves creating public financial institutions but also re-establishing public provision for workers across a broad range of activities. Financialization cannot be reversed without re-establishing the command of the social and collective over the private and individual for the modern era. Journal: City Pages: 792-805 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.853865 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.853865 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:792-805 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Introduction: The global revolution as one of ideas? Journal: City Pages: 806-807 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.869083 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.869083 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:806-807 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Mason Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Mason Title: Why it's STILL Kicking Off Everywhere Abstract: The networked struggles of 2012-13 continue to exhibit features supporting an analysis that the 2008 financial crisis inaugurated a systemic change. Journal: City Pages: 808-809 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.853992 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.853992 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:808-809 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Title: Introduction: on structures and conjunctures, rules and exceptions Journal: City Pages: 810-811 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849130 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849130 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:810-811 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Sogge Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Sogge Title: Urban organisations amidst transnational pressures Abstract: Transnational actors and orthodoxies drive many of the negative and positive incentives influencing collective action in cities. The article pursues this journal's Forum series about NGOs and social movements by discussing some of these organisations' convergent and divergent pathways against a background of transnational forces, especially those of aid donors. Quarrels and competition between NGOs and social movements go back a century or more, but today discord has spread and gained force as elites move to frustrate emancipatory organizations and to commodify public services and shift responsibilities to the private for- and non-profit sectors. Despite the de-politicizing and de-mobilizing influence of these policy preferences, promising new cross-over organisations and new relationships between NGOs and movements are emerging in some cities. Some trends detectable in aid and development discourses point to expanding spaces and incentives for collective action for decommodification and emancipation. Journal: City Pages: 812-817 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849131 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849131 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:812-817 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: The Political is Noch Nicht (not yet)! Journal: City Pages: 818-821 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849133 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849133 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:818-821 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Véronique Dupont Author-X-Name-First: Véronique Author-X-Name-Last: Dupont Title: Around the illegal city Journal: City Pages: 822-826 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849135 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849135 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:822-826 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Elliott-Cooper Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott-Cooper Title: The Stuart Hall Project: Review and reflections Journal: City Pages: 827-834 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.853991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.853991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:827-834 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (10) Earthing 'planetary urbanisation' Abstract: Where is the planet in much of the work on 'planetary urbanisation'? Largely off-stage, it has to be said. The planet, then, has to be brought on stage and, so to speak, earthed. This instalment indicates some of the gaps, distortions and silences in the academic field of 'planetary urbanisation', and provides, developing a multidimensional, transdisciplinary (rather than interdisciplinary) approach, some necessary infilling and new/old orientations, ones that can contribute to the reclamation of the already over-urbanised planet. Journal: City Pages: 835-844 Issue: 6 Volume: 17 Year: 2013 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.869084 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.869084 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:6:p:835-844 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Writing and Righting the City Journal: City Pages: 1-3 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.889816 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.889816 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:1-3 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: Reading the Right to the City Abstract: The "Right to the City" is, for better or worse, a catchy phrase, and has been used with quite a diversity of often contradictory meanings. The article describes Lefebvre's own reading, a strategic reading, a discontented reading, a spatial reading, a collaborationist reading, and a subversive reading. It concludes with the suggestion of an alternate reading, a sectoral reading, consistent with the experience of the Occupy movement today. One should be careful which reading one uses. Journal: City Pages: 4-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.878110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.878110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:4-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Wallace Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace Title: The English riots of 2011: Summoning community, depoliticising the city Abstract: The urban uprisings which occurred across England in the summer of 2011 are deemed in this paper to highlight the unstable, depoliticised 'publics' being increasingly convened within neo-liberalised cities. It contends that the diverse, dispersed and multiple events of August 2011 were 'staged' and 'storied' by assorted media and political narratives to represent socio-spatial 'communities' as fallen, harmed or resurgent entities. The paper exposes some of the evidential limitations of these reworkings but largely focuses on these imaginaries to reflect on how they implicate the city in the delineation of fragile and contradictory socio-spatial formations emerging from, through and in response to neo-liberalisation. In this regard, the scripting of the 'riots' around narratives of community crisis and redemption belies the sifting, bordering and reproducing of urban populations through the strategic governing dualities of abjection/exclusion and participation/responsibility. The paper suggests that these modalities produce landscapes of both depoliticisation and contingent disruption, an apparent contradiction which appears to be both intensifying and unravelling in a period of 'alchemic austerity', and which renders logics of restructuring as both unremitting and glaringly problematic. Journal: City Pages: 10-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868161 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.868161 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:10-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Lancione Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione Title: Assemblages of care and the analysis of public policies on homelessness in Turin, Italy Abstract: This paper investigates the ways urban policies on homelessness are discursively framed and practically enacted in Turin, Italy. The notion of 'assemblages of care' is introduced to show how these policies contribute to the constitution of different experiences of homelessness, by means of their discursive blueprints and practical enactments. Relying on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork, the paper questions four policies. Three of these interventions are found to have negative impacts on homeless people's emotions and ways of life; the remaining policy, I argue, holds the potential to produce alternative assemblages and more positive engagement with the individuals encountered. The conclusion provides more general critical reflections on urban policy and homelessness. Journal: City Pages: 25-40 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868163 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.868163 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:25-40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marie Huchzermeyer Author-X-Name-First: Marie Author-X-Name-Last: Huchzermeyer Title: Invoking Lefebvre's 'right to the city' in South Africa today: A response to Walsh Abstract: In South Africa, the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban invokes a Lefebvrian notion of the right to the city while embarking on rights-based action as one of several approaches it employs. In a recent City article, Shannon Walsh frames the use of the right to the city by social movements in South Africa as having liberalizing and neutralizing effects, and as subverting the social antagonisms inherent in capitalism. This paper responds to this assertion with reference to Abahlali baseMjondolo, the movement that in South Africa is most vocal and reflected in referring to a right to the city in its urban struggles. The paper explains Abahlali baseMjondolo's philosophy as well as the context in which it invokes a right to the city. Drawing on scholars who have explored Lefebvre's use of liberal notions (humanism and rights), the relevance of his right to the city in the context of urban neoliberalism and the purposes of invoking the right to the city, the paper aims to present positions that may strengthen the discourse on the right to the city in South Africa and similar contexts of urban extremes across the globe. Journal: City Pages: 41-49 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.868166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:41-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Introduction: Navigating urban fabrication Journal: City Pages: 50-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.869935 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.869935 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:50-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Knowles Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Knowles Title: Dancing with bulldozers: Migrant life on Beijing's periphery Abstract: This paper details two research encounters with Beijing. It explores the connections migrants make with the city in navigating it, and offers this as a way of thinking about cities. The first encounter is with poor internal, sometimes called 'floating', migrants in Xiao Jiahe on the NW edge of the city. The second is with UK migrants in the gated community 'Capital Retreat' on the NE edge of the city near the airport. Both locations are city arrival-portals of different kinds. The (incommensurate) streams of migration through which these portals are coproduced are placed side by side, exposing migrants' routine and irregular mobility and the urban knowledge guiding their navigation of the city. In this juxtaposition it becomes clear that urban navigational skills are more appropriate to the analysis of migration than definitions based on formal educational and occupational skills commonly deployed by migration scholars. Comparison of navigational skills in these portals reveals the imagination, flexibility and resilience of internal migrants and the fears, difficulties and incapacities of UK migrants. Most importantly, migrants' navigational skills expose the city through the connections they make with it, providing new ways of thinking about cities through their constitution in migrant fabrics: migrants don't just live in cities, but make them. From these two close encounters, I suggest that intimacy and distance, protection and exposure, overlapping conditions of urban existence, provide a way of conceptualizing the city-as-migrant-fabric. The contrasting realities of these two city portals in the making, lived side by side, are not quite a matter of parallel lives. In making the city by living it, internal and foreign migrants each produce for the other the circumstances in which the city must be re-navigated, thus producing it as a living nexus of disparate, intersecting journeys, in which the logics of accumulation through land speculation provide significant forms of traction for both groups. This paper describes how global capitalism makes urban life in the capital city of (post) socialist China through the lens of migrant life, demonstrating the analytic advantages of spatially dynamic, biographical and comparative approaches to contemporary urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 52-68 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868167 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.868167 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:52-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pascal Menoret Author-X-Name-First: Pascal Author-X-Name-Last: Menoret Title: Treading on Naples' contact zone: anthropological encounters with the Camorra Journal: City Pages: 69-72 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868168 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.868168 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:69-72 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Przybylinski Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Przybylinski Title: Finding meaning in alternative spaces Journal: City Pages: 73-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.868169 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.868169 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:73-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amy Starecheski Author-X-Name-First: Amy Author-X-Name-Last: Starecheski Title: Squatting in Europe Journal: City Pages: 78-81 Issue: 1 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.849134 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2013.849134 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:1:p:78-81 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Re-ordering or remaking cities? Journal: City Pages: 83-86 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.917880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.917880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:83-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William K. Tabb Author-X-Name-First: William K. Author-X-Name-Last: Tabb Title: The wider context of austerity urbanism Abstract: Austerity urbanism is part of a larger neoliberal project in which the debt relation is both an important tool of redistributive growth and central to understanding the contemporary social structure of accumulation that generates financial bubbles and collapse. The financialization that is central to the contemporary period in Western capitalism impacts cities as part of larger phenomena that encompass not only mortgage debt but consumer and student debt in a context in which the legal system has shifted the obligations and entitlements of lenders and debtors. The pessimism that pervades an urban literature in which a 'zombie' neoliberalism inflicts endless austerity can only be countered by a wider re-embedding of market relations in a moral economy, a requirement that goes back at least to Adam Smith and has been revived and revitalized by Occupy Wall Street and related movements, including the Right to the City. Journal: City Pages: 87-100 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896645 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896645 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:87-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: Reading the right to the city. Part two: Organisational realities Abstract: Based on reports on Right to the City Alliances in Spain, Germany, France, Hungary, the USA, Portugal and Greece, this paper puts together questions on organizational issues that have been raised and suggests some hypothetical answers. The issues dealt with include target constituency, problem focus, organizational base, internal organization, strategies and tactics, historical setting, role of the state, motivations and guiding theory. Journal: City Pages: 101-103 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896646 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896646 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:101-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: Towards a libertarian turn? Notes on the past and future of radical urban research and praxis Abstract: Marxists have always tried to present the history of the workers' movement as if it were the history of Marxist organising efforts, and the history of critical ideas as if it were the history of Marxist thought; consequently, the crisis of Marxism has been presented as a crisis of radical thought as such. However, new radical social movements and thinkers have appeared during the last two decades - and a libertarian flavour is a common feature of many of these movements and thinkers. It would be wrong to exaggerate the contemporary role of libertarian thought and praxis, as some of them still present Marxist discursive or even practical elements; that is to say, some of them are more or less 'hybrid.' But it would be equally wrong to deny the relevance of a clear, present-day resurgence of libertarian ideas and ideals. The scenario of a widespread 'libertarian turn' similar to the 'radical [≈ Marxist] turn' of the 1970s is for several reasons unlikely. Nonetheless, considering some current trends, the hypothesis of a 'mid-ranged' or 'partial' libertarian turn is totally plausible. In fact, my hypothesis is that such a 'libertarian turn' is already ongoing. How can socio-spatial research in general, and urban studies in particular, help us understand (and perhaps inspire or at least support) the (re)new(ed) forms of insurgent praxis and thinking we have witnessed in the last two decades? And to what extent will the libertarians (activists, academics and scholars-activists) be able to explore and use the currently existing room for manoeuvre? Journal: City Pages: 104-118 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896644 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896644 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:104-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephanie Butcher Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie Author-X-Name-Last: Butcher Author-Name: Alexandre Apsan Frediani Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre Author-X-Name-Last: Apsan Frediani Title: Insurgent citizenship practices: The case of Muungano wa Wanavijiji in Nairobi, Kenya Abstract: The notion of 'insurgent citizenship' has emerged as a critical concept to highlight the insufficiencies of the modernist liberal citizenship project. Referring to the 'everyday practices' of disenfranchised communities, it holds particular resonance in the urban context, and represents a range of formal and informal practices employed to claim for missing entitlements. Nevertheless, this notion is imbued with a certain ambiguity, and insurgent practices have manifested in a diversity of approaches ranging from contestation to negotiation-based practices. This is evident in the insurgent practices of Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a federation of the urban poor within Nairobi, Kenya, and a member of the Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) network. This paper explores three key tensions experienced by the movement, which navigate trade-offs between: the development of a strong representational body and respect for internal diversity; strategies that can influence and contest hegemonic practices while resisting co-option; and mechanisms of engagement that generate immediate and material benefits while also pursuing structural change. Reflecting on these tensions, the role of negotiation and contestation-based practices in claiming substantive citizenship rights in Nairobi is explored. The case highlights the shifting complexity of insurgent citizenship practices that necessitates a deeper examination and disentanglement, exploring the contextual tensions and trade-offs insurgent movements face to obtain entitlements within the city. Journal: City Pages: 119-133 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896637 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896637 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:119-133 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Erbatur C̨avuşoğlu Author-X-Name-First: Erbatur Author-X-Name-Last: C̨avuşoğlu Author-Name: Julia Strutz Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Strutz Title: Producing force and consent: Urban transformation and corporatism in Turkey Abstract: Attempts to explain the electoral and economic success of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey usually refer to its integration of neoliberalism and a 'protestant ethic' into its ideology. This argument, however, is incomplete in two ways. Firstly, a factor equally as important as the AKP's 'passive revolution' is its continuation of a corporatist tradition deeply rooted both in the Republic and in Islam. Secondly, the AKP's hegemonic model is based on the construction sector as the dominant sector to promote economic growth and progress in the country. With the invention of governance models to commodify space and to allocate its surplus to its own budgets, the AKP's political and economic strategy to become and stay hegemonic is inherently spatial. It satisfies many members of society via the redistribution of non-commodified space, interconnects individuals via property relations and is used to avert economic and political crises. This paper will conclude with a discussion of the relation between the AKP's politics of space and the recent Gezi Park protests, and examine to what degree the demonstrators threatened the party's hegemony. Journal: City Pages: 134-148 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896643 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896643 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:134-148 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: Policing the Crisis thirty-five years on Journal: City Pages: 149-151 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896647 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896647 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:149-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Jefferson Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Jefferson Title: Exploring the continuing relevance of Policing the Crisis Abstract: The article argues for the continuing relevance of Policing the Crisis, recently republished in a second edition with an unaltered main text but with a new Preface and Afterwords. It explores four reasons for this claim, two methodological, two theoretical. It starts by demonstrating how the methodological principles informing PTC - a concrete starting point, critiquing existing explanations and an essentially ethnographic approach to data - enabled a novel understanding of moral panics as symptomatic of a crisis of hegemony - a finding that still remains unique in moral panic literature. It then shows how the theoretical notions of conjuncture and the 'exceptional' or 'Law-and-Order' state were used to understand the development of the crisis of hegemony during the 1960s and into the 1970s. These methodological and theoretical ideas were then briefly deployed to show how they remain helpful in thinking about the present, neo-liberal moment. Journal: City Pages: 152-159 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896648 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896648 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:152-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Elliott-Cooper Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott-Cooper Author-Name: Estelle du Boulay Author-X-Name-First: Estelle Author-X-Name-Last: du Boulay Author-Name: Eleanor Kilroy Author-X-Name-First: Eleanor Author-X-Name-Last: Kilroy Title: Moral panic(s) in the 21st century Abstract: Although Policing the Crisis brought thorough academic analysis to the overlap between police, government and media racism, black communities, and those standing in solidarity with them had been organising to address these issues long before. This resistance continues today, and Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) has been working with communities to support such initiatives for over thirty years. The work of NMP covers a range of issues, many of which are not dissimilar from those being challenged when Policing the Crisis was first published. What has changed however, is much of the racially charged language employed by the police and media. One example of this is the narrative around the gang, creating a new moral panic, to reproduce the same old racist domination. Journal: City Pages: 160-166 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:160-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joshua Castellino Author-X-Name-First: Joshua Author-X-Name-Last: Castellino Title: International legal responses to uprisings in the Middle East Abstract: The Arab Uprising is part of a wider mass global quest aimed at establishing legitimate government. While such movements disrupt order in the short term, they could lead to the establishment of effective democratic institutions. This paper critically assesses the role international law plays in such crises, arguing for greater objectivity in ensuring smooth transitions from authoritarian unrepresentative government towards more democratically oriented ones. Journal: City Pages: 167-174 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896650 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896650 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:167-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Costas Lapavitsas Author-X-Name-First: Costas Author-X-Name-Last: Lapavitsas Author-Name: Paul Mason Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Mason Author-Name: Mariana Mazzucato Author-X-Name-First: Mariana Author-X-Name-Last: Mazzucato Author-Name: Seumas Milne Author-X-Name-First: Seumas Author-X-Name-Last: Milne Author-Name: Ben Chew Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Chew Title: How to change the post-crash economy Journal: City Pages: 175-190 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.912391 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.912391 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:175-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guy Trangoš Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Trangoš Author-Name: Ilana Adleson Author-X-Name-First: Ilana Author-X-Name-Last: Adleson Author-Name: Nicolas Palominos Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas Author-X-Name-Last: Palominos Author-Name: Adriana Valdez Young Author-X-Name-First: Adriana Author-X-Name-Last: Valdez Young Author-Name: Sharifa Alshalfan Author-X-Name-First: Sharifa Author-X-Name-Last: Alshalfan Title: Reordered publics: Re-imagining the City of London Abstract: In the unrelenting wake of the global recession has intensified pressure on the public realm to mediate between different actors vying to assert political rights, economic claims and social expression. Multi-disciplinary frameworks for reading economic systems as integral to the design and lived experience of the public realm have shaped our conceptualisation of the financial crisis as a city design problem. The following images and narrative offer a socio-spatial and political analysis of the City of London as a 'business as usual' city in which private interests trump public good. Through a design-based proposal for policy intervention and physical restructuring that radically alters the City's socio-spatial realities, we re-imagine the City of London as a true public city for the 21st century, where 'productivity' stems from the residential diversity, urban intensity and inclusive public spaces produced by significantly increasing the number of people living in the City. Journal: City Pages: 191-213 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896652 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896652 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:191-213 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Barbara Lipietz Author-X-Name-First: Barbara Author-X-Name-Last: Lipietz Author-Name: Richard Lee Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Author-Name: Sharon Hayward Author-X-Name-First: Sharon Author-X-Name-Last: Hayward Title: Just Space: Building a community-based voice for London planning Abstract: Just Space is a London-wide network of voluntary and community groups operating at the regional, borough and neighbourhood levels. It came together in an attempt to influence the strategic (spatial) plan for Greater London-the London Plan-and counter the domination of the planning process by developers and public bodies, the latter often heavily influenced by development interests. What crystallised Just Space participation was the requirement for an Examination in Public of the London Plan, at which Just Space supported the involvement of a wide range of community groups through the sharing of information, research and resources. This interview is an edited version of two conversations with Richard Lee (RL), coordinator of Just Space, and Sharon Hayward (SH), coordinator of London Tenants Federation (a Just Space member organisation). The conversation reflected on some of the challenges linked to bringing community voices to the table on strategic, citywide, planning; the strength in combining academic argument with practical, solid evidence from the grass roots; and the opportunities and challenges of sustaining a horizontal type of organisation across the different scales of the planning system. The conversations took place on 11 March and 30 May 2013 at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, London. Journal: City Pages: 214-225 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896654 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896654 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:214-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Barns Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Barns Title: Plus ça change? Remaking the city, 'one site, one app, one click at a time' Journal: City Pages: 226-229 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896655 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896655 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:226-229 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shanthi Robertson Author-X-Name-First: Shanthi Author-X-Name-Last: Robertson Title: Migrants as scale makers: untangling the intersections of urban theory and migration research Journal: City Pages: 230-233 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896656 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896656 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:230-233 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Dryjanska Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Dryjanska Title: Sociology of Delhi Journal: City Pages: 234-238 Issue: 2 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.896657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.896657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:2:p:234-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Landscape without figures? Journal: City Pages: 239-243 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.928445 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.928445 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:239-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louis Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Louis Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Title: The urban process under financialised capitalism Abstract: Over half a decade has passed since the first global financial crisis of the 21st Century, and political economists are still trying to make sense of its causes and ramifications. In a major recent intervention Costas Lapavitsas argues that what was thrown into relief was the sheer penetration of the financial process into all facets of everyday life. Financialisation represents, Lapavitsas says, nothing less than a historic transformation in the structural process of capital accumulation itself: one which has been globally unfolding and locally evolving over the last three to four decades, and has now installed itself at all levels and dimensions of everyday life. At the centre of this argument is an analysis which focuses on the way financial intermediaries have been able to draw people, and the social infrastructure people depend on, deep into the circuit of financial accumulation. To a considerable degree this thesis backs up Lefebvre and Harvey's analysis made some four decades earlier: that financial capitalism was liable to mutate into a new urban form, based on the intensification of 'secondary' circuits of exploitation operating both inside and outside the realm of production. In this paper I try to connect the financial and geographical frameworks of Lapavitsas and Harvey to see what new light is cast on emerging urban forms of rent-extraction. Through an examination of the financialisation of the urban landscape I argue that urbanism does not merely reflect or represent the culture of financial accumulation, but has been a crucial socio-spatial process enabling the permeation and penetration of finance into the fabric of daily life. Journal: City Pages: 244-268 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.927099 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.927099 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:244-268 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anders Blok Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Blok Title: Worlding cities through their climate projects? Abstract: In recent years, the built environment has emerged as a critical target of climate change intervention for urban governments around the world, engaging developers, professionals, activists and communities in a range of new eco-urbanism projects. While important contributions have been made, this paper suggests that critical academic and policy debates on urban climate politics have so far paid insufficient attention to the sheer divergence in urban experiences, concerns and public-professional responses elicited through such experiments worldwide. By juxtaposing architectural and other eco-housing practices from diverse cities on three continents-Kyoto (Japan), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Surat (India)-this paper aims to conjure a more cosmopolitan research imagination on how climatic solidarities may emerge in the face of multiple urban differences and inequalities. Towards this end, the paper mobilizes assemblage urbanism as a set of methodological sensibilities towards issues of knowledge, materiality, multiplicity and scale-making within situated and contested processes of urban ecological change. Drawing on the politics of thick description favored by assemblage thinking, I deploy situated ethnographies to suggest that eco-housing projects in Kyoto, Copenhagen and Surat engage professional and public actors in variable world-conjuring efforts, potentially opening up new micro-arenas for the articulation of more attractive, sustainable and just urban futures. While shaped by inequalities of power, resource and knowledge, such eco-housing assemblages, I suggest, also serve as spaces of collective experimentation and learning, in and beyond the particular city. Journal: City Pages: 269-286 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:269-286 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Choon Piew Pow Author-X-Name-First: Choon Piew Author-X-Name-Last: Pow Title: License to travel Abstract: In the world of 'fast policy transfer', stylized models of 'successful' paradigmatic cities have been assembled and circulated widely around the world, providing supposedly 'best practices' and 'tried and tested' policy solutions for a variety of problems. Far from being neutral and objective, these traveling models and policy assemblages are deeply embedded in power relations and animated by urban imaginaries of 'good places' to live and work. Both in rhetoric and form, the purported 'Singapore model', driven by the entrepreneurial zeal of state agencies as well as private developers, has been exported to many cities in the global south. Yet how does this self-stylized Singapore model possess the representational power and 'license to travel'? What role does urban materiality play in the circulation and flow of the Singapore model? To this end, this paper argues that the Singapore model rests on the seductive narratives of a self-orientalized 'Asian success story' that is enacted and materialized through an assemblage of policy artifacts. On the whole, however, rather than converging towards a unified singular policy narrative, the Singapore model is consumed in highly differentiated and uneven ways, thus underscoring the contradictions and friction that underpin the process through which mobile policies and neoliberal urban models are assembled and circulated around the world. Beyond the empirically grounded analysis of assemblage theory and policy mobility, this paper attends to the diverse urbanisms that are being assembled and produced both within and beyond the global south. Journal: City Pages: 287-306 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.908515 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.908515 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:287-306 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ola Söderström Author-X-Name-First: Ola Author-X-Name-Last: Söderström Author-Name: Till Paasche Author-X-Name-First: Till Author-X-Name-Last: Paasche Author-Name: Francisco Klauser Author-X-Name-First: Francisco Author-X-Name-Last: Klauser Title: Smart cities as corporate storytelling Abstract: On 4 November 2011, the trademark 'smarter cities' was officially registered as belonging to IBM. This was an important milestone in a struggle between IT companies over visibility and legitimacy in the smart city market. Drawing on actor-network theory and critical planning theory, the paper analyzes IBM's smarter city campaign and finds it to be storytelling, aimed at making the company an 'obligatory passage point' in the implementation of urban technologies. Our argument unfolds in three parts. We first trace the emergence of the term 'smart city' in the public sphere. Secondly, we show that IBM's influential story about smart cities is far from novel but rather mobilizes and revisits two long-standing tropes: systems thinking and utopianism. Finally, we conclude, first by addressing two critical questions raised by this discourse: technocratic reductionism and the introduction of new moral imperatives in urban management; and second, by calling for the crafting of alternative smart city stories. Journal: City Pages: 307-320 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:307-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Schafran Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Schafran Title: Debating urban studies in 23 steps Journal: City Pages: 321-330 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:321-330 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 331-333 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.911433 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.911433 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:331-333 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Agata A. Lisiak Author-X-Name-First: Agata A. Author-X-Name-Last: Lisiak Title: Navigating urban standstill Abstract: This article is a response to Bob Catterall's call for urban studies 'able to listen to, read and touch the sounds, sights and textures of the city' (2004, 309) and a contribution to the debate on navigating urban space that has been recurring in CITY. I argue that an inclusion of places of urban standstill complements the analyses of navigating urban space that focus primarily on movement and that it allows for a more inclusive understanding of urban space in general. In his portrayals of urban life the Polish hip-hop artist Peja presents the most neglected streets of Jez˙yce, one of Poznań's inner-city neighbourhoods. His gaze pierces through backyards, gateways, and street corners, thus revealing an 'other city' behind the polished image of Poznań as communicated through municipal media and place marketing. The MC acknowledges the city caught in standstill and the people who inhabit the urban spaces behind the threshold of visibility. The sites of urban standstill dominating Peja's oeuvre are liminal not only because of their literal in-betweenness, but also because of their inherent potential for transition. An avid observer and chronicler of urban decay, social inequalities and paralyzing inertia, Peja holds unrelinquished faith in human endurance. Journal: City Pages: 334-348 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906718 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906718 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:334-348 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Elliott-Cooper Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott-Cooper Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 349-352 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:349-352 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Les Back Author-X-Name-First: Les Author-X-Name-Last: Back Author-Name: Mónica Moreno Figueroa Author-X-Name-First: Mónica Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Figueroa Title: Following Stuart Hall Abstract: This article offers a tribute to the critic and cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall who died on Monday 10th February, 2014. Through personal recollections and correspondence it argues that we best honour Stuart Hall's memory by following his example as a generous intellect, radical thinker and committed teacher. In contrast to the status-obsessed nature of contemporary academic culture, Stuart Hall's life offers us an alternative path to follow in the vocation of thinking and learning. Journal: City Pages: 353-355 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906720 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906720 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:353-355 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ashok Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Ashok Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Title: Securing the security Journal: City Pages: 356-359 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906731 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906731 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:356-359 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Euan Hague Author-X-Name-First: Euan Author-X-Name-Last: Hague Title: Progressive activism and activists in Chicago and Boston in the 1980s Journal: City Pages: 360-362 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906721 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906721 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:360-362 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Diana Martin Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Martin Title: Polarisation and cohesion in divided cities Journal: City Pages: 363-367 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.906732 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.906732 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:363-367 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the Great Transformation: (11) Where/what is culture in 'Planetary Urbanisation'? Towards a new paradigm Abstract: The present dominant paradigm in much writing on 'planetary urbanisation' with its exclusive emphasis on ' the urban' and consequent neglect/denial of 'the rural', thereby of the planet itself, and its minimal deployment of the concept of culture and of the humanities, reflects the somewhat ramshackle condition of urban studies and socio-spatial sciences with their uncritical and undertheorised notion of interdisciplinarity (sometimes incorrectly labelled recently as transdisciplinarity). Where and what is the planet itself in much of the work on 'planetary urbanisation'? Where featured at all it is reduced to dehumanised and apparently nonsentient (mainly male) actants. It cannot do justice to the nature of life on the planet and therefore cannot provide an adequate account or critique of planetary urbanisation. It is, in fact, in danger of becoming an accomplice in that imperial(ist) project. An alternative paradigm, outlined here, is one in which the biosocial and gendered nature of culture, including its relationship to agriculture and 'the rural', is central to its explorations of the full geo-spatial field and their implications for action. To achieve justice with and for sentient beings and the planet, that misrepresented biosocial entity has, first, to be earthed, materialised, gendered, and cultured. (subsequent episodes reconsider the city in this neglected context and then science as partly normative notions). This series, developing a multidimensional, transdisciplinary(rather than interdisciplinary) approach, providing some necessary infilling and new/old orientations to the now outmoded paradigm, sets out a claim for this new paradigm for the biospatial sciences and the humanities. It seeks, in this episode drawing particularly on Marx's studies of the Russian commune and beyond (in space and time), Chernyshevski's work, particularly his novel What Is To Be Done?, and on earlier work in the series, to contribute to the identification of a partly agrarian and fully 'encultured' path to the reclamation of the now acutely over-urbanised planet. Journal: City Pages: 368-379 Issue: 3 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.892773 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.892773 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:368-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: 'City makes your life happier'? Journal: City Pages: 381-385 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.964557 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.964557 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:381-385 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jamie Peck Author-X-Name-First: Jamie Author-X-Name-Last: Peck Author-Name: Elliot Siemiatycki Author-X-Name-First: Elliot Author-X-Name-Last: Siemiatycki Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Vancouver's suburban involution Abstract: Contemporary urban theorists are deeply suspicious of city-inspired models and 'schools', but policy elites, investors and journalists harbor few reservations. One of the more prominent new contestants in the evolving locational tournaments for urban 'model' status is 'Vancouverism', an ensemble of planning and design innovations for high-density downtown living that is widely regarded as an antidote to suburban sprawl. Vancouverism may represent the eclipse of conventional forms of metro-fringe suburbanism, but it does so by privileging and centralizing neo-suburban modes of development, cultures, esthetics and lifestyles. In this way, Vancouver has not so much transcended suburbanization as it has ingested its cultural and political-economic logic. Journal: City Pages: 386-415 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939464 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939464 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:386-415 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andy Merrifield Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Merrifield Title: Against accountancy governance: Notes towards a new urban collective consumption Abstract: Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, power brokers of our urban system assumed other managerial roles, other controlling roles more market-driven, more fiscally prudent. They started to recede from public view, dabbled with privatization, with contracting-out service delivery, doing it at minimum cost. After a while, this dabbling with the public budget became damn right babbling: entrepreneurial managers turned into managerial entrepreneurs and soon into middle-management technocrats, each with their own private hegemony of meaning. Before long, a new nobility assumed the mantle of political and authoritative power, a para-state of accountants and administrators, of middle managers and think-tank 'intellectuals', of consultants and confidants who reside over our privatized public sector, filing the paperwork and pocketing the rents and fees, together with the interest payments and bonuses, in our ever-emergent rentier and creditor society. This paper critically investigates the sweeping changes that have transformed urban governance since the 1970s. Journal: City Pages: 416-426 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939463 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939463 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:416-426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Milena Komarova Author-X-Name-First: Milena Author-X-Name-Last: Komarova Author-Name: Dominic Bryan Author-X-Name-First: Dominic Author-X-Name-Last: Bryan Title: Introduction: Beyond the divided city: policies and practices of shared space Journal: City Pages: 427-431 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939480 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939480 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:427-431 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mary-Kathryn Rallings Author-X-Name-First: Mary-Kathryn Author-X-Name-Last: Rallings Title: 'Shared space' as symbolic capital: Belfast and the 'right to the city'? Abstract: The relationship between people and space is a hugely complex one; the intertwined nature of how people interact with certain spaces and with each other within certain spaces both informs and is informed by the physical environment itself, historic and contemporary spatial practice, and the discourses about these spaces. In many cities, policies are developed and initiatives put in place to govern these complex relationships in a number of ways: access can be restricted to particular places at particular times to ensure safety; places where people gather can be monitored; the built environment can encourage different types of spatial practice and interaction between people. In Northern Ireland, 'shared spaces', or those spaces people from different ethno-national backgrounds can use, are the subject of intense attention from policymakers. This paper explores how policy is governing shared space, with a particular focus on how the term 'shared space' and the connotations of this term are used as a policy concept to legitimise how Belfast city centre is managed as a space. Journal: City Pages: 432-439 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939481 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939481 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:432-439 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rosaleen Hickey Author-X-Name-First: Rosaleen Author-X-Name-Last: Hickey Title: The psychological dimensions of shared space in Belfast Abstract: Adopting a case study approach, this paper explores the psychological dimensions of two shared spaces within the ethno-nationally divided city of Belfast. The paper highlights recurrent perceptions ascribed to the case studies and explores the correlation between the psychological and physical dimensions of the shared spaces. The findings draw on a series of semi-structured interviews with a wide range of stakeholders of the shared spaces. The paper concludes that the psychological and physical dimensions of shared space are very much intertwined: the built environment wields great power in reinforcing the perceptions required to establish and promote shared space in Belfast. Journal: City Pages: 440-446 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939482 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939482 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:440-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonny Byrne Author-X-Name-First: Jonny Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne Author-Name: Cathy Gormley-Heenan Author-X-Name-First: Cathy Author-X-Name-Last: Gormley-Heenan Title: Beyond the walls: Dismantling Belfast's conflict architecture Abstract: Since the first paramilitary ceasefires in 1994, the Northern Ireland peace and political processes have addressed a series of sensitive and contentious issues synonymous with the conflict, such as policing, prisoner releases, decommissioning and power sharing. However, one issue that has been absent from these transformative processes has been that of the peace walls, which were first constructed by the British Army in 1969 as a military response to sectarian violence and disorder. There are now over 60 such physical barriers and walls dominating the landscape of working-class communities in Belfast. Ironically, a significant number of these have been constructed or strengthened after the cessations in violence and introduction of power sharing arrangements in government. This reality of fortified segregation sits uneasily with the popular narrative of the peace process in Northern Ireland and its successes. With this in mind, this paper uses primary quantitative research to ascertain the factors that influence the public's perception and interpretation of the peace walls, with the understanding that these findings can support the development and implementation of policies aimed to transform the conflict architecture. Journal: City Pages: 447-454 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939465 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939465 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:447-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tim Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Title: Changing direction: Defensive planning in a post-conflict city Abstract: This paper considers a number of recently declassified documents from the 1970s and 1980s to show that the security agencies in Northern Ireland played a key role in shaping the redevelopment of the city of Belfast, which extends some way beyond that which had hitherto been considered to be the case. With the aim of creating a cordon sanitaire around the main areas of conflict, the planning system was successfully harnessed to achieve the key military objective of spatially isolating major areas of the north and west of the city. In this respect, the planning system very successfully achieved the objectives that were set for it by the security agencies. However, the legacy of this approach is that there are now large sections of the city isolated from the economic and social mainstream of post-conflict Belfast. This paper argues that what is now required is a reconfiguration of the planning system within the city, embracing the notion of reflexive regulatory aspects of equality law, which can ensure that the planning system within the city is steered in a different direction from one based on exclusion and segregation, to one that embraces cohesion and integration. Only when this is achieved it is argued, can the objectives of the 1998 peace agreement be realised. Journal: City Pages: 455-462 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939466 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939466 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:455-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adele Lee Author-X-Name-First: Adele Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: Introduction: Ethnic and cultural diversity Journal: City Pages: 463-465 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939483 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939483 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:463-465 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carey Doyle Author-X-Name-First: Carey Author-X-Name-Last: Doyle Author-Name: Ruth McAreavey Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: McAreavey Title: Possibilities for change?: Diversity in post-conflict Belfast Abstract: Belfast is often presented as an exemplary divided or post-conflict city. However, this focus can be limiting and an exploration of alternative narratives for Belfast is needed. This paper investigates the diversification of post-conflict Belfast in light of the substantial migration which has occurred in the last decade, outlining the complexities of an emerging narrative of diversity. We note discrepancies in how racial equality is dealt with at an institutional level and report on the unevenness of migrant geographies, issues which require future consideration. We also raise questions that problematize the easy assumption that cultural diversity ameliorates existing sectarian divisions. Journal: City Pages: 466-475 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939467 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939467 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:466-475 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adele Lee Author-X-Name-First: Adele Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: 'Are you a Catholic Chinese or a Protestant Chinese?': Belfast's ethnic minorities and the sectarian divide Abstract: This paper reflects on the rapidly changing demography of Belfast and the (potential) role of ethnic minorities in facilitating the city's move to a more progressive and pluralistic society. Focusing specifically on two films about the migrant population-Lab Ky Mo's Oranges are Blue (2005) and Stephen Don's Faraway (2013)-it assesses the extent to which increased cultural diversity and alternative identities are complicating the dominant image of Belfast as a paradigmatic 'divided city' (between Catholics and Protestants). The paper also explores the city's alarming problem with racism-the number of racially motivated attacks increased by 30% from 2013 to 2014-as well as ongoing sectarian tensions and the ways in which these severely hinder the ability of migrants to contribute to the reconstruction of the city in imaginative and enlightened ways. Journal: City Pages: 476-487 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939468 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939468 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:476-487 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Doak Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Doak Title: Beyond Derry or Londonderry: Towards a framework for understanding the emerging spatial contradictions of Derry-Londonderry-UK City of Culture 2013 Abstract: Those tasked with Derry's governance are currently engaged in an attempt at reordering perceptions and understandings of that city as an archetypal contested/divided city. A key strategy employed to this end is the rebranding of the city, which has coalesced around Derry-Londonderry's designation as the inaugural UK City of Culture (2013). This paper explores how rather than assessing this re-imagination through the totalising frameworks of success or failure, the idea of the city as constituted by competing and contradictory narratives proves more useful for accessing some of the nuances, which have characterised the regeneration process. Journal: City Pages: 488-496 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939469 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939469 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:488-496 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: Crisis-scapes suspended: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 498-501 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.949095 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.949095 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:498-501 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Costis Hadjimichalis Author-X-Name-First: Costis Author-X-Name-Last: Hadjimichalis Title: Crisis and land dispossession in Greece as part of the global 'land fever' Abstract: The exploitation of land, but also of natural elements linked to it-such as water, forests, landscape, the subsurface and biodiversity-nowadays comprise investment targets for local and international speculative capital at some unprecedented extent, intensity and geographical spread. From 2009 on, Greece became a target country due to the current crisis which has decisively contributed to the de-valorisation/depreciation of the exchange-value of land, decreasing monetary values by 15-30%-depending on the area-when compared to 2005 prices. The special legal status imposed by the Troika as of 2010, forms a lucrative environment for speculators-investors, dramatically altering the legal, constitutional order and imposing something of a semi-protectorate status upon the country. This short paper explains how the crisis in Greece made public land via privatisations a major target for dispossession by global and local capital. Journal: City Pages: 502-508 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939470 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939470 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:502-508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hyun Bang Shin Author-X-Name-First: Hyun Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: Contesting speculative urbanisation and strategising discontents Abstract: This paper explains what the production of speculative urbanisation in mainland China means for strategising emergent discontents therein. It is argued that China's urbanisation is a political and ideological project by the Party State, producing urban-oriented accumulation through the commingling of the labour-intensive industrial production with heavy investment in the built environment. Therefore, for any progressive movements to be formed, it becomes imperative to imagine and establish cross-class alliances to claim the right to the city (or the right to the urban, given the limitations of the city as an analytical unit). Because of the nature of urbanisation, the alliances would need to involve not only industrial workers and urban inhabitants but also village farmers whose lands are expropriated to accommodate investments to produce the urban as well as ethnic minorities in autonomous regions whose cities are appropriated and restructured to produce Han-dominated cities. Education emerges as an important strategy for the discontented who need to understand how the fate of urban inhabitants is knitted tightly with the fate of workers, villagers and others who are subject to the exploitation of the urban-oriented accumulation. Journal: City Pages: 509-516 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939471 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939471 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:509-516 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tom Slater Author-X-Name-First: Tom Author-X-Name-Last: Slater Title: Unravelling false choice urbanism Abstract: Numerous scholarly and journalistic commentaries on gentrification succumb to an analytically defective formula: weigh up the supposed pros and cons of gentrification, throw in a few half-baked worries about threats to 'diversity' and housing affordability, and conclude that gentrification is actually 'good' on balance because it represents the reinvestment that stops neighbourhoods from dying during a financial crisis. In this paper, I unravel such 'false choice urbanism' by arguing that disinvestment and reinvestment do not signify a moral conundrum, with the latter somehow better than the former. It is argued that gentrification and 'decay' are not opposites, alternatives or choices, but rather tensions and contradictions in the overall system of capital circulation, amplified and aggravated by the current crisis. Keeping the focus on gentrification as a political question (rather than a moral one), I offer some thoughts on some strategies of revolt concealed by purveyors of false choice urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 517-524 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939472 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939472 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:517-524 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Dalakoglou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Dalakoglou Author-Name: Yannis Kallianos Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Kallianos Title: Infrastructural flows, interruptions and stasis in Athens of the crisis Abstract: The paper discusses infrastructural flows enacted/activated in the context of the crisis in Athens, focusing on waste flows and treatment. The argument is that disorder and deregulation, which are reflected in the disruption of patterns and flows, are endemic characteristics of the neo-liberal governance, but also of the wider infrastructural existence. Considering such activations of flows as working parallel with de-activations and the crisis-related arrhythmia of social, economic and political processes, the paper attempts to offer a re-reading of the crisis via some of the key urban infrastructural processes. In this regard, the diverse codifications of waste flows at play are explored anthropologically as infrastructural processes that reflect both an institutional and an informal social shift in the urban scale. Journal: City Pages: 526-532 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939473 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939473 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:526-532 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dina Vaiou Author-X-Name-First: Dina Author-X-Name-Last: Vaiou Title: Is the crisis in Athens (also) gendered?: Facets of access and (in)visibility in everyday public spaces Abstract: As the Greek crisis deepens and 'recovery' is constantly postponed to an unknown future, a dominant discourse seems to consolidate which focuses almost exclusively on macro-economic arguments and concerns. Other aspects of the crisis, among which are its gendered facets and unequal effects on women and men, rarely permeate the allegedly 'central' understandings. With the possible exception of unemployment which fares high among left-wing analysts, gender is thought to pertain to a 'special', that is, less important, matter which may detract from the 'main problem'. The paper draws together a series of stories of ordinary women who have experienced deep changes in their everyday lives as a result of austerity policies (unemployment, precarity, salary and pension cuts, shrinking social rights, mounting everyday violence). It argues that emphasis on this scale 'closest in', linked in multiple ways to many other scales (local, national, European, international), reveals areas of knowledge that would otherwise remain in the dark; and that connecting concrete bodies with global processes enriches our understandings with more complex and more flexible variables and informs the 'big pictures' (in this case about the Greek crisis)-and not only the reverse. Journal: City Pages: 533-537 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939474 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939474 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:533-537 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jaya Klara Brekke Author-X-Name-First: Jaya Klara Author-X-Name-Last: Brekke Title: Strange encounters Abstract: Debates about migration tend to force a representation of migrants into two categories: criminal or victim. Both of these categories feed each other and form the basis for discourses that substantiate the need for detention prisons and the incarceration of migrants. Map.crisis-scape.net is an online map of racist attacks with a focus on Athens, Greece. One aim of the map has been to attempt a different type of representation of the issues surrounding migration that does not place the migrant at the centre of attention, but instead focuses on the violent conditions that affect their lives. Journal: City Pages: 538-544 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939475 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939475 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:538-544 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stavros Stavrides Author-X-Name-First: Stavros Author-X-Name-Last: Stavrides Title: Emerging common spaces as a challenge to the city of crisis Abstract: This paper explores potential links between the project of emancipating autonomy and urban commoning by tracing the development of experiences connected to the creation of common spaces in crisis-ridden Athens. It is maintained that for commoning to remain an active force against social and urban enclosures, commoning has to remain 'infectious' and to expand by overspilling the boundaries of any defined community. Threshold spatiality shapes common spaces which support expanding commoning. Moreover, institutions of expanding commoning remain correspondingly open and osmotic by ensuring that collective actions become comparable, translatable to each other and controlled by mechanisms which obstruct any form of accumulation of power. City space, thus, is not only transformed and reclaimed through practices of expanding commoning but also actively contributes to the shaping of commoning institutions. Journal: City Pages: 546-550 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939476 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939476 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:546-550 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lila Leontidou Author-X-Name-First: Lila Author-X-Name-Last: Leontidou Title: The crisis and its discourses: Quasi-Orientalist attacks on Mediterranean urban spontaneity, informality and joie de vivre Abstract: Mediterranean cities have always followed a path of urban development that diverges significantly from Anglo-American models. Spontaneity and informality have been deeply embedded in the cities' roots since Gramsci's time, but they have been transformed recently, together with urban development dynamics. A major rupture is observed in Southern Europe at the turn of the 21st century and especially the 2010s, when the region has been beaten by the force of the major global financial restructuring labelled the crisis, centralization/privatization and accumulation by dispossession. In anti-austerity social movements, popular spontaneity emerges as the par excellence force undermining neo-liberal hegemony and bringing to the surface niches of creativity of the urban grassroots, with the help of ICT (information and communications technology) dissemination. Focusing on Athens and two instances of massive mobilization in 2011 and 2013, we explore whether spontaneity and informality stamping urban development will manage to seep through structural readjustments, and how they will shape the future character of this and other Mediterranean cities during, but most importantly after, the crisis. Among alternative futures we discuss the darker one of quasi-Orientalist discourses by the European Union power elites, which undermine popular creativity and joie de vivre of the Southern grassroots and create urban dystopias; and the most optimistic one, which will be shaped by the emancipation of the currently vulnerable social movements and the emergent cooperative and solidarity economy, in a future eutopia. Journal: City Pages: 551-562 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939477 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939477 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:551-562 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christy (Chryssanthi) Petropoulou Author-X-Name-First: Christy (Chryssanthi) Author-X-Name-Last: Petropoulou Title: Crisis, Right to the City movements and the question of spontaneity: Athens and Mexico City Abstract: Mexico and Greece comprise typical cases of the so-called semi-periphery where neoliberal policies have been applied but also where social movements tried to resist the implementation of the policies in question. In the past, many Right to the City movements start to emerge, focused particularly on the right to the habitat. Recently, the most important RttC movements concerned the claims to public space and common goods, while at the same time opposing privatisations and big projects. Some authors called these movements spontaneous. Yet the relationship of politico-economic changes with the spontaneous is considerably complicated and related to what, by whom and why would be included in the discursive category of the 'spontaneity'. This approach I will explore below. Nothing is entirely spontaneous in the world's so-called spontaneous neighbourhoods and in the so-called spontaneous uprisings. The people participating in acts characterised as 'spontaneous' without rules enforced by any superior authorities, simply refuse to define their bodies as machines. The question is if the so-called spontaneous resistances became, or may become, under certain conditions, dangerous cracks. The right to the city is not the right to the impersonal urban space but the right to the polis. In these new movements, the right to the polis is exercised in the everyday life by many different actors and through different ways of action. The motto is: Changing values within spaces of encounters and experimentation. Let us all be rebel poets in the present. Journal: City Pages: 563-572 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:563-572 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ross Domoney Author-X-Name-First: Ross Author-X-Name-Last: Domoney Author-Name: Giorgos Triantafyllou Author-X-Name-First: Giorgos Author-X-Name-Last: Triantafyllou Title: Ross Domoney and Giorgos Triantafyllou: an interview Journal: City Pages: 574-576 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939479 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939479 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:574-576 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Title: Ruinous city, ruinous time: Future Suspended and the science fiction of the present Journal: City Pages: 577-582 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.943925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.943925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:577-582 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: What is to be done? Redefining, re-asserting, reclaiming and re-shaping land, labour and the city Abstract: 'How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city?' This seems a precise question. But it is one that nevertheless needs analytical exploration in time and space as well as redefinitions both of the crisis and of land, labour and the city. The question is posed by the research group 'crisis-scape' in a brief statement about their film, 'Future Suspended: from the Olympic spectacle to the dawn of the authoritarian-financial spectacle'. That characterisation is a touching-off point for explorations (in space and time) and for examination of aspects of the film and associated research. They are set out here on the basis of a presentation at their Athens Conference, of their film-super-2, one 'classic' film, 'Ulysses' Gaze' by Theo Angelopoulos, and of related work in this journal, as contributions to the development of an appropriate praxis, through some preliminary answers to the question: What is to be done? Journal: City Pages: 583-588 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.949104 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.949104 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:583-588 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hooman Foroughmand Araabi Author-X-Name-First: Hooman Author-X-Name-Last: Foroughmand Araabi Title: Deleuze and research methodologies: The impact on planning Journal: City Pages: 589-593 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939508 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939508 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:589-593 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Harris Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: For creative appropriation: John Protevi's Life, War, Earth and urban studies Journal: City Pages: 594-597 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939509 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939509 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:594-597 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Oliveira Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Oliveira Title: Reframing the 'creative city' through tailored and context-sensitive policies Journal: City Pages: 598-602 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.939510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.939510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:4-5:p:598-602 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: 'We are not the dirt. We clean.' Abstract: 'First, the working classes and bohemians were priced out...That was gentrification.Now comes plutocratisation: the middle classes and small companies are falling victim to class cleansing. Global cities are becoming patrician ghettos...Global cities are turning into vast gated communities where the one per cent reproduces.' Seen as a series of accumulating stages, this characterisation-gentrification followed by plutocratisation followed by a third stage in which patrician ghettos are moving towards domination - is, to say the least, alarming. Concluding their careful analysis in this issue of London's changing class structure and residential mosaic, David Manley and Ron Johnston turn to the tripartite characterisation by Saskia Sassen of recent urban developments(s). The source in which they came across this formula was an article by the anthropologist and journalist Simon Kuper, in which concentrating on Paris he equates changes there with London, New York and Tokyo-super-2.This characterisation and its implications are considered here on the basis of the studies assembled. Does the tripartite model stand up in this light? Or could it be that the various situations and analyses assembled point to a condition that is much more alarming? Whatever the intensity of this condition, is or are there a way or ways out? What do different analytic approaches have to contribute to understanding the situations and their possibilities? Are there any signs of emergence?That the condition is much more than alarming, in fact terminal, is argued in Adrian Atkinson's paper in which he looks at urbanisation as 'a brief episode in history', as it speeds into decline and self-destruction. Moving on to one of our three special features, 'Cities in the Arabian Peninsula', and taking up a paper on environmental costs of coastal urbanisation in the Arabian Gulf, one can see the biological dimension of this possibly terminal condition.The signs of an emerging alternative to decline and eventual collapse are discerned and documented in Atkinson's article and in the introductions to and papers in the other two special features. In both 'Assembling Istanbul' and 'Labour Resistance across Global Spaces', new directions are identified in, for example, the paper that each includes on Romani struggles, one in Istanbul and the other in Italy. Returning to London, a further paper from the Labour Resistance feature, on 'Precarious Workers', there are in the struggles of the cleaners signs of an alternative to Sassen's charted course of mounting progression/regression for urbanisation. Journal: City Pages: 603-608 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.989750 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.989750 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:603-608 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Urbanisation: A brief episode in history Abstract: This paper paints an altogether broader canvas building upon earlier debates in City concerning the decline of cities over the coming decades and the changed states of mind and understanding of what life is about that can be expected to unfold under these circumstances. There is already considerable preliminary experience of this, analysed in the paper, that has resulted from 'economic shocks' over the past two decades and, on the positive side, the experience of the Transition Movement and of well over 1000 mature intentional communities scattered across the Occidental world. Taking the long view, the paper analyses the growth and fall of civilisations and their cities as centres of the accumulation of power. The discussion then moves on to discuss how modern civilisation came about, arriving in a state of 'Possessive Individualism' and through three centuries of social conflict culminating in our technology-dominated, consumerist world of megacities. The role played in this by the exploitation of fossil fuels is analysed and the way in which this could never have been sustained for long is made clear. The second half of the paper then presents scenarios of the coming decades, providing some detail of possible steps from our urbanised, globalised world to a return to considerably more localised economies organised as networks of villages and towns as was the case almost everywhere in the world until well into the 20th century. Agriculture and the use of local resources may be expected once again to characterise the way in which societies function. This will also mean a return to local communities as the centres of most lives and the paper discusses how this might unfold both logistically and in terms of the consciousness and outlook of the people. Models of Utopia are presented as a way to conceptualise how today's younger generation might come to terms with this changed world. Journal: City Pages: 609-632 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.971509 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.971509 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:609-632 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Manley Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Manley Author-Name: Ron Johnston Author-X-Name-First: Ron Author-X-Name-Last: Johnston Title: London: A dividing city, 2001-11? Abstract: There has been a recent debate regarding London's changing class structure and residential mosaic. Using census data for 2001 and 2011, this paper addresses key hypotheses in that debate regarding the expansion of the middle class and a consequent decline of the working class-both numerically and in the areas of the city where they dominate. The analyses falsify those hypotheses: London's working class did not decline over that decade, nor was there any marked shrinkage in the area where it dominated. Journal: City Pages: 633-643 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:633-643 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elizabeth Angell Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Angell Author-Name: Timur Hammond Author-X-Name-First: Timur Author-X-Name-Last: Hammond Author-Name: Danielle van Dobben Schoon Author-X-Name-First: Danielle van Dobben Author-X-Name-Last: Schoon Title: Assembling Istanbul: buildings and bodies in a world city: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 644-654 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962882 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962882 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:644-654 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Danielle van Dobben Schoon Author-X-Name-First: Danielle van Dobben Author-X-Name-Last: Schoon Title: 'Sulukule is the gun and we are its bullets': Urban renewal and Romani identity in Istanbul Abstract: This paper examines how the controversial demolition of Sulukule, a Romani (Gypsy) neighborhood in Istanbul, instigated connections between transnational Romani rights and 'right to the city' actor networks, creating new possibilities for the explicit participation of the neighborhood's dislocated residents in urban politics. These connections inextricably linked the neighborhood to the politics of Romani identity and urban renewal in Istanbul. I argue that Sulukule is not only 'made' in its place; the meaning of the neighborhood and its demolition expands and changes as it travels and encounters various (often competing) agendas. Analyzing the conflict that arose over a hip-hop film that takes place in Sulukule, I show how a particular formation of Romani identity emerges from the dynamics of various actors in the neighborhood. This identity-as urban, politically engaged and a source of resistance against oppressive global forces-travels along urban rights and Romani rights activist networks and gains far-reaching salience and durability. Highlighting the global connections that are made and broken around a demolished neighborhood in Istanbul demonstrates the potential impacts of a seemingly singular event on urban politics. Journal: City Pages: 655-666 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962885 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962885 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:655-666 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elizabeth Angell Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth Author-X-Name-Last: Angell Title: Assembling disaster: Earthquakes and urban politics in Istanbul Abstract: This paper explores the politics of earthquake disasters in Istanbul, Turkey, arguing that urban assemblage theory offers a useful framework for thinking about disaster as an urban phenomenon. It examines the effects of the 1999 Marmara earthquake disaster and the anticipation of future earthquakes on Istanbul's built environment and urban politics, tracing how the city's fragile buildings become a source of personal anxiety and political critique, how debates about responsibility and blame reveal divergent understandings of nature and society, and how earthquake risk is mobilized to both justify and challenge controversial urban transformation projects. The paper argues that disasters prompt explicit engagements with the sociomaterial assemblages that make up the city, and ethnographic attention to these entanglements can reveal how those assemblages become legible as matters of political concern. Journal: City Pages: 667-678 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:667-678 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timur Hammond Author-X-Name-First: Timur Author-X-Name-Last: Hammond Title: Matters of the mosque: Changing configurations of buildings and belief in an Istanbul district Abstract: Long acknowledged to be a center for religious pilgrimage, the importance of the Istanbul district of Eyüp is widely understood as being founded upon the figure of Halid bin Zeyd Ebâ Eyyûb el-Ensârî, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad. Others point to the district's extensive cultural, political and social significance to explain its particular importance. In contrast, this paper avoids such reductive perspectives and argues that assemblage provides one particularly suggestive conceptual framework within which to reconsider Eyüp's significance, glossed in this paper as the 'matters of the mosque'. Linking that discussion of assemblage to recent scholarship on Islam calling for a greater interrogation of the multiple (and sometimes ambivalent) modalities of religious practice, this paper draws on a series of fieldwork encounters to present one such grounded perspective. Paying particular attention to questions of agency, materiality and belief, this paper argues that assemblage provides an especially rich set of conceptual resources to continue developing new understandings of the practice of Islam; at the same time, this paper's careful attention to questions of belief addresses what has been heretofore underdeveloped in assemblage urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 679-690 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:679-690 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amy Mills Author-X-Name-First: Amy Author-X-Name-Last: Mills Title: Cultures of assemblage, resituating urban theory: A response to the papers on 'Assembling Istanbul' Abstract: The articles in this special issue extend research on urban space and politics in Istanbul with approaches that explorate the relationships between urban form, urban change, and political processes as assemblages of things, beliefs, institutions, and landscapes. They share a commitment to extended ethnography and thick description in urban studies, and contribute to research that destabilizes universalizing urban theory produced in Europe and America. The dramatic state-led project of neoliberal urban transformation in Istanbul has generated an important body of work that focuses on the consequences of creative destruction, urban displacement, and urban social and political exclusion. These papers contribute to that research with additional questions that incorporate understudied material and cultural elements of the urban political economy. What role do material elements (concrete, plexiglass, signs, maps) play in the practices that propel urban dynamics: that justify, for example, the rebuilding of some properties and the destruction of others? How do the subjective dimensions of human life (memory, belief, emotion, art, suspicion, and imagination) propel particular forms of urban development? Istanbulites' theories of why, where, and to whom destruction or fortune happens - and of what particular material things mean, or what they're meant to be used for - are crucial elements of the total urban situation. Istanbulites' theories cohere disparate elements into assemblages which, in turn, work to transform the city's material realities and social worlds. These papers invite us, as scholars, to resituate our urban theories and to bring urban residents' theories into assemblage with our own. Journal: City Pages: 691-697 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962884 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962884 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:691-697 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pascal Menoret Author-X-Name-First: Pascal Author-X-Name-Last: Menoret Title: Cities in the Arabian Peninsula: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 698-700 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962891 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962891 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:698-700 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel Benchetrit Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Benchetrit Author-Name: Roman Stadnicki Author-X-Name-First: Roman Author-X-Name-Last: Stadnicki Title: Visualizing the margins of Gulf cities Abstract: Geographer Roman Stadnicki and photographer Manuel Benchetrit have explored the outskirts of the Arabian Peninsula cities. This traveling dialogue produced a photo essay where visual reflexions and interrogations echo the geographer's concepts. Art and geography meet at the porous opposition point of minimal pairs of thinking such as invention/reinvention, historical heritage/imported models, construction working/idle inhabiting, shown/hidden, openness/containment, etc. Here geography crosses the boundaries of its discipline and photographic illustration evades its documenting function. Journal: City Pages: 701-707 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962888 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962888 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:701-707 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Bonnenfant Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Bonnenfant Title: Real estate and political power in 1970s Riyadh Abstract: The Saudi capital, Riyadh, underwent rapid urban growth in the decades that followed the discovery of oil in 1937. From a small town of 19,000 inhabitants in 1920, it was a city of more than 600,000 inhabitants in the late 1970s. This paper examines the mechanisms of this growth. It explores the housing decisions of everyday people, the investment strategies of the merchants and the bourgeoisie, and the city's planning policies. Its author-who worked on planning operations in 1970s Riyadh-shows that urban planning followed the dynamics of a real estate market fuelled by cheap state loans, public wages and rivalries between various branches of the royal family. In the 1970s, the Saudi elite invested oil money in real estate and literally turned oil into stone. As this paper suggests, they could have made other decisions: it is political choices, not oil determinism, that created the built environment of Riyadh. Journal: City Pages: 708-722 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.965890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.965890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:708-722 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Farah al-Nakib Author-X-Name-First: Farah Author-X-Name-Last: al-Nakib Title: Public space and public protest in Kuwait, 1938-2012 Abstract: Events across the globe in 2011, from the Occupy movements to the Arab uprisings, have made salient Henri Lefebvre's assertion that 'the city and the urban sphere are...the setting of struggle; they are also, however, the stakes of that struggle' (Lefebvre, H. 1991. The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell, 386). This paper analyzes the city as both the site and stake of political contestation between state and society in Kuwait, and the relationship between contentious politics and city formation after the advent of oil. Specifically, it traces the spatiality of public protest from the 1930s until today alongside the changing social composition of opposition forces. During each new period of contestation, both the government and opposition adopted new spatial tactics that left their mark on the urban landscape. The paper focuses on the role of particular public spaces like the historic Sahat al-Safat and the newer Sahat al-Irada, and semi-private spaces like diwāwīn and civil society organizations, in giving form to the discursive public sphere. Journal: City Pages: 723-734 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962886 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962886 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:723-734 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Claire Beaugrand Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Beaugrand Title: Urban margins in Kuwait and Bahrain: Decay, dispossession and politicization Abstract: Gulf cities are portrayed as being in a state of constant development. When areas lag behind in the process, their decay strikes immediately as a false note. This is the case in disaffected centers, populated by foreigners usually living on borrowed time, as well as in some peripheral areas, where nationals or long-term residents live. The later urban neglect, in terms of infrastructure upgrade, has remained less known and studied. This paper fills the gap by developing a comparative analysis between the bidun areas or popular housing in Kuwait and the so-called 'villages' in Bahrain (in their older cores). While the rapprochement of these two cases may seem odd at first sight, commonalities exist nevertheless based on the common perception of a stigma attached to the place, a feeling of marginalization and neglect, on the part of the inhabitants, that goes hand in hand with the conviction that the situation results from a deliberate government policy. Through the central notion of 'urban decay', the paper explores the type of relations people of these degraded areas have with their living environment. In the first case, the bidun see the residential areas where they live as a 'humiliation' and at the same time as evidence of their fathers serving the country, in support of their application file for naturalization. In the second case, after agricultural/fishing activities ceased with the employment offered in the oil sector, urbanization by encapsulation and land reclamation completed the deprivation of most villages' idiosyncrasies: the popular meaning of the term drifted and mostly refers to the destitute areas that form the core of Baharna identity and since the 1990s and all the more so since 2011, hotbeds of the rebellion. Journal: City Pages: 735-745 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962887 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962887 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:735-745 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yasser Elsheshtawy Author-X-Name-First: Yasser Author-X-Name-Last: Elsheshtawy Title: Searching for Nasser Square: An urban center in the heart of Dubai Abstract: Does Dubai have a space that encapsulates its transformation from a small fishing village to a major urban center? A center that is a microcosm for the city's urban growth and transformation? This paper details the search for this space, which began upon my arrival in the UAE in 1996. Only equipped with a brief note from an Egyptian compatriot that I need to seek Maidan Gamal Abd el Nasser, this quest led me to Nasser Square. Known officially as Baniyas Square, I will recount its origins and how it ultimately represents the story of Dubai's emergence. The depiction will be conducted through an analysis of historical records (archival photographs, travelogues and media reports), informal observations and interviews with square users as well as mapping its current state. My aim is to situate Dubai within the discourse of globalizing cities by highlighting the quotidian aspects of its urban settings. This would demonstrate the extent to which the city has been a response to, and interacts with, what Michael Peter-Smith describes as 'globalization from below', a form of transnational urbanism witnessing the interaction of multiple actors facilitated by the particular configuration of these spaces. Such a depiction would move the discourse concerning cities in the Gulf region from one that focuses on their rapid rise and spectacular architecture, to one that highlights their unique contribution to urbanization and urban theory. Journal: City Pages: 746-759 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962890 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962890 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:746-759 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John A. Burt Author-X-Name-First: John A. Author-X-Name-Last: Burt Title: The environmental costs of coastal urbanization in the Arabian Gulf Abstract: Coastal urbanization has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the Arabian Gulf and this has put increasing pressure on important but underappreciated coastal ecosystems throughout the region. Unlike the relatively barren terrestrial system, coastlines in the Gulf contain a mosaic of highly productive ecosystems, including sabkhas, mudflats, mangrove swamps, seagrasses and coral reefs, among others, that provide food and habitat for diverse ecological communities and support over half a billion dollars in fisheries activities annually. In recent years there has been accelerating loss and degradation of each of these systems as a result of cumulative impacts from coastal development, overfishing, industrial expansion and other population-driven stressors, and the Arabian Gulf is now considered among the most degraded marine eco-regions in the world. The future of this unique and valuable system is now at stake, and only with rapid and dramatic changes in coastal policy, regulation and management can we hope to stem the decline of coastal ecosystems in the Gulf. The highly centralized decision-making framework characteristic of governance in this region should be seen as an advantage in this regard. Improved awareness of the economic, societal and ecological value of the coastal ecosystem among leaders could result in rapid changes in policy direction and financial support for coastal management, resulting in more environmentally sustainable urban development on the Gulf's coasts. Journal: City Pages: 760-770 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962889 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962889 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:760-770 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Elliott-Cooper Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Elliott-Cooper Author-Name: Amber Murrey Author-X-Name-First: Amber Author-X-Name-Last: Murrey Author-Name: Ashok Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Ashok Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Author-Name: Musab Younis Author-X-Name-First: Musab Author-X-Name-Last: Younis Title: Labour and resistance across global spaces: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 771-775 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962892 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962892 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:771-775 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jamie Woodcock Author-X-Name-First: Jamie Author-X-Name-Last: Woodcock Title: Precarious workers in London: New forms of organisation and the city Abstract: This paper discusses precarious workers in London. The aim is to consider the particular challenges and possibilities for resistance in the context of London. It addresses the theoretical questions of precarity and its significance in post-Fordist capitalism. The innovations of the Operaismo-in terms of workers' inquiries, the concept of class composition and the strategy of refusal-provide the theoretical basis for the paper. The paper draws on two examples of recent struggles on university campuses, that of casual teaching staff and cleaners, which highlight different points. The first is that a method inspired by the tradition of the workers' inquiry can provide an important starting point for a campaign, combining knowledge production and a project of organisation. This is illustrated with the use of surveys as a starting point for a campaign at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. The second example draws on the experience of the cleaners' campaigns at the University of London. The history of the dispute is considered along with the use of the London living wage and alternative forms of trade unionism. This paper argues that the particular pressures for precarious workers in London need to be considered, but could also be posed as potential demands from workers, drawing on Henri Lefebvre's notion of 'the right to the city'. The conclusion of the argument is a call for further research that is attentive to the new forms of organisation that are emerging from workers' struggles and to how a consideration of urban demands could provide important opportunities for developing this further. Journal: City Pages: 776-788 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962896 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962896 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:776-788 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ashok Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Ashok Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Title: Interwoven threads: Building a labour countermovement in Bangalore's export-oriented garment industry Abstract: This paper approaches globalisation as a contradictory and dialectical phenomenon, one in which the tools of exploitation are being subverted into instruments of labour resistance. Through a study of the Garment and Textile Workers' Union (GATWU) the paper observes how feminised workplaces are bringing to the fore issues of gender oppression, flexible conditions are expanding union organisational capacity and the universality of capital has led to transnational links between workers. While the global neo-liberal regime weakens traditional paths to unionisation, it has concurrently facilitated alternative strategies of worker organisation and resistance. GATWU members both battle immediate economic issues while transforming worker organisation from an atomised factory workstation, to assembly line, to outside the factory gates, and finally into social movement and transnational spaces. The research takes note of how GATWU's organising strategy both compliments and conflicts with struggles of gender and class, the local and global. Journal: City Pages: 789-807 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962894 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962894 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:789-807 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gaja Maestri Author-X-Name-First: Gaja Author-X-Name-Last: Maestri Title: The economic crisis as opportunity: How austerity generates new strategies and solidarities for negotiating Roma access to housing in Rome Abstract: The paper investigates how the economic crisis and austerity politics affect the strategies of pro-Roma non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and movements that fight for Roma access to housing in Rome. In the last 20 years, the main social housing policy for the Roma adopted by the City of Rome consisted of the so-called 'equipped villages', that is, equipped areas with Portakabins and basic facilities. Designed as a temporary housing solution to accommodate the Roma population living in the slums of the Italian capital, these villages nonetheless persist, hosting an increasing number of Roma evicted from informal settlements. As a result, these villages are now harshly criticised for being highly segregating, for being overcrowded with worsening sanitary conditions and for not enabling integration. Furthermore, the recent economic recession and austerity politics are putting a strain on Roma integration policies. The increase of social tensions and unrest, the rise of populist parties and of anti-immigration (and anti-Roma) attitudes do not facilitate the inclusion of the Roma minority, in Italy as in other European countries. What effects are these dynamics having on the capacity of pro-Roma associations arguing against the segregation of the equipped villages and for the development of alternative social housing for the Roma? Although it may seem that the crisis has mainly negative effects on the possibility of insisting on Roma integration, the pro-Roma NGOs and movements considered in this paper show how post-crisis austerity can be mobilised as a new resource for action. The paper focuses on two strategies using the crisis as a frame and base for contesting the segregation of the Roma: the first is to highlight the costs of segregation and the second is to mobilise a new form of solidarity based on the housing crisis. Journal: City Pages: 808-823 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962895 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962895 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:808-823 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Karen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Does school prepare men for prison? Abstract: The potential link between educational 'failure' and offending is perennially debated. Research and popular discourses tend to focus on the 'disadvantaged' family backgrounds from which the children who fail come. This paper summarises a piece of research that takes a different view. It is grounded in the critical sociology of education that exposes the inherently unequal nature of education systems, the role of education in maintaining and legitimising persistent social inequalities, and the exercise of disciplinary power through the linked institutions of school and prison. It aims to utilise these theoretical frameworks to reignite an interest in the fundamental problems of schooling. It achieves this through the specific focus on the marginalised 'naughty kids' who often become the prison population of the future. The researcher worked as a teacher in adult male prisons in the UK, and data collected during 200+ brief induction interviews suggested that the experience of schooling was more significant to prisoners than the educational outcomes, or lack thereof. Observations of the apparent ease with which the majority of men coped with their lives in prison led to questions about the possibility of a direct correspondence between prisoners' schooling and their later lives in prison. This was investigated in more detail by conducting in-depth life history interviews with 11 former inmates for a Doctoral thesis. The findings of the research show that school, by its very nature, is not always a benevolent place. Those excluded from or marginalised in education (and later in society) can become the collateral damage of a system that is not merely concerned with the benign transfer of knowledge and social skills; what is often seen as educational failure is conceivably successful social control. Journal: City Pages: 824-836 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962893 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962893 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:824-836 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matteo Bolocan Goldstein Author-X-Name-First: Matteo Author-X-Name-Last: Bolocan Goldstein Title: The civil relevance of geography between power and knowledge Journal: City Pages: 837-841 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962876 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962876 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:837-841 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kate Hepworth Author-X-Name-First: Kate Author-X-Name-Last: Hepworth Title: Bordered subjects Journal: City Pages: 842-845 Issue: 6 Volume: 18 Year: 2014 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:18:y:2014:i:6:p:842-845 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: 'Go viral or die trying' Abstract: '[The] globalizing working class is now put into dialogue with what the science historian George Dyson has called the 'universe of self-replicating code,' in an intensifying global meritocracy. That's the playful, retail side of "Go Viral or Die Trying" -- but the harsh, wholesale warehouse side of it is a globalized precariat, downgraded by intensifying, accelerating neoliberalization and put into competition with robotics and the widespread elimination of jobs for human beings, struggling to find an audience, to 'go viral' and have a chance at...something.'-super-1Is the somewhat sombre figure gazing inwards-outwards from a keyboard in an advertisement placed somewhere along the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway, also to be placed, as authors and scholars are increasingly, within 'a globalized precariat,...struggling to find an audience, to 'go viral' and have a chance at...something'? Is that something a matter of (apparently?) gaining a place within the 'intensifying global meritocracy'? But what is that? Where is that? Is this the nexus between 'the city' and literacy at which we have arrived, the 'cognitive capitalism' in which literacy 'reconstituted through partially automated constellations of quantification and commodification' serves, and is served by, planetary urbanisation? Is this the somewhere where something is found? Is this our scene?These questions arise here through a reading of Elvin Wyly's 'Where is an author?', subsequent discussion with him of this particular image and slogan, 'Go viral or die trying', followed up through the context(s) presented in this issue, beyond these to the historic associations of the slogan, and, beyond that, to 'the human condition' at this point in urban and planetary history. Journal: City Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1008225 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1008225 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Where is an author? Abstract: If you're reading these words on a digital device, we are not alone: our encounter as author and reader is taking/making place in and through an uneven, evolutionary planetary digital infrastructure of cognitive production, measurement and monetization. Five and a half millennia after symbolic discourses of literacy and authorship co-evolved with the first urban revolution, the material, embodied phenomenological encounters of planetary urbanization have arrived at the precise moment of explosive contingency in the scalar nexus between cities and literacy. 'What is an author?', Foucault asked in a brilliant lecture in Paris in February 1969. Today, if we put Foucault's question into an intertextual dialogue with contemporary critical urban theory as well as earlier elements of Comte, Marx and Kant, we gain fresh insight into the ways reading and writing are being reconstituted through partially automated constellations of quantification and commodification of human consciousness. Foucault's genealogy of the 'author function' has become an increasingly contested and lucrative circuit of accumulation as Marx's concept of the 'general intellect' has materialized through the transnational urban networks of what is now widely described as 'cognitive capitalism'. The growth and evolutionary adaptation of socially networked cultures of reading, viewing, sharing and writing are now performing a new neo-Kantian time-space construction of sense perception in a planetary version of Harvey's 'urbanization of consciousness', putting individual authors into constitutive conversation with global knowledges once imagined by Comte as the 'Great Being' of collective intergenerational inheritance of post-theistic human knowledge. Journal: City Pages: 5-43 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962897 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962897 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:5-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Dobraszczyk Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Dobraszczyk Title: Traversing the fantasies of urban destruction: Ruin gazing in Varosha Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between the imagination of urban destruction and a personal experience of a particular urban ruin: the former resort town of Varosha in Cyprus, abandoned since 1974. I draw out the connections between my experience of Varosha's ruined spaces and three imaginative tropes that emerged out of and influenced that experience: first, the fantasy of urban annihilation (or urbicide), an enduring trope of apocalyptic cinema and actualized in modern aerial warfare; second, the fantasy of being the first/last witness in a post-apocalyptic ruined world; and, third, the fantasy of disanthropy, or the imagination of the world as post-human. The result is to open up a space of dialogue between the experience of being in urban ruins, the contested histories of those ruins and the imagination of urban destruction in order to address the wider questions of how large-scale ruins might be remembered and reconstituted in ways that promote inclusivity, hold together contradictions and maintain the hope of healing. Journal: City Pages: 44-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.962877 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.962877 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:44-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tahir Abbas Author-X-Name-First: Tahir Author-X-Name-Last: Abbas Author-Name: Ismail Hakki Yigit Author-X-Name-First: Ismail Hakki Author-X-Name-Last: Yigit Title: Scenes from Gezi Park: Localisation, nationalism and globalisation in Turkey Abstract: This paper analyses the 2013 Gezi Park movement in Turkey that began with localised resistance to government plans to raze a historical public park in central Istanbul. The movement swiftly escalated into a national outcry that manifested itself in wider criticism of AKP (Justice and Development Party) policy. How did various protestors in Gezi Park comprehend and respond to the concerns raised by the movement? How did a local event trigger such a degree of national political activism among a host of different community actors in Turkey, and among those who are ordinarily ideologically and culturally opposed? Based on the findings of a qualitative study carried out in Gezi Park at the peak of the protests during June 2013, it is argued that certain patterns of revealed political disenfranchisement emerged alongside the wants and needs of marginalised Turks caught between conservatism and secularism, between localisation and globalisation, and between nationalism and majoritarianism. The theoretical emphasis of the paper is grounded in the data analysis, the aim being to present the major themes emerging from the range of responses from protesters situated in the park, and to provide a holistic perspective on them and the Gezi Park movement as seen from their specific standpoints. This study highlights how historical ethno-political and ethno-cultural distinctions can unfold to generate new urban social and political opportunities that are both interactive and transformative. Such mobilisation has implications for the future democratic and civil society potential of Turkey. Journal: City Pages: 61-76 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.969070 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.969070 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:61-76 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Introduction: Hacking the redevelopment script Journal: City Pages: 77-78 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:77-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joseph Heathcott Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Author-X-Name-Last: Heathcott Title: The bold and the bland: Art, redevelopment and the creative commons in post-industrial New York Abstract: This paper considers the uneven though mutually reinforcing relationship between arts, redevelopment and global capital that has transformed New York over the past 40 years. The 5 Pointz Aerosol Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens, provides the basis for the study. Renowned as the legendary 'graffiti building', 5 Pointz was recently demolished to make way for twin luxury towers. The paper places the history of 5 Pointz in the broader context of the deindustrialization of New York and the appropriation of former manufacturing districts by artists, cultural institutions and creative networks. It then follows the impact of boom and bust cycles, shifting industrial policies, property speculation and gentrification in Long Island City. Of particular interest is the emergence of a 'redevelopment script'-a transnational suite of homogenizing planning and design practices backed by global finance. The fragmentary nature of creative communities left them open to appropriation into the redevelopment script as a form of cultural capital. The author argues that there are alternatives, and that the degree to which artists, designers and their neighbors face dislocation depends on the political will of a range of public and private actors. At stake are competing claims among artists, developers and citizens to the city's vaunted heritage of creative culture. Journal: City Pages: 79-101 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991171 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991171 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:79-101 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: On Marshall Berman (1940-2013): A radical New York intellectual: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 102-103 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991527 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991527 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:102-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Todd Gitlin Author-X-Name-First: Todd Author-X-Name-Last: Gitlin Title: Hurling the little streets against the great: Marshall Berman's perennial modernism Abstract: Marshall Berman's great work, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, is a compelling, indeed visionary, response to capitalism's assaults on humanism and to the failure of traditional left-wing models of revolution. Via literary and social analysis stretching over two centuries, he undermined capitalism's claim to have arrived at a just order-indeed, any order at all. Modernity, in his thinking, was harnessed to the history of capitalism, infused with disorder and bursting with both creative and destructive elements. Modernity was a perpetual crisis and modernism was both a diagnosis and a perpetual call to overcome it. In his evocation as the street as the centre of modern life, he aimed to reconcile two poles in his thinking: modernity as a collective product and individuality as a modern achievement. He struggled, not always successfully, to find in the culture of modern cities-in particular, New York-a reservoir of creative responses to the unending crisis. Journal: City Pages: 104-108 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991173 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991173 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:104-108 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniel Skinner Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Author-X-Name-Last: Skinner Title: Remembering Marshall Berman Abstract: Daniel Skinner studied with Marshall Berman, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, from 2002-2009. In this tribute Skinner explains why Professor Berman was not only an influential scholar of political theory and urban politics, but a committed pedagogue and model for young academics. Journal: City Pages: 109-111 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991175 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991175 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:109-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth Millington Author-X-Name-First: Gareth Author-X-Name-Last: Millington Title: Remaining faithful to the city: Marshall Berman's provocative optimism Abstract: Marshall Berman was an optimistic and provocative writer on cities and urban life. The article begins by examining examples of Marshall Berman's unique approach to understanding the potential of cities to help people discover themselves and each other, including his analysis of Alfred Eistenstaedt's photograph of the VJ Day kiss in Times Square (included in his final book On the Town). Berman's unique contribution to understanding urban culture, made across many books and articles, is shown to combine a humanist, or 'warm stream' reading of Marx, with Nietzsche's enthusiasm for affirmation. The article argues how Berman's work stresses remaining faithful to the city despite the challenges, hardship and complexities of urban life. For Berman, it is only the city that can help resolve the modern quest for authenticity and radical individualism. Finally, the article considers two critical issues that arise from Marshall Berman's work: first, the problems of social and moral order that might arise from unbounded development of the self; and second, whether it is possible to construct a radical politics of affirmation-as Berman tries to do-and if so, why we might need it now more than ever. Journal: City Pages: 112-120 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991174 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991174 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:112-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Harris Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: Adventures in the art of dissent and London's Olympic State Journal: City Pages: 121-125 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991170 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991170 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:121-125 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Francesca Governa Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Governa Title: Towards the horizon of democracy: Nurturing our desires, giving space to possible path Journal: City Pages: 126-130 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.991169 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.991169 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:126-130 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: City's holistic and cumulative project (1996-2016): (1) Then and now: 'It all comes together in Los Angeles?' Journal: City Pages: 131-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2014.1001605 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2014.1001605 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:1:p:131-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: 'You're surrounded...' Abstract: 'Urban residents are surrounded by discrepant infrastructural capacities...Being surrounded from all sides, and with such thick textures of surveillance and calculation, promises both the possibility of being really 'pinned down' and disappearing altogether.' (AbdouMaliq Simone)-super-1We are surrounded, negatively, by infrastructural capacities or, positively, extended by them? Or perhaps both, surrounded and extended? If so, in what proportions? And is it/was it ultimately a choice, or series of choices, ones that can still be made, or not?And what are these externalities, contexts? Are they media/technologies or perhaps the one-time project of 'the city' now taking on the (increasingly alien?) form of urbanisation?Or, beyond that, is there the now marginalised realm of the country/nature? And, 'space'? Are those realms, best characterised perhaps as 'nature', outside or inside us?If inside/outside, are we, somewhat paradoxically, surrounded by ourselves? Or by aspects of ourselves, whose inner/outer separation and possible distortion we need to recognise and address if we are to avoid 'the promises [of] both the possibility of being really 'pinned down' and disappearing altogether'? Or...* * * *Such questions and some answers are suggested by our special feature in this issue on infrastructures, from which AbdouMaliq Simone's words are taken, by papers from three other substantial projects, one on urbanisation by Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid, with a reply from Richard Walker, a second on Africa by David Simon, and a third on technologised and politicised realms by Stephen Graham, now looking into 'urban air'.Introducing one of a series of particular temporal dimensions as explored in this journal, Melissa Wilson draws in part on a reading-super-2 of a particular period, looking into the early pages of City, an early stage of its project, as elites and 'multitudes', edged towards 2000, towards and away from 'millennium.'Further investigations are undertaken in papers on the nature of smart cities as contexts, on a possible basis for social transformation in Poland, and on London's class structure and struggles. Only the third, Mark Davidson and Elvin Wyly's paper following, as does Chris Hamnett, our occasional series on London's class structure, is touched on here.We conclude with a return to Simone's thoughts on infrastructure's more than marginal role in social organisation and to a summing up and a polemical conclusion. Journal: City Pages: 145-150 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1030979 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1030979 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:145-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Brenner Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Brenner Author-Name: Christian Schmid Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Schmid Title: Towards a new epistemology of the urban? Abstract: New forms of urbanization are unfolding around the world that challenge inherited conceptions of the urban as a fixed, bounded and universally generalizable settlement type. Meanwhile, debates on the urban question continue to proliferate and intensify within the social sciences, the planning and design disciplines, and in everyday political struggles. Against this background, this paper revisits the question of the epistemology of the urban: through what categories, methods and cartographies should urban life be understood? After surveying some of the major contemporary mainstream and critical responses to this question, we argue for a radical rethinking of inherited epistemological assumptions regarding the urban and urbanization. Building upon reflexive approaches to critical social theory and our own ongoing research on planetary urbanization, we present a new epistemology of the urban in a series of seven theses. This epistemological framework is intended to clarify the intellectual and political stakes of contemporary debates on the urban question and to offer an analytical basis for deciphering the rapidly changing geographies of urbanization and urban struggle under early 21st-century capitalism. Our arguments are intended to ignite and advance further debate on the epistemological foundations for critical urban theory and practice today. Journal: City Pages: 151-182 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1014712 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1014712 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:151-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Walker Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Walker Title: Building a better theory of the urban: A response to 'Towards a new epistemology of the urban?' Journal: City Pages: 183-191 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1024073 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1024073 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:183-191 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Life support: The political ecology of urban air Abstract: Humans, increasingly, manufacture their own air. In and around the three-dimensional aerial environments within and above urban regions, this manufacture of air reaches particular levels of intensity. For a species that expires without air in two or three minutes, this anthropogenic manufacture of air is of incalculable importance. Curiously, however, urban air remains remarkably neglected within the political-ecological literatures. Accordingly, this paper suggests a range of key themes, which a political ecology of urban air needs to address. These touch upon the links between global warming, urban heat-island effects and killer urban heatwaves; urban pollution crises; the paradoxes of urban pollution; horizontal movements of polluted air; the vertical politics of urban air; the construction of vertical condominium structures for elites; the vicious circles that characterise air-conditioned urbanism; heat-related deaths of workers building air-conditioned structures in increasingly hot climates; the growth of large-scale air-conditioned environments; and, finally, the manipulation of urban air through political violence. Journal: City Pages: 192-215 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1014710 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1014710 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:192-215 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Simon Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Simon Title: Uncertain times, contested resources: Discursive practices and lived realities in African urban environments Abstract: Amid the diversity of African urbanism, most cities retain strong vestiges of inherited urban planning systems largely inappropriate to prevailing local conditions. Even where largely ignored in practice, they can be suddenly redeployed in the interests of elite projects-either specific construction sites and inappropriate new 'international' or 'world class' enclaves, or broader repressive political agendas. Such episodes, but also less dramatic daily practices, highlight the gulfs between elite perceptions and priorities and the needs of often impoverished 'ordinary' citizens whose grip on urban environmental resources and services is frequently precarious, but essential. The implications of environmental/climate changes, which are becoming increasingly real in many urban areas, are also examined in this light. Drawing on both political economy and post-structural/postcolonial approaches in search of hybridised theoretical progress, the paper explores how elite preoccupations and interests confront the diverse and often culturally rich lived realities of the urban majorities and their respective contingent senses of identity and belonging. The former remain framed by discourses of modernity expressed in terms of segregated land uses, aesthetics and 'order', whereas the latter generally relate to more mundane instrumentalities of shelter, basic services and survival/livelihood strategies in complex social realities, sometimes giving rise to syncretic or novel alternative cultures. Journal: City Pages: 216-238 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1018060 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1018060 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:216-238 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Hamnett Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Hamnett Title: The changing occupational class composition of London Abstract: This paper is a response to the paper by Manley and Johnston (2014, "London: A Dividing City, 2001-11?" City 18 (6): 633-643) which analyzed occupational class change in London 2001-14. While it queries some of their classifications, the census data show that middle class growth seems to have stalled in proportionate though not in absolute terms from 2001-11. However, this does not fundamentally challenge Hamnett and Butler's thesis that the middle classes, upper and lower, have grown substantially in London over the last 50 years as a result of changes in industrial and occupational structure. The paper discusses some of the possible reasons for changes in the last decade and reiterates the importance of using census data as a tool for the analysis of urban social change. Journal: City Pages: 239-246 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1014711 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1014711 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:239-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Title: Same, but different: Within London's 'static' class structure and the missing antagonism Abstract: In this paper, we discuss (Manley, D., and R. Johnston. 2014. 'London: A Dividing City, 2001-11?' City 18 (6): 633-643) intervention into recent debates on London's contemporary class structure. We find that Manley and Johnston show evidence to support many of the claims we have previously made, providing further support against the argument that London has become increasingly a middle-class (Butler, T., C. Hamnett, and M. Ramsden. 2008. 'Inward and Upward? Marking Out Social Class Change in London 1981-2001.' Urban Studies 45 (2): 67-88) and/or professionalized (Hamnett, C. 2004. 'Economic and Social Change and Inequality in Global Cities: The Case of London.' The Greek Review of Social Research 113: 63-80) city. Yet Manley and Johnston's accounting of class change in London also requires critical consideration. We argue their description of London as static in terms of class change has to be read extremely carefully, since such descriptions can obscure the vast population shifts that have occurred in London over recent decades. We also question the extent to which a concern with class antagonism is absent from their intervention. In conclusion, we reflect on what recent talk of London's social class composition means for working-class politics. Journal: City Pages: 247-257 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1014709 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1014709 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:247-257 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alan Wiig Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Wiig Title: IBM's smart city as techno-utopian policy mobility Abstract: This paper explores IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge as an example of global smart city policymaking. The evolution of IBM's smart city thinking is discussed, then a case study of Philadelphia's online workforce education initiative, Digital On-Ramps, is presented as an example of IBM's consulting services. Philadelphia's rationale for working with IBM and the translation of IBM's ideas into locally adapted initiatives is considered. The paper argues that critical scholarship on the smart city over-emphasizes IBM's agency in driving the discourse. Unpacking how and why cities enrolled in smart city policymaking with IBM places city governments as key actors advancing the smart city paradigm. Two points are made about the policy mobility of the smart city as a mask for entrepreneurial governance. (1) Smart city efforts are best understood as examples of outward-looking policy promotion for the globalized economy. (2) These policies proposed citywide benefit through a variety of digital governance augmentations, unlike established urban, economic development projects such as a downtown redevelopment. Yet, the policy rhetoric of positive change was always oriented to fostering globalized business enterprise. As such, implementing the particulars of often-untested smart city policies mattered less than their capacity to attract multinational corporations. Journal: City Pages: 258-273 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1016275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1016275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:258-273 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dominika V. Polanska Author-X-Name-First: Dominika V. Author-X-Name-Last: Polanska Author-Name: Grzegorz Piotrowski Author-X-Name-First: Grzegorz Author-X-Name-Last: Piotrowski Title: The transformative power of cooperation between social movements: Squatting and tenants' movements in Poland Abstract: Squatting, or the use of property without the owners' permission, and tenants' activism are under-researched areas, in particular, in the post-socialist context. Poland is pointed out as extraordinary on the map of squatting in post-socialist Europe and a considerable number of tenants' organizations are active in the country. What is most interesting is that squatters and tenants' activists are forming alliances, despite obvious differences in their organizational models, social composition, along with the specific motives and goals of their activism. The objective of this paper is to examine the relations between the tenants' and squatting movements in Poland by studying two cities where both movements are established and cooperating closely. In particular, we are interested in the transformative power of such cooperation, assuming that cooperation between social movements results in negotiations and transformations of the involved social movement actors. The empirical foundations for this paper are 50 interviews, of which 30 were conducted in Warsaw with squatters and tenants' movement activists and the remaining 20 with activists in Poznań. Warsaw and Poznań are, moreover, two Polish cities where the squatting movement is most vibrant and where squatters and tenants have achieved some considerable successes in their activities. The paper argues against previous studies emphasizing access to abundant resources and identity alignment as crucial for the mobilization of collective and collaborative action. Instead, it argues that the lack of resources might equally be driving social movements towards cooperation, as a kind of compensation. Further, our cases demonstrate that ideology and identity alignment in social movements create stagnation in regard to openness towards new allies. We therefore argue that a high degree of identity alignment and ideological consistency might discourage the formation of new alliances. Journal: City Pages: 274-296 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1015267 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1015267 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:274-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: There is a politics of urban knowledge because urban knowledge is political: A rejoinder to 'Debating urban studies in 23 steps' Journal: City Pages: 297-302 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1024056 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1024056 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:297-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Schafran Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Schafran Title: The future of the urban academy Journal: City Pages: 303-305 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1024072 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1024072 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:303-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hillary Angelo Author-X-Name-First: Hillary Author-X-Name-Last: Angelo Author-Name: Christine Hentschel Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Hentschel Title: Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 306-312 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1015275 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1015275 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:306-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stefan Höhne Author-X-Name-First: Stefan Author-X-Name-Last: Höhne Title: The birth of the urban passenger: Infrastructural subjectivity and the opening of the New York City subway Abstract: This paper argues that modern urban infrastructures are not only constitutive for shaping and maintaining the socioeconomic structure of the city, but also aim to structure and homogenize the practices and perceptions of their users. Whenever new infrastructures are installed in the social realm, they bring about new forms of governance, interaction, experience and habits, sometimes even resulting in new and powerful modes of collective and individual subjectivity. To illustrate this, I will discuss the central processes that were constitutive to the emergence of the subway passenger in New York City by reconstructing the events at the opening day of the subway on 27 October 1904. As these events show, one central strategy was the discursive linking of this new machine to the promises of progress and a better life. Furthermore, the success of the subway required that passengers address their fears and safety concerns and to control their practices while using the system. However, these strategies of controlling and rationalizing individuals' behavior in these new environments were again and again undermined by people's strong emotions and deviant practices in reaction to the new experience of speed and the oddity of underground travel. It is not without irony that, while the subway passenger was anticipated as a kind of heroic figure heralding a new age of circulation, this fantasy would already prove illusionary on the subway's opening night. Journal: City Pages: 313-321 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1015276 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1015276 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:313-321 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joseph Ben Prestel Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Prestel Title: Hierarchies of happiness: Railway infrastructure and suburban subject formation in Berlin and Cairo around 1900 Abstract: This paper analyzes the development of suburbs in Berlin and Cairo at the turn of the 20th century from a comparative perspective. Focusing on the interrelation of a critique of the city, suburban railways and the promotion of specific subjectivities, I argue that railway infrastructure offered new ways of social distinction for the middle classes in Berlin and Cairo. Trains and train stations were not only a means of transportation that linked the cities to their suburbs. They also became incorporated into practices that contemporaries described as producing suburban subjects. Contemporary publications presented train rides as providing room for reading, rationalizing technology or enjoying the historic landscape. These activities were seen as central contributions to the production of happy and healthy middle-class suburbanites, who differed from the lower classes of the city. I argue that this development ultimately sheds light on a shared history of subject formation in Berlin and Cairo. While acknowledging differences in power structures, the paper thus calls for a bridging of historical research on European and non-European cities. Journal: City Pages: 322-331 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1015277 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1015277 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:322-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eric Trovalla Author-X-Name-First: Eric Author-X-Name-Last: Trovalla Author-Name: Ulrika Trovalla Author-X-Name-First: Ulrika Author-X-Name-Last: Trovalla Title: Infrastructure as a divination tool: Whispers from the grids in a Nigerian city Abstract: In the Nigerian city of Jos, everyday life is shaped by interlacing rhythms of disconnection and reconnection. Petrol, electricity, water, etc., come and go, and in order to gain access inhabitants constantly try to discern the logics behind these fluctuations. However, the unpredictable infrastructure also becomes a system of signs through which residents try to understand issues beyond those immediately at hand. Signals, pipes, wires and roads link individuals to larger wholes, and the character of these connections informs and transforms experiences of the social world. Not only an object, but also a means of divination, infrastructure is a harbinger of truths about elusive and mutable social entities-neighbourhoods, cities, nations and beyond. Through the materiality of infrastructure, its flows and glitches carefully read by the inhabitants, an increasingly disjointed city emerges. Through new experiences of differentiated modes of connectedness-of no longer sharing the same roads, pipes, electricity lines, etc.-narratives are formed around lost common trajectories. By focusing on how wires, pipes and roads are turned into a divination system-how the inhabitants of Jos try to divine the city's infrastructure and possible ways forward, as well as how they try, through the infrastructure, to predict a city, a nation and a world beyond-this paper strives to find ways to grasp a thickness of urban becomings-a cityness on the move according to its own unique logic. Journal: City Pages: 332-343 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1018061 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1018061 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:332-343 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liviu Chelcea Author-X-Name-First: Liviu Author-X-Name-Last: Chelcea Author-Name: Gergő Pulay Author-X-Name-First: Gergő Author-X-Name-Last: Pulay Title: Networked infrastructures and the 'local': Flows and connectivity in a postsocialist city Abstract: Through an analysis of ethnographic data gathered from two communities using Bucharest's urban infrastructures, we argue that studies that privilege the large-scale analyses may be enriched by paying closer attention to small-scale, non-structural factors that create local citizenship claims and local forms of belonging to the city. The template of neoliberal transformations of urban networks acquires unexpected forms at the infra-city scale, which may be fruitfully approached ethnographically. We begin with a historical overview of networked infrastructures during socialism and postsocialism in Bucharest. We then describe and contrast two of the many forms of belonging and exclusion from the city-grounded in infrastructural connections and disconnections-that we call 'maintenance and repair citizenship' and 'incomplete citizenship'. Journal: City Pages: 344-355 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1019231 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1019231 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:344-355 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Boris Vormann Author-X-Name-First: Boris Author-X-Name-Last: Vormann Title: Toward an infrastructural critique of urban change: Obsolescence and changing perceptions of New York City's waterfront Abstract: This paper examines the interlinkages between changing infrastructural regimes on a macro-level and changing cultural imaginaries, stagings and experiences of cities. New York City's waterfront serves as a case study to examine how the transition from the Fordist era to a so-called post-industrial era has fundamentally been a large-scale infrastructural realignment to facilitate global production networks which has brought with it new understandings and experiences of the city. This analysis puts a particular emphasis on the unevenness of these transformations and argues that the functional specialization of spaces has reinforced and rendered invisible social inequalities in multiple ways: through the displacement of work, the attribution of value through discourses of sustainability, and the relocation of environmental and social costs. In lieu of a conclusion, this paper makes the case for an infrastructural critique of urbanization processes. Journal: City Pages: 356-364 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1018062 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1018062 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:356-364 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anant Maringanti Author-X-Name-First: Anant Author-X-Name-Last: Maringanti Author-Name: Indivar Jonnalagadda Author-X-Name-First: Indivar Author-X-Name-Last: Jonnalagadda Title: Rent gap, fluid infrastructure and population excess in a gentrifying neighbourhood Abstract: Through a careful documentation of an ongoing struggle for sanitation infrastructure in a neighbourhood facing intense gentrifying pressure-namely, Mohammed Nagar slum in Hyderabad-this paper shows how incomplete and fluid infrastructures can become sites through which an excess population can be purged outright in order to rebuild neighbourhood character. Mohammed Nagar slum is located in the Bholakpur ward of Hyderabad. Bholakpur has been a major site for informal waste segregation, recycling and processing in the city and region for the past three decades at least. As different constituents of the fragmented community consolidate their claims through opportunities thrown up by crumbling infrastructures, some resist metabolic processes that attempt to reproduce direly needed infrastructures. Others, facing acute deprivation, have to choose between staying put and moving out. Gentrification processes arising from new rent gaps emerging in cities due to high-end infrastructures, such as metro rail and shopping complexes, can be brutal and can trigger mechanisms by which bodies are revalued as legitimate claimants or otherwise. Populations that were once all associated with waste reinvent themselves, including some who can make it, and purging others who decidedly cannot make it into the new neighbourhood. Journal: City Pages: 365-374 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1016341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1016341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:365-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq Author-X-Name-Last: Simone Title: Afterword: Come on out, you're surrounded: The betweens of infrastructure Journal: City Pages: 375-383 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1018070 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1018070 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:375-383 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: Afterword: Economies of infrastructure Journal: City Pages: 384-391 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1019232 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1019232 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:384-391 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katherine Saunders-Hastings Author-X-Name-First: Katherine Author-X-Name-Last: Saunders-Hastings Title: Today and tomorrow gangs: Youth and violence at the margins of the global city Journal: City Pages: 392-395 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1015269 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1015269 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:392-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tara Saharan Author-X-Name-First: Tara Author-X-Name-Last: Saharan Title: Accessing public spaces Journal: City Pages: 396-399 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1015268 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1015268 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:396-399 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: 'We are here' Abstract: 'We, the sons and daughters of this land, are opening our doors, walking out into the streets and taking up positions in town plazas to say: We are here.'-super-1 A journey and an assertion made one morning in Jerusalem after the summer of 2014: 'We are here'. Or it could be a journey and a position taken on summer days in squares, streets, cafes outside banks in Athens and beyond in Greece in the summer of 2015, expressed in the assertion: 'We say No'.Universalising the steps taken above, 'we' can be, not just those who come from 'this land' but also 'those who came...from arbitrary and despotic lands'-super-2 or those decimated by 'development' across the planet. Such people are 'taking up positions in town plazas' and elsewhere. Who/what did or do they encounter? What support, obstacles, fulfilment, confusions that lead to what? To further 'arbitrary and despotic' responses and conditions, leading to liberatory movements, terminated through oppression and/or premature death, and/or transcendence, also possibly involving acute suffering, through radical change?Re-assembling the papers and reviews in this issue of City, in the light of recent events in Athens, Greece, Europe in the summer of 2015, in order to reflect on such journeys, testing and extending Academe-super-3 through explorations with multidisciplinary studies sometimes tending towards transdisciplinary ones that take in the spaces of the Agora and beyond, we construct a four-stage exploration.The first is from Jerusalem to the planet, 'reinterpreting our contemporary challenges for socio-spatial development'.The second takes in two British cities and six cities classified as European and 'in crisis' (the latter grouping concluded with a comparison with Singapore). We move in the case of the British cities from notions of modelling urban futures in Liverpool to the unrealised semi-fiction of an abandoned comprehensive transport plan in London. In the case of the European 'crisis' cities the move is towards understanding affective encounter (s).Third, taking up notions of gentrification and fascism, reconsidering London, drawing on City's 'holistic and cumulative project'-super-4- itself a journey that has extended, in a reverse process from the Agora of its founding years in the late 1990s to its occasionally uneasy encampment on the borders of Academe from 2000 whilst seeking to retain and develop the disturbing urgency and vitality of the Agora.Fourth, we return both to the planet and to some questions raised by the assertions 'We are here', made one morning in Jerusalem, and particularly by 'We say No' made one day in Athens: who are we, where are we, how should we act, what knowledge do we need, how can we ensure that we are here to stay? Journal: City Pages: 401-407 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1074456 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1074456 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:401-407 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: From the 'right to the city' to the right to the planet Abstract: The debate on emancipatory socio-spatial change can be by no means only a matter of 'right to the city' - not even within the framework of the Lefebvrian concept of 'the urban' (l'urbain), whose scope is wider than is usual. I believe this implies meeting the challenges of reflecting deeper and with more sophistication on how to practically overcome the following aspects of reality: 1) the state apparatus and statism (be it properly capitalist or 'socialist') as well as the institution called 'political party' and all hierarchical, bureaucratic and vertical modes of collective organisation; 2) the technological matrix and the spatiality inherited from capitalism; 3) the capitalist ideology of 'economic development' (somewhat shared, albeit in a distinct and recontextualised way, by typical Marxism with its economism and productivism), full of economistic, Eurocentric, teleological and rationalist presuppositions. At the end of the day, what is at stake is the right to the planet, which requires rethinking a number of issues regarding spatial organisation (pointing out the necessary, radical economic-spatial deconcentration and territorial decentralisation, but without degenerating into parochial localism and self-insulating economic processes), the social division of labour, exploitation and alienation (in the context of which the trends of deterioration and regression such as labour precarisation and 'hyperprecarisation' should be highlighted), ethnocentrism (in this regard its renewed facets relating to xenophobia, nationalism and racism must be vehemently denounced), the various types of oppression (class, gender, etc.) and heteronomy in general - all this ultimately examined and judged on the basis of autonomy in the strong sense as the crucial parameter of analysis and evaluation. Journal: City Pages: 408-443 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:408-443 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Harle Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Harle Title: Fictions from the underground Abstract: This paper discusses an unrealized urban plan from the 1960s that proposed to build a network of tunnel motorways and monorails underneath central London. By reframing this plan as a work of fiction, I want to underscore how literary geography perpetuates a limited tradition that merely focuses on fiction produced in or about the city, and not literature produced by or for the city. In the process of re-reading and, to an extent, reclaiming these plans from the National Archives, I argue that these abandoned visions provide an interesting text for literary geographers to access a genre of literature that bisects the built environment and fiction. The scope for this tactic is potentially vast, but a renewed look at unbuilt, unrealized or abandoned architectural texts and similar unconventional forms, would allow for literary scholars to perform a greater, more active role than before: from connecting their analysis directly to the built environment and the contemporary moment in urban space, to discovering new unbuilt works that disrupt established cultural narratives. Journal: City Pages: 444-462 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051724 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051724 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:444-462 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Jones Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Title: Modelling urban futures Abstract: Architectural models are representational forms that can be used in such a way as to make visions of capitalist futures more meaningful. This paper explores the additional resonance afforded by the deployment of digital architectural models to the Liverpool Waters project, a planned £5.5 billion development of that city's waterfront. Analysing the models of Liverpool Waters as interpretive representations whose practical use generates context and rationale for the project, the argument is that models allow for: (i) visual connections to be forged between Liverpool and waterfront 'global cities' elsewhere; (ii) a foregrounding of the dramatic scale and character of the transformation proposed by the project (including via a problematisation of the site's present uses); and (iii) a basis for other sets of claims concerning Liverpool Waters to cohere, as illustrated by the public consultation exercises in which models became presentational devices allowing for the visualisation of social claims concerning the development. Accordingly, architectural models here become consequential in effect, with the display and presentation of models allowing for the coordination and integration of other, otherwise disparate, claims and data. Precisely due to the other types of mobilisations that such modelling makes possible, critical research must engage with the interpretative frames that architectural models seek to establish and exploit. Journal: City Pages: 463-479 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051729 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051729 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:463-479 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ulrike M. Vieten Author-X-Name-First: Ulrike M. Author-X-Name-Last: Vieten Author-Name: Gill Valentine Author-X-Name-First: Gill Author-X-Name-Last: Valentine Title: European urban spaces in crisis Journal: City Pages: 480-485 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051731 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051731 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:480-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Dirksmeier Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Dirksmeier Author-Name: Ilse Helbrecht Author-X-Name-First: Ilse Author-X-Name-Last: Helbrecht Title: Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices Abstract: Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main point is that affects have a great impact on situational struggles for interactional dominance as expressions of power. On the empirical basis of video-recorded chance interactions in Berlin and focus groups we analyse the influence affects display in mutual negotiations of power as situational stratifications between interlocutors. As our main result we conclude that spaces of mundane transgression emerge out of the impact of affects, which can be observed in moments of situational stratification on account of the influence that affects can have on passers-by. Journal: City Pages: 486-498 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051734 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051734 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:486-498 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adriano Cancellieri Author-X-Name-First: Adriano Author-X-Name-Last: Cancellieri Author-Name: Elena Ostanel Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Ostanel Title: The struggle for public space Abstract: The presence of immigration in the European urban landscape contributes to the re-questioning of taken-for-granted use and meanings of the urban texture. In Italian cities, we witness a contemporary struggle between different groups and individuals for the physical and symbolical production and appropriation of public space. This paper is based on qualitative research in the city of Padua (north-eastern Italy, Veneto region) on the territory around the railway station where migrants try to seek out symbolic and material resources while using specific spaces. However, in the process of manipulating urban spaces, migrants are accused of surpassing the 'upper threshold of correct visibility'. In other words, the level of visibility of their different bodies as well as the nonconventional uses of urban space challenge a 'spatial order' which is essentially taken for granted as the 'right way'. The paper highlights how local policies and the local mass media create an atmosphere of continuous 'moral panic' through the circulation of a stereotypical image of migrants. The paper concludes by calling for a radical shift in the policymaking process that has to be strongly informed by the physical, symbolical and emotional production of urban space. Difference today typifies the urban dimension of Italian cities and the development of contextual and coherent strategies to manage diverse urban societies is now of utmost importance. Journal: City Pages: 499-509 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051740 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051740 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:499-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Penny (Panagiota) Koutrolikou Author-X-Name-First: Penny (Panagiota) Author-X-Name-Last: Koutrolikou Title: Socio-spatial stigmatization and its 'incorporation' in the centre of Athens, Greece Abstract: Considering stigmatization as a process ingrained into power relations, difference and contexts, this paper focuses on how socio-spatial stigmatization is deployed by specific social actors within a broader context of multiple stigmatization of social groups in the city of Athens, Greece. As such, it discusses imposed stigmatization, whereby stigma is attributed to a group and/or a place by external (to the group) actors and further explores what can be termed as 'incorporated' stigmatization whereby socio-spatial stigma becomes the central feature around which a group is formed and/or mobilized. Furthermore, in both cases, it explores the consequences of stigmatization, while raising further questions about (de)legitimization. Journal: City Pages: 510-521 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051741 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051741 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:510-521 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kirsten Simonsen Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten Author-X-Name-Last: Simonsen Author-Name: Lasse Koefoed Author-X-Name-First: Lasse Author-X-Name-Last: Koefoed Title: Ambiguity in urban belonging Abstract: Being a 'stranger' has become increasingly difficult on the European continent during the latest decades. Populist racism and anti-immigration attitudes have made life difficult, and Denmark has taken the position as one of the iconic cases of this development. But how is that reflected in the cities? Does the character of the city as 'a world of strangers' open up special possibilities of coexistence? These are the questions addressed in this paper using material from an interpretative analysis conducted among Copenhagen citizens of Pakistani origin. The analysis aims to construe an affective mapping of life as an ethnic minority in the city. It revolves around three issues. First, it focuses on the narrators' experiences of exclusions and blockages in everyday life. This is followed by a focus on urban belonging emphasizing its differential character. Finally, the ambiguity of experiences is discussed, including the paradox that the experiences of estrangement apparently have only marginal influence on the possibility of belonging. The narrators simultaneously express strong emotions around exclusions and construe different creative ways of belonging to the city. Journal: City Pages: 522-533 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:522-533 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irem Inceoglu Author-X-Name-First: Irem Author-X-Name-Last: Inceoglu Title: Encountering difference and radical democratic trajectory Abstract: Summer 2013 was a historic period in regards to political activism in Turkey. Commonly referred to as 'the Gezi Resistance', the grass-roots mobilisation caught the rather self-assured AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi) government off guard as hundreds of thousands rushed to the streets, squares and parks to reclaim those spaces publicly. The resistance started with the attempt by a handful of environmentalists to protect a few trees being cut down in central Istanbul. Then it quickly moved beyond just about protecting a few trees and became a collective reaction to the recent and ongoing urban modelling projects that would turn commons into gated spaces for consumption. Significantly, the Gezi Resistance, which reclaimed public spaces, started to mobilise multiple identity groups who entered into the political arena in the radical democratic sense. This paper aims to scrutinise Gezi Resistance and the occupation of the park in relation to reclaiming public spaces and the politics of identity, hence as an opportunity for a radical democratic emancipation. In this context, emancipation refers to contestation against the dominating discourses of the majoritarian government with neoconservative tendencies. Public space is contextualised as the agonistic domain that enables individuals both to appear, hence become visible for a possible interaction and acknowledgement, and join collaborative struggles against dominant discourses. In this regard, performing dissent re-produces subjectivities while articulating these to one another also requires a public space. Journal: City Pages: 534-544 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051743 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051743 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:534-544 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Brenda S. A. Yeoh Author-X-Name-First: Brenda S. A. Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh Title: Affective practices in the European city of encounter Abstract: The city's pivotal role in generating, assembling and mobilizing differences provides fertile ground for examining a spectrum of 'close' and 'strange' encounters between people, the accompanying expressions of emotion and the circulation of embodied affect as they unfold in a culturally diverse world. In this context, I first attend to the different ways in which the papers in this special feature demonstrate the significance of affective practices in influencing urban encounter in the European city of difference. I then explore from the vantage point of a very different site--the newly independent, post-colonial, multicultural, rapidly globalizing city of Singapore located in Asia--the conditions that go into the production of 'different' or 'similar' affective practices shaping human encounters with difference. Journal: City Pages: 545-551 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051744 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051744 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:545-551 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: D. Asher Ghertner Author-X-Name-First: D. Asher Author-X-Name-Last: Ghertner Title: Why gentrification theory fails in 'much of the world' Journal: City Pages: 552-563 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051745 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051745 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:552-563 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ernesto López-Morales Author-X-Name-First: Ernesto Author-X-Name-Last: López-Morales Title: Gentrification in the global South Journal: City Pages: 564-573 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051746 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051746 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:564-573 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cheryl Gilge Author-X-Name-First: Cheryl Author-X-Name-Last: Gilge Title: Your daily fascism: investments of desire in the modern era Journal: City Pages: 574-578 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051747 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051747 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:574-578 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Haim Yacobi Author-X-Name-First: Haim Author-X-Name-Last: Yacobi Title: Jerusalem: from a 'divided' to a 'contested' city--and next to a neo-apartheid city? Journal: City Pages: 579-584 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1051748 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1051748 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:579-584 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: City's holistic and cumulative project (1996-2016) Journal: City Pages: 585-612 Issue: 4 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1034590 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1034590 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:4:p:585-612 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: To 'the city of refuge' Abstract: Budapest, 4 September, 2015, the scene at the Keleti station. With historic buildings in the background, the most prominent part of the photograph-super-1 is of the camps of refugees in the brightly illuminated 'transit zone'. Considering the accents through light, there is a strong juxtaposition/connection between 'city' and 'camp'.During the night large groups of the refugees had been brought to the Austrian border in buses. Their hopes were centered on and in Germany. Not quite two weeks later, the situation here and elsewhere in Europe had changed abruptly. The Guardian, viewing this from the shorelines of Western Europe, provided a neat and moderate characterisation: 'Europe has moved from a moment of compassion and empathy with Syrian and other migrants striving to reach our shores back toward a reassertion of the fortress mentality that aims to stop them, sort them and return them, save for a proportion deemed to have a real claim to our hospitality.'-super-2 Camps have, of course, long been emerging, short-stay ones, here and elsewhere in Europe and across the globe, some having already become, some long ago, others becoming now 'durable' perhaps, others declining or eliminated. At this moment, elites and/or residents of cities have been churning with no marked preference for unison with refugees and camps. 'City' and 'camp' are both, it seems, juxtaposed in opposition and connected through sympathy and/or solidarity at different moments. What lies beneath and beyond these moments?In search of answers, drawing on and supplementing material in this and the previous issue, we make six moves. We turn, first, back to assertions investigated in our preceding editorial---'We are here' and 'We say no' with particular reference to Jerusalem in 2014 and this year in Greece---and to the territories staked out in Souza's 'From the Right to the City to the Right to the Planet'.Second, with the Special Feature in this issue, we turn to camps, 'Durable Camps', in Europe, the USA and the Middle East, with some attention to Germany. Third, to 'cities' globally, to Chinese 'small cities' and to big cities with 'Luxified skies: how vertical housing became an elite preserve'.We turn, fourth and fifth, to epistemological questions, to the theoretical and practical question of whether 'the city' can and should be saved from the apparent stranglehold of 'the new urban epistemology'; and to the question of epistemology itself, to the multi-disciplinary approach of the special feature, and to some indication of supplementary material that would contribute to a more trans-disciplinary approach, using, in this case, mainly literary accounts of the refugee crisis.Finally, we turn to futures, as implied by scholarly questionings, or to simultaneously apocalyptic and utopian insights as combined in the image of 'the city of refuge'. Journal: City Pages: 613-617 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1097080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1097080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:613-617 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Luxified skies Abstract: This paper is a call for critical urban research to address the vertical as well as horizontal aspects of social inequality. It seeks, in particular, to explore the important but neglected causal connection between the demonisation and dismantling of social housing towers constructed in many cities between the 1930s and 1970s and the contemporary proliferation of radically different housing towers produced for socio-economic elites. The argument begins with a critical discussion of the economistic orthodoxy, derived from the work of Edward Glaeser, that contemporary housing crises are best addressed by removing state intervention in housing production so that market-driven verticalisation can take place. The following two sections connect the rise of such orthodoxy with the 'manufactured reality'--so central to neo-liberal urban orthodoxy--that vertical social housing must necessarily fail because it deterministically creates social pathology. The remainder of the paper explores in detail how the dominance of these narratives have been central to elite takeovers, and 'luxification', of the urban skies through the proliferation of condo towers for the super-rich. Case studies are drawn from Vancouver, New York, London, Mumbai and Guatemala City and the broader vertical cultural and visual politics of the process are explored. The discussion finishes by exploring the challenges involved in contesting, and dismantling, the hegemonic dominance of vertical housing by elite interests in contemporary cities. Journal: City Pages: 618-645 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071113 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071113 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:618-645 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Beyond city limits Abstract: With the publication of their piece 'Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?' in City 19 (2-3), Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid hoped to ignite a debate about the adequacy of existing epistemologies for understanding urban life today. Brenner and Schmid's desire to set urban research on a new course is premised on a wide-ranging critique of 'city-centrism' that they believe is holding back both mainstream and critical urban research. In this paper, we challenge Brenner and Schmid's call for urban theory to shift from a concern with cities as 'things' to a concern with processes of concentrated, extended and differentiated urbanization. In their justified desire to critique 'urban age' ideologies that treat 'the city' as a fixed, bounded and replicable spatial unit, Brenner and Schmid risk robbing critical urban theory of a concept and an orientation that is crucial to both its conceptual clarity and its political efficacy. We offer in its place a conceptual and political defense of 'the city' as an anchor for a critical urban studies that can contribute to emancipatory politics. This is absolutely not a call for a return of bounded, universal concepts of 'the city' that have rightly been the target of critique. Rather, it is a call for an epistemology of the urban that is founded on an engagement with the political practices of subordinated peoples across a diverse range of cities. For many millions of people across the planet, the particularities of city life continue to be the context from which urbanization processes are experienced, understood, and potentially transformed. Journal: City Pages: 646-664 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1078603 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1078603 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:646-664 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Kendall Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Kendall Title: Between big city and authentic village Abstract: While recent academic research has already produced an impressive corpus on big cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, the small Chinese city has been mostly ignored. In this paper, I suggest that consideration of the small city can bring a new perspective on the wider urban fabric of which it is an element. Although small city governments have embraced urban entrepreneurialism with the same enthusiasm as China's big cities, different configurations of space, branding and the everyday have nevertheless resulted. My case study of Kaili in Guizhou province indicates that the small city exists in a complex relationship with the big city and the village; it is pulled towards large-scale urbanization while simultaneously attempting to construct a unique city image based upon the evocation of rural cultural practices. The perspective from the small city thus suggests the need to consider the rural-urban divide--long a dominant geographical imagination of China--alongside other geographies, including a triad of the small city, the village and the big city. Journal: City Pages: 665-680 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071116 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071116 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:665-680 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Picker Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Author-X-Name-Last: Picker Author-Name: Silvia Pasquetti Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Pasquetti Title: Durable camps: the state, the urban, the everyday Journal: City Pages: 681-688 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071122 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071122 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:681-688 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chris Herring Author-X-Name-First: Chris Author-X-Name-Last: Herring Author-Name: Manuel Lutz Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Lutz Title: The roots and implications of the USA's homeless tent cities Abstract: Since the turn of the 21st century, several US cities have witnessed the resurgence of large-scale homeless encampments. This paper explains how and why such encampments emerged during a period of national economic expansion through a comparative study of encampments in Fresno, California and Seattle, Washington. Contrary to the widespread media coverage of tent cities as a consequence of the most recent recession, the paper argues they are instead rooted in penal and welfare urban policies. Precipitating as both protest and containment, durable encampments relieve the fiscal and legitimation crises of criminalization and shelterization for the local state and simultaneously function as preferred safe grounds to the shelter for homeless people in both cities. Rather than contradicting the existing policies and theories of the ongoing punitive exclusion of marginalized populations, the seclusion of the homeless into large encampments compliments its goals of managing marginality across the city. Journal: City Pages: 689-701 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071114 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071114 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:689-701 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Silvia Pasquetti Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Pasquetti Title: Negotiating control Abstract: Excluded from 'the national order of things' refugees live under specific forms of control. Similarly, those citizens that the state considers as potential or real 'enemies of the nation' live under forms of control that do not apply to other citizens. Using the paired comparison of a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank and the Palestinian districts of an Israeli city, this paper argues that a focus on control can help break the strict analytical dichotomy between cities and camps and between citizens and refugees. It draws attention to the role of agencies of control ranging from humanitarian organizations to policing agencies in shaping how marginalized refugees and citizens negotiate access to scarce material and symbolic resources. In the process, it shows how the forms that political engagement takes in the city and the camp challenge fixed notions of citizenship, cities and camps--for example, the notion that citizenship status and cities are inherently politically empowering while refugee status and camps are inherently depoliticizing. Journal: City Pages: 702-713 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071121 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071121 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:702-713 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elena Fontanari Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Fontanari Title: Confined to the threshold Abstract: The paper develops the concept of threshold to explore the everyday experiences of asylum seekers in Germany. It investigates how residential accommodations used as asylum seekers' camps function as border places within the national territory. It also adds to the theoretical debate on the creation of border places within national and urban territories in Europe, highlighting the existence of a plurality of camps as structures that produce the experience of confinement. This points to a fragmented border space within European territories and cities rather than external lines surrounding 'Fortress Europe'. This paper draws on ethnographic work to show how, within the fragmented European border space, asylum seekers in Germany experience a predicament of confinement, focusing on everyday life in the residential accommodations (the Wohnheime). Although these structures are open, the asylum seekers living inside perceive them as prisons due to the unnoticed symbolic violence that the spaces impose. This experience of confinement was grasped through three analytical dimensions--spatial, temporal and relational--; furthermore, this paper shows how it is reinforced by the legal system, specifically administrative law and legal status, as exemplified by the Duldung (rejected refugee status). This paper uses the concept of threshold intended as a condition of time suspension, non-belonging and in-betweenness to explore this multi-dimensional experience of confinement and how it affects asylum seekers' sense of self. In the process, it argues that asylum seekers are ultimately relegated to a threshold of citizenship. Journal: City Pages: 714-726 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071112 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071112 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:714-726 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irit Katz Author-X-Name-First: Irit Author-X-Name-Last: Katz Title: Spreading and concentrating Abstract: Through the analysis of camps in Israel/Palestine and their use in the past and present for two complementary purposes--to rapidly spread and settle the Jewish population and to concentrate and suspend Arab populations--this paper explores the versatile role of the camp in the struggles over the frontiers of this contested territory. Within this geopolitical context, I empirically examine two frontier camps in the Negev/Naqab desert: the historical ma'abara immigrant transit camp of Yeruham and the neighbouring Rachme Bedouin 'unrecognised village'. The former was created as part of a state project to deal with mass immigration and became a minor 'development town', while the latter is similar to other makeshift settlements constructed by the displaced indigenous Arab populations. I argue that, as a zone in which hegemony has not yet been established, the frontier is a territory where the camp in its varied typologies is prevalently used to spread, re-settle, concentrate and suspend different populations, both indigenous and new to the area. I contend that, while camps facilitated the instant creation and growth of Jewish frontier urban settlements in order to establish a social engineered civic control over the land, the same instrument enables the suspension of local ethnic minorities in time and space, abandoning them in an ongoing situation of enduring temporariness, in order to make them settle in a concentrated form according to the interests of the state. Journal: City Pages: 727-740 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071115 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071115 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:727-740 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giovanni Picker Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni Author-X-Name-Last: Picker Author-Name: Margaret Greenfields Author-X-Name-First: Margaret Author-X-Name-Last: Greenfields Author-Name: David Smith Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Title: Colonial refractions: the 'Gypsy camp' as a spatio-racial political technology Abstract: Camps for civilians first appeared in the colonies. Largely drawing on the literature on colonialism and race, this article conceptualizes the 'Gypsy camp' in Western European cities as a spatio-racial political technology. We first discuss the shift, starting with decolonization, from colonial to metropolitan technologies of the governance of social heterogeneity. We then relate this broad historical framing to the ideas and ideologies that since the 1960s have been underpinning the planning and governance of the 'Gypsy camp' in both the UK and Italy. We document the 1970s emergence of a new and distinctive type of camp that was predicated upon a racially connoted tension between policies criminalizing sedentarization and ideologies of cultural protection. Given that the imposition of the 'Gypsy camp' was essentially uncontested, we argue that the conditions of possibility for it to emerge and become institutionalized were both a spatio-racial similarity with typically colonial technologies of governance, and the fact that it was largely perceived as a self-evident necessity for the governance and control of one specific population. We conclude by calling for more analyses on this and other forms of urban confinement in both the Global North and South, in order to account for the increasingly disquieting mushrooming of confining and controlling governance devices, practices and ideologies. Journal: City Pages: 741-752 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071123 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071123 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:741-752 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andy Merrifield Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Merrifield Title: Amateur urbanism Abstract: Professionals and wannabe professionals are everywhere in urban studies today, everywhere in the exclusive running and ruining of cities, everywhere in the control of urban economies, everywhere in austerity drives, everywhere in think tanks and institutions who study cities, everywhere mass media have a say about cities, everywhere the grant money flows, the payroll beckons and the spotlight shines. The biggest problem this professionalism poses for any urban dissenter--for people I shall call amateurs--is representation. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation, into a representation done for and by professionals. And professionals brook no dissent. Professionals are realists; everybody else lives in cloud-cuckoo-land. This paper stakes out its terrain in cloud-cuckoo-land and explores the nemesis of professionalised urbanism: amateur urbanism, an urban knowledge and practice not on anybody's payroll, a passionate labour of love. Journal: City Pages: 753-762 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071119 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071119 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:753-762 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caroline Knowles Author-X-Name-First: Caroline Author-X-Name-Last: Knowles Title: Narratives of urban life Journal: City Pages: 763-765 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071117 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071117 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:763-765 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Ley-Cervantes Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Author-X-Name-Last: Ley-Cervantes Author-Name: Jan Willem Duyvendak Author-X-Name-First: Jan Willem Author-X-Name-Last: Duyvendak Title: Where is home? Why home is not at the same place in the USA and Europe Journal: City Pages: 766-769 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071118 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071118 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:766-769 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elena Ostanel Author-X-Name-First: Elena Author-X-Name-Last: Ostanel Title: Questioning integrationist policies in Berlin: the role of neighbourhood initiatives in the city of difference Journal: City Pages: 770-774 Issue: 5 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 10 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1071120 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1071120 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:5:p:770-774 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Where is the world at and where is it headed? Abstract: ‘In retrospect, the violence at le Carillon was only a foreshadowing of the credible carnage that would be unleashed at the Bataclan. But it stood out for me, because I knew the place and had spent evenings just like that one sitting at its tables. My horror, rooted in this sense of nearness, paled in comparison to what many others I knew were experiencing; these were streets they had walked for years, bars and restaurants they knew intimately. Some of them would later find out that their own friends and acquaintances were among the victims.’-super-1Paris, November 13, 2015. Violence … carnage … horror. Elements of the experience of the citizens are easily identified as is their placement as victims, near and far, within the city and beyond it, and the cause of their victimage easily identified as the terroristic actions of ‘the aliens’, essentially displaced/misplaced within the city but with loyalties far beyond it. A neat formulation. But this spatialised and temporalised ideology freezes time and space. Are not some placements, nationality, race, both more substantial and ethical than others and, at other times in other spaces, less so? If so, where is the world at and where is/should it be headed?Can we, scholars and others, grasp and convey all of this? What kinds of knowledge/scholarship, some of it not evident perhaps to some social scientific (scientistic?) observers, do we need, as we set out briefly the sources and forms of knowledge included in this issue? Where is the world at and heading towards, and what we can do about it? Questions raised to a new level of seriousness by the Paris attacks of November 13th, 2015, and, in new extended ‘other’ times, spaces, and motions, by their aftermath. Largely on the basis of material assembled in this issue, but not originally to that end, another exercise in transdisciplinary,-super-2 rather than multidisciplinary, readings and investigation is set out here.The first section, the ‘near’ as of this writing and much but not all of the experience behind it, is that of the West, cities/ largely urbanised (though this is a suspect term that hides as much as it reveals) regions of the globalised North -- Paris and London with an excursion to Chester, Pennsylvania and an extra one, foreshadowing our second section, to Kigali, Rwanda. The second section, the ‘far’, is that of some cities/largely urbanised regions of East Asia, mainly Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Taipei in Thailand. The third and final section, ‘Beyond and Within (including the planet)’ returns to ‘alienated’ Paris, throwing in a little psychogeography, turning to 9/11, and to aspects of the earthy, sensual, sentient planet that the regnant school of unitary ‘planetary urbanisation’ knows not of. Journal: City Pages: 775-780 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1121726 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1121726 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:775-780 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kate Shaw Author-X-Name-First: Kate Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw Title: The intelligent woman's guide to the urban question Abstract: The ‘urban question’ isn't a question with an answer—not like the ‘housing question’, which is in essence, ‘Is the private market model of housing provision separable from capitalist social relations?’ and to which Engels replied categorically ‘No’ (though it took a book to say it). But, like the housing question, the urban question is an invitation to deeper analysis of a superficially straightforward matter, with its roots, as is the case with so many concepts in critical social theory, planted firmly in Marx. This paper situates the urban question in history, tracing its lineage from Marx to Lefebvre to Castells to its recent iterations via Lefebvre's concept of planetary urbanisation. In the course of this journey the paper considers the meanings and usefulness of the question to critical urban research and action. The paper concludes that the underlying concepts of the evolving urban question do meaningfully engage with age-old and contemporary questions of how to bring about social change, and that their utility lies in the capacity of those asking the question to crystallise the possibilities of such change. Journal: City Pages: 781-800 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090182 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090182 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:781-800 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharon M. Meagher Author-X-Name-First: Sharon M. Author-X-Name-Last: Meagher Title: The politics of urban knowledge Abstract: Is there a crisis in urban studies and particularly in urban theory? Two recent exchanges in City, the first between Alex Schafran and David Madden and the second between Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid and Richard Walker, raise the question of whether there is a crisis in urban studies and particularly urban theory. I argue that there is no need for a radical rethinking of the ontological and/or epistemological foundations of urban studies, but that we might consider the need for new metaphors or figurations that help us think creatively about our urban conditions and the possibilities for political interventions. In particular, I explore the streetwalker, the nomad and the weed and discuss two cases on the ground: Kigali, Rwanda and Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Journal: City Pages: 801-819 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090183 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090183 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:801-819 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pablo Sendra Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Sendra Title: Rethinking urban public space Abstract: This paper aims to connect to recent debates in City (2011) regarding what assemblage thinking can offer to critical urban praxis. It proposes assemblage as a tool to take Sennett's (1970. The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life. Yale edition with a new preface by the author, 2008. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) ‘uses of disorder’ in city life from theory to practice. The main reason for this is the consideration that Sennett's early thoughts about providing non-regulated spaces for interaction have not been implemented in urban practice to their full potential. Planners and architects have not been able to counter the overdetermination of functions and the social segregation resulting from modern urban developments. Assemblage can offer tools for urban practitioners to combine definition and indeterminacy when intervening in the public realm. In order to do so, the paper looks at similarities between recent contributions on assemblage thinking and Sennett's notion of disorder: the influence of sociomaterial associations on how people perceive strangers, the interest in indeterminacy and public space as an open process. Based on these findings, the paper proposes two sets of concepts as approaches for intervening in public space: ‘assemblage’ and ‘disassembly’. The first group of concepts proposes three tools to design associations introducing certain planned urban elements that give rise to an unplanned use of public space: ‘reassembling’, ‘convergence of diversity’ and ‘complex connections’. The second set of concepts offers two tools that propose to leave unbound points in public space: ‘open systems’ and ‘failure and disconnections’. These concepts address different uses of disorder proposed by Sennett and serve as guidelines to propose interventions in public space. Journal: City Pages: 820-836 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090184 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090184 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:820-836 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Agata A. Lisiak Author-X-Name-First: Agata A. Author-X-Name-Last: Lisiak Title: Making sense of absence Abstract: Based on Tsai Ming-liang's cinematic portrayals of cities, I argue for consideration and appreciation of artistic devices in our thinking and writing on cities. Specifically, I look into four types of absence the Taiwanese director engages with: absence of movement, absence of speech, absence of home and absence of infrastructure. Tsai depicts absence by extrapolating what seem to be inherent elements of an urban situation or an urban setting thus disrupting their taken-for-grantedness. Tsai's multi-layered preoccupation with the notion of absence and the visual language he develops to talk about it may be inspiring for urban researchers, especially those among us working with visual methods. After introducing his work and elaborating on its urban contexts, I will investigate Tsai Ming-liang's use of absence as a method of inquiring into various aspects of urban life, particularly those involving interactions with infrastructure. In the spirit of interdisciplinary and inclusive thinking promoted by City, I will conclude by reiterating the validity of cinema—among other arts—as a tool for critical reflection on cities. Journal: City Pages: 837-856 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:837-856 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Asian urbanisation Abstract: Urbanisation is progressing in Asia at breakneck speed, producing almost overnight city-regions sprawling vast distances into the peri-urban countryside. As they grow, in unplanned ways, so the problems deepen. The provision of all manner of infrastructure lags increasingly behind with consequent problems of traffic gridlock, seriously inadequate sanitation and, in coastal cities, increasing flooding where the impact of climate change threatens to render whole urban neighbourhoods unliveable. Meanwhile super-rich minorities are emerging where, nevertheless, poverty is—temporarily—kept at bay and a vast mass of new middle classes are attempting to live the modern consumer life amidst rampant corruption that expresses itself particularly in massive oversupply of upper income housing that few can afford with whole developments remaining permanently vacant. Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is a typical case where currently a kind of euphoria is palpable where much of the population feel they have arrived in the modern consumer world. Whilst officialdom projects growth in all dimensions to be continuing into even the more distant future, one may be sceptical that this can, in reality, continue for much longer. Journal: City Pages: 857-874 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090188 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090188 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:857-874 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lily Geismer Author-X-Name-First: Lily Author-X-Name-Last: Geismer Title: ‘Making do’ Journal: City Pages: 875-878 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090191 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090191 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:875-878 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Franklin Obeng-Odoom Author-X-Name-First: Franklin Author-X-Name-Last: Obeng-Odoom Title: Street children in cities in Ghana: an insider account Journal: City Pages: 879-881 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:879-881 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: City’s holistic and cumulative project (1996--2016) Journal: City Pages: 882-906 Issue: 6 Volume: 19 Year: 2015 Month: 12 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090189 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090189 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:6:p:882-906 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: ‘Planetary’ urbanisation: insecure foundations, the commodification of knowledge, and paradigm shift Abstract: ‘We've received an update this morning to say that Chennai is still being seriously affected by flooding due to further torrential rain. This has resulted in widespread disruption, there is no power, mobile communication is very badly affected with systems down and people unable to charge their phones and, internet connectivity is also very badly affected. Staff have not been able to come to the office, and given the conditions we have asked them not to try, when we have been able to contact them at all.’-super-1 (Internal memorandum, 3.12.15)That was the situation as reported that morning in Chennai, India, in, December 2015 as the just completed issue of CITY, 19.6, awaited publication. In one sense there had been a breakdown in communications under adverse weather conditions -- that was all. But in another sense, looking at what was to be and eventually was transmitted, the breakdown can also be regarded as more than that, as, on the one hand, an example of the fragility of our technological condition, an intricate array of communication systems and work patterns, at a time of increasing globalisation and acute climatic change, but also, on the other, of the fragility of our knowledge and understanding of our condition, and underlying this, despite easy talk (how easy will be shown later) about contestation, of reform versus revolution (now safely evaded through resilience?), the creation/destruction opposition (now safely amalgamated?), of ‘urban’ versus the rural and ‘the city’, of commodities and commodification, paradigms, and epistemologies … These are insecure foundations. There was and is a failure, almost a will not to, to engage with the fundamentals (including communication processes) of our disciplines and, indeed of the planet itself (that is when mainstream urbanists can admit to the possibility of its existence, of such a fluid association of living entities, a para-structure rather than an infrastructure).The title of that issue (19.6, see Figure 1) of the journal -momentarily lodged in Chennai through the apparent agency of a cyclone, rain, water, floods, deaths (nearing twice as many as those rightly mourned in Paris -- the actual title extracted from one of the papers, ‘Where is the world at and where is it headed?’) signalled a further episode in the long-term commitment, over two decades, of this journal to grappling with such problems. The cover photo shows ‘a living ad’, a man struggling against the wind and rain, trying to stay on his feet and to hold on to his billboard. The film scene is a re-enactment of what the director, Tsai Ming-liang, had first seen ten years previously in Taipei, and then seen it ‘mushroom into an industry’ of homeless men advertising real estate. ‘It was’, he said, ‘as if their time had become worthless.’ It is the development of many such scenes coupled with the rising wealth and corruption of the estate industry and its clients that led former architect turned planning consultant and activist, Adrian Atkinson, after a generation of work in Vietnam and elsewhere to raise the question ‘Where is the world at and where is it heading?’Where is the world heading? What is happening? Insofar as the theoretical and empirical basis of understanding such happenings is concerned there are signs of an absolutely crucial revival and development in red-green theory, a necessary part of a fundamental paradigm shift beyond (but not excluding) critical urban theory’s deliberate concentration on the social as distinct from the ‘natural’ environment. The bridging work here was particularly the still largely aborted discovery of late Marx (‘Russian Marx’ but not only that) by Teodor Shanin in the 1980s, and again by John Bellamy Foster at the turn of the century still, in a sense, struggling against the ‘critical’ zeitgeist. There are also signs of the potential in taking up the late work of Herbert Marcuse (to be considered in CITY later this year) as part of an equally crucial deepening understanding of culture/nature in Doreen Massey’s work and in some of the work associated with the Badiou-Zizek new communist/commonist movement (see section 4 below) and in Kate Shaw’s recent CITY roll/role-call (and also recent work by Hyun Bang Shin, Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Elvin Wyly, Mark Davidson and Sharon Meagher).The analytical moves here, drawing in part on readings of East Asian experience and on critical urban and ‘green’ theory, towards answering the posed questions, had been preceded only a week and a half earlier by ‘the Paris attacks’, and (traced in earlier issues) only weeks earlier by the journeys of Syrian and other refugees across Europe, ‘To “the city of refuge”’ (19.5, see Figure 2), and earlier, in the summer, by the stilling and reversal of the great Greek revolt, with its focus (perhaps an excessive focus) on Syriza, ‘We are here’ (19.4, see Figure 3), by ‘the troika’. Journal: City Pages: 1-9 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1146009 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1146009 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:1-9 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Setha Low Author-X-Name-First: Setha Author-X-Name-Last: Low Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Propositions for more just urban public spaces Abstract: Across a diverse range of urban geographical contexts, the provision and governance of public spaces frequently generates conflicts of varying intensity involving urban inhabitants and urban authorities. A clear moral and philosophically based argument and evaluative framework is necessary for both critiquing and informing the positions that are taken in public space disputes. In this paper, we develop a model of socially just public space that could inform analysis of, and interventions in, these conflicts. In dialogue with the literatures on urban public space and on social and spatial justice, we offer five propositions about what makes for more just public space. The five propositions concern distributive justice, recognition, interactional justice and encounter, care and repair, and procedural justice. The application of these five propositions is exemplified through brief reflections on the politics of the street in New York City, and ‘broken windows’ style policing of graffiti. Journal: City Pages: 10-31 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1128679 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1128679 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:10-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophie Schramm Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Schramm Title: Flooding the sanitary city Abstract: Urban water flows are constitutive elements of Hanoi's morphology. Regular floods across the city illustrate that Hanoi's amphibious character is a central impediment to the installation of a ‘dry and sanitary city', the global modernist ideal of a separation of urban wastewater flows from public space through their redirection into large underground networks. Currently, the first attempt by the city government to construct a citywide sewerage network since the colonial period is taking place. In accordance with the ideal of the sanitary city, it aims at a unification and centralization of hitherto socio-spatially diverse arrangements of sanitation provision in the city. At the same time, rapid urbanization has radically transformed Hanoi, contributing to a continuous diversity of urban sanitation infrastructures and thus defeating the goal of unification and centralization. Starting from an urban political ecology perspective, this paper takes a historical focus to explain Hanoi's sanitation system as emerging from an interplay of discourses and material urbanization dynamics. Arguing that discourses permeate the material reproduction of urban wastewater flows and infrastructures, the paper focuses on the role of the sanitary city ideal for the reproduction of sanitation infrastructures and the contestations and stabilizations of this ideal in Hanoi. Furthermore, the paper addresses the material reproduction of urban sanitation and drainage in Hanoi as part of broader urbanization dynamics, based on a conceptualization of regular floods at the urban fringe of Hanoi as indicators for persisting socio-spatial fragmentations of the city's sanitation system. Journal: City Pages: 32-51 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125717 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125717 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:32-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Panos Hatziprokopiou Author-X-Name-First: Panos Author-X-Name-Last: Hatziprokopiou Author-Name: Yannis Frangopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Frangopoulos Author-Name: Nicola Montagna Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Montagna Title: Migration and the city Journal: City Pages: 52-60 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096054 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096054 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:52-60 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Panos Hatziprokopiou Author-X-Name-First: Panos Author-X-Name-Last: Hatziprokopiou Author-Name: Yannis Frangopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Frangopoulos Title: Migrant economies and everyday spaces in Athens in times of crisis Abstract: Alongside the depressing image of closed shops as visible indicators of the crisis, migrant businesses can be found in many parts of Athens and often play a vital role in local neighbourhood markets. This paper explores the socio-spatial dimensions of Athens’ emerging migrant economies. Drawing from a recent research project combining survey and ethnographic methods on three Athenian neighbourhoods, the paper examines migrant entrepreneurship at the local level and highlights the relevance of place, politics and everyday life. We argue that the spread of immigrant entrepreneurial activity in Athens not only forms an existing part of the urban landscape, but has also become an organic part of the everyday experience of life in the city. Journal: City Pages: 61-74 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096055 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096055 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:61-74 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Balampanidis Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Balampanidis Author-Name: Iris Polyzos Author-X-Name-First: Iris Author-X-Name-Last: Polyzos Title: Migrants’ settlement in two central neighborhoods of Athens Abstract: Greece has recently become a destination country for migrants from both neighboring and distant sending countries. Over the last 20 years, urban areas in general and Athens in particular have become ethnically and culturally much more diverse. Scholars often describe migrants’ residential and entrepreneurial settlement in cities through narrow terms, focusing either on migrants’ ‘ethnic’ characteristics or on merely economic factors. According to this perspective, space is often conceived as a neutral surface, merely providing migrants a location in which to settle or work. In this study, we demonstrate how urban space, as a complex socio-spatial framework, determines migrant settlement and, at the same time, how migrant settlement transforms cities producing both continuities and discontinuities. In other words, we highlight the more complex causalities and patterns of migrant settlement and formulate an analytical framework to explain interethnic coexistences in urban space. We explore our research questions and hypotheses about migrant settlement through field research and the comparative study of two central neighborhoods: Kypseli and Metaxourgeio. Journal: City Pages: 75-90 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096052 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096052 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:75-90 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola Montagna Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: Montagna Title: The contestation of space in Milan's Chinatown Abstract: This paper looks at the transformation of Milan's Chinatown in the years following the April 2007 revolts and how these changes have been affected by conflicting interests. More specifically, I look at the political economy of urban space and the role of Chinatown in the dynamics of urban restructuring in Milan. Milan's Chinatown today is neither a Chinese residential area, nor a tourist district; rather, it is an ethnic economic and commercial enclave in a gentrified area near the city centre, where businesses owned by Italians and foreign nationals coexist. Since the revolts, Chinatown has become an increasingly contested space characterised by the presence of conflicting agendas. On the one hand, Italian businesses, the autochthonous population and local authorities regard Chinatown as a ‘problem’ and have attempted to reclaim the area. On the other hand, Chinese retailers and workers claim the right to use this urban space and carry out their businesses. Journal: City Pages: 91-100 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096057 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096057 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:91-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Josef Kohlbacher Author-X-Name-First: Josef Author-X-Name-Last: Kohlbacher Author-Name: Ursula Reeger Author-X-Name-First: Ursula Author-X-Name-Last: Reeger Title: Business activities of immigrants from Turkey and the former Yugoslavia in Vienna Abstract: Migrants who came to Vienna as guest workers from the former Yugoslavia and Turkey during the 1960s still form the majority of the local immigrant population. Business activities of Turks and former Yugoslavs cover a multitude of diverse sectors; what was once a niche economy has now become an important part of Viennese business life. This paper combines official statistics for Vienna as a whole, survey material and expert interviews, to analyse business ventures run by migrant entrepreneurs on two commercial streets in Vienna. Our research shows significant local variation in the migrant economies of the two groups in the study areas, highlighting the importance of the local context as an additional determinant shaping the diversity of business activities of certain immigrant groups. Journal: City Pages: 101-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096056 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096056 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:101-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edda Ostertag Author-X-Name-First: Edda Author-X-Name-Last: Ostertag Title: Transitory community hubs Abstract: This paper showcases how temporary migration leads to urban transformation processes in inner-city Singaporean neighbourhoods, creating unique localities which I call ‘transitory community hubs’. Building on a case study of Little India, it demonstrates how the settlement and incorporation process of transient migrants, specifically foreign workers, has economic, environmental and social impacts on the neighbourhood. Urban transformation processes are driven by both global and local influences; their instigators are globally operating transient migrants, yet they are shaped by national and local conditions (e.g. migration policies), or the vernacular urban context. Ethnic-focused businesses play an important role in this process and render it visible for outsiders. However, the transient migrants themselves are not permitted to open their own businesses; rather, they feed the ethnic-focused economy as customers or employees, while the businesses serving them are run predominantly by permanent residents of Singapore, some with a migration background. Building on field research conducted between 2011 and 2014, which involved semi-structured interviews, participant observation, time-based research and visual analysis, the paper demonstrates how migrants, on the demand side, and ethnic-focused businesses, on the supply side, both become agents of urban transformation, yet in ways that differ from conventional accounts of the ‘ethnic economy’. The paper also shows how ‘transitory community hubs’ are characterised by particular time rhythms making their presence only temporarily visible. Journal: City Pages: 116-129 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096058 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096058 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:116-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jorge Ivan Bula Escobar Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Ivan Author-X-Name-Last: Bula Escobar Title: Afro-Colombian integration in mestizo cities Abstract: Bogotá is a city of around 8 million inhabitants, composed of migrants from across Colombia, but mainly descendants from Spaniards or mestizos. Black or Afro-Colombian residents represent just 1.5% of the urban population. Increasingly, larger numbers of Afro-Colombians are migrating to the city for different reasons: internal conflict (internally displaced people) or the search for economic opportunities (economically displaced people), among others. Though racism in Colombia is not considered a social problem, in fact, racial discrimination persists in the imaginary of a large segment of the population, making the urban integration of Afro-Colombians a stressful and difficult process. As a result, many black settlements have emerged across the city, creating zones that separate them from the rest of the city, and stress the cultural traits and ethnic identity of their inhabitants. This paper tries to assess the urban dynamics that might explain the living conditions and the modes of insertion of Afro-Colombian residents in large cities like Bogotá that are both racially diverse and racially segregated. Journal: City Pages: 130-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1096053 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1096053 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:130-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zac Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Zac Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Author-Name: Alex Schafran Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Schafran Title: Can resilience be redeemed? Journal: City Pages: 142-142 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:142-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Geoff DeVerteuil Author-X-Name-First: Geoff Author-X-Name-Last: DeVerteuil Author-Name: Oleg Golubchikov Author-X-Name-First: Oleg Author-X-Name-Last: Golubchikov Title: Can resilience be redeemed? Abstract: Resilience has been critiqued as being regressively status quo and thus propping up neo-liberalism, that it lacks transformative potential, and that it can be used as a pretence to cast off needy people and places. We move from this critique of resilience to a critical resilience, based in the following arguments: (i) resilience can sustain alternative and previous practices that contradict neo-liberalism; (ii) resilience is more active and dynamic than passive; and (iii) resilience can sustain survival, thus acting as a precursor to more obviously transformative action such as resistance. These bring us more closely to a heterogeneous de-neo-liberalized reading of resilience, explicitly opening it to social justice, power relations and uneven development, and performing valuable conceptual and pragmatic work that usefully moves us beyond resistance yet retaining (long-term) struggle. Journal: City Pages: 143-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125714 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125714 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:143-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tim Schwanen Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Schwanen Title: Rethinking resilience as capacity to endure Abstract: Now resilience has become one of the decade's buzzwords, urban scholars cannot afford to renounce or abandon it; they should reclaim it for critical purposes. This piece offers one way of doing this, by moving away from socio-ecological systems thinking and reworking some concepts elaborated by Alfred North Whitehead. It proposes that resilience be seen as the capacity of a configuration of elements to endure through an intricate mixture of stability and change. This capacity emerges from this configuration's entanglements with its environment and from symbiosis, friction and contestation. The conceptualisation is subsequently utilised to caution against over-optimism about the post-automobile city. The continuing dominance of the privately owned internal combustion engine, the neutralising absorption of car sharing by the car industry and the current enthusiasm over autonomous cars are reinterpreted as manifestations of automobility's capacity to endure through adaptation and influence over its environment. The socio-spatial inequalities and injustices associated with automobility are likely to persist through change as well. Journal: City Pages: 152-160 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125718 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125718 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:152-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kate Driscoll Derickson Author-X-Name-First: Kate Driscoll Author-X-Name-Last: Derickson Title: Resilience is not enough Abstract: Resilience is more than a buzzword: it is a normative good to which civil society groups and regional governments aspire. In this brief piece, I argue that ‘resilience’ as an end in and for itself is an uninspiring political vision that fetishizes the status quo and is not suited to the emancipatory social change desired by groups that have employed the term. Following Braun (2014, “A New Urban Dispositif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32: 49--64) in suggesting that resilience has become a ‘dispositif of government,’ I propose ‘resourcefulness’ as the political posture that hold more promise than resilience or anti-resilience. Journal: City Pages: 161-166 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125713 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125713 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:161-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sukriti Issar Author-X-Name-First: Sukriti Author-X-Name-Last: Issar Title: The paradoxical slum Journal: City Pages: 167-170 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 2 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:167-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Title: Comparing relational urbanism Journal: City Pages: 171-173 Issue: 1 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1125716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1125716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:1:p:171-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: ‘This place is pre-something … ’ Abstract: ‘[B]uffeted by economic catastrophe, vastly reconfigured by a sporting jamboree of militarised corporate banality, jostling with social unrest, still reeling from riots. Apocalypse is less a cliche than a truism. This place is pre-something.’This place could be Rio, was/is Athens/Greece, the Balkans and beyond, now Istanbul, perhaps could come to be true of Singapore? This could be, to take an apocalyptic view, so many places in the world. But surely not London?Economic catastrophe? No, not as yet, anyhow. A militarised, corporate and banal sporting jamboree that has reconfigured the place? Some such claims have been made about the Olympised fate of London and other similarly endowed and beset cities. Some truths here, then? Jostling with social unrest? A not too uncommon phenomenon, world-wide. Still reeling from riots? Apocalypse? Surely not?Can it be, taking the lack of precision of the term ‘pre-something’ as an invitation, rather than a windy nothing, in fact a challenge, to look for and into, critically nevertheless, unfamiliar phenomena, so as to defamiliarise such places/situations in London, and other such places, we shall discover signs of apocalypse as a truism rather than a cliché? But in different proportions, ambiences and totalities, in some cases perhaps with, signs of becomings, of ‘pre-something’, even of hope as well as disaster.The provocation, the invitation to observe, imagine, rethink, is there in the agoras as much as academe, in the streets and homes (where still, permitted) as much as their so often blocked dialogue. Is it in the antagonisms and occasionally unblocked openings between agora and academe, or in the labours of transdisciplinary knowledge or, of what Andy Merrifield calls amateurism, that we will find glimmerings of a de-scientised paradigm for science, for knowledge of the contradictory, shifting realities unearthed and emplaced in the local and global fantasies and realities of ‘the twenty-first century’.On this occasion we turn, then, to three places/situations, always with activists and activisms in mind, to ‘Singaporean “spaces of hope”’, to refugees and ‘Europe’s Last Frontier’, and back/forwards to London’s housing crisis itself. Journal: City Pages: 175-179 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1170469 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1170469 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:175-179 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Dalakoglou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Dalakoglou Title: Europe’s last frontier: The spatialities of the refugee crisis Abstract: The Post-Cold War period has brought forth new conditions for the dominant European spatialities. First, that period signified a new condition for real estate and land ownership, second a radical transformation and increase of the built environment and third the securitization of a privileged European territory. As the European economy slows and the construction and real estate sectors are further deregulated, together with the promises that the post-Cold War period brought, what we observe coming to the surface in the context of the current refugee crisis is the manifestation of Europe’s most ugly and discriminatory spatiality—the preservation at all costs of its border security. Journal: City Pages: 180-185 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1170467 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1170467 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:180-185 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jason Luger Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Luger Title: Singaporean ‘spaces of hope?’ Abstract: Singapore is at a critical juncture. Riots in 2013 brought simmering cultural, class and ethnic tensions to the surface: Lee Kuan Yew's death in March 2015 has caused the nation to pause and reflect on its past and future. A cultural war has seen progressive and conservative societal factions battling over ideological and material space. Parallels can be drawn to resurgent activism witnessed around the world, from ‘Occupy’ and the ‘Arab Spring’ to current movements in Asian cities. Authors have been revisiting and reconceptualizing urban social and political movements, with ‘cultural activism’ and ‘creative resistance’ gaining traction in literature. Increasingly, such literature is expanding to include non-Western cities and differing political contexts. However, Singapore's unique context invites (and requires) a closer reading of what the ‘new’ geographies of activism look like in a quasi-authoritarian context, and the make-up and characteristics of activist coalitions and alliances deserve a revisiting in such a setting. This paper uses empirical examples from Singapore to show that urban social movements (USMs) may not be as easily demarcated or identifiable as they are sometimes represented. ‘Right’ and ‘left’, ‘State’ and ‘society’, and ‘activist’ and ‘non-activist’ overlap and interact in complex ways unique to Singapore's ‘illiberal pragmatic’ structure. Therefore, this paper addresses the transferability of ‘cultural activism’ conceptualizations to less-democratic settings or city-state scales, presenting the activist spaces as somewhat ambivalent and ambiguous, within a wider cultural war. Findings are presented through the cases of Bukit Brown and Singapore's ‘digital sphere’, illustrating where possibilities and impossibilities for ‘spaces of hope’ might be found, and exploring the tensions intrinsic to Singapore's cultural landscape. Journal: City Pages: 186-203 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1090187 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2015.1090187 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:186-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Watt Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Author-Name: Anna Minton Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Minton Title: London's housing crisis and its activisms Journal: City Pages: 204-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1151707 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1151707 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:204-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Edwards Title: The housing crisis and London Abstract: City has, from its inception, paid close attention to London, to the ‘World City’ or ‘Global City’ ideologies underwriting its concentration of wealth and of poverty and to challenges from among its citizens to the prevailing orthodoxy. This paper focuses on London's extreme experience of the housing crisis gripping the UK—itself the European nation with the fastest long-term growth of average house prices and widest regional disparities, both driven by overblown financialisation and the privileging of rent as a means of wealth accumulation, often by dispossession. Londoners’ experiences stem partly from four decades of neo-liberal transformation and partly from accelerated financialisation in the last two decades and are now being accelerated by the imposition of ‘austerity’ on low- and middle-income people. The social relationships of tenancy in social housing, private tenancy and mortgage-financed owner-occupation are, however, divisive and the paper ends by identifying what may be the beginning of a unified social movement, or at least a coalition, for change. Journal: City Pages: 222-237 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1145947 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1145947 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:222-237 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luna Glucksberg Author-X-Name-First: Luna Author-X-Name-Last: Glucksberg Title: A view from the top Abstract: The paper argues that gaining an effective perspective on the London housing crisis requires an understanding of what is happening at the highest levels of the real estate market (£2 million+). It is based on data collected over two and a half years (2013--15) of research amongst the London elites through the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) project ‘Life in the Alpha Territories: London's “Super-Rich” Neighbourhoods’. It unpacks terms such as ‘foreign investor’ and frames the specificity of London as a global city, as well as using ethnographic and interview data to understand how actors who impact upon the city understand their role themselves. Distinctions are drawn between those who buy houses in Mayfair to shore up capital and middle-class Chinese investors, who buy flats to rent them out as investments. It differentiates between different types of ‘empty’ houses, and also considers the impact of ‘old’ elite families selling up and moving out who also purchase properties for their children in areas adjacent to traditional ‘elite’ hotspots, creating further ripples of gentrification, price rises and unaffordability. Eschewing the facile conflations of the populist press, this paper shows how capital flows into London, resulting in a mix of misplaced and mismatched investment—fuelling the building of the wrong types of units at the wrong price points. The paper also examines how the underuse of land deeply affects London well beyond its traditionally elite and ‘prime’ areas. Journal: City Pages: 238-255 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143686 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143686 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:238-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Minton Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Minton Author-Name: Michela Pace Author-X-Name-First: Michela Author-X-Name-Last: Pace Author-Name: Henrietta Williams Author-X-Name-First: Henrietta Author-X-Name-Last: Williams Title: The housing crisis Abstract: A few months ago I took part in a gloomy debate about the housing crisis with the celebrated modernist architect Kate Macintosh. All the speakers had referred despairingly to the demolition of dozens upon dozens of London's housing estates—the ‘London clearances’ written about so cogently by Simon Elmer and Geraldine Dening in this Special Feature. When Kate got up to speak she talked about her experience of designing South London's landmark Dawson's Heights in the 1960s and the success of recent community projects in bringing North London's once troubled Broadwater Farm Estate together. ‘Does she not know it's also under threat of demolition?’, I wondered to myself. It turns out she did, with her voice cracking as she continued, breaking down in tears at the thought of what the community now had to face, despite all their efforts. Then she composed herself and continued. But as she returned to her seat she was tripped up by a misplaced lead and fell, breaking her arm. It was an upsetting incident and felt to me like a disturbing metaphor for London's housing crisis. Journal: City Pages: 256-270 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143687 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143687 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:256-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Elmer Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Elmer Author-Name: Geraldine Dening Author-X-Name-First: Geraldine Author-X-Name-Last: Dening Title: The London clearances Abstract: In this article we look at the origins of London's housing crisis and how it is being used to justify a policy of estate regeneration that is demolishing the homes of the communities they house. Our argument is that regeneration is the key mechanism in what we call the London Clearances, which is making London's local authority-owned land available for private investment and redevelopment. To expand this programme, the Conservative Government has announced its intention to recategorise existing council housing as brownfield land, a term used in planning to describe previously industrial or commercial land that has fallen into disuse. We trace the origins of this policy, from think-tank to mayoral platform to government legislation—most recently in the Housing and Planning Bill—and analyse its justifications in the twin narratives of austerity and densification. We examine how the economic forces of international finance is driving estate regeneration through Labour Councils, and situate this in the context of the wave of legislation passed by this Government to dismantle the welfare state. Faced with this programme for the social cleansing of London's working class communities and the catastrophic effects it will have on the city, the article concludes with a consideration of current and possible future forms of resistance by housing campaigners, including an outline of the principles underlining the authors' own response to what we argue is a politically legislated and economically driven ‘crisis’ in housing. Journal: City Pages: 271-277 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143684 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143684 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:271-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jerry Flynn Author-X-Name-First: Jerry Author-X-Name-Last: Flynn Title: Complete control Abstract: Regeneration has for several years been the favoured term of developers and local authorities for house building programmes in London. Regeneration promises new homes in rejuvenated neighbourhoods. This article tells of how such promises were instead used to lever the residents of one south London council estate, the Heygate, from their homes, leaving the benefits of regeneration for the more affluent to enjoy. It is also a case study of how private developers profit from regeneration, without building homes that most people could actually afford to either rent or buy, and how they evade a local authority's planning requirements for affordable housing by means of secret financial reports, so-called ‘viability assessments’. Finally it briefly recounts how some local communities are starting to challenge this so-far unchallenged power that puts developer profit above the need for truly affordable housing. Journal: City Pages: 278-286 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143685 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143685 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:278-286 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pam Douglas Author-X-Name-First: Pam Author-X-Name-Last: Douglas Author-Name: Joanne Parkes Author-X-Name-First: Joanne Author-X-Name-Last: Parkes Title: ‘Regeneration’ and ‘consultation’ at a Lambeth council estate Abstract: This article is an account of the experiences of two London leaseholders facing the loss of their homes as the result of the local council's regeneration programme. The article describes how by organising and working with other residents, they were able to bring a successful Judicial Review to force Lambeth Council to re-run their consultation which the Court had deemed unlawful. It also points to lessons learned and prospects for the future. Journal: City Pages: 287-291 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143683 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143683 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:287-291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jacob Wills Author-X-Name-First: Jacob Author-X-Name-Last: Wills Title: Building urban power from housing crisis Abstract: Though urban space is increasingly shaped by private finance, the tactics and breadth of housing movements are also integral to the shape of our cities. This struggle for a democratic physical and social environment is acute in London, where mobilisation does not reflect the widespread animosity and structural tensions that exist between inhabitants and their landlords. The localised nature of the housing movement gives it endurance as people fight in their direct self-interest. But the connective structures between local groups, whether on a city-wide or continental scale, also need to amplify struggles, to make a coalition more than the sum of its parts. The creation of fluid democratic strategy in these scenarios has never been resolved by political parties, trade unions, NGOs, or most social movements. With popular discontent driving opposition parties leftwards, grassroots campaigns need the strength that both prevents us folding into parliamentarianism, and that requires leftist politicians to seek strategic alliances. This uncomfortable relation should be articulated as an exercising of community power more than a bestowal of trust. For many campaigners who have limited experience of either consistent grassroots power or its relation to political power, making one serve the other is a new challenge. Journal: City Pages: 292-296 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143688 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143688 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:292-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Watt Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Title: A nomadic war machine in the metropolis Abstract: This paper builds upon Colin McFarlane's 2011 call in City for an ‘assemblage urbanism’ to supplement critical urbanism. It does so by mapping the spatio-political contours of London's 21st-century housing crisis through the geophilosophical framework of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus ([1980] 2013, London: Bloomsbury] and Hardt and Negri's analysis of the metropolis in Commonwealth (2009, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). The paper examines the Focus E15 housing campaign based around a group of young mothers in the East London borough of Newham. In 2013, the mothers were living in the Focus E15 foyer supported housing unit for young people in Newham, but they were subsequently threatened with eviction as a result of welfare cuts. After successfully contesting the mothers’ own prospective expulsion from the city, the campaign shifted to the broader struggle for ‘social housing not social cleansing’. The paper draws upon participant observation at campaign events and interviews with key members. The Focus E15 campaign has engaged in a series of actions which form a distinctive way of undertaking housing politics in London, a politics that can be understood using a Deleuzoguattarian framework. Several campaign actions, including temporary occupations, are analysed. It is argued that these actions have created ‘smooth space’ in a manner which is to an extent distinctive from many other London housing campaigns which are rooted in a more sedentary defensive approach based around the protection of existing homes and communities—‘our place’. It is such spatio-political creativity—operating as a ‘nomadic war machine'—which has given rise to the high-profile reputation of the Focus E15 campaigners as inspirational young women who do not ‘know their place’. Journal: City Pages: 297-320 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1153919 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1153919 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:297-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joe Beswick Author-X-Name-First: Joe Author-X-Name-Last: Beswick Author-Name: Georgia Alexandri Author-X-Name-First: Georgia Author-X-Name-Last: Alexandri Author-Name: Michael Byrne Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne Author-Name: Sònia Vives-Miró Author-X-Name-First: Sònia Author-X-Name-Last: Vives-Miró Author-Name: Desiree Fields Author-X-Name-First: Desiree Author-X-Name-Last: Fields Author-Name: Stuart Hodkinson Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Hodkinson Author-Name: Michael Janoschka Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Janoschka Title: Speculating on London's housing future Abstract: London's housing crisis is rooted in a neo-liberal urban project to recommodify and financialise housing and land in a global city. But where exactly is the crisis heading? What future is being prepared for London's urban dwellers? How can we learn from other country and city contexts to usefully speculate about London's housing future? In this paper, we bring together recent evidence and insights from the rise of what we call ‘global corporate landlords’ (GCLs) in ‘post-crisis’ urban landscapes in North America and Europe to argue that London's housing crisis—and the policies and processes impelling and intervening in it—could represent a key moment in shaping the city's long-term housing future. We trace the variegated ways in which private equity firms and institutional investors have exploited distressed housing markets and the new profitable opportunities created by states and supra-national bodies in coming to the rescue of capitalism in the USA, Spain, Ireland and Greece in response to the global financial crisis of 2007--2008. We then apply that analysis to emerging developments in the political economy of London's housing system, arguing that despite having a very low presence in the London residential property market and facing major entry barriers, GCLs are starting to position themselves in preparation for potential entry points such as the new privatisation threat to public and social rented housing. Journal: City Pages: 321-341 Issue: 2 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 4 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1145946 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1145946 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:2:p:321-341 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Utopia on the edge? Abstract: “ … [F]uture urban worlds as gritty and half-decayed places ridden by extreme time-space compression, population explosions, environmental exhaustion and terrifying advances in technology (virtual realms, cyborg beings, hyper-surveillance and the like)-super-1This ‘gritty’ and disturbing characterisation of future urban worlds is one that Stephen Graham puts forward at one point in the most recent of his wide-ranging studies of urban and technological futures, this one on the vertical dimension of cities.-super-2 How else can we characterise ‘urban worlds’? Might we need to make use of speculative, utopian and fictional perspectives?If some of the characterisations, or perhaps just some of the characteristics, are deeply and increasingly disturbing, how might we set about reforming or transforming that/those world/s? Are speculative, utopian and fictional visions largely irrelevant, dangerous or obsolete---or almost or just beyond our reach on or at the edge? What then?We draw in this issue-super-3 on descriptions and analyses, touching unevenly on these topics, on aspects of London, Europe, Jerusalem and Palestine, North America, Shanghai and the Gulf. We include a rural/ ‘developing’ area of Ecuador seen from a cosmic view of the planet as our ‘worlds’ begin to enter and sometimes resist, the ultimate in apocalyptic global futures, ‘black hole capitalism’.We present this critical editorial survey through examining four sets of scenes using a mixed spatial and cultural/economic classification: first, ‘At the Centre?’ second, ‘Alpha, Aliph. Aleph: Scenes from the South-East'; and the third, ‘On the Edge?’ concluding with ‘Utopian Reciprocities: From the Edge to the Centre (and back)’. Journal: City Pages: 343-349 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1196061 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1196061 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:343-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Japhy Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Japhy Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Author-Name: Manuel Bayón Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Bayón Title: Black hole capitalism Abstract: The planetary urbanization of capital entails the collapse of all traditional morphological distinctions into a seething morass of implosion--explosion that recalls the creative--destructive fury of a black hole. As an invisible presence--absence only identifiable by its spatiotemporal effects, the black hole resembles both the Lacanian Real and Marx’s value-theoretical understanding of capital. Utopian fantasies of postmodern hyperspace and rational spatial order function to fill in the void of the Real of Capital, but are ultimately undermined by the chaotic forces that they conceal. At the event horizon of black hole capitalism, where the crushing agglomeration of capital threatens to obliterate all social life, the seemingly impossible construction of Real utopias becomes an urgent necessity. The dynamics of this process are illustrated by the case of the Manta--Manaus multimodal transport corridor, which reveals the possibilities, limitations and antagonisms of utopian urban projects under conditions of black hole capitalism. Journal: City Pages: 350-367 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166701 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166701 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:350-367 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Arpan Roy Author-X-Name-First: Arpan Author-X-Name-Last: Roy Title: Reimagining resilience Abstract: Although Palestinian society is urbanizing at a rapid rate, the land and its people remain seeped in rural imagery and symbolism in the Palestinian self-imagination. Meanwhile, to accommodate real estate demands in Ramallah, the West Bank's cultural and political hub, an ambitious new satellite city is being built that markets itself as the ‘first planned city in Palestinian history'. I develop the position in this paper that Rawabi, situated 9 km from Ramallah in the central West Bank highlands, is a symptom of an emerging trend in which a new capitalist class is reimagining the Palestinian symbolic self-image in terms of an urban strategy that Henri Lefebvre (2003, The Urban Revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 144) believed ‘can only proceed using general rules of political analysis', and that this political process relies on emulating successful Zionist models of state-building that Palestinians have observed for about a century. This reimagination transcends the existing status quo of the existential relationship between Palestinians and the land, generally understood as sumud ‘steadfastness', and brings into form a new ethics in Palestinian politics that is at once global while also particular to a distinctly colonial situation. Journal: City Pages: 368-388 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1142220 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1142220 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:368-388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Vertical noir Abstract: Unerringly, across its whole history, urban science fiction has offered up imagined cities that operate about remarkably similar and highly verticalised visions. These are heavily dominated by politics of class, resistance and revolution that are starkly organized around vertically stratified and vertically exaggerated urban spaces. From the early and definitive efforts of H.G. Wells and Fritz Lang, through J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise, to many cyberpunk classics, this essay -- the latest in a series in City on the vertical dimensions of cities -- reflects on how vertical imaginaries in urban science fiction intersect with the politics and contestations of the fast-verticalising cities around the world. The essay has four parts. It begins by disentangling in detail the ways in which the sci-fi visions of Wells, Lang, Ballard and various cyberpunk authors were centrally constituted through vertical structures, landscapes, metaphors and allegories. The essay's second part then teases out the complex linkages between verticalised sci-fi imaginaries and material cityscapes that are actually constructed, lived and experienced. Stressing the impossibility of some clean and binary opposition between ‘factual’ and ‘fictional’ cities, the essay explores how verticalised projects, material cities, sci-fi texts, imaginary futures, architectural schemes and urban theories mingle and resonate together in complex, unpredictable and important ways which do much to shape contemporary urban landscapes. The third section of the essay explores such connections through the cases of retro-futuristic urban megaprojects in the Gulf and forests of towers recently constructed in Shanghai's Pudong district. The essay's final discussion draws on these cases to explore the possibilities that sci-fi imaginaries offer for contesting the rapid verticalisation of cities around the world. Journal: City Pages: 389-406 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1170489 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1170489 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:389-406 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonathan Rokem Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Rokem Title: Learning from Jerusalem Journal: City Pages: 407-411 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166699 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166699 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:407-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hila Zaban Author-X-Name-First: Hila Author-X-Name-Last: Zaban Title: ‘Once there were Moroccans here—today Americans’ Abstract: Gentrification, and its expressions in the housing market, is a burning issue, bearing many social implications. This paper examines this issue through the case study of the Baka neighbourhood in Jerusalem. Baka has a unique history as a Palestinian neighbourhood, turned into a poor immigrants’ neighbourhood in the 1950s and today a highly gentrified and desired place of residence. Baka’s gentrification resulted from both the geopolitical changes in Jerusalem’s borders after the 1967 war, which turned it from borderline into an inner-city neighbourhood, as well as the re-enchantment of Palestinian homes caused by new architectural trends. While the gentrification process of Baka was initially dominated by the secular and educated Israeli middle class, over time Jewish immigrants from Western countries—mainly the USA, France and England—have become dominant. The paper is based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork, and analyses the developments in Baka’s housing market through a reading of the stages of gentrification as they appear in the contemporary literature. The argument advanced is that gentrification is a neo-liberal process driven by market forces and encouraged by the state. It is therefore not a free market process open to everyone, but rather one which benefits strong social groups that are considered hegemonic in the Israeli context and excludes other populations, with lesser financial abilities. The case study also reveals how in modern Israel ‘real estate language’ replaced ‘national language’, and that the usage of such a language disguises ethnic and ethno-national stratification as well as class inequalities. Journal: City Pages: 412-427 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166703 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166703 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:412-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oren Shlomo Author-X-Name-First: Oren Author-X-Name-Last: Shlomo Title: Between discrimination and stabilization Abstract: This paper discusses Israeli rule in East Jerusalem through the lens of urban colonial governmentality, with a focus on the control and management of urban systems, institutions and services. Although Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem appeared stable, at least up until the early years of the new millennium, Israel never fully controlled Palestinian urban institutions and services in the city; to a great extent, large parts of these institutions and services continued operating after annexation under the auspices of Jordan or the Palestinian National Authority, in adversarial autonomy to Israeli rule. In this paper I analyze these ambiguities of rule as forms of governmental exceptions to the State’s administrative and managerial norms; exceptions which constitute an essential component of Israel’s control over East Jerusalem. I will argue that while political and urban theory ascribe exception from law and administrative normative order to a state’s offensive and discriminatory policies towards marginalized individuals and groups, in East Jerusalem we find a different type of governmental exception. This is manifested in the State turning a blind eye to adversarial governmental arrangements in order to achieve the normalization and stabilization of rule. By analyzing patterns of governmental exceptions in East Jerusalem since 1967, the paper discusses the ways urban institutions and services in contested cities emerge as an arena of colliding flows of practices and rationales of governmentalities and counter-governmentalities, shaped by rival strategies of dominance and control over the regulation of urban everyday life and identity. Journal: City Pages: 428-440 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166700 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166700 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:428-440 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amina Nolte Author-X-Name-First: Amina Author-X-Name-Last: Nolte Title: Political infrastructure and the politics of infrastructure Abstract: Against the background of a highly conflictive urban situation, the paper focuses on the planning and implementation of the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR). Running from the west all the way to the east of the city, the JLR traverses and connects contested territory. While Palestinians and the international community consider East Jerusalem to be part of a future Palestinian state, Israel adheres to its claim to the whole city, a unified Jerusalem. It is to that end that the JLR was implemented and, as this paper argues, it can be seen as an important governance tool that not only serves the city’s citizens and residents alike, but also works towards consolidating the Israeli authorities’ claim to the whole city. Further, the paper discusses whether infrastructure is inherently political or if there is a ‘politics of infrastructure’ at stake in Jerusalem with regards to the JLR and its wider implications for the urban fabric. The paper suggests that much can be learned from major transport infrastructure in cities, not only for contested cities such as Jerusalem, but also ordinary cities, since infrastructure is always already part of the existing and emerging political power struggles in every city. Journal: City Pages: 441-454 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1169778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1169778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:441-454 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Camillo Boano Author-X-Name-First: Camillo Author-X-Name-Last: Boano Title: Jerusalem as a paradigm Abstract: Can Jerusalem be considered a paradigm in urban studies and urban theory? Widening the debate over the ‘contested’ and the ‘ordinary’, this paper tries to address such questions whilst engaging with Giorgio Agamben’s powerful concept of paradigms. Considering Jerusalem a super, hyper-exceptional case trapped in the tension between particularism and exceptionalism, the paper reflects on Agamben’s approach to examples—or paradigms—which deeply engage the powers of analogy, enabling discernment between previously unseen affinities among singular objects by stepping outside established systems of classification. The paper suggests a possible new concept, ‘whatever urbanism’, to disentangle the apparent dichotomy between ‘ordinary’ and ‘contested’ as urban labels. Journal: City Pages: 455-471 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166697 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166697 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:455-471 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonathan Rokem Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Rokem Title: Beyond incommensurability Abstract: This paper’s core argument is that we should start creating theories that encompass different cities and include them in a more flexible and relational comparative framework. This must include a new urban terminology which does not continue the all-too-fashionable labelling of cities on a continuum between first world and third world, global North-West and South-East or as I emphasize below, including what have been labelled extremely contested cities in a more flexible and relational ordinary cities framework. To introduce such a comparative approach, I will examine Jerusalem and Stockholm via three contrastive and relational patterns: institutional segregation; urban violence; and non-governmental organization involvement in planning. In so doing, I point towards the necessity to open up research on extreme urban conflicts, suggesting that when assessing specific contextual patterns, those labelled as extremely contested cities (such as Jerusalem) share more similarities with other more ordinary cities (represented by Stockholm) than was previously perceived, often stemming from ethnic, racial and class conflicts revolving around issues of politics, culture and identity, among others. Journal: City Pages: 472-482 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166698 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166698 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:472-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oren Yiftachel Author-X-Name-First: Oren Author-X-Name-Last: Yiftachel Title: The Aleph—Jerusalem as critical learning Abstract: This reflective paper offers the metaphor of ‘Aleph’—the ‘place of all places’—as well as the material city of Jerusalem, as points of departure for rethinking critical urban theories. In the paper, Jerusalem is ‘prized open’ as a site of learning—exposing the diversity of structural forces shaping this—and any other—city. The ‘Aleph approach’ draws attention to the relational and often changing nature in which structural forces interact as they produce urban space and society. This is highlighted by a ‘guided tour’ of Jerusalem that reveals an array of colonial, capitalist, religious, gendered and political forces of domination and their fluctuations through time and place. As such, the paper offers a ‘South-Eastern’ perspective, framed by ‘dynamic structuralism’ as foundation for new and engaged CUTs—critical urban theories. Such theories, it is suggested, should be informed by the multiple and uneven nature of oppression and resistance, and by new concepts and categories that emerge from the analysis, without treating the city as simply ‘chaotic’ or ‘self-organized’. Urban theory should move beyond the numbing theoretical dominance of ‘globalizing’ or ‘neoliberal’ capitalism, and deal seriously with simultaneous forces, movements, agents and politics that co-produce the nature of contemporary urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 483-494 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1166702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1166702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:483-494 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Title: The London’s Housing Crisis and its Activisms Conference, associated with CITY’s Special Feature (issue 20.2) Journal: City Pages: 495-506 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1196063 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1196063 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:495-506 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David M. Bell Author-X-Name-First: David M. Author-X-Name-Last: Bell Title: Occupation from below: squatting within, against and beyond Journal: City Pages: 507-511 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1171066 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1171066 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:507-511 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Benjamin J. Pauli Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin J. Author-X-Name-Last: Pauli Title: Rethinking the urban crisis in Flint, Michigan Journal: City Pages: 512-516 Issue: 3 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 6 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1167478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1167478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:3:p:512-516 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Korinna Thielen Author-X-Name-First: Korinna Author-X-Name-Last: Thielen Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editors' note Journal: City Pages: 529-529 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1401392 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1401392 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:529-529 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Miguel Pérez Author-X-Name-First: Miguel Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez Title: Reframing housing struggles Abstract: After Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–1990), Chile’s post-dictatorial governments drew on market-based policies to develop large-scale subsidised housing projects and, accordingly, avoid the reappearance of mass housing movements. However, the considerable building of subsidised social housing in the 1990s did not lead to better living conditions for pobladores (the urban poor). To become homeowners, they began to be systematically expelled from their neighbourhoods of origin and relocated to segregated peripheries. This phenomenon has resulted in the re-emergence of housing protests in the last decade, which are mostly organised around pobladores’ demands for staying in their neighbourhoods. This paper analyses such a remobilisation process by scrutinising ethnographically the case of a state-regulated housing assembly in La Florida, a district of Santiago undergoing a housing affordability problem due to the generalised increase in land prices in Santiago’s Metropolitan Area. It focuses on how pobladores’ demands for the right to stay put in La Florida account for a broader reframing of right-to-housing struggles, expressed in the growing incorporation of right-to-the-city claims in their political language. In doing so, I show that current urban struggles allow for the rise of a type of urban citizenship through which the urban poor, by conceiving of themselves as city-makers, generate particular understandings of themselves as rights-bearers. This process of citizen formation, however, is paradoxical: although it is the result of mobilisations aimed at contesting market-based policies, it is permeated by a neo-liberal ethics through which the urban poor legitimate themselves as urban citizens. Journal: City Pages: 530-549 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374783 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374783 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:530-549 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Diana Burgos-Vigna Author-X-Name-First: Diana Author-X-Name-Last: Burgos-Vigna Title: Quito, a World Heritage City or a city to live in? Abstract: The capital of Ecuador, as a case study, is here used to show how policies regarding urban heritage may improve urban democratic standards and practices by supporting popular participation to redefine the concept of heritage and by encouraging residents to make urban heritage spaces their own. Quito was the first city in 1978 (along with Krakow) to be awarded the title of ‘Cultural Heritage of Humanity’, for the cultural importance of its historic centre. Heritage then became an essential resource not only for local but also national and international actors, as well as a lever for a more comprehensive urban development policy. However, the gradual depopulation of the area reflects the difficulties in conducting a policy of sustainable urban planning. In this context, recent urban programmes mark a watershed as they have involved the inhabitants as actors in the heritage policies and have given rise to a redefinition of heritage—whose long-lasting impact on cultural policy needs questioning. This paper therefore examines the evolution of heritage policies in Quito, and highlights the innovative nature of a recent cultural programme, entitled ‘Tell me about your Quito’, and its impact on the definition and on the appropriation of heritage, in a specific national context, that of the ‘Citizens' Revolution’ and ‘Good Living State’ which Rafael Correa’s government has promoted since 2007. It finally concludes on the emergence of a ‘right to heritage’, as an inclusive tool that establishes the conditions for the residents to appropriate the city and consequently, for the emergence of a more inclusive urban space. Journal: City Pages: 550-567 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374774 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374774 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:550-567 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Lieto Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Lieto Title: How material objects become ? Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to outline the qualities that objects must have to be suitable for urban theory; that is, for enabling urban theorists to better understand urban practices as socio-material entanglements. In doing so, I stress the importance of normative visions of the city that call for the critical import of assemblage and new materialism into a field that is constitutively concerned with values and differences. Objects are characterised as material relational entities and a series of concrete examples offer cues regarding ‘urban’ objects, enabling us to better understand urban practices as socio-material entanglements. The main claim is that urban theorists need to distinguish among objects in order to maintain their normative grip over the real world. They must resist radical ontological flatness and distinguish between objects that are capable of raising broader political concerns and others that are not. Journal: City Pages: 568-579 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374782 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374782 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:568-579 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eli Elinoff Author-X-Name-First: Eli Author-X-Name-Last: Elinoff Author-Name: Malini Sur Author-X-Name-First: Malini Author-X-Name-Last: Sur Author-Name: Brenda S. A. Yeoh Author-X-Name-First: Brenda S. A. Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh Title: Constructing Asia Journal: City Pages: 580-586 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374777 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374777 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:580-586 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eli Elinoff Author-X-Name-First: Eli Author-X-Name-Last: Elinoff Title: Concrete and corruption Abstract: Why do Thai citizens look to concrete to reveal political scandal? What do their readings of corruption in overbuilt, failed and obdurate structures tell us about the relationship between politics and construction in Thailand? How do these readings help us better understand the political power of this material and its enactments? In this paper, I trace the relationship between concrete and claims of corruption through three different projects—a recently proposed bike path along the Chao Phraya River, Suvarnabhumi International Airport and the failed Hopewell Rail project. I argue that the materiality of concrete is itself fundamental to these claims of corruption as it helps materialise the social relationships that produce projects rendering them visible and open to public critique. When a project has too much concrete, fails or remains in place long after it has become obsolete, the material allows urbanites to discuss the powerful relationship between capital, political power and the building. Cracking concrete thus reveals both situated political failures and deep structures of political inequality simultaneously. Journal: City Pages: 587-596 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374778 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374778 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:587-596 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Malini Sur Author-X-Name-First: Malini Author-X-Name-Last: Sur Title: The blue urban: colouring and constructing Kolkata Abstract: Since 2012, Kolkata’s ruling political party has mobilized the colours blue and white in a concerted effort to rejuvenate the city by referencing big urban ambitions, corporate capital and cheerfulness. Opponents, however, assert that as a state imposed colour, blue limits freedom and makes the city un-alluring. This article suggests that Kolkata’s contemporary blue urban gathers momentum as a political force. Colour mediates political power, creating new constituencies via construction and maintenance. Through a close correspondence between the state’s blue (colours of government offices, public infrastructures, urban lattices), the real estate’s blue (promising middle class residential living) and the widespread use of blue as an everyday urban colour (in slums, shutters, tarpaulin and corrugated boundary walls), the city’s contemporary colours undoes its prior forms. Following blue’s differing shades, patterns, and textures, in public spaces, elite residences, construction sites, and slums, I demonstrate how landed families, resettled artisans, and slum dwellers embrace blue as a colour of hope, while grappling with its corrupt and exclusionary forces. Journal: City Pages: 597-606 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374785 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374785 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:597-606 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joshua Comaroff Author-X-Name-First: Joshua Author-X-Name-Last: Comaroff Title: On the materialities of air Abstract: In the development of Singapore, the role of air—its materiality and commodification—remains strangely untheorised. Air is still regarded as a neutral or immaterial ether exerting little force in the shaping of urban and architectural form. This paper will argue, to the contrary, that air has long exerted an effect on Singapore. It has done so against the backdrop of a broad conceptual transformation, beginning in the late 19th century—being increasingly visualised and understood as ‘substance’ and calculated as a medium of economic externality. This process will be explored through three historical examples: Lee Kuan Yew’s belief in humidity as an obstacle to development; John Portman’s conceptualisation, at Marina Square, of thermal place-making and ‘teaser air’; and the recent crises of trans-boundary haze. The outcome, it will be proposed, has reinforced a pre-existing tendency towards the consolidation of interiorised and privatised urban blocks, at the expense of other approaches to public space in the city. Journal: City Pages: 607-613 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374776 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374776 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:607-613 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Waqas H. Butt Author-X-Name-First: Waqas H. Author-X-Name-Last: Butt Title: Distributing destruction Abstract: Alongside a growing population and expanding built environment, the construction of large-scale infrastructures, mostly related to transportation, has radically altered Lahore’s landscape. This paper explores how waste in the form of debris, smog and dust is produced and proliferates throughout the process of construction. In drawing upon the notion of atmospheric attunements, this paper argues that waste not only takes different forms, but also comes to be distributed at distinct scales. I first discuss the major infrastructure projects that have been built across Lahore in the past few decades in order to emphasise the ways in which destruction is interwoven throughout the construction process. I then turn to examine how debris as destroyed material that lacks value circulates through market exchange, allowing it to be remade into something of value once again. Finally, I draw upon both spectacular and mundane events to pursue how smog and dust resulting from construction create linkages across bodies, spaces and atmospheres, which refract inequalities within the city. Whether as debris, smog or dust, the question of distributing destruction is brought to the fore throughout the building processes: what material forms does destruction take and how are they distributed across bodies, spaces and atmospheres? Journal: City Pages: 614-621 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374775 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374775 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:614-621 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sylvia Nam Author-X-Name-First: Sylvia Author-X-Name-Last: Nam Title: Phnom Penh’s vertical turn Abstract: Phnom Penh is currently littered with over 600 high-rises, all built in the last decade. In this paper, I look at the shape of price in an uncharted market forged by developers speculating on the built environment, and working to bind and unleash value through new projects. Specifically, I focus on the city’s first high-rise, which catalysed the city’s vertical turn, compelling others to build tall in Phnom Penh. The project, in its incompleteness and durability, is at the very heart of Phnom Penh’s construction boom. By establishing new standards of price and form, this project helped to initiate a property market defined by improbable high-rise buildings that drive an economy in which buyers are investors rather than residents. This always-risky project, out of place nearly a decade ago when it was first announced and a daily reminder of visions left unfulfilled, has been vital to shaping the norms of construction and planning today. Journal: City Pages: 622-631 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1375725 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1375725 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:622-631 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: George Jose Author-X-Name-First: George Author-X-Name-Last: Jose Title: in Vasai Virar Abstract: This paper charts the critical role of ‘air rights’ in the transformation of Nalasopara in Vasai Virar—a peri-urban area in the north-western periphery of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region—from a ‘dormitory town’ to a municipal corporation in 2009. I suggest that state policy framed around the rhetoric of ‘housing for the poor’ and a profits-oriented private-enterprise-driven housing construction sector combined to transform globally deployed urban planning tools and protocols—floor area ratio (FAR) and transferable development rights (TDR)—into a local narrative in Mumbai’s periphery. I focus on a short-lived and recently aborted rental housing scheme and outline the technologies undergirding the commodification of built-space. The unprecedented demand for cheap housing produces both a market for unauthorised construction and an overheated trade in speculative real estate which spawns a ‘virtual’—and vertical—built-space that is a characteristic feature of the rapidly developing peripheries of Asian cities. I propose that the legal and political processes that fuel Vasai Virar’s ‘spectral’ housing commoditises the right to build vertically and produces, in its wake, airscapes—a distinctive urban imaginary. The impressive trade in TDR, that is, the right to build vertically, and the state’s continued subsidies for ‘affordable urban housing’ projects combine to produce dubious schemes in Vasai Virar that restructure the value of land and generate a new market topography built on the ‘primitive accumulation’ and trade in air rights. Journal: City Pages: 632-640 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374779 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374779 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:632-640 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Brenda S.A. Yeoh Author-X-Name-First: Brenda S.A. Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh Author-Name: Grace Baey Author-X-Name-First: Grace Author-X-Name-Last: Baey Author-Name: Maria Platt Author-X-Name-First: Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Platt Author-Name: Kellynn Wee Author-X-Name-First: Kellynn Author-X-Name-Last: Wee Title: Bangladeshi construction workers and the politics of (im)mobility in Singapore Abstract: The most iconic image of the foreign construction worker in Singapore’s popular imagination is a figure perilously secured by safety harnesses atop a half completed high-rise building. However, we argue that an understanding of the labour process involved in fashioning the migrant worker is predicated on a more expansive understanding of the politics of (im)mobility. In other words, the labour process is not simply secured in the workplace of the construction site but is linked to the politics of mobility and immobility across different spaces in the host nation-state and beyond. Drawing on a mixed-methods study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore, we discuss three interrelated themes: (a) the time-structuring mechanisms of the migration regime; (b) spaces of enclavement, exception, and enclosure; and (c) the governing of time discipline. Journal: City Pages: 641-649 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374786 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374786 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:641-649 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Victoria Nguyen Author-X-Name-First: Victoria Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen Title: Slow construction Abstract: Whereas once the policy and practice of wholesale eviction and demolition (chaiqian) was ubiquitous across the urban landscape of Beijing, today, development discourse in the state capital has shifted to embrace the strategic terminology of tengtui, or ‘voluntary’ evacuation. Concomitant with this discursive shift has been a critical rearrangement of urban development politics on the ground. In lieu of forced eviction disputes, ‘site fights’ now routinely occur between local residents and building crews as construction breaks ground on new development projects. This paper tracks varied incidents of construction conflicts in the redevelopment of Beijing’s historic old city to examine how the shift from the eviction site to the construction site is accompanied by the articulation of alternative temporalities that belie the linear, progress-oriented time of construction, planning and development in contemporary China. If speed is vital to development, I argue that site fights illustrate how slowness and the protraction of time can be essential to politics. Offering new tactical ways of using and measuring time in urban space, construction obstructionists recall a ‘right to the city’ that pivots more on temporality than the fetishisation of land and space. Through their resolute emphasis on the durative present, I suggest that it is not the ruptured eventful time of eviction, but the liminal time of these construction disputes that may pose the greatest challenge to the architects of China’s utopian futures. Journal: City Pages: 650-662 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1375728 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1375728 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:650-662 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timothy Karis Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Karis Title: The wrong side of the tracks Abstract: As part of Hanoi’s recent master plan for extending ‘urban civilization’ into the surrounding countryside, officials have annexed dozens of peri-urban villages, remade local landscapes according to ‘rationalized’ forms of development and embarked on ambitious infrastructure projects to ease the city’s chronic traffic congestion and showcase the city’s modernity. Drawing upon recent ethnographic fieldwork in Phu Dong Ward—one such outlying annexed space—this paper explores how citizens experience large-scale construction projects and displacement along the city’s ever-shifting urban margins, where membership in the city and claims on its space can be tenuous, detailing just what kinds of places, and what kinds of politics, emerge in the folds of marginal urban spaces yet to be ironed into their final forms. It details the material and symbolic presence of state and capital power as manifested through invasive construction sites alongside the countervailing corporeal and economic presence of resourceful citizens remaining in their compromised communities. It shows both: (1) how displaced citizens in Phu Dong engage a politics of presence in response to construction projects by circumventing official spatial directives, conspicuously contesting eviction and compensation policies, and repurposing urban places in ways that undermine the teleology of Hanoi’s planned reform and reconstruction; and (2) how the authority of state and capital maintains its own coercive presence—both physical and symbolic—through the urban railway’s material manifestations in newly annexed sites like Phu Dong—the equipment, construction signage, rubble and battered streetscapes that accompany the project and signal the inevitability of peri-urban change. Journal: City Pages: 663-671 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374780 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374780 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:663-671 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katharina Bodirsky Author-X-Name-First: Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Bodirsky Title: Between equal rights force decides? Abstract: This paper presents a sympathetic critique of a right to the city perspective that sets up a binary between city inhabitants who actively produce and appropriate city space for its use value as opposed to those who expropriate urban space for realizing exchange value. It suggests that this tends to gloss over the actual divisions among users of city space and their complicity with forces of capital and the state that constitute real limits for the urban revolution that the right to the city envisions. It then argues that an analytics of contested place-making, including practices of commoning, can both include the central conflict that is important to the rights to the city perspective and overcome the limitations of a rights framework. Journal: City Pages: 672-681 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374773 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374773 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:672-681 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marco Santangelo Author-X-Name-First: Marco Author-X-Name-Last: Santangelo Title: A Detroit story of maps, races and optimistic visions for the future Journal: City Pages: 682-684 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:682-684 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Kemmer Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Kemmer Title: Revisiting the urban cosmos—an intervention into the politics of urban assemblages Journal: City Pages: 685-689 Issue: 5 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374781 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374781 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:5:p:685-689 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Trump’s inauguration of counter-revolution? More groundings Abstract: The LA River. Photo: Andrea Gibbons. ‘I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan … Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks. It will be as exciting as the 1930s and greater than the Reagan revolution — conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement.’ (Stephen Bannon, quoted in Blake (2016)) ‘Trump … talks a lot about walls … It’s an enclave mentality, a circling-the-wagons mentality that is going to continue to pillage and gather all the resources possible while there are still resources to gather – because I think they are all afraid of global warming even as they deny it with their last breath – and deny the humanity of everyone outside those gates. It is a familiar mentality. We’re seeing it all play out again in the military actions against Native American struggles for water at Standing Rock – they are fighting for all of us and the land itself and yet the government has brought in tanks.’ (Andrea Gibbon (this issue)) ‘Immersed in a rapidly flowing stream, we stubbornly fix our eyes on the few pieces of debris still visible on the shore, while the current carries us away and propels us backward into the abyss.’ (Alexis de Tocqueville (2004 [1835]: 7)) When the preceding CITY editorial (‘Trumped? Some Groundings’) set out in mid- December 2016 an interim summing-up of US President Donald Trump’s ‘transitional’ arrangements and some possible environmental implications, it was still possible to conclude, tentatively, that we did not necessarily face a ‘situation of extraordinary continuing turmoil.’However, we introduced, in opposition to that tentative conclusion, as our first epigraph there, a passage from Noam Chomsky’s almost immediate, deeply challenging response to the election results and to the report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on climate change delivered on the same day, November 8th: The election outcome placed total control of the government -- executive, Congress, the Supreme Court -- in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history … The Party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. ( Polychroniou 2016 ) In the light of only a few months’ experience of the emerging Trump regime, there is, by now, April 2017, enough qualitative mainstream, specialist and journalistic reporting and analysis to begin to evaluate Chomsky’s overlapping contentions.With regard to his first contention, Republican control of the government – though patchy, confusing, zig-zagging between various positions, recently challenged in the streets as well as in some professional chambers, channels and courts – is emerging and beginning to simultaneously falter and accelerate. The Trump-appointed leadership of Bannon (though now apparently distanced), Mathis (‘Mad Dog’) and Tillerson has begun to take form and make decisions, supported – but not always supported – by a crowd of unpredictable extras with the continuing role of Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives but now, it seems, as an at times head waiter at the banquets and behind the scenes. And then there is the Master himself, Trump. Of a recent episode, as the news leaked out of the White House, it was reported in the Washington Post that ‘Trump was mad — steaming, raging mad’ (Rucker, Costa, and Parker 2017).The Washington Post’s tone and focus changed slightly in a later edition. Madness disappeared and was replaced by impatience: At the center of the turmoil in the White House is an impatient president frustrated by his administration’s inability to erase the impression that his campaign was engaged with Russia, to stem leaks or to implement any signature achievements.’ What was happening was perhaps exaggerated in the first version of the report. But in the world of Trump’s pantomimes, Stephen Bannon’s jacked-up realities and of Kellyanne Conway’s ‘alternative facts’, it is not easy to find ‘le mot juste’.As to Chomsky’s second contention, action on climate change is marginalised when/where it is not yet up for reversal.Though apparently premature at the time and over-stated, Chomsky’s contentions seem to be holding up. The more evidently social dimension of his forecast, refining it a little in the light of subsequent events, is taking the form of the control of the government in the hands of a plutocratic, military, technicist/professional, and promotional elite operating within the Republican Party. The process is well described, in Naomi Klein’s words, as ‘a corporate takeover’. But more than that, it is a form of regime change, occasioned, on the one hand, by an uneven, but nevertheless capitalism-threatening, humanitarian long revolution and, on the other, challenged and supplanted, bit by bit, by the attempted inauguration of another stage, possibly decisive, of a long counter-revolution, much deeper than a mere coup. Journal: City Pages: 773-778 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1333338 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1333338 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:773-778 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: Urban eco-geopolitics Abstract: Geopolitics should be understood as a broader subject than the usual association ‘nation-states + international relations + military power + geographical conditions’ suggests. Actually, ‘geopolitics’ is nothing but an explicitly political approach to social–spatial analysis, even if we pragmatically reserve the term for situations in which we face state interventions and strategies aiming at socio-spatial control and/or expanding political influence. Similar to the Copenhagen School’s ‘wider agenda’ for security studies, I think it is useful to develop a ‘wider agenda’ for the critique of geopolitics—for instance, one that clearly incorporates some urban problems as relevant subjects. ‘Eco-geopolitics’ refers to the governmentalisation of ‘nature’ and the ‘environment’, using the ‘environmental protection’ and often even the ‘environmental security’ discourse as a tool for socio-spatial control. Within the framework of this governmentalisation, there are increasing connections between local-level expressions of socio-spatial control in the name of ‘environmental protection’ and national and global agents and agendas. More concretely, ‘urban eco-geopolitics’ is above all related to strategies of socio-spatial control apparently designed to prevent people from ‘degrading the environment’, though in fact they have several social and spatial implications. Rio de Janeiro is here nothing but an illustration of a very general phenomenon. Nonetheless, Rio is a ‘privileged laboratory’ due to an almost unique conjunction of factors: (a) a proverbial ‘abundance of nature’ (i.e. a huge national park inside the heart of the metropolis); (b) a similarly proverbial socio-spatial inequality (hundreds of favelas coexist with elite neighbourhoods in the context of a complex segregation pattern that also includes a huge periphery and an extreme socio-spatial stigmatisation); (c) a ‘modernising drive’ that has significantly changed Rio’s urban space several times since the beginning of the 20th century, being recently represented by the direct or indirect effects of the ‘sporting mega-events fever’ that has dominated Rio’s city marketing since the last decade. Journal: City Pages: 779-799 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1239443 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1239443 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:779-799 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Title: Unprecedented natures? Abstract: Between November and December 2015, the southern Indian city of Chennai (alongside the northern coastal regions in the state of Tamil Nadu) experienced torrential rains with unanticipated flood consequences. Notoriously known as India’s ‘water scarcity capital’, instead of the proverbial ‘poor monsoons’, a series of low-pressure depressions with ‘record-breaking’ rainfall submerged the city rapidly, as homes and apartments flooded, communications were cut and transportation came to a standstill, including the closure of the airport. Even as environmental activists took the state and its allied actors (in the development and planning sector) to task over what they considered was a deliberate and reckless ‘urbanisation of disaster’, the state sought refuge in the argument that this was an unprecedented (global) weather anomaly. Recognising the need for a more robust (post-) disaster discussion, this paper offers an anatomy of the floods that begs a broader rethink of 21st-century urban disasters and argues that the current discourse offered by the social science of disaster is insufficient in unravelling the complex spatial and environmental histories behind disasters. It goes beyond setting up a mere critique of capitalist urbanisation to offer a cogent debunking of the deeply engrained assumptions about the unprecedented nature of disasters. It does so by dismantling three commonly invoked arguments that transgress any kind of environmental common sense: (1) the 100-year flood fallacy; (2) the ensuing debates around environmental knowledge and subjectivities; and (3) the need to spatially rescale (and regionalise) the rationale of the ‘urbanisation of disaster’. It concludes by raising concerns over the persistence of a resilience discourse, one that relies on the will of the ‘expert’ underwriting not only a non-specific techno-scientific approach but also perpetuates a politicisation of risk that shows little promise of accommodating new epistemologies that are socio-ecologically progressive. Journal: City Pages: 800-821 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1239410 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1239410 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:800-821 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Dalakoglou Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Dalakoglou Title: Infrastructural gap Abstract: An infrastructural gap (IG) emerged after the outbreak of the crisis in 2008 and it refers to the difficulty of the state and the private sector in sustaining the level of infrastructural networks in the Western world. Yet, infrastructures comprise the realm where the state or the market materialize a great proportion of the social contract. Citizens therefore often experience IG as a challenge of the entire political paradigm. Nevertheless, as research in the country that is at the center of the current euro-crisis—Greece—records, we have novel and innovative forms of civil activity focused on the IG. Such activity, applying principles of self-organization and peer-to-peer relationships, along with practices of social solidarity and ideals of commons, attempts to address IG in innovative ways. However, such practices call for theoretical and empirical innovations as well, in order to overcome the social sciences’ traditional understandings of infrastructures. This paper—based on the inaugural professorial lecture I gave in acceptance of the Chair in Social Anthropology at the Vrije University Amsterdam—seeks to initiate a framework for understanding this shift in the paradigm of infrastructures’ governance and function, along with the newly emerging infrastructural turn in socio-cultural anthropology. Journal: City Pages: 822-831 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1241524 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1241524 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:822-831 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chiara Rabbiosi Author-X-Name-First: Chiara Author-X-Name-Last: Rabbiosi Title: Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’ Abstract: In the last decade, urban studies scholars have been studying a wide variety of urban regeneration strategies formulated by social movements and civic networks. These initiatives range from physical interventions to social and cultural activities that also serve to appropriate urban space, according to an alternative logic to neo-liberal redevelopment plans. The aim of this paper is to participate in this debate by focusing on urban interventions that arise from self-organised local civic networks, to which I refer to as urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’. The term includes proposals, projects or effective actions that are not yet framed by a public policy implemented by governments. Drawing on empirical research in the Navigli area of Milan, Italy, civic network initiatives are contrasted to municipal strategies of regeneration. By focusing on two different experiences I show how civic networks’ actions respond to neo-liberalism ambiguously: they challenge it, but at the same time they are consistent with its logic. In the conclusion, it is claimed that urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’ suggests that the urban civic substratum of contemporary cities is still thriving. However, it is urgent that the contradictions these strategies entail are critically appropriated in order to develop a stronger answer to austerity urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 832-844 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1242240 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1242240 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:832-844 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marie-Hélène Bacqué Author-X-Name-First: Marie-Hélène Author-X-Name-Last: Bacqué Author-Name: Amélie Flamand Author-X-Name-First: Amélie Author-X-Name-Last: Flamand Title: as seen from France Abstract: This paper analyses the reception of the American TV series The Wire in the French context as part of a long, transatlantic conversation rooted in two histories and two social and political ‘models’. It focuses on educated audiences as well as on youth living in poor neighbourhoods; it also attempts to gauge the audiovisual references used by French viewers of the series. It shows how the series fuels a socially stratified sociological imaginary but also directly tackles ethno-racial issues that are still largely unaddressed in French debates. Journal: City Pages: 845-862 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1241528 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1241528 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:845-862 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Linking race, the value of land and the value of life Abstract: This paper works to more fully integrate critical theories of race and privilege with political economy to explore the connections between segregation, property values and violence in US cities. Through the prism of Los Angeles (LA), it exposes the economic mechanisms and history of violent struggle by which whiteness became, and remains, an intrinsic component of high land values. The resulting articulations of racial ideologies and geography, connecting circuits of real estate capital to common sense and racialised constructions of ‘community’, have helped drive LA’s fragmented and unsustainable form and increasing privatisation. They also lie at the root of violence inflicted upon those excluded, both ideologically and physically, from white constructions of community. This dynamic is key for theorising in support of ongoing justice struggles to create safe and sustainable cities for all. Journal: City Pages: 863-879 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1245049 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1245049 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:863-879 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fernando Ortiz-Moya Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz-Moya Author-Name: Nieves Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Nieves Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Title: The incredible shrinking Japan Abstract: Growth and shrinkage are two sides of the same coin—global restructuring of the capital that produces geographies of unequal urban development. This new reality goes beyond the attention of academics and policymakers, and is becoming a common narrative in Japanese cinema. This paper explores how Japanese contemporary filmmakers portray the problems associated with shrinkage, such as urban decay or the social and economic restructuring processes in Japan, disseminating it to a wider audience. This research study analyses two Japanese film-texts—Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s Sketches of Kaitan City (2010) and Sand-Il Lee’s Hula Girls (2006)—which serve to illustrate current trends of both Japanese urban shrinkage and cinema. The main objective underlying this analysis is to stress the relationship between cinema and urban space; and how the cinematic vision of cities helps to understand the complex socio-spatial processes from contemporary urban transformations. Journal: City Pages: 880-903 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1239445 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1239445 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:880-903 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Title: Endpiece: From LA to Standing Rock and beyond: A holistic reading of confluences Abstract: Andrea Gibbons is from Arizona, USA, and worked as a community worker in Los Angeles, which influenced both her short story, ’The El Rey Bar’ (2011), and her article ‘Linking Race, the Value of Land and the Value of Life’ in CITY (this issue). Here1 Andrea talks to Debbie Humphry about the key themes running through both her fiction and academic work. Debbie is CITY’s web editor, UEL research fellow, and photographer, who works on housing, class, social mobility and social justice. Journal: City Pages: 904-910 Issue: 6 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1297519 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1297519 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:6:p:904-910 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anthony Richardson Author-X-Name-First: Anthony Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson Title: A New World Ordure? Thoughts on the use of Humanure in Developed Cities Abstract: The implementation of urban farming through fertilisation with human excreta (humanure) has been a recurring agricultural technique. This concept paper discusses the challenges involved in using humanure for urban farming specifically in the developed world. It takes a broadly actor-network approach to acknowledge these challenges and suggests possible directions for addressing them. First providing a brief overview of attitudes towards human excreta across cultures, particularly the dichotomous views of waste or resource, it then outlines the crucial development of water-based sanitation in England in the 19th century and the spread of this technology across the developed world. Next various techniques of humanure (human excreta) use in agriculture are introduced before a particular focus on the technique of urine diversion is proposed. Finally discussing the multi-scalar technical, health, social and above all cultural challenges facing the use of ‘humanure’ for urban agriculture in the context of developed cities, it then acknowledges the incremental nature of successful technology uptake before proposing one possible modest approach for addressing the difficulties implicit in this model through the use of ‘urine diversion’. Journal: CITY Pages: 700-712 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709368 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709368 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:700-712 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marit Rosol Author-X-Name-First: Marit Author-X-Name-Last: Rosol Author-Name: Paul Schweizer Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Schweizer Title: Zurich: Urban agriculture as an economy of solidarity Abstract: This paper asks to what extent urban agriculture projects based on principles of Solidarity Economics are in a position to develop new economic forms based on solidarity—rather than competition—thereby posing an alternative model to neo-liberal capitalism. It seeks to understand how solidarity economies function concretely, what motivations, interests and goals move people to establish and participate in such initiatives, and what utopias they associate with such projects. It focuses on the Swiss gardening cooperative ortoloco, which can be defined as a peri-urban organic farm organised on principles that go beyond the supply of food to embrace explicit political aims and to realise an alternative economic model. For two years of existence, ortoloco has successfully applied these principles on its economic practice, but also constantly questioned them and developed them further. Extending the diversity of products and activities, and intensifying practical and theoretical cooperation with similar projects, the activists hope to apply the tested models on an ever-broader range of economic activities and spheres of living together in general. Whilst neo-liberal policies are presented almost worldwide as natural and without alternative, these projects are living proof that other ways of thinking and acting are possible. Journal: CITY Pages: 713-724 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:713-724 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson Author-X-Name-First: Adrian Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson Title: Introduction Journal: CITY Pages: 699-699 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.709404 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.709404 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:699-699 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jamie Peck Author-X-Name-First: Jamie Author-X-Name-Last: Peck Title: Austerity urbanism Abstract: Austerity budgeting in the public sector, selectively targeting the social state, is a long-established trait of neoliberal governance, but it has been enforced with renewed systemic intensity in the period since the Wall Street crash of 2008. The paper develops the argument that these conditions are defining a new operational matrix for urban politics. Examining some of the leading and bleeding edges of austerity's ‘extreme economy’ in the USA, the paper seeks to locate these developments in the context of mutating processes of neoliberal urbanism, commenting on some of its social and spatial consequences. Journal: CITY Pages: 626-655 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.734071 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.734071 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:626-655 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Glynn Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Glynn Title: You can't demolish your way out of a housing crisis Abstract: The amount of social rented housing in Scotland has declined to its lowest level in 50 years and is still shrinking; but the need for such housing has never gone away and since the financial crisis, it has been increasing. Across the country, there are growing numbers of households in insecure private tenancies, long waiting lists for social housing and people stuck in temporary accommodation. The need for more and better social housing has now been acknowledged by the Scottish Government, but this paper argues that, after 30 years of pro-market politics, a bias against social housing has become built into the system, and that we will not see real investment in social housing until the current policy framework is dismantled. The paper concentrates on the important, but often neglected, subject of refurbishing existing social housing. It uses examples from the author's research in Dundee to show the forces driving programmes of mass demolition and the impact of existing policies; and it suggests how policies could be changed in order to provide a relatively quick, economical, and also socially and ecologically sustainable solution to many social housing needs. Journal: CITY Pages: 656-671 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.734074 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.734074 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:656-671 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hyun Shin Author-X-Name-First: Hyun Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: Unequal cities of spectacle and mega-events in China Abstract: This paper revisits China's recent experiences of hosting three international mega-events: the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. While maintaining a critical political economic perspective, this paper builds upon the literature of viewing mega-events as societal spectacles and puts forward the proposition that these mega-events in China are promoted to facilitate capital accumulation and ensure socio-political stability for the nation's further accumulation. The rhetoric of a ‘Harmonious Society’ as well as patriotic slogans are used as key languages of spectacles in order to create a sense of unity through the consumption of spectacles, and pacify social and political discontents rising out of economic inequalities, religious and ethnic tensions, and urban–rural divide. The experiences of hosting mega-events, however, have shown that the creation of a ‘unified’, ‘harmonious’ society of spectacle is built on displacing problems rather than solving them. Journal: CITY Pages: 728-744 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.734076 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.734076 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:728-744 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Duman Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Duman Title: Dispatches from ‘the frontline of gentrification’ Abstract: Chatsworth Road in Hackney, has recently been branded in an article in The Guardian newspaper as ‘the frontline of gentrification’ in East London. As one of the ‘faces’ of the article, and through my position as local street market trader, I want to open up these claims to scrutiny, beyond both scholarly discourses on gentrification and the tough language of militant resistance. Through a blossoming of local action groups, the planning mirage of the Localism Bill, the proximity to the Olympic Park and the activities of local estate agents, the Clapton area is certainly at the centre of intense transformations in both demographics and property values. How are such urban shifts are created and the resulting values distributed in this area and for whose benefit? Where is the place for truly transformative social justice in the scope and tools of the Localism Bill? At the crossroads between declared missions of ‘managing gentrification’ for the love of the local, and the ways in which the employment of images of area distinction and notions of cultural ‘authenticity’ inevitably bolster the fragmentation of the local as the locals know it, the probing of Chatsworth Road and Clapton at this point in time offers a valuable vantage point to observe East London beyond the Olympic rhetoric. Journal: CITY Pages: 672-685 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.737507 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.737507 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:672-685 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nick Wolff Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Wolff Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Introduction: Unpacking the Olympic spectacle: ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ from London to Rio to China Abstract: ‘As we predicted you just did the greatest Games ever.… I really want to congratulate Mayor Boris Johnson for leading the city of London into these great Games.… These are Games of legacy, I've been to London many times and it's amazing what you did in the area of the Olympic park.… The logistics of the operation, the mobility of the people in London is really something.… We came here for a little advice from Mayor Boris and we're going to use the lessons we learned here in London for Rio's Games.… The city of Rio, it's not as rich as yours, but we're in good shape now.’ Journal: CITY Pages: 725-727 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.739328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.739328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:725-727 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Celine Kuklowsky Author-X-Name-First: Celine Author-X-Name-Last: Kuklowsky Title: Beyond the flash: reflections on Timon of Athens and the state of contemporary theatre Journal: CITY Pages: 745-747 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.741308 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.741308 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:745-747 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Erratum Journal: CITY Pages: 758-758 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.741772 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.741772 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:758-758 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: Neil Smith: A tribute from Berlin Journal: CITY Pages: 689-691 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.742612 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.742612 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:689-691 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza Title: Libertarians and Marxists in the 21st century Journal: CITY Pages: 692-698 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.749582 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.749582 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:692-698 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: For the possibility of world: Tributes to Neil Smith (1954–2012) Abstract: ‘Neil Smith was – and always will be - a magnificent intellectual giant of geography, urban studies and social science. He was a tremendously warm, unassuming, funny and mischievous person, who gave generously of his time and brilliance to nurture and encourage emerging scholars…So many people I know have devoted their lives to geographical/urban scholarship and activism because Neil's writings – passionate, honest, pure and truly beautiful – opened their eyes to new ways of interpreting the world, and more importantly, helped them think about how to change it… His speaking performances were always completely inspirational – electrifying, exhilarating, energising. His death, far too young, is a terrible loss for all those committed to a more peaceful, humane, socially just world – to the possibility of another world….’  (Tom Slater)1 Journal: CITY Pages: 686-688 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.751737 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.751737 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:686-688 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Reform and/or Transformation? Abstract: ‘Austerity has become a strategic space for the contradictory reproduction of market rule, calling attention to the ways in which neoliberal rationalities have been resuscitated, reanimated, and to some degree rehabilitated in the wake of the Wall Street crash of 2008-2009. By definition, however, this does not define a sustainable course. Beyond its internal contradictions, austerity urbanism has already become a site of struggle in its own right, though it remains to be seen whether the latest wave of occupations, protests, and resistance efforts will mutate into a politics of transformation.’ (Peck) After the Wall Street crash, market rule seems to have re-established itself under the guise of a form of austerity, one that draws, following out here Jamie Peck's powerful analysis, on neoliberal rationalities. Such a marketised and politically driven austerity involves an acutely skewed withdrawal, ‘extreme economy’, of resources and rights from workers and citizens, and reassertion by and for ruling elites of their own/owned rights and resources. It occupies a strategic space and time seeking to occupy (and therefore to negate the Occupy movement) a series of territorial spaces and moments. Its fluctuating fortunes as a hegemonic system and form of urbanism, seem to be determined by internal contradictions and internalised struggles. But are such struggles, as Peck's analysis seems in the main to suggest, necessarily internalised, confined to neoliberal rationality, essentially reformist, and therefore with little chance of achieving socio-spatial transformation, of taking us beyond this increasingly repressive and severe form of austerity? This is one question that underlies the accounts of local, regional and global developments, urban and pre/post urban, in this issue. If not, this is the second question, what forms of agency, where/ how/when, could bring that transformation about? Five contributions address these questions, implicitly and/or explicitly, on both a large-scale and a minute basis. The others deal with aspects of the questions. Journal: CITY Pages: 621-625 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.753746 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.753746 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:621-625 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Towards the great transformation: (4) Agrarian and urban rebellion, the 2008 crisis, art/philosophy/science, and Keiller's ‘Robinson Crusoe’ Abstract: After introducing an informal mapping of some aspects of the contemporary world and relevant notions and artworks, the series has so far concentrated on one of the artworks, Patrick Keiller's film Robinson in Space, exploring it through quotation, textual and visual, summary, interpretation and analysis. One particular life-form plays a dominant part in the film, lichen, with one associated activist image, that of Shakespeare's and Marx's ‘old mole’, as contrasted in the previous episode to Deleuze's alternative of a snake. Keiller's work provides a useful further mapping of this terrain and of its investigation at a particular place and time – an apparently rural rather than urban landscape during the climactic year of 2008 – that, playfully but seriously, trangressively transcends the boundaries of art, philosophy, and science. One major excavation from that landscape is a particular struggle against enclosure in the 1590s which, becoming clearer in the early seventeenth century and yet clearer in the early years of the twenty-first century, was and continues as an urban-and-agrarian struggle. As long as the agrarian component of these urban-and-agrarian struggles continues to be sidelined, the analytic insights, experience and tools of the Renaissance ignored, and praxis taken almost entirely off the map, the acute instabilities of 2008 and consequent savage cutbacks under the name of ‘austerity’ will continue and deepen on a terminal course. Keiller ends his journey with accounts of disaster, a ‘utopian’ solution, and a hint of a way forward. The necessarily minute account of Keiller's journey given here in this series (not, of course, a substitute for familiarity with the project itself) ends, before returning in passing in subsequent episodes to the contexts and works introduced in the initial episode, with a new shipwreck of Keiller's ‘Robinson Crusoe’ where, by the logic of this series, we find ourselves relocated within a unique combination of reptiles and mammals recently identified in contemporary California. Journal: CITY Pages: 748-757 Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.753747 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.753747 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:748-757 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Board Journal: CITY Pages: ebi-ebi Issue: 6 Volume: 16 Year: 2012 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.753748 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2012.753748 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:16:y:2012:i:6:p:ebi-ebi Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Fernández Author-X-Name-Last: Arrigoitia Title: Editorial: Revolt, chronic disaster and hope Journal: City Pages: 405-410 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1700657 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1700657 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:405-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Brian Doucet Author-X-Name-First: Brian Author-X-Name-Last: Doucet Title: Repeat photography and urban change Abstract: Repeat photography—the practice of rephotographing the same locations at different moments in time—is an under-utilised method for interpreting urban change. Despite this, it has the potential to give new empirical and theoretical meanings to our understanding of the ways in which major forces of change shape cities and their urban landscapes. The purpose of this article is to give a visual dimension to understanding long-term change in Toronto, Canada, since the 1960s. It will use historic images taken by streetcar enthusiasts as a starting point. Rather than studying these trolleys themselves, it is everything around them that is of interest for this study. As streetcar systems were disappearing or contracting after World War II, dedicated and passionate enthusiasts visited Toronto, which retained the largest streetcar network in North America, to ride and photograph them. Their images give us unique insights into the ordinary city in ways that few other genres do. To analyse long-term patterns of change, these historic images have been rephotographed over the past few years and show how trends such as deindustrialisation, financialisation, and gentrification are made visible in the urban landscape. In this article, I also echo assertions by Elvin Wyly and others that photographs are a useful part of critical constructive analysis of the city. Journal: City Pages: 411-438 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1684039 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1684039 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:411-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Enikő Vincze Author-X-Name-First: Enikő Author-X-Name-Last: Vincze Author-Name: George Iulian Zamfir Author-X-Name-First: George Iulian Author-X-Name-Last: Zamfir Title: Racialized housing unevenness in Cluj-Napoca under capitalist redevelopment Abstract: The Western Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca is among the few Central and East European non-capital cities in economic recovery following the dismantlement of actually existing socialism. Privatization-led housing politics and capital accumulation-driven real estate development, together with racialization and urban branding, (re)produce uneven development and housing unevenness in the neoliberal city. As the class focused political economy framework is insufficient to comprehend such a complex phenomenon, we explored it at the intersection of class, spatialization and racialization. Employing a whole range of data extracted from interviews, statistics and official documents, the article examines the conditions of possibility for the formation of the two extreme housing arrangements at local level: Cantonului colony, close to the Pata Rât landfill; and the luxurious real estate Maurer Panoramic placed at the heart of the city. Together, they illustrate racialized housing unevenness. Our contribution to urban studies consists in arguing for the central role of housing in the production of spatialized and racialized divisions in the capitalist cities. Journal: City Pages: 439-460 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1684078 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1684078 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:439-460 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Richard Barras Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Barras Title: Hegemonic building and the paradox of over-accumulation in the Central London office market Abstract: At every stage of urbanisation, monumental buildings have been employed as hegemonic symbols by the dominant social class. Beyond their use value and exchange value, such buildings acquire symbolic value as signifiers of status and power. They provide a medium through which the dominant class can express its collective authority, and individuals within that class can compete for supremacy. Hegemonic buildings exert a disproportionate influence on urbanisation, acting as catalysts for more extensive swathes of building investment and surviving long after most of that investment has been destroyed. Under capitalism, hegemonic buildings, like all buildings, have become commodified; their symbolic value as well as their use value has become a tradeable commodity The expected return from investing in such a building thus includes a ‘hegemonic premium’, the return on the symbolic capital invested in it. Competition amongst investors in hegemonic buildings such as office towers leads to over-accumulation, with more buildings produced than there are occupiers willing and able to fill them. This, in turn, leads to the devaluation of capital and the acceleration of obsolescence, as buildings become economically obsolete long before they reach the end of their physical life. Journal: City Pages: 461-482 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1684044 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1684044 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:461-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Roger Ball Author-X-Name-First: Roger Author-X-Name-Last: Ball Author-Name: Clifford Stott Author-X-Name-First: Clifford Author-X-Name-Last: Stott Author-Name: John Drury Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Drury Author-Name: Fergus Neville Author-X-Name-First: Fergus Author-X-Name-Last: Neville Author-Name: Stephen Reicher Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Reicher Author-Name: Sanjeedah Choudhury Author-X-Name-First: Sanjeedah Author-X-Name-Last: Choudhury Title: Who controls the city? Abstract: In August 2011, over four days, rioting spread across several cities in England. Previous accounts of these riots have indicated the roles of police racism, class disadvantage, and spatial affordance. However, what remains unclear is how these structural factors interacted with crowd processes spatially over time to govern the precise patterns of spread. The present paper provides a micro-historical analysis of the patterns and sequences of collective behaviour as the 2011 riots spread across North London, drawing upon multiple data-sets (archive, interview, video, official report, news coverage). The analysis suggests that initial stages of escalation in the broader proliferation were the result of protagonists deliberately converging from areas of relative deprivation in order to create conflict, but that they did so as a meaningful social identity-based expression of power. We show how over time these motivations and patterns of collective action changed within the riot as a function of intergroup interactions and emergent affordances. On this basis, we provide support for the argument that political, social and economic geography were key determining factors involved in the pattern of spread of the 2011 riots. However, we also suggest that an adequate explanation must correspondingly take into account the interplay between social identity, the dynamics of intergroup interaction, and empowerment process that develop during riots themselves. Journal: City Pages: 483-504 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1685283 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1685283 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:483-504 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Sara Wainer Author-X-Name-First: Laura Sara Author-X-Name-Last: Wainer Title: Politics by design Abstract: Unprecedented rapid urbanization, accompanied by growing urban informality, have positioned housing delivery at the frontline of national political agendas in the Global South. This paper analyzes the housing redevelopment of the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa (2004 to present) to shed light on the role of architecture and urban design in democracy building and city production. As an alternative framework to the ideas of ‘normalization’ and ‘resistance’, this case offers insights into the importance of situating spatialized political tensions and conflict at the heart of the analysis of city production. The Joe Slovo redevelopment initially deployed an inclusionary welfare-state policy that resulted in exclusionary housing design practices, causing political contestation among the residents of the informal settlement. The community materialized their struggle for housing and urban rights in creative examples of ‘design from below’. These practices not only re-defined the spatial control over Joe Slovo’s territory, but also, by the production of alternative urban space, they challenged institutional spaces, re-defining who plays what role in housing delivery. The findings reveal multidirectional design politics between governments and communities that occur when the state loses control over design decision-making processes. The community’s right to not be displaced to distant locations was guaranteed by reducing the state’s implementation and delivery capacity, exposing the challenges of city co-production and inviting us to rethink who has the right to design, code and imagine our cities. This case opens a window into understanding design as a political device of urban governance. Journal: City Pages: 505-523 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1685296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1685296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:505-523 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Clarke Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke Title: The governance of mundane urban nuisances Abstract: Existing research demonstrates how the governance of urban nuisances is often linked to the punitive treatment of marginalised subjects and the neoliberal imperatives that drive this. Yet, whilst the discourse of nuisance disproportionately effects marginalised populations, it is also applied to other urban subjects and problems. Drawing on a qualitative study of nuisance governance in Brisbane, Australia, this paper extends upon the existing literature by investigating how nuisances are governed in the wider community, paying particular attention to the role of punitive practices and neoliberal rationalities in this process. It shows how a broader array of neoliberal rationalities inform nuisance governance than acknowledged in previous research, which has predominantly focused on the political-economic rationality of ‘urban entrepreneurialism’. It shows, furthermore, that these rationalities do not merely promote punitive responses to nuisance problems, but rather combine punishment with more traditionally ‘liberal’ governance practices that seek to facilitate self-governance. I argue that taking account of this broader array of nuisance governance practices enables us to better understand what is specific about the treatment of marginalised urban populations, as well as deepening our understanding of the relationship between neoliberal rationalities and punitive governance practices. Journal: City Pages: 524-539 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1682860 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1682860 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:524-539 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Troels Schultz Larsen Author-X-Name-First: Troels Schultz Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen Author-Name: Kristian Nagel Delica Author-X-Name-First: Kristian Nagel Author-X-Name-Last: Delica Title: The production of territorial stigmatisation Abstract: The concept of territorial stigmatisation has garnered increasing attention over the past decade. Studies from across six continents confirm and contribute to the concept’s growing relevance in explaining the social and symbolic dimensions of advanced and urban marginality. However, the debates remain fragmented, and most studies have focused more on confirming and expounding the impact of territorial stigmatisation than its production. Based on an inductive analysis of 119 peer-reviewed articles we provide an overview of this fragmented field of research and to bring structure to the debates, we identify six distinct yet broad and partly overlapping ‘areas of research’ on the production of territorial stigmatisation. Within these, we identify 16 different modalities of production of territorial stigmatisation. We argue that the concept, in practice, is highly composed with several modalities operating simultaneously depending on context and scale and that analysing this flexibility is key to better conceptualise territorial stigmatisation. Furthermore our analysis implies that the production of territorial stigmatisation in its different modalities is not merely an unforeseen consequence of a society trying to deal with a wicked problem, but integral to contemporary forms of neoliberal urban governance where territorial stigmatisation to an increasing extent has become a legitimation strategy of the current radical policy measures of demolition, gentrification and re-privatisation of stigmatised territories. Journal: City Pages: 540-563 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1682865 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1682865 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:540-563 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christine Hudson Author-X-Name-First: Christine Author-X-Name-Last: Hudson Author-Name: Torill Nyseth Author-X-Name-First: Torill Author-X-Name-Last: Nyseth Author-Name: Paul Pedersen Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Pedersen Title: Dealing with difference Abstract: In an era of culturally driven growth, urban identities are of central importance for the branding of cities. However, urban identities are under constant re-negotiation as cities’ populations become more diverse. In northern Scandinavia, some cities have developed on what were traditionally Indigenous lands but have failed to acknowledge the role these roots and histories have played in shaping the city’s identity. As the numbers of Indigenous people living in cities grow and they begin to assert their right to the city, the relationship between a city’s ‘majority population’ identity and its ‘Indigenous’ identity may become contested. Looking at the northern Scandinavian cities of Tromsø (Norway) and Umeå (Sweden), we study the conflicts that have arisen around the cities’ place identity. In Tromsø, the conflicts concerned joining the Sámi Administration Area. Whereas, in Umeå, the Sámi identity of the city was contested in relation to the inauguration of Umeå as European Capital of Culture 2014. Drawing on theories of place identity, social justice and the right to the city and analysing representations of place identity in the local media and public fora, we discuss the importance of change and reproduction of urban identities and power relations in the two cities. We conclude that contestation can open up space for change and challenge the city’s dominant power relations, encouraging a resurgent politics of recognition of Indigenous identities rather than a conciliatory form of settler-state recognition that (re)produces and maintains colonial relations. Journal: City Pages: 564-579 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1684076 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1684076 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:564-579 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natalia Besedovsky Author-X-Name-First: Natalia Author-X-Name-Last: Besedovsky Author-Name: Fritz-Julius Grafe Author-X-Name-First: Fritz-Julius Author-X-Name-Last: Grafe Author-Name: Hanna Hilbrandt Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Hilbrandt Author-Name: Hannes Langguth Author-X-Name-First: Hannes Author-X-Name-Last: Langguth Title: Time as infrastructure Abstract: Overlapping and interlinked dimensions of time are shaped by and, in turn, structure contemporary urbanization and everyday life. This Special Feature debates the implications of such temporal dynamics for our cities: It explores the making of temporalities, the power relations in and through which this process is embedded, and the inequalities that its effects entail. Beyond definitions that focus on the material characteristics of infrastructures, the Special Feature understands temporalities themselves as infrastructures: structures that underlie and powerfully shape current forms of social organization and interaction. Considering time through this analytic lens promises to elucidate the ways in which political, social and economic conditions shape and exert authority over the everyday urban, as well as the material and social effects of such dominations. The papers assembled in this Special Feature unite scholars from different disciplines, probing this infrastructural lens to understand the structuring effects of urban temporalities in relation to central issues of contemporary urban development, including urban mobility and transnational migration, the politics of financializing urban infrastructure, urban energy transitions and climate risk. Moreover, thinking through the making of temporal infrastructures—that is, disentangling temporal authorities and their underlying power structures—allows thinking through opportunities for action and political change. In sum, these contributions advance three aims: to strengthen and enrich the analytical notion of infrastructure; to facilitate new knowledge about the construction of present, past and future temporalities; and to unveil potential entry points for social interventions that aim to establish empowering approaches towards urban equality and inclusion. Journal: City Pages: 580-588 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1689726 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689726 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:580-588 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hanna Baumann Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Baumann Title: Disrupting movements, synchronising schedules Abstract: In East Jerusalem two seemingly antithetical temporal regimes are at work. On the one hand, access to the city is disrupted by time that expands and contracts arbitrarily. This impedes movement, makes even the immediate future difficult to predict, and disconnects many Palestinian residents, particularly those on the outskirts of the city beyond the Separation Wall, from Jerusalem in both the short and the long term. Read as a deliberate ‘deregulation’, temporality thus feeds into Israel’s demographic aims of excluding Palestinians from the city. On the other hand, increased speed, timeliness and synchronisation are used to formalise and normalise Palestinian mobilities, as I show using the case of the Ramallah-Jerusalem Bus Company. This furthers the fifty-year project of Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem by linking and incorporating Palestinian movements into the circulations of the Israeli city. The de/regulation of urban rhythms enabled by this infrastructure of control serves to advance Israeli policy aims in the city by modulating degrees of connection to the city. The article reads this dual regime as reflecting the ambivalent status of Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents, who nonetheless seek to resist and mitigate the effects of both exclusionary and incorporative temporality. Journal: City Pages: 589-605 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1689727 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:589-605 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fritz-Julius Grafe Author-X-Name-First: Fritz-Julius Author-X-Name-Last: Grafe Author-Name: Hanna Hilbrandt Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Hilbrandt Title: The temporalities of financialization Abstract: In the last decade, a bourgeoning body of literature has explored the influence of financial actors, techniques and motives in the urban development of North American and European cities. Less has been said about the influence of finance on the temporalities of urban production and urban life. Yet finance is, at its most basic, the management of debt; and debt is, simply put, the deferral of payment; thus, by its very nature, financialization introduces new temporal dynamics into whatever object of investment it engages with. This paper examines these temporal dynamics in the financialized production of a large-scale urban infrastructure project, the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT), a 25-km ‘super-sewer’ beneath the River Thames where it runs through the center of London. From analyzing how financial actors, motives, and instruments influence the planning and implementation of this massive sewer expansion, it traces the ways in which the temporal characteristics of finance have repercussions in the urban space that privilege financial interests. This analysis contributes both conceptual and empirical insights. Firstly, it provides a theoretical conceptualization of the ways in which the temporalities of financialization shape the material production of the city. Secondly and more empirically, our case analysis allows us to schematize the different ways in which the financialization of the TTT project shapes the temporalities of its production, with wide-ranging political, economic and environmental implications. In summary, the paper closes a crucial gap in understanding how different temporalities of finance intersect in the making of contemporary cities. Journal: City Pages: 606-618 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1689730 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689730 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:606-618 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ruth Coman Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Coman Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer Author-Name: Jonas König Author-X-Name-First: Jonas Author-X-Name-Last: König Title: Labour migration as a temporal practice in peripheral cities Abstract: Comăneşti, a small town in Romania’s Moldova region, has been significantly affected by migration to Western Europe over the last decades. Yet, the development of the city cannot fully be grasped with the notion of ‘shrinking’. As migration is often temporary and as migrants maintain multiple ties with their place of origin, they rather forge a specific temporality of urban development that is shaped by rhythms of absence and presence; that is oriented towards future returns; and that echoes the cycles of transnational labour markets as well as immigration policies of destination countries. This paper, on the one hand, shows how the temporality of Comăneşti is constituted and stabilised by temporal facets of labour migration practices. On the other hand, the paper illustrates how Comăneşti’s temporality infra-structures the economic and social life of the city and materialises in its urban space. In so doing, the paper does not only seek to contribute to the debate on time, urban development, migration and peripherality by turning to the ‘departure cities’ of transnational migration, but also seeks to advance the idea of ‘time as infrastructure’ by illustrating how it is maintained and reproduced in practice. Journal: City Pages: 619-630 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1689733 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689733 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:619-630 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Patrick Bond Author-X-Name-First: Patrick Author-X-Name-Last: Bond Title: Contradictory time horizons of Durban energy piping in an era of looming climate chaos Abstract: The contradictory role of time in urban capital’s uneven development can be observed through the analytical lens of infrastructure investment. The two cases considered below are energy pipelines in Durban, South Africa. On the one hand, urgency is associated with greenhouse-gas emissions mitigation, to slow climate change that is already doing enormous damage in this city. Yet on the other hand, the lengthy payback of mega-project investments made in long-term fossil fuel projects (and hence their reliance upon public subsidisation and guarantees) and the financial difficulty of switching to low-carbon transport, energy and waste disposal systems, together mean that temporal contradictions loom large. In sum, it appears impossible to align socio-ecological survival needs with investors’ profit-driven time horizons. This is the case involving a controversial pipeline for petroleum products from the African continent’s largest refinery complex (South Durban) to its largest market (Johannesburg), constructed at the same time as was piping to redirect methane that is emitted from the continent’s largest landfill, into a new electricity generator (in central Durban). The context, globally and locally, is that the ‘displacements’ of overaccumulated capital into infrastructure finance (and then specifically into piping systems) hit both temporal and spatial barriers, failing to deliver the promised returns on the infrastructure investments. With such insights, critical urban activists can better apply contrary analysis—of time, space, scale, class, race and environmental overlaps—whenever local growth coalitions parrot the slogan used to justify massive public subsidization of this infrastructure on behalf of investors: ‘build it, and they will come.’ The next question: who wins and loses—and when? Journal: City Pages: 631-645 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1689734 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689734 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:631-645 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ivonne Elsner Author-X-Name-First: Ivonne Author-X-Name-Last: Elsner Author-Name: Jochen Monstadt Author-X-Name-First: Jochen Author-X-Name-Last: Monstadt Author-Name: Rob Raven Author-X-Name-First: Rob Author-X-Name-Last: Raven Title: Decarbonising Rotterdam? Abstract: Low carbon transitions of urban energy systems have been on urban research and policy agendas for several years now. While the spatialities of infrastructure transitions have been widely discussed, their temporalities have attracted much less attention. This is surprising, since the transition of urban infrastructures in the course of system integration and decarbonisation reveal strong temporal dynamics: new temporalities or temporal requirements not only emerge as a result of technological change (e.g. by integrating fluctuating renewables or storage technologies) but also of changing social practices (e.g. in urban load management or energy use). We argue that aligning urban and infrastructure temporalities involves negotiations between the various energy providers, regulators and users involved and is a highly political process. As we know little about such temporal dynamics so far, this study uses an explorative methodology to elaborate on a conceptual framework of urban and infrastructural temporalities. This framework has been developed in an iterative way by going back and forth between conceptual contributions and empirical findings drawn from expert interviews regarding low carbon transitions in Rotterdam. Our case study of Rotterdam indicates that unsolved challenges in aligning urban and infrastructural temporalities can be seen as a major restriction to realise low carbon energy solutions. Journal: City Pages: 646-657 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1689735 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1689735 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:646-657 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Liz Koslov Author-X-Name-First: Liz Author-X-Name-Last: Koslov Title: How maps make time Abstract: Practices of remapping and rezoning land based on environmental risk are rapidly expanding worldwide. Designating certain urban areas as “at risk” in the context of climate change raises familiar conflicts over space and the fraught placement of borders and boundaries. It also gives rise to lesser-studied struggles over time. This article examines such temporal conflicts through a case of disputed risk mapping in New York City. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork over a four-year period after Hurricane Sandy, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was revising the city’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or FIRMs. FIRMs divide land into zones of risk to set insurance rates and building standards. They dictate how high exposed homes must be elevated and who can afford to live in them. This article adds to work on the social consequences of risk mapping, which in FEMA’s case is occurring in conjunction with changes to the National Flood Insurance Program that portend rate hikes for many households. Foregrounding the lived experience of being mapped into a flood zone, the article analyzes conflicts over how FIRMs represent risk, redistribute uncertainty, and reorient collective action in ways that threaten to hinder movement toward more flood-adapted futures. While maps are key to rendering the risks of climate change vivid and local, their use as technologies of governing adaptation produces its own contested effects, centered in part on competing temporalities like the flood-zone temporalities examined here. Journal: City Pages: 658-672 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1690337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1690337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:658-672 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Koray Caliskan Author-X-Name-First: Koray Author-X-Name-Last: Caliskan Title: A timely rapprochement between design scholarship and economization studies Journal: City Pages: 673-675 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1682869 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1682869 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:673-675 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jason Luger Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Luger Title: Re-envisioning the global city’s future Journal: City Pages: 676-680 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1684026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1684026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:676-680 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laurence Côté-Roy Author-X-Name-First: Laurence Author-X-Name-Last: Côté-Roy Title: How-to guide to the new city: learning from Africa's new towns Journal: City Pages: 681-685 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1682870 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1682870 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:681-685 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Xuefei Ren Author-X-Name-First: Xuefei Author-X-Name-Last: Ren Title: China’s new towns Journal: City Pages: 686-689 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1684634 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1684634 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:686-689 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maggie Dickinson Author-X-Name-First: Maggie Author-X-Name-Last: Dickinson Title: Black agency and food access: leaving the food desert narrative behind Journal: City Pages: 690-693 Issue: 4-5 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 9 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1682873 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1682873 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:4-5:p:690-693 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Beaumont Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Beaumont Title: The politics of the visor Abstract: Do we feel at home in the cities we inhabit? There are of course innumerable ways in which people, and especially the poor and those from marginalized social groups, experience an almost permanent sense of displacement in the urban environments in which they live. The built environment, of course, actively contributes to this condition of unease; and in the early 21st century, an epoch in which metropolitan centres are increasingly dense with privatized, covertly surveilled public spaces, architecture and urban design is probably more aggressive in prosecuting or reinforcing this politics of exclusion than ever before. But there is also a chronic and pervasive sense of disquiet that, whoever we are, and from wherever we have come, is virtually constitutive of our experiences of living in cities. In this article, I explore some aspects of the role that buildings play in reinforcing both the concrete and more abstract forms of this uncanny feeling of not being at home in the urban environment. What I have to say about architecture concerns both how we look at buildings and, more significantly still, how buildings look at us. I first examine the ways in which buildings in general reinforce a sense of the city’s unhomeliness, its uncanniness, in part by applying Slavoj Zizek’s fertile notion of the ‘architectural parallax’. I then detail the ways in which a specific type of contemporary architecture, which I characterize in terms of its ‘visored’ facades, dramatizes the intrusive, even offensive, relation to the individual outlined in the preceding section. Finally, in a brief conclusion, I playfully propose a response to the hostile relation in which these buildings, indeed urban buildings in general, situate us. What Alejandro Zaera Polo has pursued in the shape of a ‘politics of the envelope’ lies behind my reflections here on the politics of what I call the visor. They are offered in part as a contribution to ongoing debates about the ‘right to the city’, since it seems to me that this slogan should among other things entail the right to feel at home in the built environment in which we live. Belonging in the city should be a necessary corollary of being in the city. Journal: City Pages: 63-77 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1423815 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1423815 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:63-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gaja Maestri Author-X-Name-First: Gaja Author-X-Name-Last: Maestri Title: The struggles of ‘migrant-squatters’: disrupting categories, eluding theories Journal: City Pages: 169-173 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1427367 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1427367 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:169-173 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonathan Rokem Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Rokem Title: Contrasting Jerusalem: contested urbanism at the crossroads Journal: City Pages: 174-177 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1427370 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1427370 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:174-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anke Schwarz Author-X-Name-First: Anke Author-X-Name-Last: Schwarz Title: A sudden drop in pressure Journal: City Pages: 178-182 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1428272 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1428272 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:178-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bettina Ng’weno Author-X-Name-First: Bettina Author-X-Name-Last: Ng’weno Title: Growing old in a new city Abstract: Once imagined as a colonial city with restricted access to Africans and now planned as a ‘world class African metropolis’, Nairobi today is a rapidly changing city. What does it mean to grow old in such a city? Based on memories of people who grew up in Railway housing in Nairobi between the late 1930s and 1980s, this article examines rapid change from the point of view of permanence and aging. What imaginaries of a future Nairobi did long-term African residents have, how did they transform the space of Nairobi in efforts to realize those dreams and how do current changes feel in light of those dreams and longevity in the city? It argues that: (1) to understand urbanity in Africa we need to address long-term residents as well as migrants; (2) Africans who had access to permanent jobs and housing had a different interaction with the city that shaped their understanding of temporality and cityness; (3) the new plans and changes in Nairobi do not conceive of these residents, nor take into account their dreams of modern African urbanity, replicating instead a colonial city; and (4) we also need to pay attention to the affective ties to the city conditioned by notions of temporality that elicit different responses to change and displacement. Journal: City Pages: 26-42 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1431459 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1431459 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:26-42 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yannis Tzaninis Author-X-Name-First: Yannis Author-X-Name-Last: Tzaninis Author-Name: Willem Boterman Author-X-Name-First: Willem Author-X-Name-Last: Boterman Title: Beyond the urban–suburban dichotomy Abstract: Suburbanisation has been a prevalent process of post-war, capitalist urban growth, leading to the majority of citizens in many advanced capitalist economies currently living in the suburbs. We are also witnessing, however, the reverse movement of the increasing return to the inner-city. This contradiction raises questions regarding contemporary urban growth and the socio-spatial production of the suburbs. This paper draws on the case of new town Almere in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam to cast light upon the changing suburban–urban relationship, by investigating the mobility to and from Almere for two decades through socio-economic, demographic data between 1990 and 2013. We demonstrate that Almere has developed from a typically suburban family community to a receiver of both international unmarried newcomers and families; its population has also become relatively poorer, yet the levels of upwards income mobility have remained stable. These trends emphasise alternative types of mobilities emerging in concert to the more typical suburban migration. The town’s transformation challenges the urban–suburban dichotomy, pointing to alternative explanations of contemporary urban growth and metropolitan integration. Journal: City Pages: 43-62 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1432143 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1432143 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:43-62 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Phil Hubbard Author-X-Name-First: Phil Author-X-Name-Last: Hubbard Author-Name: Loretta Lees Author-X-Name-First: Loretta Author-X-Name-Last: Lees Title: The right to community? Abstract: Displacement is central to the process of gentrification, but the importance of law in both enacting and resisting such displacement is often overlooked. Noting the tensions between existential, embodied meanings of displacement (i.e. being removed from a place called home), and the formal legal definitions of displacement (i.e. the removal of the right to a property), this paper explores how the law is implicated in the struggle for London's remaining council estates, with processes of expropriation providing councils a means of displacing residents from these estates to allow for (private) redevelopment but also an opportunity for residents to assert their ‘right to community’. Here, we focus on the implications of the UK Secretary of State's decision not to overturn the Planning Inspectorate's (2016) recommendation that Southwark Council should not be allowed to compulsory purchase those homes on the Aylesbury Estate which residents had not already vacated via negotiation. This decision was reached on the basis that while tenants would be compensated financially for the loss of property, they would not be adequately compensated for losing their home. This is suggestive of an expanded notion of housing rights that encompasses a right to community—something that raises the possibility of the law actually aligning with the interests of council residents rather than supporting the politics of gentrification. Journal: City Pages: 8-25 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1432178 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1432178 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:8-25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Gandy Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Gandy Title: Cities in deep time Abstract: How should we interpret the relationship between urbanization and the loss of bio-diversity? The discourse of bio-diversity serves as a critical lens through which the accelerating momentum of ‘metabolic rift’ can be explored in relation to contemporary mass extinction. But what is the precise role of cities within what has been referred to as the ‘sixth extinction’ facing the history of the earth? Are cities to be subsumed within a broader environmentalist critique of modernity or can they serve as the focal point for alternative cultural, political, and scientific interventions? This article suggests that the distinction between cities and broader processes of urbanization remains significant for a more critically engaged reading of the politics of the biosphere. Indeed, an overemphasis on ‘methodological globalism’ risks obscuring the differences that matter in the articulation of alternative modernities. In particular, we consider how the relationship between cities and ‘deep time’ can be conceptualized as a focal point for the interpretation of global environmental change. Journal: City Pages: 96-105 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434289 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434289 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:96-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louis Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Louis Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Title: Always crashing in the same city Abstract: It has been said that in the 21st century all politics is about real estate. The claim is important because it clarifies capitalism’s global method: spatial dispossession is fundamental to finance capital’s world-ranging power. Here, it is also clear that since the 1970s urbanisation has given financial capitalism a new freedom—the freedom to make the future a spatial privilege only urban elites can enjoy. What, though, makes it possible to reduce all the different qualities of planetary experience to the quantitative identity of money and space? Returning to the monetary crisis of 1971, this essay considers the way real estate has become the enabling condition which makes urbanisation and financialisation equivalent operations. But urban accumulation is more than just the pathological expression of a global rentier class. Real estate is also the condition of possibility for a cultural diversification and spatial intensification of the credit system’s reach; facilitating the emergence of new human forms of capitalisation and, through new technology, financial deepening at the psychic level. Resisting capital’s attempt to make inner experience a field of real estate manifests a new frontline of planetary praxis; necessitating an urgent need to revivify the spatio-political unconscious. Journal: City Pages: 152-168 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434295 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434295 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:152-168 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Title: Of monsters and boomerangs: Colonial returns in the late liberal city Abstract: Our crisis is colonial. This is not a metaphorical statement. It is a historical assessment. If the global South today holds up the mirror of the future to the global North, this is but the effect of the endurance of forms of colonialism at work precisely in their contemporary deformations. When Aimé Césaire in 1950 spoke of the ‘terrific boomerang effect’ of colonialism he had fascist Europe in his sights. This article suggests that today, in the days of revanchist austerity and resurgent far-right populism, the boomerangs are again coming back thick and fast; it traces three intensified points of convergence between liberal-democratic and (post)colonial geographies: mass eviction, the deeper extraction of value from social-biological life, and repressive force. Dispossession—as a modality of government in its own right—is one name through which we might think this conjuncture. A conjuncture that marks the unraveling of not only the normative self-image of liberal politics (as it tumbles closer to its self-ascribed Other—the authoritarian), but also the very foundations upon which our critical urban thought rests—the liberal city. Journal: City Pages: 106-115 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434296 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434296 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:106-115 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ilse Helbrecht Author-X-Name-First: Ilse Author-X-Name-Last: Helbrecht Author-Name: Francesca Weber-Newth Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Weber-Newth Title: Recovering the politics of planning Abstract: The goal of this paper is to recover the politics of planning with a focus on the state-planning tool ‘developer contributions’. We draw on David Harvey’s theory of accumulation by dispossession [(2003). The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press] and Spaces of Hope [(2000). University of California Press] to identify not only (new) spaces of inequality, but also cracks in contemporary capitalism—material and discursive spaces for alternatives. These theoretical foundations are invaluable in developing and building-on Engels’ discussions in ‘The Housing Question’ [(1872). Accessed March 3, 2016. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/] and add complexity to the post-political perspective as championed by Erik Swyngedouw [(2007). “The Post-Political City.” In Urban Politics Now. Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City, edited by Guy Baeten. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers]. In scrutinising the potentials of developer contributions within the contemporary housing question, Harvey is not only helping lay the foundation for more pragmatism within leftist camps, thus fulfilling an ethical imperative within planning. Harvey’s theories are also invaluable in terms of analysing empirical contradictions ‘on the ground’ that are more ambiguous than both Engels and Swyngedouw suggest. In order to make our case, we review existing literature on developer contributions, exploring the ways in which developer contributions can be analysed as both a sign of hope and as a disaster. We offer a dialectical reading, and make a proposal as to ‘what next’? Journal: City Pages: 116-129 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434301 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434301 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:116-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Loftus Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Loftus Title: Planetary concerns Abstract: This paper responds to the challenge to refract Harvey’s theory of uneven development through the planetary. It does so by questioning the way in which ‘the planetary’ has functioned as an abstraction within recent work in urban and environmental studies. With some now framing the field of urban studies as caught between two perspectives—‘the planetary’ and ‘the everyday’—I reject such a typology, arguing that it fails to reflect the current state of the field and is an obstacle to the practice of genuinely inquisitive scholarship. Writing against such a myopic view of the field, I nevertheless argue that we might rethink the current planetary turn through considering the planetary as one moment in a process of abstraction. Rather than the planetary serving as the starting point for an analysis—as the whole notion of a planetary turn seems to suggest—I argue that the planetary needs to be considered an arrival point, an ensemble of social relations that can only be arrived at through the hard work of critical scholarship. I begin by detailing the so-called planetary turn in urban and environmental thought before looking at the simplistic typologies counterposing such a position to the more situated or everyday. I then suggest an alternative framing by rethinking the relationship between the abstract and the concrete. I conclude by advocating for a philosophy of praxis. Journal: City Pages: 88-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434304 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434304 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:88-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elvin K. Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin K. Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Author-Name: Jatinder K. Dhillon Author-X-Name-First: Jatinder K. Author-X-Name-Last: Dhillon Title: Planetary Kantsaywhere Abstract: On the leading edges of multidimensional cultural evolution in an urbanizing capitalism that is becoming ever more cosmopolitan and competitive, universities promise contradictory blends of diversity, inclusion, and fair, open access to the inherent exclusivity of the means of production of inequality: human capital. In this paper, we extend David Harvey’s theorization of the urbanization of consciousness and accumulation by dispossession in order to diagnose the dangerous contradictions of transnationalizing educational meritocracies in contemporary cognitive capitalism. Competition is intensified through informational automation and infinitely expanding fields of quantified, bell-curve sifting and sorting of human aspirations and cognitive labor: so-called ‘world-class’ universities are sites of astonishing brilliance and pervasive anxiety, depression, and suicide. Cycles of valorization and devalorization of embodied human capital are accelerating with the systemic overproduction of competitive human achievement, creativity, and excellence. New scales of competition are reconfiguring inter- and intra-generational inequalities, sustaining a mirage of attainable, multidimensional perfection on the receding horizons of planetary human possibility. Today’s constellations of capital, code, and competition are producing an evolving planetary ethos best described as accumulation by cognitive dispossession; while some of its technologies are genuinely new, the essential logic is just a transnational, multicultural, and pseudo-postcolonial update of the utopian perfection portrayed in Francis Galton’s stillborn 1911 eugenics novel Kantsaywhere. Journal: City Pages: 130-151 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434307 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434307 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:130-151 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louis Moreno Author-X-Name-First: Louis Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno Author-Name: Hyun Bang Shin Author-X-Name-First: Hyun Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: Introduction: The urban process under planetary accumulation by dispossession Journal: City Pages: 78-87 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1442067 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1442067 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:78-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sukriti Issar Author-X-Name-First: Sukriti Author-X-Name-Last: Issar Title: Editorial: We have never been urban Abstract: Are we in a new urban moment, or have we never been urban? Recent literatures have theorized the emergence of a new moment or epoch in the history of urbanization (or in urbanization theory?) under a range of terms – the Urban Age, the Anthropocene, planetary urbanization, and so on. This contemporary moment is interpreted as ‘geohistorical developments [that] pose a fundamental challenge to the entire field of urban studies … its basic epistemological assumptions, categories of analysis, and object of investigation require a foundational reconceptualization’ (Brenner and Schmid 2012). Underlying the idea of planetary urbanization is a certain temporality – Brenner and Schmid put it at ‘during the last thirty years’ (Brenner and Schmid 2012). Being written in 2012, that dates the current sense of urban catastrophe and destabilizing of conventional epistemological categories to the 1980s. However, Merryfield (2013) footnotes that Wirth’s is probably the ‘best take’ on describing planetary urbanization – the reference is to Wirth 1938. The timeline is therefore not strictly precise, nor is periodization the most pressing debate here – it’s clear that whenever it might have started, it is now, and it is urgent (see also Gandy, this volume). Journal: City Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1443594 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1443594 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: A note from the Editor-in-chief Journal: City Pages: 5-7 Issue: 1 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1450952 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1450952 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:1:p:5-7 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yael Padan Author-X-Name-First: Yael Author-X-Name-Last: Padan Title: Housing as Zionist nation-building Journal: City Pages: 308-311 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1434995 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1434995 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:308-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Seth Schindler Author-X-Name-First: Seth Author-X-Name-Last: Schindler Author-Name: Simon Marvin Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Marvin Title: Constructing a universal logic of urban control? Journal: City Pages: 298-307 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1451021 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451021 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:298-307 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dominik Bartmanski Author-X-Name-First: Dominik Author-X-Name-Last: Bartmanski Author-Name: Martin Fuller Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Fuller Title: Reconstructing Berlin Abstract: Using the relational concepts of scale, substance and style, we develop a sociological perspective on the built environment that takes into account but extends beyond specific political conditions. We investigate three examples of grand civic architecture that have successively occupied a central site in Berlin. The Palast der Republik built by the authorities of the German Democratic Republic replaced the Prussian City Palace only to be demolished three decades later, giving way to a replica of the imperial palace that is currently under construction. We show how this drama of destruction, construction and reconstruction spanning different temporal and political contexts substantiates a cultural sociological framework with wider applicability. Investigating the importance of the site, we show how these recurrences indicate that a will to grand architectural representation and ritual destruction is not reducible to any one specific political ideology. This, in turn, indicates that a deeper imperative of symbolic politics is at work. The life and death of great Berlin palaces show how materiality and meaning are interwoven to entrench political legitimacy. Journal: City Pages: 202-219 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1451100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:202-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Raffael Beier Author-X-Name-First: Raffael Author-X-Name-Last: Beier Title: Towards a new perspective on the role of the city in social movements Abstract: Cities were at the centre of the ‘Arab Spring’, but did they play a decisive role or were they just the passive settings in which these uprisings took place? This paper develops a new way of understanding the role of the city in social movements by looking at changes and continuities in urban policy in North Africa after the ‘Arab Spring’. The paper’s main argument is that the role of the city in social movements can be understood through an analysis of governments’ urban policy responses to those movements. First, it shows that North African urban policy has always reacted sensitively to social unrest and that neoliberal planning schemes have even strengthened this sensitivity. Second, the paper provides an empirical comparative analysis of urban policy in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia after the ‘Arab Spring’. The study shows that public authorities give pivotal attention to public space and to informal settlements as they have been stigmatised as breeding grounds of social unrest and as a threat to the political establishment. Journal: City Pages: 220-235 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1451135 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451135 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:220-235 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Wayne Shand Author-X-Name-First: Wayne Author-X-Name-Last: Shand Title: Urban assemblage, street youth and the sub-Saharan African city Abstract: This paper draws on the explanatory power of assemblage thinking to consider the lives and urban experiences of young people growing up on the streets of sub-Saharan African cities. Urban assemblage is used to articulate a ‘thick description’ of the practices of coping with extreme poverty and marginalisation and to identify the effects of these actions on the construction of both young lives and the city. Focusing on a central idea of urban assemblage as a process of formation/transformation, the paper examines the strategies and performances adopted by street youth to meet their basic needs and navigate complex power and social relationships. Highlighting constrained agency, assemblage thinking is employed to demonstrate how multiple small actions of coping shape the urban experiences of street youth and their transition into adulthood. Journal: City Pages: 257-269 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1451138 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451138 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:257-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Riina Lundman Author-X-Name-First: Riina Author-X-Name-Last: Lundman Title: Spatial responsibilities during informal public events Abstract: This article focuses on the question of responsibility with regard to organizing informal events in urban public spaces. The concept of responsibility is analyzed from a spatial perspective by asking what kind of responsibilities people have for the shared spaces of the city, and for the others with which they share those spaces. This article provides an empirical case study of a protest-festival (protestival) called Art Slum (Taideslummi), which was organized annually in the city of Turku, Finland, between 2007 and 2013. By organizing an event in a public park, the local activists aimed to provoke discussions about the usage of public spaces in the city. However, in 2011, Art Slum was evicted from the park by the police and city authorities because of suspected acts of vandalism and disorder. This article examines different kinds of juridical, ethical, and practical aspects of responsibility related to Art Slum, concentrating especially on the anarchist ethics and practices behind the event. It is suggested that responsibility for the city can be perceived either as a restrictive, constructive, or subversive practice, depending on how it affects the ‘publicness’ of an urban space. This article argues that all these three forms of spatial responsibility are needed if the aim is to accomplish public spaces that are simultaneously accessible and political. Journal: City Pages: 270-284 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1451139 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451139 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:270-284 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael R. Glass Author-X-Name-First: Michael R. Author-X-Name-Last: Glass Title: Seeing like a city through the Singapore City Gallery Abstract: Urban planning galleries are interpretive spaces that assert the state’s vision for the city. Ostensibly public showcases of a city’s past, present, and future, state administrations use these sites for specific purposes. On the one hand, planning galleries are designed to convince the public, tourists, and investors that their cities are aspiring towards a greater and more optimistic future. On the other hand, these galleries imply to visitors that the state holds extensive spatial knowledge about their territory—in essence, planning galleries are a material and discursive assertion of state sovereignty. Such assertions are a reaction to shifts in the state–civil society relationship, and represent the state’s desire to have citizens appreciate the challenges of urban management—to see like the city. This paper evaluates the Singapore City Gallery (SCG)—a performative space maintained by the Urban Redevelopment Authority that reasserts the state’s vision for Singapore. I argue that sites like the SCG are significant for understanding how cities are being made through negotiation between the state and diverse publics. Journal: City Pages: 236-256 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1451458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1451458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:236-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luke R. Barnesmoore Author-X-Name-First: Luke R. Author-X-Name-Last: Barnesmoore Title: Editorial: The right to assert the order of things in the city Abstract: ‘ … Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.’ (Foucault 1972, 17) This editorial does not cede the ontological battle to the Colonial, Modernist Worldview in accepting the ‘commonsensical’ (from the perspective of the Colonial, Modernist Worldview …) assumption that the visible world of manifest facts—‘the real world out there’—is more real than the invisible, unmanifest world of ideas emotions, forms etc. (Needleman 1975; Nicoll 1998; Herman 2008; Blaser 2013). As such, this editorial explores the ideational continuities and discontinuities (Foucault 1972) of the articles assembled in this issue through an overtly nonlinear, nomadic perspective that is rooted in the Worldviews and associated conceptions of order that articulate the invisible lines of ideational continuity and discontinuity that run through the articles. Though a discrete, linear argument belies the nonlinear orientation of this editorial, there are a few arguments that emerge in the following pages: 1. freedom in the city is dependent upon ontological freedom, which is to say upon the right to assert ‘the order of things’ (Foucault 1994) in the city; 2. freedom in the academy is dependent upon ontological freedom, which might be best explicated by the assertion that freedom in the many and varied epistemological debates that are being waged within the academy cannot be attained without the freedom to assert the assumptions concerning the nature of reality upon which these epistemological debates are dependent; 3. perceived ‘freedom’ and ‘agency’ that come without the capacity and power to assert the order of things for one's self ought to be understood as the illusion of freedom and agency by which liberal democracy attempts to render hierarchical domination as sustainable rather than actual freedom and agency given that potentials for thought, feeling, behavior and conception of being are expanded and constrained by an individual’s commonsensical assumptions concerning the nature of reality. A true revolution of practice cannot occur without a revolution in the Worldview from which we conceptualize practice, be it in the city or in the academy (Barnesmoore 2017). As for a more general orientation to contemporary social science, this editorial and its nonlinear lines of exploration seek to inspire increased (and less ephemeral …) engagement with the burgeoning ontological turn (Horton 2015; Heywood 2017) in our discussions of cities in CITY. Journal: City Pages: 183-200 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1459097 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1459097 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:183-200 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Susan Hansen Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen Title: Banksy’s subversive gift Abstract: This paper discusses the fate of Banksy’s (2014) Mobile Lovers which was painted overnight on the door of the Broad Plains Youth Club in Bristol. The subsequent removal of Mobile Lovers from the youth club for safeguarding in the Bristol Museum afforded the work a seemingly neutral zone of protection. However, the museum was also represented as an agent of the city, and as a democratic space, where visitors, as ‘the people’, were encouraged to record their own preferences for the future of the work. Rancière’s conceptualization of democracy as a disruptive process, rather than an established consensual state of affairs, is employed to challenge an understanding of the museum’s strategies as self-evidently democratic. Despite the high profile dispute between the youth club and the City of Bristol over who should be considered the proper beneficiary of Banksy’s work, it was agreed that it should be considered a ‘gift’ to the community and should thus be protected. The case of Mobile Lovers sets a socio-moral precedent for the safeguarding of street art, as it represents a novel recognition of the wishes of the community and the intentions of the artist in determining the fate of street art, and a rare acknowledgement of the moral rights of street artists to determine the first distribution of their work, over the rights of property owners, who are otherwise able to claim the tangible artworks on their walls as individual, rather than community, property. Ultimately, the perception of street art in socio-moral terms as a ‘gift’ enabled an orientation to, and subversion of, the legal strictures currently prohibiting the recognition of the moral rights of street artists. Journal: City Pages: 285-297 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1461478 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1461478 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:285-297 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Corrigendum Journal: City Pages: 312-312 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1480143 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1480143 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:312-312 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editor-in-Chief’s note: What/whose order is to be asserted in the city? Journal: City Pages: 201-201 Issue: 2 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1480145 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1480145 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:201-201 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Grounding technical democracy and critical urban studies Abstract: ‘Nothing guarantees that the fascist option won’t be preferred to revolution’ (The Invisible Committee, ‘To Our Friends’)1 ‘[C]ontemporary grass-roots revolutionary collectives and urban social movements are seemingly turning away from a post-Marxist critical (urban) theory informed interpretation of our current situation, towards imagining a political project linked to the challenges of technical democracy.’ (Farías and Blok) ‘[T]ruth or being does not lie at the root of what we know and what we are, but the exteriority of accidents.’ (Michel Foucault 1977, 146)Critical urban studies has for some time been exposed to some marginalising irritations (perhaps in essence a negative structure of feeling or, more superficially, the zeitgeist). Behind these irritations seems to lie the refusal of Marx's ghost to accept retirement or even domestication, despite much ‘post-Marxist’ ingenuity under such labels as ‘technical democracy’ or even ‘Foucault’. It is time to visit particular grounds on/under which Marx may be supposed to have been placed in search of alternative groundings, old and new.The opening articles in this issue about ‘natural’ problems and disasters, their analysis, contexts and social outcomes—dealing with landslides in Hong Kong, an earthquake and tsunami in the city of Constitución in Chile, climate adaptation in Surat, India, and with ‘more-than-human’ nature itself, universally—provide some locations to be visited (not necessarily in the spirit of exorcism). The ‘post-Marxist’ emphasis is evident in Ignacio Farías and Anders Blok’s introduction to their special feature, ‘Technical democracy as a challenge to urban studies’, as in the second epigraph above, and, as discussed below, in their (cautious) reading of The Invisible Committee's, ‘To Our Friends’. It lies in a silence in Adam Bobbette’s stand-alone paper, ‘Contortions of the unconsolidated: Hong Kong, landslides and the production of urban grounds’, underlying his own intriguing epigraph (quoted in part as an epigraph here, and in full, later) from Foucault.What we undertake here is in effect a progress report, an oblique one, on elements of truth and being as positioned provocatively, as quoted, by Foucault's statement above. How can and should they, truth and being, be placed so as to contribute to analysing and reversing the fascist possibility to which The Invisible Commitee’s To Our Friends, in an italicised passage concluding their manifesto refer? Journal: City Pages: 517-522 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1218702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1218702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:517-522 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Adam Bobbette Author-X-Name-First: Adam Author-X-Name-Last: Bobbette Title: Contortions of the unconsolidated Abstract: This paper makes a case for the analysis of urban grounds as urbanizing agents at the intersections of the material and cultural. Through a case study of four decades of landslide management in Hong Kong, it casts new light on the role of urban nature as a participant in the generation of urban forms and conceptions of city life. It demonstrates the active role of anticipation, its differential distribution and materialization through a close study of how geotechnical engineers, film, literature and capitalists portrayed and operated on a territory on the verge of material collapse. In conversation with theories of urban assemblage, this paper contributes the process of ‘consolidation’ as it operated in geotechnical discourses in Hong Kong (and elsewhere) as a useful framework for analysing urban socio-natural interactions in contexts of volatile nature. This positions the city within fraught entanglements with a ground that is projected upon, surfaced, shaped and metamorphosing at variable rates. Journal: City Pages: 523-538 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1192417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1192417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:523-538 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ignacio Farías Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio Author-X-Name-Last: Farías Author-Name: Anders Blok Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Blok Title: Technical democracy as a challenge to urban studies Abstract: What is technical democracy? And why does it matter for urban studies? As an introduction to this special feature, we address these questions by reflecting on To Our Friends, the 2014 manifesto of the Invisible Committee. We engage in particular its provocative diagnosis of the current situation: power no longer resides in the modern institutions of representative democracy and the market economy; instead, power has become a matter of logistics, infrastructures and expertise. This diagnosis, we suggest, brings into view the challenge of technical democracy, that is, the democratization of techno-scientific expertise and the instauration of forms of lasting collaboration among experts and laypeople. Urban politics, we claim, increasingly turns around socio-technical controversies and it is in terms of the politics of expertise that we should analyse and engage it. Building on Science and Technology Studies (STS), we conclude by pointing to four key conceptual dimensions of technical democracy—shared uncertainty, material politics, collective experimentation and fragile democratization—and provide examples taken from the papers included in this special feature. Journal: City Pages: 539-548 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1192418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1192418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:539-548 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ignacio Farías Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio Author-X-Name-Last: Farías Title: Devising hybrid forums Abstract: The notion of hybrid forums has come to embody the promises and dangers of ‘technical democracy’; that ethico-political project that, according to Callon, Lascoumes, and Barthe (2009. Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), aims at the democratization of expertise through the sustained collaboration among technical experts and issue publics on shared matters of concern. In this paper I study the managerial deployment of hybrid forums as participatory devices after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in the city of Constitución, Chile. By carefully describing the genealogy, organization and consequences of said forums, I reflect on three critical tensions underlying such collaborative processes. Firstly, taking into account the tension between the notion of hybrid forums as a concept and a device, I describe how these were devised by a Chilean consulting company as a tool for managing controversies. Secondly, dwelling on the tension between emergent and procedural dynamics of collaboration, I show the limitations these forums confronted for incorporating pre-existing controversies about the present and future of Constitución. Thirdly, I discuss how what counts as political voice was constrained by and contested in these forums, looking in detail at how local fishermen mobilized forms of political claim-making that run against the collaborative project of technical democracy. I conclude by suggesting that the most urgent challenge of hybrid forums is not just to democratically respond to existing uncertainties and matters of concern, but also to actually participate in the manufacturing of uncertainty. Journal: City Pages: 549-562 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1193998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:549-562 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Ascensão Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Ascensão Title: Interfaces of informality Abstract: What happens at the interface of states and urban poor populations that live in informal settlements? How are academic disciplines, such as law, architecture or economics, and technical instruments, such as computer software, summoned to the interactions between experts from state or city governments and the laypeople whose housing and lives the former’s work is meant to improve? This paper reflects on these questions as it examines two different experiments, one historical and another from the recent past, in housing provision or amelioration for the residents of informal settlements. In post-revolutionary Portugal, the SAAL (Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local) housing program (1974–76) included ‘technical’ brigades of legal, architectural and economic experts tasked to help shanty town dwellers improve their housing conditions, either by assisted self-building or classic new-build. It was a clear example of the progressive urban politics of the time, or dialogical technical democracy avant la lettre. Some 30 years later, in Lisbon during the late 2000s, as a part of an urban regeneration program devised within the framework of multicultural urban politics and delegative forms of democracy, a detailed survey of non- and sub-standard houses was carried out with a bespoke computer software, which aimed at representing the technical feasibility of rehabilitation, rather than replacement, of those dwellings. Both experiments constituted platforms with the stated objective of working for the community and through which new state–citizen relationships were to be forged with the urban poor, but how were the latter’s knowledges and wishes integrated? Journal: City Pages: 563-580 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1193337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:563-580 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonathan Metzger Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Metzger Title: Cultivating torment Abstract: A more-than-human sensibility is founded upon an awareness of the fundamentally entangled fates of humans and non-humans, from the individual body to the planetary scale. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential impact of such insights on urban planning theory and methodology. I will focus upon exploring possible resources that could serve to institutionalize such a more-than-human sensibility into an everyday practice of urban planning which still today can be described as a ‘tightly woven modernist fabric’. From this angle I review two suggested approaches for radically reforming planning practice: critical planning and technical democracy. I conclude that the ambitions of these reform projects are laudable but that they are fundamentally problematic in that their self-image of limitless inclusiveness makes them blind to the foundational, radical exclusions they themselves perform. As a minor contribution towards an alternative approach, I offer a suggestion for a broad ‘work specification’ aiming at the development of a more-than-human planning methodology. It center-stages the need to find ways to responsibly confront all the difficult questions concerning how, in a world marked by profound relational complexity, urban planning practices that aim to enable the flourishing of some entities and futures inevitably demand the neglect, othering or active eradication of other beings, things and/or potential developments. Journal: City Pages: 581-601 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1193997 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193997 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:581-601 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anders Blok Author-X-Name-First: Anders Author-X-Name-Last: Blok Title: Assembling urban riskscapes Abstract: The global risks of climate change have become tangible and urgent in cities—and in response, climate adaptation has recently emerged on urban political agendas worldwide, including in vulnerable coastal cities of East and South Asia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Indian city of Surat, this article seeks to re-conceptualize climate adaptation efforts via the related but distinct analytical vocabularies of worlding and assemblage urbanism. In particular, the article analyzes the contested politics of expertise by way of which Surat has been reshaped over the past few years into a regional model of climate resilience, within unequal local–global assemblages of urban planning and power. This work of resilience-building is shown to revolve around Surat-based economic and political elites, who deploy mobile consultancy knowledges to render particular urban ‘riskscapes’ (in)visible, in ways conducive to specific forms of middle-class development. In turn, the article shows how this ‘official’ work of resilience-building is challenged and contested by fragmented civic–professional publics, mobilizing their own versions of counter-expertise towards alternative riskscapes. These heterogeneous knowledge practices, I suggest, link into and enable different visions and commitments to competing ‘scales of change’ for the city. By thus allowing us to grasp the situated tools, practices and knowledges through which ‘large-scale’ processes of urban change—development, climate resilience, justice—are shaped and contested around specific places and spaces, the article concludes that assemblage urbanism may contribute to new critical explorations of agonistic technical politics and democracy in the city. Journal: City Pages: 602-618 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1194000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1194000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:602-618 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tomás Sánchez Criado Author-X-Name-First: Tomás Author-X-Name-Last: Sánchez Criado Author-Name: Marcos Cereceda Otárola Author-X-Name-First: Marcos Author-X-Name-Last: Cereceda Otárola Title: Urban accessibility issues Abstract: After many struggles from disability rights and independent-living advocates, urban accessibility has gradually become a concern for many urban planners across post-industrial countries. In this paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork studies in Barcelona working with urban accessibility professionals and activists, we argue for the importance of the ‘documentation interfaces’ created in their struggles: that is, the relational processes to collaboratively build multi-media accounts in a diversity of formats seeking to enforce different translations of bodily needs into specific urban accessibility arrangements. In discussion with the asymmetries that the ongoing expertization of accessibility might be opening up, we would like to foreground these apparently irrelevant practices as an interesting site to reflect on how urban accessibility struggles might allow us to rethink the project of technical democracy and its applications to urban issues. Two cases are analyzed: (1) the creation of Streets for All, a platform to contest and to sensitize technicians and citizens alike of the problems of ‘shared streets’ for the blind and partially sighted led by the Catalan Association for the Blind; and (2) the organization of the Tinkerthon, a DIY and open-source hardware workshop boosted by En torno a la silla to facilitate the creation of a network of tinkerers seeking to self-manage accessibility infrastructures. These cases not only bring to the fore different takes on the democratization of the relations between technical professionals and disability rights advocates, but also offer different approaches to the politics of universals in the design of urban accessibility arrangements. Journal: City Pages: 619-636 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1194004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1194004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:619-636 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthias Bernt Author-X-Name-First: Matthias Author-X-Name-Last: Bernt Title: Very particular, or rather universal? Gentrification through the lenses of Ghertner and López-Morales Journal: City Pages: 637-644 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1143682 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1143682 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:637-644 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonathan Crisman Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Crisman Title: The future with Chinese characteristics Journal: City Pages: 645-649 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1142302 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1142302 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:645-649 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jonathan Moses Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Author-X-Name-Last: Moses Title: Whiter than white Journal: City Pages: 650-653 Issue: 4 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1142303 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1142303 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:4:p:650-653 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 121-122 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736602 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736602 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:121-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ernesto Capello Author-X-Name-First: Ernesto Author-X-Name-Last: Capello Title: The postcolonial city as universal nostalgia Abstract: A modern metropolis of nearly two million souls in the heart of the Ecuadorian Andes, Quito has long been perceived as an old, stagnant and nostalgic city. This article attempts to trace the origins of the city’s longing for its past by analysing the continued relevance of the Spanish concept of vecindad in the city’s postcolonial history. It is argued that the city’s olden identity stems from a complex matrix of regional power disputes with roots in the colonial era. Nineteenth‐century coastal liberals branded the Andean citadel as emblematic of national backwardness, while twentieth‐century conservatives sought to identify the city as Ecuador’s Spain. These metaphors continue to form an essential part of its identity today as an eternal idyll. Journal: City Pages: 125-147 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736610 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736610 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:125-147 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amos Nascimento Author-X-Name-First: Amos Author-X-Name-Last: Nascimento Title: On the global inter‐location of a postcolonial city Abstract: Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, became internationally known as the modern city par excellence. However, recent discussions on architecture, urban studies, city planning and globalization seem to have forgotten this city, dislocating it from its visible place. This essay discusses some critical approaches that could help us to locate Brasilia on the map again. The first approach is defined here as national, as it deals with the internal historical development and present situation of this city in the face of external challenges. The second relies on the European debates on modernity and postmodernity, highlighting the role of Brasilia within aesthetic and philosophical critiques of modernism. The third inserts the city within the field of tension between colonialism and postcolonialism in Latin America. After considering these approaches, the conclusion indicates the need to reassess Brasilia according to a wider international perspective, which the author defines as global inter‐location. This perspective searches for spaces and interstices in which we can insert the city not simply as the symbol of an obsolete architectonic modernism that is considered out of place, but as a key element—among other Latin American cities—for the design of a new critical geopolitics. Journal: City Pages: 149-166 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736644 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736644 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:149-166 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Themis Chronopoulos Author-X-Name-First: Themis Author-X-Name-Last: Chronopoulos Title: The of Buenos Aires, 2001–2005 Abstract: In Argentina, cartoneros are poor people who collect and sell paper products and other recyclables in order to survive. The appearance of cartoneros in high profile urban public spaces in search of recyclables has been one of the most visible and lasting effects of the 2001–2002 economic crisis of Argentina. This essay examines the origins of cartoneros in Buenos Aires and Gran Buenos Aires, their relationship with the state, and the formalization of their gathering activities by the authorities and the recycling industry. Journal: City Pages: 167-182 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736651 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736651 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:167-182 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian Gordon Author-X-Name-First: Ian Author-X-Name-Last: Gordon Title: The view Abstract: This paper discusses the issue of how social scientists might attempt to write in a coherent and empowering way about processes affecting the lives of people living within particular large and complex (i.e. diverse and highly connected) contemporary cities, in relation to the approach adopted by the Working Capital study of London (Buck et al., 2003). It explains that book’s attempt to combine narrative, social science and critique of the new conventional wisdom about change in cities – and argues for a non‐reductive ‘ordinary city’ approach, using a mix of qualitative/local and quantitative/metropolitan analyses to question assumptions about how flexibilisation and global‐cityisation impact on economic, social and political processes in particular cities, including this extraordinary one. Journal: City Pages: 185-196 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:185-196 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Edwards Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Edwards Title: Whatever happened to in ? Abstract: This book is a very important addition to research resources on London and its immediate region. It has particular merits in the way it goes behind many conventional wisdoms, replacing them with nuanced and grounded accounts of London as a whole and of six localities within it. The review is critical of the book on two levels, however. It underestimates the importance and the pervasive effects of real estate markets in shaping the city. At a more fundamental level, the authors are taken to task for an approach which masks crucial underlying social processes. An alternative reading is sketched. Working Capital: Life and Labour in Contemporary London, Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Mike Harloe and Mark Kleinman (with Belinda Brown, Karen O’Reilly, Gareth Potts, Laura Smethurst and Jo Sparkes). Routledge, London, 2002, pp xvi + 408, ISBN 041527931 3 (cloth) and 041527932 1 (paperback). Journal: City Pages: 197-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736800 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736800 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:197-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sukhdev Sandhu Author-X-Name-First: Sukhdev Author-X-Name-Last: Sandhu Title: Life and labour across nocturnal London Abstract: Now that London, along with many urban centres, boasts of being a sleepless, 24/7 metropolis, what role does night‐time play for its inhabitants and workers? In this article, Sukhdev Sandhu revives the once‐popular but more recently dormant tradition of urban noctambulation. After giving an account of late‐19th and early‐20th‐century representations of midnight in the city, he writes, in a style at once poetic and anthropological, about the cleaners and avian police who labour after dark. Journal: City Pages: 205-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:205-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Libby Porter Author-X-Name-First: Libby Author-X-Name-Last: Porter Author-Name: Austin Barber Author-X-Name-First: Austin Author-X-Name-Last: Barber Title: The meaning of place and state‐led gentrification in Birmingham’s Eastside Abstract: Despite Birmingham’s claim to constitute ‘England’s second city’, it has arguably been overlooked in much recent academic research – perhaps because of a tendency to regard Manchester as the paradigmatic English example of the emerging post‐industrial city‐region. Contributors to CITY have gone some way to redressing this imbalance – with Frank Webster’s paper in vol 5 no 1 and Kevin Ward’s paper in vol 7 no 2 underlining the wider issues raised by the adoption of ‘urban entrepreneurialism’ in Birmingham. This paper, by Libby Porter and Austin Barber, takes forward such concerns through a case study of the ongoing regeneration of an individual district of the city: Birmingham Eastside. Using the stories of two pubs, whose fortunes are permanently re‐shaped by state‐led development initiatives, the paper develops a critical reflection on academic and policy debates relating to gentrification and the restructuring of central districts of large cities. In particular, the authors highlight how current thinking about the regeneration of inner city districts marginalizes the socio‐cultural meaning of place and the human networks that animate city places. They argue that this constrains planning possibilities and imaginations for the area’s future. The paper’s concluding call for urban analysts and planners alike to go beyond the economic when examining the processes and effects of urban change resonates with much work previously published in CITY. In particular, Porter and Barber’s analysis echoes Frank Webster’s assertion in vol 5 no 1 that, whatever else it may have achieved, regeneration in Birmingham appears to have resulted directly in a destruction of community. Journal: City Pages: 215-234 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736941 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736941 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:215-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: The City and its Writers: on Angel Rama Journal: City Pages: 235-240 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600736982 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600736982 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:235-240 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Further thoughts on urban studies and the present crisis: (8)Dark Ages, prisons and escape routes Journal: City Pages: 242-256 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600737006 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600737006 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:242-256 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eduardo Mendieta Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Mendieta Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 123-124 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600869064 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600869064 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:123-124 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stuart Wilks‐Heeg Author-X-Name-First: Stuart Author-X-Name-Last: Wilks‐Heeg Title: Introduction Journal: City Pages: 183-184 Issue: 2 Volume: 10 Year: 2006 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810600869742 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810600869742 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:10:y:2006:i:2:p:183-184 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joe Austin Author-X-Name-First: Joe Author-X-Name-Last: Austin Title: An old art’s new clothiers Journal: City Pages: 447-450 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1459273 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1459273 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:447-450 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andreas Chatzidakis Author-X-Name-First: Andreas Author-X-Name-Last: Chatzidakis Title: Posterscapes Journal: City Pages: 412-416 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1472460 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1472460 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:412-416 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marieke Krijnen Author-X-Name-First: Marieke Author-X-Name-Last: Krijnen Title: Gentrification and the creation and formation of rent gaps Abstract: This contribution intervenes in the debate about gentrification theory's applicability to contexts outside the Global North, specifically responding to the work of [Ghertner, D. Asher. 2014. ‘India’s Urban Revolution: Geographies of Displacement beyond Gentrification.’ Environment and Planning A 46 (7): 1554–1571; Ghertner, D. Asher. 2015. ‘Why Gentrification Theory Fails in “Much of the World”.’ City 19 (4): 552–563]. It aims to show that, contrary to Ghertner's claims, gentrification theory is well equipped to analyze and understand the many different factors and forces that are involved in processes of urbanization and urban change across the globe. However, in order for the theory to be able to properly grasp these, I propose that we distinguish between two distinct processes involved in gentrification: (1) the creation and formation of rent gaps, making very relevant the state violence and legal/regulatory changes that accompany the enclosures and accumulation by dispossession that Ghertner says gentrification theory renders ‘unthinkable’, as well as other forces such as informality and conflict, and (2) these rent gaps’ subsequent closure (including property development), because the existence of a rent gap in and of itself is not a sufficient explanation of gentrification. Instead, whether areas with a rent gap gentrify is subject to numerous local specificities in the Global North and South alike. This distinction forces gentrification scholars to pay thorough attention to the political, cultural, social and economic factors that guide the creation and exploitation of rent gaps throughout the globe. To illustrate my arguments, I use examples from my work on the urban transformation of Beirut, Lebanon. Journal: City Pages: 437-446 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1472461 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1472461 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:437-446 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Isabelle Anguelovski Author-X-Name-First: Isabelle Author-X-Name-Last: Anguelovski Author-Name: James Connolly Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: Connolly Author-Name: Anna Livia Brand Author-X-Name-First: Anna Livia Author-X-Name-Last: Brand Title: From landscapes of utopia to the margins of the green urban life Abstract: Today, municipal decision-makers, planners, and investors rely on valuation studies of ecosystem services, public health assessments, and real estate projections to promote a consensual view of urban greening interventions such as new parks, greenways, or greenbelts as a public good with widespread benefits for all residents. However, as new green projects often anchor major investment and high-end development, we ask: Does the green city fulfil its promise for inclusive and far-reaching environmental, health, social, and economic benefits or does it create new environmental inequalities and green mirages? Through case examples of diverse urban greening interventions in cities reflecting different urban development trajectories and baseline environmental conditions and needs (Barcelona, Medellin, and New Orleans), we argue that urban greening interventions increasingly create new dynamics of exclusion, polarization, segregation, and invisibilization. Despite claims about the public good, these interventions take place to the detriment of the most socially and racially marginalized urban groups whose land and landscapes are appropriated through the creation of a ‘green gap’ in property markets. In that sense, green amenities become GreenLULUs (Locally Unwanted Land Uses) and socially vulnerable residents and community groups face a green space paradox, whereby they become excluded from new green amenities they long fought for as part of an environmental justice agenda. Thus, as urban greening consolidates urban sustainability and redevelopment strategies by bringing together private and public investors around a tool for marketing cities with global reach, it also negates a deeper reflection on urban segregation, social hierarchies, racial inequalities, and green privilege. Journal: City Pages: 417-436 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1473126 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1473126 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:417-436 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kevin Robins Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Author-X-Name-Last: Robins Title: Freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be, or what we learned from Gezi Park Abstract: This discussion seeks to draw out some of the lessons that were learned as a consequence of involvement in the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul in the summer of 2013. A key concern is with the relationship between the power politics of the state, on the one hand, and the emancipatory aspirations of the activists involved in the struggle to save Gezi Park from the bulldozers of real-estate capital and from the political ambitions of the ruling party in government. What is emphasised is the growing force of authoritarianism in the contemporary Turkish context. Whilst the protests were eventually defeated by the state’s repressive apparatuses, we can say that there were important lessons about the ideal nature of democratic politics that were learned by the protesting opposition. A central focus of the discussion is on what can be learned through the trajectory of an event. The article contrasts the principles underpinning the nation-state mentality with those that may be produced in the urban space and context. Journal: City Pages: 396-411 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1473128 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1473128 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:396-411 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: Editorial: Private is profit and the public is dead? Journal: City Pages: 313-320 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1484634 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1484634 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:313-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: Other gentrifications Journal: City Pages: 321-323 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1484638 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1484638 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:321-323 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bruno Marot Author-X-Name-First: Bruno Author-X-Name-Last: Marot Title: Growth politics from the top down Abstract: A quarter century after the final days of the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990), a property frenzy spurred by billions of petro-dollars channeled into the built environment has reconfigured Beirut's physical and socio-economic fabrics far beyond anything required by post-war reconstruction. To better understand this puzzle—property attractiveness and vitality in an environment as financially and politically unstable as Lebanon's—this paper analyzes the local property market as an institutionally-grounded social construct that pegs urbanization to the stability of the country's rentier and finance-driven capitalism. In doing so, this paper unpacks the financialization of property, the key role of the Lebanese state in growth politics, and the multidimensional character of power in the making of conflict-affected cities. Journal: City Pages: 324-340 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1484640 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1484640 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:324-340 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hisham Ashkar Author-X-Name-First: Hisham Author-X-Name-Last: Ashkar Title: The role of laws and regulations in shaping gentrification Abstract: The prominent role of government agencies and other public authorities in stewarding gentrification has been highlighted by a significant number of studies. The intervention of public authorities in this context can take various forms; chief among them, laws and regulations that sustain, support and promote gentrification. Moreover, these laws and regulations play a key role in steering the ways in which gentrification develops in specific urban contexts, and thus constitute a key element for understanding different modalities of ‘gentrification’ around the world. Within this framework, this article addresses processes of gentrification in Beirut through the angle of the joint effects of several laws. Laws that are considered the main normative and regulatory mechanisms for current forms of urban renewal in the city. It examines key legal frameworks, including laws governing construction, rent and built heritage. It also uses the rent gap theory as an analytical tool to assess their impact. The current legal settlement is best viewed from the angle of entanglement between capital and politicians and legislators, as well, the prominent role of capital as a driving force in the modern development of Beirut. The paper seeks to place law—legal provisions, prohibitions and permissions—at the centre of a critical approach to urban change, appropriation and dispossession, as unequal legal rights, claims and constraints empower certain legal subjects (including corporations) over certain others (especially commercial and residential renters). Drawing on a case in the global south, the paper stresses a global approach to gentrification which seeks to transcend north–south divisions. Journal: City Pages: 341-357 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1484641 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1484641 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:341-357 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mona Fawaz Author-X-Name-First: Mona Author-X-Name-Last: Fawaz Author-Name: Marieke Krijnen Author-X-Name-First: Marieke Author-X-Name-Last: Krijnen Author-Name: Daria El Samad Author-X-Name-First: Daria Author-X-Name-Last: El Samad Title: A property framework for understanding gentrification Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between property and gentrification, building on a case study of the neighbourhood of Mar Mikhael (Beirut, Lebanon). First, we discuss the ways in which the distribution of property ownership shapes processes of displacement. We then investigate how property is made and reorganized through processes of gentrification, arguing that the mechanisms through which gentrification occurs in Mar Mikhael are intimately connected to the very logic in which land is conceptualized and managed as property through the ownership model. A dominant logic of managing the city as the sum of privately owned property lots dictates the necessity to streamline and clarify property titles, empowering developers who can forcibly acquire lots even when other property claimants are reluctant to sell. We further argue that a proper assessment of the role of property in gentrification processes can only be made in relation to the larger regulatory framework in which land is imagined and managed (e.g. as shelter, as asset), and that facilitates or limits gentrification by creating the financial incentives for developers to activate the legal property framework in different contexts. The logic of private ownership has dramatic effects on the ability of neighbourhood residents to resist gentrification, particularly because it imposes an individuated process of negotiation and a limited ceiling for what one can reclaim, ultimately precluding the possibility of claiming one’s right to the city both within and outside the property framework. Journal: City Pages: 358-374 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1484642 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1484642 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:358-374 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mona Khechen Author-X-Name-First: Mona Author-X-Name-Last: Khechen Title: The remaking of Ras Beirut Abstract: This paper explores Ras Beirut’s current socio-spatial transformations from the perspective of its ‘original’ population, particularly small landowners vulnerable to urban renewal pressures. With reference to their accounts, it illustrates how certain aspects of neighbourhood change intersect with Lebanon’s complexities of power, wealth, insecurity and division. While cognizant of the class aspect of urban change, the paper contends that Beirut’s urban restructuring is entrenched in deeper social justices and inequalities than might fit under the rubric of ‘gentrification’. Considering that gentrification, war displacement, and forced migration are one and the same phenomenon for many Lebanese—all captured by the term tahjir (the Arabic term for ‘displacement’)—the paper concludes by questioning the country's neoliberal model of development. In hindsight, it conceptualizes displacement as a by-product of the ‘manufacture of vulnerability’ in Lebanon. Journal: City Pages: 375-395 Issue: 3 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1484643 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1484643 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:3:p:375-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial: Trumped? Some groundings Abstract: ‘On November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the government -- executive, Congress, the Supreme Court -- in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history.’ ‘Apart from the last phrase, all of this is uncontroversial. The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The facts suggest otherwise. The Party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life. There is no historical precedent for such a stand’ (Noam Chomsky, Monday, 14 November 2016)1 ‘[W]e need to think about those two things together—the rural and the urban— and we need to think about the ways in which people do this extraordinary job,. whether in the countryside or in the vast informal areas of cities, of making a living, of sustaining themselves, of getting by to an extraordinary extent.’ (Timothy Mitchell)2 ‘Donald Trump just spoke in New York City, giving what was—aside from his customary ad libs and an extended section, resembling a wedding speech, that involved thanking and complimenting supporters such as Chris Christie, Ben Carson, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus—a fairly standard president-elect address about unity.’ (Trump: “It Is Time for Us to Come Together as One United People”, Ben Mathis-Lilley, The Slatest, 9 November 2016)What, where, when are we to define and ground some commitments and actions that are central to humanity’s future (and to that of life on the planet)? Trump, in his ‘victory’ speech after the November election, saw some commitments and action emerging in a ‘Time for Us to Come Together’ in unity. Professor Mitchell, more than a year earlier, saw the need for us ‘to think two things together – the rural and the urban’ and about the ways in which ‘people do this extraordinary job, whether in the countryside or in the vast informal areas of cities, of making a living…’. Chomsky saw the fate of humanity as now ‘in the hands of the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history’.There are, of course, other views, including some recently established academic ones, with a take on what is going on across the planet. What hope do they hold? Not much, it would seem, if one were to judge by the writings of ‘planetary urbanist’ orthodoxies for whom Mitchell’s two ‘things’ seem hardly to exist. What they seem to see are two non-entities: in the form of a non-city condition, one without an outside. Those that might have been effectively opposed to the victors seem, then, to have cut the ground from under their (and our?) feet.Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, thinks differently. Perhaps such a difference is in part a result of the geo-cultural spread of his ‘subject areas’? But is it also a result of his ‘thinking against the concept’ of these two things and bringing them together, across geo-cultural spaces, and grounding them?3 Not only has he been thinking but he has come to what is at least an interim stand.A situation of extraordinary continuing turmoil can be seen as characteristic of the now concluded but hardly politically and socially concluded US Election and, almost as evident, as still there behind the apparent new normality of the fundamentally troubled Europe of Brexit and of ‘Invasive’ refugees. Or rather still seen as marginal in terms of diagnosis and appropriate action?Our approach in recent work is moving towards considering these two events (taking the Brexit-refugee interaction as also one set of events – see Dimitris Dalakoglou4) as just one. What happens when, as in a series of recent editorials, one applies an apparently only tangential subject of investigation to a mainly inadvertent, unintended collection of articles? Can such an experimental approach contribute, for example, to the development of a political/ideological/grounded5 dimension, actual and potential, necessary for deep-seated transition6 rather than tokenistic or regime ‘change’?What time, what places, what situations are to be taken as a high priority, as ‘central’ to, but in need of grounding, such investigations, and interventions? Where, what, how (who/whom), when, why is ‘the centre’ or, with a more diverse and (necessarily) evaluative approach, are ‘the key centres’ to be comprehended so as to contribute to our understanding and effective action? Are they essentially and increasingly ‘urban’ –that non-city condition without an outside - as some suppose? How, alternatively, it might be asked, if cityness7 (or some kind of thought-together rurality and urbanity) is still a legitimate and realisable ambition and condition, do people do ‘this extraordinary job’ of making a living, sustaining themselves, getting by ‘to an extraordinary extent’? To expand and refine these questions, what are the meanings (see the titles of the two US papers listed under ‘close-ups’ below) involved in ‘getting by’ and, extending further, in getting on?These particular emphases inform what might be termed a philosophical and material reading of a wide range of situations, geographic and historical. As the interview in the paper makes clear this is in one sense a think-piece. However, Mitchell’s readings here are based particularly on readings of ‘Middle-Eastern’ and other experience - as his academic title at Columbia University suggests - and he ranges far beyond them. He and authors Abourahme and Jabary-Salamanca are moving ‘against the concepts’ and towards what one might call some kind of sensuous empiricism.In our ordering of the papers assembled here and the supplementary material included, we refer to five themes and areas of investigations: Garbage City to Skyscrapers Trump Triumphantes? Close-Ups (Norway, Ireland and Spain; New York and Oakland, USA) Vanities and IconiCities. New York and London) Garbage and Urbanity/Rurality: Marx Revisited Journal: City Pages: 655-662 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1261554 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1261554 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:655-662 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Catharina Thörn Author-X-Name-First: Catharina Author-X-Name-Last: Thörn Author-Name: Helena Holgersson Author-X-Name-First: Helena Author-X-Name-Last: Holgersson Title: Revisiting the urban frontier through the case of New Kvillebäcken, Gothenburg Abstract: It has been 20 years since Neil Smith published his classic The New Urban Frontier. In this paper we argue for the continuing relevance of his concepts by analysing the development of a new exclusive residential area (New Kvillebäcken) in the Gustaf Dalén area, a re-purposed industrial site on the edge of the central city of Gothenburg, Sweden. We show how the early millennial plans to create a new city district—Älvstaden (River City)—involved a redrawing of the city map that changed the conditions for this former industrial area from symbolically peripheral (though geographically central) to attractive, but insufficiently exploited, central city land, thus producing a ‘rent gap’. In our reading of Neil Smith’s concept of the urban frontier, we emphasise the close relationship between the frontier mythology that rationalises redevelopment as inevitable through stigmatisation—and the movements of capital—how and where rent gaps are created. The urban frontier creates an analytical space to unravel how the joint forces of the elite (in our case, the close cooperation between private real estate owners and the municipality of Gothenburg) displace long-time inhabitants in urban spaces such as the Gustaf Dalén area to accomplish more financially profitable land use. Journal: City Pages: 663-684 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1224479 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1224479 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:663-684 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Byrne Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne Title: Bad banks and the urban political economy of financialization Abstract: This paper seeks to understand the urban dimensions of the resolution of financial crises. It does so by focusing on Asset Management Companies (AMCs), or ‘bad banks’, which are established by governments to acquire and manage toxic assets, often linked to real estate, in the wake of systemic banking crises. Despite the fact that AMCs are a significant financial institution with clear urban implications, they have received surprisingly little attention. Indeed, despite the widespread recognition that financialized real estate markets are inherently crisis prone, there is an absence of literature on the resolution of such crises. The paper argues that AMCs have three distinctly urban dimensions. Firstly, they continue and enhance the extraction of value from urban space. Secondly, they act as ‘market makers’ by restoring the ‘liquidity’ of financialized real estate. Thirdly, they contribute to the globalization of real estate by intensifying the circuits linking local real estate with global pools of capital. Drawing on this analysis, the paper also theorizes AMCs as what have been called ‘apparatuses of financial accumulation’ which, significantly, reveal the systematic inter-dependence of financialization and urban space. Journal: City Pages: 685-699 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1224480 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1224480 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:685-699 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nils C. Kumkar Author-X-Name-First: Nils C. Author-X-Name-Last: Kumkar Title: The meaning of the park Abstract: The occupation of public urban space is a prominent feature in most descriptions of the global wave of protests after 2011. This paper examines the occupation of one significant space, New York’s Zuccotti Park, to investigate how first, ‘occupying’ became the central form of practice of what later was called Occupy Wall Street. By reconstructing the habitus of the movement’s core constituency and its resonance with the practice of the occupation, this investigation also explains why it was so difficult for the movement to evolve into other forms. It sketches out how the practice of occupying influenced the cooperation between members of different social classes participating in the protest and compares the development of this occupation to the very different trajectory of the Occupy movement in Germany. It is argued that the US occupation only temporarily overcame obstacles to mobilizing the discontent of those young adults that found themselves biographically blocked from joining the new petty bourgeoisie and to building alliances with other social groups in the USA of the post-recession era. Since the eviction from the park reinforced these obstacles, it triggered a de-mobilizing dynamic. Journal: City Pages: 700-718 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1224482 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1224482 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:700-718 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Werth Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Werth Author-Name: Eli Marienthal Author-X-Name-First: Eli Author-X-Name-Last: Marienthal Title: ‘Gentrification’ as a grid of meaning Abstract: The openness of the concept of gentrification—its practical flexibility as a sign—makes it useful, and thus prominent, in everyday conversations about the socio-spatial changes affecting Oakland, CA and other US cities. Within gentrification studies, however, this openness has often been seen as a conceptual problem to be corrected. In this paper, rather than refine a categoric definition of gentrification, we focus on the contingent ways that a range of political actors articulate relational identities and claims in struggles over public space. We observe that, as a situated and unstable constellation of meanings and resonances, the talk of gentrification is central to urban cultural politics in places like Oakland. We thus argue that the ‘chaotic’ use of the term is neither a conceptual problem nor a political failure. Instead, it is in itself a rich and meaningful subject of research on urban life, pointing to a multiplicity of sites in which new and consequential formations of inclusion and exclusion, belonging and disbelonging, are forged in practice. Using six months of ethnographic fieldwork, we detail the struggle over Oakland First Fridays, a downtown street festival. In particular, we show how a diverse group of organizers drew on ‘gentrification’ as a grid of meaning to configure and reconfigure the event’s deserving public in ways that rendered commercial vendors, young people of color and political protesters increasingly out of place. We thus argue that viewing ‘gentrification’ as a grid of meaning allows us to appreciate fluctuating formations of inclusion and exclusion—formations that a too-rigid focus on gentrification as a socio-spatial and political–economic process of urban change can either naturalize or obscure. Journal: City Pages: 719-736 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1224484 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1224484 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:719-736 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nasser Abourahme Author-X-Name-First: Nasser Author-X-Name-Last: Abourahme Author-Name: Omar Jabary-Salamanca Author-X-Name-First: Omar Author-X-Name-Last: Jabary-Salamanca Title: Thinking against the sovereignty of the concept Abstract: What does a notion of capitalization do to our understandings of late capitalism and the city? What can our renewed interest in materiality add to postcolonial thought and the study of colonial history? And how do we parse through the wreckage of our age of revolts? When we find the political grammar that might respond to our present, what will we make of the square and occupations, or disruption and infrastructure in our theories of political action? These are some of the questions that are taken up in this wide-ranging interview with Timothy Mitchell; an interview in which Mitchell, reflecting on past projects and elaborating current research, offers us substantive insights into the thought processes that have made his work so indispensable. Journal: City Pages: 737-754 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1224486 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1224486 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:737-754 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Vanity and violence Abstract: In this fourth and final paper in a series for City addressing the vertical politics of cities, Stephen Graham explores the politics of contemporary skyscrapers. Emphasising the changing geo-economics, geopolitics and political symbolism of skyscrapers, the paper critically interrogates their increasingly central contemporary role as purported signifiers and logos of ‘global’ cityness and seeks to underline the essential violence involved in their construction—and their demise. The discussion falls into three parts. The first contrasts the proliferation of elite-driven ‘super-tall’ skyscrapers as anchors of huge real-estate projects in the Gulf, Middle East and Asia with the historical ‘race’ between real estate, urban and corporate elites in North American downtowns to build skyscrapers which embodied highly masculinised notions of vertical corporate power. The second deconstructs the current construction of skyscrapers as ‘gigantic logos’ signifying wannabe or actual ‘global’ city status—promissory towers camouflaged behind specious greenwash, which anchor major nodes within intensely globalised circuits of leisure, tourism, finance, business and real-estate investment. The discussion turns, finally, to the role of the skyscraper as the detested symbol par excellence of the aggressively centripetal pull of the modern, secular, alpha-level global or world city. Exploring the central role of Western skyscraper architecture in motivating Al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York’s World Trade Center in 2011, the paper finishes by speculating on the connections linking the violence inherent in skyscraper construction with that which targets skyscrapers in terrorist violence. Journal: City Pages: 755-771 Issue: 5 Volume: 20 Year: 2016 Month: 8 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1224503 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1224503 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:20:y:2016:i:5:p:755-771 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Louise Crabtree Author-X-Name-First: Louise Author-X-Name-Last: Crabtree Title: Transitioning around the elephant in the room Journal: City Pages: 883-893 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1407583 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1407583 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:883-893 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Fernández Author-X-Name-Last: Arrigoitia Title: Towards the dis-alienation, democratisation and humanisation of housing Journal: City Pages: 894-898 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1407587 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1407587 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:894-898 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cecilia Pasquinelli Author-X-Name-First: Cecilia Author-X-Name-Last: Pasquinelli Title: The visible, the invisible and the ‘in-between’ in the politics of city branding Journal: City Pages: 899-901 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1407590 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1407590 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:899-901 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lila Leontidou Author-X-Name-First: Lila Author-X-Name-Last: Leontidou Title: Commoning in the 21st-century city Journal: City Pages: 902-906 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1408331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1408331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:902-906 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Athina Arampatzi Author-X-Name-First: Athina Author-X-Name-Last: Arampatzi Title: Territorialising social movements Abstract: Following the mass mobilisations and occupations of urban squares since 2011 that came as responses to the global financial crisis, the spatial practices of social movements have undergone crucial transformations. This paper addresses these through the case of Athens and contends that the territorialisation of movements in urban space occurred through the centralisation of counter-austerity struggle in the occupied Syntagma Square and, following this, through the dispersal of spatial practices that emerged out of the squares across the city. In the first instance, solidarity, mutual aid and collective self-organisation practices articulated in the occupied square introduced new collective action repertoires; while, in the aftermath of Syntagma, these were transposed in local groups, solidarity initiatives and networks that produced new territorialised forms of struggle and solidarity in Athenian neighbourhoods. Through these, the paper contributes to ongoing debates on contestation ‘from below’ emerging in urban contexts of austerity as constitutive of contemporary contentious politics. The arguments raised here on the transformations of movements occurring during and due to austerity span the period between 2011 and 2014 and empirically draw on participatory ethnographic research conducted in Athens, Greece between October 2012 and May 2013. Journal: City Pages: 724-736 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1408993 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1408993 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:724-736 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Günter Gassner Author-X-Name-First: Günter Author-X-Name-Last: Gassner Title: Wrecking London’s skyline? Abstract: How can we develop a political critique of urban form at the time of a tall building boom? Pointing to limitations of interpreting towers as representations of finance and power, I introduce an understanding of skylines as phantasmagoria of capitalist culture: a dazzling image that abstracts from the commodified urban landscape by promoting its further commodification. I show that both professionals who argue for and those who argue against the construction of tall office buildings in London approach the built environment as an easily marketable visual reproduction that is defined as a compositional whole: a bounded composition with St Paul’s Cathedral at its centre. I claim that this approach and the widespread idea that commercial skyscrapers destroy the historic cityscape assume an element of integrity that is ideological and which itself must be ‘ruined’ because it forecloses a space for emancipatory politics. My argument for a shift of the ways in which cityscapes are viewed draws on Walter Benjamin’s critical montages and allegories. I explore his reading of ruins as emblems of the fragility and destructiveness of capitalist culture and his understanding of ruination as a form of critique. My discussion of ruining the city’s beautiful appearance focuses on wholeness and symbolic coherence. In so doing, I provide an interpretation of skylines that sheds light on the ways in which financial capitalism is justified by a specific way of viewing the city and the ways in which it is embedded in texts that are deemed to be socially meaningful. Journal: City Pages: 754-768 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1408994 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1408994 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:754-768 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anthony M. Jimenez Author-X-Name-First: Anthony M. Author-X-Name-Last: Jimenez Author-Name: Timothy W. Collins Author-X-Name-First: Timothy W. Author-X-Name-Last: Collins Title: ‘How do we not go back to the factory?’ Abstract: Urban governance has increasingly been shaped by neoliberalism, leading to the entrenchment of inequality based on intersecting categories of class, race/ethnicity, nation, gender and age. For groups like La Mujer Obrera (LMO), a Latina-led community-based organization that mobilizes against neoliberal development, it stands to reason that eschewing neoliberal practices would be straightforward. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence and using multiple methods including semi-structured interviews with representatives of LMO and the local state, our case study demonstrates how even those who resist neoliberalism may embrace practices in conformity with it. Our analysis highlights how LMO’s entrepreneurial deployment of Latinx culture uneasily situated the organization for some time within the constraints of urban governance arrangements it was established to resist. Findings suggest that community development organizations might benefit by collaborating with others in pressuring state agents to revise criteria guiding development funding decisions, in order to obtain greater material support for pursuing their empowerment goals. Journal: City Pages: 737-753 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1408996 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1408996 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:737-753 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Hanna Katharina Göbel Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Göbel Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer Title: Designed to improve? Journal: City Pages: 769-778 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412198 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412198 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:769-778 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nina Gribat Author-X-Name-First: Nina Author-X-Name-Last: Gribat Author-Name: Sandra Meireis Author-X-Name-First: Sandra Author-X-Name-Last: Meireis Title: A critique of the new ‘social architecture’ debate Abstract: In recent years, a new ‘social architecture’ debate has emerged within the discipline of architecture. This debate is based on proclamations of a crisis of architecture and design. It calls on architects to adopt a more ‘people-centred’ approach and give up their reliance on an ever more exclusive market. The debate is founded on a range of selected architectural projects, which are thought to epitomise this new social architecture: improving the living conditions of marginalised parts of the population all around the world. In this paper, we critique some of the claims of the social architecture debate by bringing them into dialogue with different fields of literature from urban and planning studies and also from within architecture. Firstly, we examine the founding idea of the debate that small interventions can have wider social effects; secondly, we analyse how the debate establishes its claims to a global scope; thirdly, we explore the central role aesthetics plays in the debate. Our aim is to not only reveal some of the shortcomings of the social architecture debate, but to indicate directions of how it could be developed further in a more reflective manner, for instance, in giving up the fixations on projects and on the power of architects to change the world. Journal: City Pages: 779-788 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:779-788 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer Title: In search of authenticity Abstract: This paper critically examines the role of the architectural vernacular in the discourse about socially engaged architectures in the context of the metropolises of the Global South. Design practitioners and theorists currently seek to improve the livelihoods of households in informal settlements through architectural projects and design interventions, which claim to be socially engaged. Such projects and interventions are often presented as simultaneously addressing social and environmental concerns. The authenticity of a building’s material and structure in terms of local building traditions is used to argue for a positive social impact. In this paper, I argue that in this discourse we can note a tendency to reinstate object-centred, static and dichotomist interpretations of the vernacular. I show that the fetishization of the vernacular in the discourse about socially engaged architectures bears the danger of depoliticizing debates about urban informality and self-help building. This is exemplified through reflections on a case study of an upgrading project in Ecatepec, Mexico City. Journal: City Pages: 789-799 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:789-799 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Graham Owen Author-X-Name-First: Graham Author-X-Name-Last: Owen Title: The shotgun of selective belonging Abstract: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, activist and institutional groups undertook localised building efforts as catalysts to recovery. Apparently rejecting establishment planning wisdom, these initiatives appropriated counterculture claims of bottom-up movements to credibility, resistance and authenticity. Design schools, revisiting community design–build initiatives begun in the late 1960s, have undertaken building programmes using student labour, sometimes widely publicised. Presented as seed projects, these undertakings claimed to revitalise community and the urban fabric. The case examined, however, with its focus on single-family houses and the transformative virtue of home ownership, can be understood as a promotion and reinforcement of familiar neo-liberal mythologies. In the university programme examined, houses built by student labour in troubled neighbourhoods received significant purchase-price subsidies, but buyers have been predominantly middle class. The design approach, aspiring to authenticity through its allusion to local elements and materials, has nonetheless been criticised as insensitive to the area’s true character. Instead, it may be understood as conferring the ‘gift’ of architecture, and thus of taste and distinction, on the neighbourhood, thus participating in less emancipatory economies than the claims of community revitalisation would suggest. This instance of design and its explicit and implicit social ambitions for ‘improvement’ reveal a dual condition of ‘selective belonging’ (Watt, Paul. 2009. ‘Living in an Oasis: Middle-Class Disaffiliation and Selective Belonging in an English Suburb.’ Environment and Planning A 41 (12): 2874–2892), characteristic of ‘multiculturally sensitive’ gentrification rather than of recovery. Journal: City Pages: 800-812 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:800-812 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Guy Julier Author-X-Name-First: Guy Author-X-Name-Last: Julier Title: Consultant social design, austerity and citizenry Abstract: Social design has emerged as a broad set of designerly approaches to societal challenges. With falling public sector budgets and failing economies, social design, as carried through professional, consultant practices rather than in its voluntarist or activist modes, is understood to work as a smart, fast way of seeing us through these. Outsourcing, Outcome-Based Budgeting and the stirring up of traditional governance systems and responsibilities each contribute to a more varied and less permanent design landscape to work in, however. These are met by a set of design methods to researching, generating and realising new ways to configure and deliver services. This paper takes a critical view that asks whether consultant social design really is ‘social’ or whether, instead, it conspires, in its methods and in the contexts it is active in, towards the opposite. Journal: City Pages: 813-821 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:813-821 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcus Willcocks Author-X-Name-First: Marcus Author-X-Name-Last: Willcocks Title: Building social? More like designing to afford contestation Abstract: This paper discusses some of the urban impossibilities of ‘building social’ and reveals insights gathered through efforts to afford productive spatial contestation and agonistic practices. Three design-led case studies are discussed. The first emerging with Spain’s national institute for sport across 30 sites in Barcelona, the second located at the ‘undercroft’ of London’s Southbank Centre and the third, operating between the social and physical spaces occupied by the Graffiti Dialogues Network, hosted at the University of the Arts London. All exemplify arguments that spatial democracy and ‘improvement’ is tricky. Also, that design-led practice and research activities can aid socio-spatial conflict mitigation, by finding, and by designing-in, new spatial opportunities for agonistic contestation. Journal: City Pages: 822-835 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:822-835 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Coyles Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Coyles Title: The security-threat-community Abstract: At the height of ‘the Troubles’ in 1976 social-housing in Belfast was in a crisis situation as communities consolidated along ethnic boundaries, often with violent consequences, with some communities becoming drastically overcrowded and others falling into abject dereliction. Using declassified government documentation this paper examines how these events legitimised an emergent confluence of housing and security policy which brought into being the security-threat-community; a socio-material construct where every person is a potential insurgent and every dwelling a potential security-threat. Crucially, the paper problematises the complex entanglement of political, military, paramilitary, economic and ideological forces which shaped its formation. The discussion traces a descent through contingent events within a wider dispositif and reveals the formation of the Standing Committee on the Security Implications of Housing, a confidential government body which assessed the viability of social-housing procurement within communities in terms of the security-threat it might present rather than the housing-need that it would address. As a complement to post-9-11 discourses concerning increasingly ‘globalised conflicts’ the security-threat-community reinforces the complexities of local discursivities. The paper makes visible the sophisticated socio-material effects of these operations and illustrates how they remain embedded within contemporary community structures. The paper concludes by reflecting on how this permits conflict-era forces to remain active, but largely unacknowledged, within the post-conflict era. Ultimately the paper argues for a ‘revaluing of the value’ of this conflict-architecture within post-conflict policy frameworks. Journal: City Pages: 699-723 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412598 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412598 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:699-723 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hanna Katharina Göbel Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Göbel Title: Users with/out bodies Abstract: ‘Socially engaged’ participatory design projects from the performative arts are often seen as producers of ‘other’ knowledge. This encompasses embodied, affective and non-representational dimensions of architectural knowledge on future dwelling. Such understanding of what the arts do is in opposition to rationalizations and particularly the scaled concept of a pre-social singularised future inhabitant—the ‘user’—as imputed by modern(ist) architecture and urban planning practices. This paper proposes a combined argument rooted in body sociology by showing that the incorporation of future inhabitants in architectural design processes is a material struggle for social difference around the abstract concept of the ‘user’. It is a political dynamic that concerns all stakeholders in the design processes. The case is called ‘Planbude’, a participatory project in Hamburg, which questions the conventional self-referential body techniques and methods of embodying design in the profession of architects. It will be shown that Planbude’s intervention into the conventions of design processes is not about the aesthetic ‘othering’ of knowledge production only. It will be argued that the members of Planbude have strong practical competences in translating their research results into design processes by critically dealing with the conventional methods of architects and planners. Among all stakeholders this leads to a cultural sensibility and to considerations of differentiated bodily needs in the politics of an architectural design process. Journal: City Pages: 836-848 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412639 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412639 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:836-848 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sandra Uskoković Author-X-Name-First: Sandra Author-X-Name-Last: Uskoković Title: Choreographing architecture Abstract: ‘Man is Space: Vitić Dances’ is a multiyear community art project in a 10-storey condominium building in Zagreb, Croatia. Built by the architect Ivo Vitić, the building, considered a masterpiece of modern architecture, and registered as a national monument is now in a deteriorated state that threatens the lives of its 256 inhabitants. The project started in 2003 when Croatian artist Boris Bakal (Shadow Casters) moved into the building and became deeply acquainted with its history, its tenants and their everyday hardship. The artist aimed to raise the awareness of the tenants and local community to restore this iconic building though a complex interdisciplinary endeavor that combined permanent artistic and social interventions and programs, in and around the building. This ‘artivism’ project re-created and socialized a commonly shared space through intensive artistic presence by unifying tenants to collaborate for its preservation. It allows us to move away from a notion of the building as a whole to a notion of the building as multiplicity, from the study of the urban neighborhood to the study of urban choreographies of architecture. Vitić Dances has also secured funds for the restoration of the building’s facade and for the recording of a documentary film about this project and the building. Indeed, restoration started in February 2016 and will constitute a major investment, funded in part by the City of Zagreb, in residential housing in Croatia. Journal: City Pages: 849-859 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412645 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412645 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:849-859 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Camillo Boano Author-X-Name-First: Camillo Author-X-Name-Last: Boano Author-Name: Giorgio Talocci Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio Author-X-Name-Last: Talocci Title: Inoperative design Abstract: This paper presents a renewed critical reflection of the position and role of architecture in the current social turn of the practice. By thinking through a ‘resistant’ lens, taken from Giorgio Agamben’s spatial political aesthetics, this paper proposes that architectural design practice can reclaim its social agency. These reflections are grounded in the practice of community architecture as it has recently emerged out of the intensifying experience of informality and associated slum settlements in the rapidly growing cities of South-East Asia. Born out of the decade-long experience of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, the Community Architects Network (CAN) was founded in 2010 and now connects practitioners in 19 countries. Based on a five-year-long engagement between the authors and CAN, the paper reflects on the critical possibilities of CAN’s practice, discussing propositions, ambitions, challenges, and opportunities, and the political potential of architecture. Additionally, it presents its limitations, questioning to what extent such practices can be considered a kind of ‘negligence’, that is, a resistance against the status quo as a way of effectively strengthening new subjectivities and voices. Journal: City Pages: 860-871 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412649 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412649 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:860-871 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: Socialising design? From consumption to production Abstract: The notion that design should be socially engaged has become an article of architectural faith, but it is not always clear what we want from design in social terms, or want the social to do or to be within design processes. In the discussion that follows, I consider some of the core ways in which ideas of the social inform the field of spatial design. Debates over social architecture are frequently concerned with alternative and activist approaches to the practice of design, and the papers in this collection take up in critical mode a range of right-thinking and left-leaning interventions which are committed to social ends, processes and values. There is a strong orientation in this field to low-income urbanism as the crucible for socialised design—in contexts where the ‘social’ may be the chief or only resource in conditions of state under-capacity and capital indifference. My focus, however, is less on avowedly engaged practices of spatial design than on the social dimensions of more orthodox—and generally more powerful—designs on space. The initial aim is to call out the versions of the social implicated in mainstream design and development in rich-world settings. Such an account begins with the social sites in which design projects take place, and the social uses to which the latter are geared. The larger aim of the discussion, however, is to go beyond a concept of the social as the context or the object of design to think more critically about the social relations of production which shape design as a process and produce space as a design outcome. Journal: City Pages: 872-882 Issue: 6 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412923 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412923 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:6:p:872-882 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David J. Madden Author-X-Name-First: David J. Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: Editorial: A catastrophic event Abstract: Justice for Grenfell. Source: Paul Watt, 2017. ‘It is a truly terrifying thought but the Grenfell Action Group firmly believe that only a catastrophic event will expose the ineptitude and incompetence of our landlord … and bring an end to the dangerous living conditions and neglect of health and safety legislation that they inflict upon their tenants and leaseholders.’ Grenfell Action Group (2016) ‘Whether explicitly stated or not, every political effort to manage populations involves a tactical distribution of precarity, more often than not articulated through an unequal distribution of precarity, one that depends on dominant norms regarding whose life is grievable and worth protecting and whose life is ungrievable, or marginally or episodically grievable and so, in that sense, already lost in part or in whole, and thus less worthy of protection and sustenance.’ Judith Butler (2012, 148) ‘For what may we hope? Kant put this question in the first-person singular along with two others—What can I know? and What ought I to do?—that he thought essentially marked the human condition. With two centuries of philosophical reflection, it seems that these questions are best transposed to the first-person plural … . Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it. What would it be for such hope to be justified?’ Jonathan Lear (2006, 103) No one who observed the deadly fire in Grenfell Tower or its chaotic aftermath can doubt that it constituted precisely the catastrophic event that its residents feared. Beginning in the early morning hours of Wednesday, the 14th of June, the 24-storey public housing block in North Kensington, in inner west London, was rapidly consumed by an uncontrollable conflagration. The exact number of fatalities is still being tallied, but as of this writing, at least seventy-nine people have died. Scores of family members and neighbours are missing. Dozens of those who survived are in hospital. Hundreds of people were made homeless and have lost everything.The disorganised and inadequate response by local authorities and the Westminster government spurred protests that resembled a resistance movement. It quickly emerged that tenant and resident organisations, such as the Grenfell Action Group, had been calling attention to the risk of disaster in the building for years. The tower lacked a building-wide alarm or sprinkler system and contained only a single staircase for escape. Recent renovation work may also have contributed to the risk of fire. Rather than being heeded, tenants who raised these concerns were actively threatened by the council. Following the fire, reports suggested that when refurbishing the tower’s exterior cladding, the landlord, the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, may have opted for substandard, in fact flammable materials in pursuit of cost savings. As this picture emerged, popular outrage grew. Increasingly it seems that the tower’s largely working-class residents had been living with a level of deadly risk that would never have been tolerated for their wealthier neighbours in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Journal: City Pages: 1-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1348743 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1348743 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joshua K. Leon Author-X-Name-First: Joshua K. Author-X-Name-Last: Leon Title: Global cities at any cost Abstract: Global cities are all the rage these days, evidenced by the proliferation of reports to quantify them for popular consumption. What began as a theoretical construct of the scholarly left has been commoditized by an emergent discourse seeking to present the neoliberal city as unchallengeable. This paper examines the gradual corporate acquisition of the global city idea. What’s striking is the ideational power the global cities discourse has gained, merging business, academia and policymakers in the cause of ‘globalizing’ cities. This cause justifies costly state interventions in cities that only reinforce class relations, what I call municipal mercantilism. The goal here is to critically appraise whether or not the global city model is worth the destructive costs, and to highlight hidden opportunities for active resistance to municipal mercantilism. Contrary to neoliberal assertions of a passive state, municipal mercantilism requires an active state—one that could just as easily produce social goods. There is space for proactive change in this contest over knowledge, as an urban precariat resists the common experience of state repression and misplaced priorities. Journal: City Pages: 6-24 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1263491 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1263491 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:6-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Niall Cunningham Author-X-Name-First: Niall Author-X-Name-Last: Cunningham Author-Name: Mike Savage Author-X-Name-First: Mike Author-X-Name-Last: Savage Title: An intensifying and elite city Abstract: This paper contributes to the debate on London’s social class structure at the start of the 21st century. That debate has focused on the use of census metrics to argue the case for whether or not the capital has become more or less middle class in composition between 2001 and 2011. We contend that the definition of the middle class has become confused in the course of this debate and is of less critical importance for an understanding of the city’s contemporary class structure than is a focus on London’s elite. We make use of data from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey (GBCS) to shed light on the social, cultural and economic resources of this group, in addition to their spatial location. We then return to the census data for 2001 and 2011 and posit that belying the image of stability in London’s class structure these data suggest clear and localised patterns of intensification in class geographies across the capital, an intensification characterised by a growing cleavage between Inner and Outer London. Journal: City Pages: 25-46 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1263490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1263490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:25-46 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Seth Schindler Author-X-Name-First: Seth Author-X-Name-Last: Schindler Title: Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism Abstract: In this paper I argue that cities in the global South constitute a distinctive ‘type’ of human settlement. I begin by critiquing Brenner and Schmid’s concept of planetary urbanization which erases difference among cities and locates the essence of urbanity in the global North. I echo their criticism of postcolonial urbanism, however, which has struggled to articulate precisely how Southern cities differ from their Northern counterparts. I then propose three tendencies that, when taken together, serve as the basis of an emergent paradigm of Southern urbanism. First, I assert that cities in the South tend to exhibit a persistent disconnect between capital and labor. Second, I demonstrate that their metabolic configurations are discontinuous, dynamic and contested. Finally, I argue that political economy is not the overriding context within which urban processes unfold, but rather it is always already co-constituted with the materiality of Southern cities. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of characteristics exhibited uniformly by all cities in the global South. Instead, I hope that it serves as a starting point for city-centric scholarship that can account for very real differences between/among cities without constructing cities in the South as pathological and in need of development interventions. Journal: City Pages: 47-64 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1263494 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1263494 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:47-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jean-Paul D. Addie Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Paul D. Author-X-Name-Last: Addie Title: Claiming the university for critical urbanism Journal: City Pages: 65-80 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1267331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1267331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:65-80 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Waley Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Waley Title: Gentrification is everywhere Journal: City Pages: 81-83 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1267356 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1267356 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:81-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Acuto Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Acuto Title: In praise of visceral urbanism Journal: City Pages: 84-86 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1267369 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1267369 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:84-86 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joshua Evans Author-X-Name-First: Joshua Author-X-Name-Last: Evans Title: Urban resilience in an age of neoliberalization Journal: City Pages: 87-89 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1239449 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1239449 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:87-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Kofi Diko Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Kofi Author-X-Name-Last: Diko Title: Nurturing the tree of sustainable urban future for Kumasi, Ghana Journal: City Pages: 90-94 Issue: 1 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1239448 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2016.1239448 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:1:p:90-94 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: Elite avenues Abstract: Development and planning elites across many of the burgeoning megacities of the Global South still work powerfully to fetishise elevated highways or flyovers as part of their efforts at ‘worlding’ their cities. In such a context, and given the neglect of such processes in recent urban and mobilities literatures, this paper presents an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban and vertical politics of raised flyovers, freeways and expressways. It argues that such highways need to be seen as important elements within broader processes of three-dimensional social segregation and secession within and between cities which privilege the mobilities of the privileged. The paper falls into six sections. Following the introduction, the complex genealogies of flyover urban design are discussed. Discussion then moves to the vertical politics of flyovers in the West Bank and post-Apartheid South Africa; the elite imaginings surrounding flyover construction in Mumbai; the political struggles surrounding the ribbons of space beneath flyover systems; and the efforts to bury or reappropriate the landscapes of raised flyovers. Journal: City Pages: 527-550 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1412190 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1412190 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:527-550 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alistair Sisson Author-X-Name-First: Alistair Author-X-Name-Last: Sisson Title: Stretching stigmatised territory Journal: City Pages: 604-608 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1485316 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1485316 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:604-608 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mara Ferreri Author-X-Name-First: Mara Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreri Author-Name: Kim Trogal Author-X-Name-First: Kim Author-X-Name-Last: Trogal Title: ‘This is a private-public park’ Abstract: Since the end of the 2012 Olympic Games, London’s residents and tourists have been awaiting the spectacular redevelopment of the former Olympic venue into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP), which comprises the city’s ‘newest park’. As the most visible legacy of the Games, it has become a key test case for demonstrating the public interest of London 2012 and its legacy. In this article we engage with the park in the first year after its opening, when it became the site of a range of public cultural projects commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation, which manages post-Olympic redevelopment. Through observant participation in one such commission, a six-month mobile residency on site, we gained insights into the tensions emerging from claims to publicness in the making of this new ‘private-public park’, further explored through interviews and visual methods. We propose the term architectures of spectacle to analyse the logic expressed in the design and management of the park and discuss its articulation across three dimensions: (in)visibility, micro-regulation and disorientation. We critically analyse each of these elements and their relationship to competing claims of publicness and the ‘security legacy’ of the Games, raising wider questions about the spectacular public performance of the post-Olympic legacy. Journal: City Pages: 510-526 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1497571 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1497571 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:510-526 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: Editorial: why not anti-urban? Journal: City Pages: 451-459 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1505080 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1505080 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:451-459 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gordon MacLeod Author-X-Name-First: Gordon Author-X-Name-Last: MacLeod Title: The Grenfell Tower atrocity Abstract: The fire that erupted in Grenfell Tower in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London on 14 June 2017 is widely acknowledged to be the worst experienced during UK peacetime since the nineteenth century. It is confirmed to have resulted in 72 casualties and 70 physically injured. It has also left a community physically and emotionally scarred. That the catastrophe occurred in the country’s wealthiest borough added to the shock while the circumstances surrounding it also begged questions relating to political and corporate responsibility. The UK Prime Minister swiftly established a public inquiry which is ongoing and anticipated to stretch well into 2019. This paper offers a preliminary analysis of what some are interpreting to be a national atrocity. It begins by describing the events at the time of the fire while also identifying the key controversies that began to surface. It then examines the local geography of Grenfell Tower and the surrounding Lancaster West Estate revealing an astonishing landscape of inequality across the borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The paper then uncovers how such inequality was combined with a malevolent geography of injustice whereby for several years residents raised regular warnings about the building’s safety only to be disregarded by the very organisations which were there ostensibly to protect and safeguard their livelihoods: the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea municipal authority and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation. The paper then deepens the analysis identifying how these organisations disavowed the local democratic process, in doing so dishonouring so tragically the Grenfell residents. It then finds this democratic disavowal to be multiscalar: for amid an incremental neoliberal political assault on the national welfare state, public housing across the country has become wretchedly devalued, stigmatised, and the subject of scandalous maladministration. A final section offers some preliminary analysis of the early stages of the Grenfell Inquiry, while also revealing the dignified resistance of Grenfell community in the face of London’s increasingly plutocratic governance. Journal: City Pages: 460-489 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507099 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507099 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:460-489 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Hutnyk Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hutnyk Title: Marx in Calcutta Abstract: This paper considers the importance of examples from India in the text of Marx's Capital. In tracking Marx's preoccupations, it is possible to show the relevance, especially for today, of his critique in a global frame, as political economy pivots and returns to its sources. Along the way, countering misreading and mistranslation, it becomes possible to see why studies of the agrarian, trading route and subaltern histories of capital in relation to the subcontinent, as well as of market spaces and early commercial exchange in Asia, are crucial for rethinking Marxist approaches to urbanism today. Targeting the archetypal corporate entity of his time, and its ideological supporters, the themes of tribute, exoticism, animals and the slave trade restore a reading practice that owes as much to Marx's biography as to any one Marxist mode of analysis. The idea of a postcolonial, vegetarian or saffron Marx is not on the cards—since Asia is not simply a place to which Marx goes—but a more careful and at the same time experimental reading can perhaps restore enthusiasm for the critique of political economy and provide ways of teaching old texts that remain relevant, and by remaining relevant, indicate what is to be done. Journal: City Pages: 490-509 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507100 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507100 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:490-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: Participatory budgeting, austerity and institutions of democracy Abstract: Participatory budgeting operates in approximately 1500 cities across the globe. Often these projects are used in attempts to make city government more democratic. The growing popularity of participatory budgeting also reflects scholarly concerns about elite interests dominating policy-making to the extent that democratic institutions principally serve legitimation purposes. This paper examines the implementation and evolution of participatory budgeting in the City of Vallejo, California, following its 2008 chapter 9 bankruptcy. The City of Vallejo introduced participatory budgeting as part of a broader collection of reforms implemented to restructure the city budget and re-legitimate Vallejo’s city government. Participatory budgeting introduced new decision-making processes to the city and directed expenditures into new programs. An evaluation of the reforms and outcomes of Vallejo’s participatory budgeting reveals a picture of mixed success. Although participatory budgeting opened an important part of the city’s budget to democratic deliberation, the process became aligned with entrenched institutional interests. In conclusion the paper reflects on how the institutional structures of urban politics might limit the democratic potential of participatory budgeting. Journal: City Pages: 551-567 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507107 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507107 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:551-567 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William Kutz Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Kutz Title: Financialization interrupted Abstract: Researchers have increasingly sought to account for the ways in which financial systems permeate everyday life, interpolating individuals as entrepreneurial investor subjects. This article examines why some people reject such financial opportunities as unwilling subjects. This issue is examined in the context of the Moroccan housing market and the associated financial products and services deployed to expand home ownership to low-income buyers. The article demonstrates how efforts to promote financial services to improve access to affordable housing failed to account for the social and cultural significance of the Moroccan home beyond its immediate exchangeability. The values and practices promoted by affordable housing reforms often conflicted with the long-standing relationships between individuals, their homes, and the wider community. Residents’ unwillingness to engage with the market has disrupted the growth of housing financialization and has rendered associated housing policies for low-income residents unstable. Journal: City Pages: 568-583 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507109 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507109 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:568-583 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Hutnyk Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Hutnyk Title: The museum of vernacular regeneration Abstract: This debate piece reports on ongoing research addressing local experience of heritage regeneration in waterfront and port cities (informed by the work of Subramanian [1999. Indrani Ray’s French East India Company and the Trade of the Indian Ocean. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers; 2008. Ports, Towns and Cities: A Historical Tour of the Indian Littoral. Mumbai: Marg Publications; 2016. The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral. Delhi: Oxford University Press] and Mukherjee [2006. Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia. Delhi: Foundation Books; 2013. Oceans Connect: Reflections on Water Worlds Across Time and Space. Delhi: Primus]). An ongoing research project on port cities is evaluated, and a museum of impossible objects is proposed to counter commercially driven regeneration from mainstream developers. Journal: City Pages: 584-594 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507110 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507110 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:584-594 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jenni Cauvain Author-X-Name-First: Jenni Author-X-Name-Last: Cauvain Title: Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars Abstract: Urban sustainability is an increasingly popular term used by scientists and policymakers from all disciplines, increasingly without any reference to the tradition of critical urban studies. It is often observed that the social pillar is missing, if sustainability is understood via the ‘three-legged stool’ concept encompassing social, economic and environmental dimensions. With a few notable exceptions, there appears to be a lack of interest also within urban scholarship to use the term ‘social sustainability’ to address this gap, although critical urban scholars are productive in the critique of sustainability as a social and political construct. Drawing on the idea of a politics of knowledge, this paper points to political, institutional and conceptual factors that have limited the purchase of social sustainability in research. These factors are rooted in sustainability being predominantly understood as an environmental concern, and a culture that may marginalise research subscribing to a post-positivist epistemology. This article asks whether the social pillar of sustainability could offer a discursive and symbolic tool for researchers to make the case for a critical urban epistemology in interdisciplinary research environments. Journal: City Pages: 595-603 Issue: 4 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507113 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507113 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:4:p:595-603 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Fernandez Author-X-Name-Last: Arrigoitia Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: Editorial: Anything is possible Journal: City Pages: 139-142 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1617462 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1617462 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:139-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Arnold Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Arnold Title: Aesthetics of zero tolerance Abstract: Zero tolerance policies against graffiti are rooted in moral panic and ‘broken windows’ theory, forging connections between illegal interventions in the city and social disorder. While these connections are now widely recognised as unfounded, they persist in anti-graffiti policy. Versions of the New York model of zero tolerance against graffiti were instituted with unique severity and with some peculiarities in Nordic cities such as Oslo, Stockholm, and Helsinki in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Strict policy rarely has the intended effect of ridding the city of graffiti and other unwanted expressions. Undesirable interventions persist despite intense media and education campaigns, graffiti removal schemes, harsh punishments, and even modicums of censorship. The Norwegian capital of Oslo implemented a policy of zero tolerance against graffiti in 2000. Taking Oslo as its focus, this paper strives to uncover aesthetic consequences of such policy and looks for indications of what makes the zero tolerance city distinct. Drawing upon psychogeographic and photographic fieldwork conducted in Norway between 2013 and 2017, four potential consequences emerge: the creation of aesthetic tensions; the presence of buffed and negated spaces; changes in graffiti style and form; and differences in the scale of street art. This paper concludes by proposing that cities allowing for more agonism and tolerance may enable more meaningful and democratic creative expression of its citizens, leading to more diverse and vibrant urban aesthetics. Journal: City Pages: 143-169 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615758 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615758 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:143-169 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Deanna Dadusc Author-X-Name-First: Deanna Author-X-Name-Last: Dadusc Title: Enclosing autonomy Abstract: In the Netherlands squatting was tolerated and regulated for decades. In October 2010 a new law turned the occupation of vacant properties into a criminal action punishable with up to two years imprisonment. This paper argues that while squatted spaces produce autonomous forms of urban commoning, both tolerance and criminalisation of squatting engendered multiple modes of enclosure and capture of the autonomous socio-spatial relations constituted through these spaces. By analysing techniques of disciplinary integration, commodification and criminalisation, the paper suggests that the object of enclosure is not simply the common as such, but its radical capacity for autonomy from state control and capital capture. Journal: City Pages: 170-188 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615760 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615760 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:170-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julie Gamble Author-X-Name-First: Julie Author-X-Name-Last: Gamble Author-Name: Cristen Dávalos Author-X-Name-First: Cristen Author-X-Name-Last: Dávalos Title: Moving with masculine care in the city Abstract: Like many Latin American cities, the city of Quito, Ecuador, is adopting innovative transit development like Bus Rapid Transit, cable car systems, and underground metro rail to connect previously marginalized communities across the city. In this landscape urban dwellers continue to use informal transportation to complete their journeys. Informal transit is understood as a self-regulated and flexible service that operates in tandem with the formal, public system of the city. In contrast to research with a political-economic focus on informal transit as a self-regulated entrepreneurial activity, this paper examines informal transit under the broader social conditions of neoliberalism. Thus, our attention is on understanding this collective service and how it functions to provide urban livelihood for residents. Using ethnographic and participatory research that draws on participant observation, photography, interviews, and GPS technology, this research first shows how informal transit is an infrastructure that produces new affective relations between citizens and the state. We discuss the ways in which care emerges as a powerful lens to reconsider gender identities in the city by specifically exploring patriarchal power relations, highlighting that while men experience marginality when performing informal and illegal work, they simultaneously exert masculine privilege in the construction of transit infrastructure. Journal: City Pages: 189-204 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615796 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615796 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:189-204 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mirza Tursić Author-X-Name-First: Mirza Author-X-Name-Last: Tursić Title: The city as an aesthetic space Abstract: This paper uses the relational space paradigm to bridge some gaps between the field of aesthetics and the field of urban studies. By introducing the concept of aesthetic space, I analyze a particular sort of direct lived experience through which memories of the past, latent reality and the actualized perceived present are conjured together, informing one another. Studying the aesthetic space can help urban researchers better understand how the world becomes internalized or externalized by inhabitants, how they develop a stronger concern for justice, or how novelty is borne from a constant dialogue between the ethical and the aesthetic. Like many other social phenomena, aesthetic categories are emergent, meaning that categories with different qualities appear at each different scale. In this sense, aesthetic appreciation of the city as a whole cannot be solely understood as the sum of the aesthetic appreciations of its separate parts. The production of a scale as a societal problem is analyzed through the concept of style. A few examples are examined. Journal: City Pages: 205-221 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615762 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615762 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:205-221 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dimitris Pettas Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris Author-X-Name-Last: Pettas Title: Power relations, conflicts and everyday life in urban public space Abstract: This paper explores the ways in which social space is produced through the development of horizontal power relations in public spaces that function as fields of conflict. Through a six month long ethnographic study, it focuses on the production of exclusionary territories and their contestation by collective and individual non-institutional actors through the production of inclusionary counter-territories in two public spaces in central Athens (Greece), namely, Exarcheia and Agios Panteleimonas Squares. Key findings include (1) the decisive role of everyday unintentional, non-collective productions of space which are in both sites difficult to be overturned, even through collective action, (2) the differentiated characteristics of conflicts developed over and in public space and their influence on collective claims for control, and (3) indications that power relations in urban public space enclose and are built upon contrasting practices and territories that can only be traced and analyzed at the level of everyday life. Journal: City Pages: 222-244 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615763 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615763 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:222-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James Merricks White Author-X-Name-First: James Merricks Author-X-Name-Last: White Title: On the difficulty of agreeing upon a universal logic for city standards Abstract: In a paper published within the Debates section of City last year, Schindler and Marvin laid out an agenda for the study of city standards, which they argued impose a universal logic of control. While they described three published standards and situated city standards within the context of smart cities, their failure to consider the institutional setting of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) led them to overemphasise the coherence and unity with which city standards are actually developed. In this response piece, I correct this omission by excavating the origins of TC 268, the technical committee dedicated to city standards. This reveals not a universal logic of control, but a body of expertise in contentious and contingent emergence. While ultimately, I agree with Schindler and Marvin that city standards are deserving of greater attention from critical urban scholars, I argue for a more situated response to their politics that leaves open the possibility of them having positive effects on urban equity and social change. Journal: City Pages: 245-255 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615765 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615765 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:245-255 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amanda Wasielewski Author-X-Name-First: Amanda Author-X-Name-Last: Wasielewski Title: From rogue sign to squatter symbol Abstract: The international symbol for squatting originated in Amsterdam in late 1979. Its origins and particular meaning are less clear. This article investigates several possible influences on the design of the symbol and its significance as an urban meme. Journal: City Pages: 256-267 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1615772 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1615772 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:256-267 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Acuto Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Acuto Title: Night: the final frontier? Journal: City Pages: 268-272 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1574383 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1574383 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:268-272 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natalie Marr Author-X-Name-First: Natalie Author-X-Name-Last: Marr Title: What a difference the night makes: towards new planetary urbanisms Journal: City Pages: 273-276 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1574382 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1574382 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:273-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert Shaw Author-X-Name-First: Robert Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw Title: On the biogeoastronomical night and cautious theory Journal: City Pages: 277-280 Issue: 2 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1574384 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1574384 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:2:p:277-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bob Catterall Author-X-Name-First: Bob Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 269-270 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120112659 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120112659 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:269-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Rennie Short Author-X-Name-First: John Rennie Author-X-Name-Last: Short Title: Civic engagement and urban America Abstract: The decline of civic engagement has been a constant discourse in US society. John Rennie Short critically evaluates the current debates. His basic argument is that these debates ignore the reality of metropolitan fragmentation and the balkanization of communities. The possibilities of New Urbanism recreating community are critically evaluated. But steps towards civic engagement at an urban level are both possible and necessary. Journal: City Pages: 271-280 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105134 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105134 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:271-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon F Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon F Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Community, social identity and the structuration of power in the contemporary European city Part Two: Power and identity in the urban community: A comparative analysis Abstract: East London, the "red belt" of communes north of Paris, and Bologna are the subject of close analysis as localities which have had local governments of the left for many decades, representing "communities of resistance". Simon Parker explores the interplay of "community" and "identity" - using a methodology developed in the previous issue of City (Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 190-202) to study what he terms "structuration". The analysis suggests that at least two dimensions have been crucial in these cases: the degree to which political forces sought to transform identity (strong in Paris and Bologna, weak in London) and the approach adopted to the management of change (essentially defensive in Paris and London, innovative and progressive in Bologna). Journal: City Pages: 281-309 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105143 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105143 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:281-309 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sirpa Tani Author-X-Name-First: Sirpa Author-X-Name-Last: Tani Title: 'That kind of girl in this kind of neighbourhood …' The potential and problems of street prostitution research Abstract: The researcher can never be a detached observer. In this paper Sirpa Tani explores the dynamic between researcher and research 'field', and the methodological challenges she encountered living in a neighbourhood which became the subject of her own research into street prostitution in Helsinki, Finland. The idea in traditional ethnographic fieldwork that the researcher enters the field, gathers data, and withdraws to report findings in the comfort of academia is challenged by this close proximity to the subject. Tani's surveys of the attitudes and feelings of local women who have been mistakenly approached as sex workers have to be interpreted alongside her own experiences of these situations. How are we to begin to address such transient and elusive activities in the city, using what data, and with what research output in mind? How can the publication of such research avoid falling into the trap of reproducing the negative meanings attached to an area, through media representation, and the complex processes of "othering" underlying the city's spatial configurations? Journal: City Pages: 311-324 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105152 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105152 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:311-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edward Hulsbergen Author-X-Name-First: Edward Author-X-Name-Last: Hulsbergen Author-Name: Paul Stouten Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Stouten Title: Urban renewal and regeneration in the Netherlands Integration lost or subordinate? Abstract: In this paper, Paul Stouten and Edward Hulsbergen revisit some of the on-going, and to some extent intractable, problems embedded in urban renewal and regeneration policies. In the context of the Netherlands, they argue that from the 1970s onwards there has been a growing disconnection between social and physical aspects of urban renewal. The particular problems the authors highlight include: the limited ways in which current problems are identified; the existence of numerous unconnected money flows; a shift in investment priorities, in particular away from public housing schemes; and the segregation of public authorities. The authors' overall concern is with the effects which unconnected, marketdriven urban renewal is having on less affluent residents. Stouten and Hulsbergen suggest that concepts such as the 'Network City' and the role of information and communication technologies, may provide new ways to 'reintegrate' urban policies. They also suggest that there needs to be more consideration of the scale at which many urban problems operate, and that more direct participation with residents, through for example an "active neighbourhood approach", can offer new solutions to old problems. Cities such as the Hague and Rotterdam are experimenting with such new problem statements for urban renewal. The question is: to what effect? Journal: City Pages: 325-337 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105161 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105161 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:325-337 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Stephen Graham Author-X-Name-First: Stephen Author-X-Name-Last: Graham Title: The city as sociotechnical process Networked mobilities and urban social inequalities Journal: City Pages: 339-349 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105170 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105170 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:339-349 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gary Bridge Author-X-Name-First: Gary Author-X-Name-Last: Bridge Author-Name: Sophie Watson Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Watson Title: Retext(ur)ing the city Journal: City Pages: 350-362 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810152706060 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810152706060 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:350-362 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James DeFilippis Author-X-Name-First: James Author-X-Name-Last: DeFilippis Title: Our resistance must be as local as capitalism Place, scale and the anti-globalization protest movement Abstract: This article by James DeFilippis initiates a debate we intend to engage with on current thought and action within the anti-globalization, pro-democracy movement. DeFilippis presents a perspective from the Globalise Resistance Movement, a broad coalition of socialist groups who have come together to formulate ideas, tactics and actions on how to challenge some of the ideologies and excesses of state and corporate power and economic globalization. Subsequently we will feature other voices from the anti-globalization movement. Journal: City Pages: 363-373 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105198 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105198 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:363-373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Panu Lehtovuori Author-X-Name-First: Panu Author-X-Name-Last: Lehtovuori Title: The redefined taiga Journal: City Pages: 375-379 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105206 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105206 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:375-379 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Russell Hitchings Author-X-Name-First: Russell Author-X-Name-Last: Hitchings Title: Thinking about things The personal stereo, the skateboard and daily activity in the city Journal: City Pages: 379-382 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810152706097 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810152706097 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:379-382 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Cities Under Siege: September 11th and after Journal: City Pages: 383-438 Issue: 3 Volume: 5 Year: 2001 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810120105000 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810120105000 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:5:y:2001:i:3:p:383-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: Editorial: City of emergency Journal: City Pages: 281-284 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1648734 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1648734 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:281-284 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Clarissa F. Sampaio Freitas Author-X-Name-First: Clarissa F. Sampaio Author-X-Name-Last: Freitas Title: Insurgent planning? Abstract: Under what conditions, planning can be transformative? While also acknowledging Critical Urban Studies’ general skepticism around the transformative power of urban planning policies, this article reflects on the possibilities of planning in facilitating enduring urban change. It does so by scrutinizing the Brazilian process of institutionalization of the notion of the Right to the City (RTTC) and its effects on the daily lives of vulnerable residents of the city of Fortaleza. Using the theorectical lenses of Insurgent Planning literature, the research offers some insights for examining the contradictory processes of rights based inclusion and material exclusion. On one side, it reveals an association of RTTC planning policies with neoliberal ideologies neutralizing the political gains of earlier urban social movements. On the other side, having residents check on the outcomes of state practices and adopting an attitude of not giving up on political confrontation, when deemed necessary, has proven an efficient way to materialize the redistribution of urban resources toward the excluded. The fidings are grounded in six years of field research on/about informal residents’ struggle for adequate living conditions in a peripheral region of the city called Grande Bom Jardim. Journal: City Pages: 285-305 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1648030 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1648030 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:285-305 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tanu Sankalia Author-X-Name-First: Tanu Author-X-Name-Last: Sankalia Title: Public space and citizenship in Mumbai Abstract: Over the last few decades in Mumbai, incessant urbanization stimulated by flows of property capital has pushed government to privilege private development over public space. In this neoliberal context, citizens’ groups have pressured government to act in the public interest and led the charge to conserve public spaces in the city. This article examines the relationship between citizenship and city building in Mumbai by presenting two case studies of citizen action: the struggle over Land’s End and the making of the Bandra Bandstand promenade. It critically engages the expansive and divergent literature about the politics of the middle class in urban India and resists the tendency of characterizing this group as merely consumerist and anti-poor. The article argues that the roots of middle class involvement in Mumbai’s urban transformation goes back to the 1970s and beyond and posits that the politics and activism of numerous citizens’ groups builds on historical struggles for environmental and social justice in the city. Journal: City Pages: 306-326 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1647707 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1647707 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:306-326 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alison Hulme Author-X-Name-First: Alison Author-X-Name-Last: Hulme Title: Discovering a ‘post-revolutionary’ sense of place in China’s small commodity city of Yiwu Abstract: The ‘small commodity city' of Yiwu in China specialises in low-end products, enjoying economic success due to its early establishment of private enterprise, yet relying upon traditional forms of solidarity as well as those provided by the structures of the market. It has ‘history', but one that has been reconstructed beyond all recognition. Drawing primarily upon the work of Doreen Massey, this article explores the burgeoning sense of place in Yiwu and the wider implications this has for thinking on place. The article analyses two specific elements: the ‘Wenzhou model', on which China's small commodity economy is built, and the architectural form of the ‘small district'. It argues that the use of the Wenzhou model in Yiwu situates it at the forefront of an economic national historical trajectory, and that the development of small districts, tied as they are to previous historical built forms, provides a sense of the past as an assemblage from which current identity can be forged. A sense of place, it proposes, has arisen precisely due to the unusual assemblage of those elements, but is less tied to traditional notions of place, being more grounded within moments and networks that resonate with current post-revolutionary lived experiences. Journal: City Pages: 327-341 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1646029 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1646029 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:327-341 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Muna Guvenc Author-X-Name-First: Muna Author-X-Name-Last: Guvenc Title: Propositions for the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle Abstract: During the last few decades, the role of the spectacle within urban settings has produced groundbreaking research, mainly in Euro-American and Southeast Asian settings. However, its full potential to account for creative forms of encounter and political engagement has not by and large been part of the rich scholarship on cities, particularly with regard to regions lacking full democratic rights. Toward this end, this article investigates the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle as an anchor for new forms of dissent by groups without access to conventional political channels. Specifically, it explores how, in the early 2000s, pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey, who were either banned by the state or denied access to parliament by targeted legal restrictions, used urban spectacle to develop a mass oppositional movement. In the southern city of Diyarbakır, these groups organized a number of themed mass demonstrations and urban festivals, such as the movement of civil disobedience and Newroz festivals, to enhance their public visibility, create new opportunities for popular mobilization, and support practices of active citizenship. The article concludes that an awareness of the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle can contribute to understanding the multiple dimensions of public space and its relationship to democratic action. Journal: City Pages: 342-365 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1648037 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1648037 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:342-365 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriel Ortiz van Meerbeke Author-X-Name-First: Gabriel Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz van Meerbeke Author-Name: Bjørn Sletto Author-X-Name-First: Bjørn Author-X-Name-Last: Sletto Title: ‘Graffiti takes its own space’ Abstract: The politics of graffiti and street art are often described in binary terms: criminalization of graffiti enhances its oppositional potential; its legalization destroys its counter hegemonic essence. In order to add nuance to this binary understanding of street art and graffiti, we examine the complex responses of street artists and graffiti writers to Decreto 75 (‘Decree 75’), an ordinance deployed by the mayoral administration of Gustavo Petro between 2011 and 2015 to formally regulate street art and graffiti writing in Bogotá, Colombia. In contradiction to previous policies that criminalized this subculture, this new legal framework promoted so called ‘responsible and artistic’ graffiti and street art, in part to support the ideology and political priorities of the Petro administration via muralist tropes long common in the Latin American city. We also examine the heterogeneous reactions of artists to this more permissible governance approach, drawing on interviews, photography, and active participation in the street art community in Bogotá. Since most research examining graffiti as a mode of contestation has been conducted in cities where street art and graffiti writing is criminalized, the case of Bogotá illuminates the implications of decriminalization strategies for the politics, practices, and meanings of contemporary graffiti and street art. Journal: City Pages: 366-387 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1646030 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1646030 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:366-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Vanolo Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Vanolo Title: Scenes from an urban outside Abstract: This contribution to the Scenes & Sounds section of CITY reflects on the experience of feeling ‘outside’ the urban by focusing on urban absences. The argument is developed first through theoretical speculations on planetary urbanism, emotions and absences/presences. The paper then mobilises autobiographical accounts concerning the emotions that I experienced during a summer spent in an alpine village. The paper suggests that, in my emotional sphere, the village was a ‘constitutive outside’ of the urban, particularly through the manipulation of feelings of distance from, and proximity to, the urban. In this sense, the paper proposes that the village was not simply a ‘negative other’ of the urban; rather, it may be regarded as an outside which was relationally constructed in a position of continuity with the inside: the extra-urban may include and exceed the urban, and it may emotionally perform the role of a constitutive outside Journal: City Pages: 388-401 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1646031 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1646031 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:388-401 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frances Brill Author-X-Name-First: Frances Author-X-Name-Last: Brill Title: Private finance initiatives: London’s social housing in an increasingly financialised context Journal: City Pages: 402-404 Issue: 3 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 5 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1646028 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1646028 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:3:p:402-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Erik Jönsson Author-X-Name-First: Erik Author-X-Name-Last: Jönsson Author-Name: Ståle Holgersen Author-X-Name-First: Ståle Author-X-Name-Last: Holgersen Title: Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’ Abstract: ‘Sustainability’, often presented through an ecological–economic–social triad, is today one of spatial planning’s absolute key concepts (and key priorities). But it is also a highly contested concept, whose meaning is often considered evasive or vague. In this paper, we try to counterweigh such evasiveness by putting emphasis on the material landscape produced within a project that is frequently depicted as a pinnacle of sustainable planning: the Western Harbour in Malmö, Sweden. Regardless of how vague discursive definitions of sustainability are, we argue that there is a sense in which planning projects such as this one help stabilise the meaning of the concept. They become material manifestations of particular takes on sustainability. Through examining what has emerged as former shipyards and factory grounds have since 2001 been transformed within the Western Harbour, we develop a heuristic triad that highlights what is presented as sustainability therein. We argue that through the Western Harbour’s development, sustainable planning becomes ‘spectacular’ through a focus on building sustainably in a way that also attracts public attention. It becomes regarded as ‘realisable’ in that it should be achievable within current political and political–economic structures. And sustainable planning becomes about the ‘everyday’ in that technological solutions for greening inhabitants’ everyday lives are developed in a way that emphasises the local scale. Journal: City Pages: 253-270 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325186 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325186 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:253-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maximilian Sternberg Author-X-Name-First: Maximilian Author-X-Name-Last: Sternberg Title: Transnational urban heritage? Abstract: This paper focuses on the urban context and spatial manifestations of the construction of shared heritage sites resulting from cross-border interactions in Polish–German border towns. A comparison of the three border towns of Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice, Guben/Gubin and Görlitz/Zgorzelec offers insights into the relationship between the creation of transnational urban places and the contrasting spatial circumstances in the urban environments of the border towns. The greater permeability of the border in the Schengen period from 2007 has intensified cross-border activity, and actors from both sides of the river have cooperated to create new shared places, most prominent among these are heritage sites. These new transnational heritage sites emphasise different aspects of the past, including valorising ‘neutral’ heritage, rediscovering sites of trauma and victimhood, or reinventing existing sites. While divisions persist, rooted as much in the burden of the past as current socio-economic asymmetries, some evidence is coming to light of the forging of shared heritage sites linked to narratives of reconciliation and mutual recognition. The creation of shared heritage is a fragile process which depends on contingent urban conditions. This paper draws attention to the need for heritage sites to evolve gradually and with significant participation from civil activists if they are to gain local transnational significance. Moreover, heritage sites only have transformative potential when they become integrated in the urban environment as active settings for everyday life which transcend commemorative or tourist purposes alone. Journal: City Pages: 271-292 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325202 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325202 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:271-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katherine VanHoose Author-X-Name-First: Katherine Author-X-Name-Last: VanHoose Author-Name: Federico Savini Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Savini Title: The social capital of urban activism Abstract: Practices of urban activism are increasingly viewed as a new form of engaged citizenship. Because of their insurgent and informal nature, however, these initiatives are at risk of marginalization from exclusionary urban policy processes. Employing the concept of social capital, this paper analyzes the internal organization of two activist communities and their capacity to connect with and influence public and formal institutions. Through a cross-national comparison of two case studies, we show that such groups are likely to achieve end goals when they feature selective membership, maintain a common purpose and identity, and make strategic use of intermediaries and experts to create bridges to external institutions and resources. We conclude by arguing that, today, urban activists face a fundamental trade-off between inclusiveness and instrumentalism. Journal: City Pages: 293-311 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325207 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325207 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:293-311 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Chambers Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Chambers Author-Name: Thomas Andrews Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Andrews Title: #boulietacks Abstract: Since early 2014 small carpet tacks have been persistently dropped on an undulating stretch of road in Melbourne, Australia—ostensibly targeting road cyclists. No one knows where they come from. And yet the recurring presence of these rough-hewn iron nails continue to cause serious injury, property damage and nuisance to those who use this space, all the while flummoxing law enforcement and road maintenance authorities. Our aim in this paper is to follow the interfaces between tack and tyre, finger and phone, image and social media platform, to produce a detailed account of how these mediations are materialised and mobilised politically. Here, we use mobile interfaces to think through the complexity of embodied and deeply material uses of urban space as we narrate the ways in which groups become politically organised through various media. In this dispatch, we trace the development and deployment of a hashtag—#boulietacks—as a means of following this particular Antipodean enigma through the social media and digital communications platforms. Spread on roads and between living people in the city, tacks shape different kinds of political action in response to the anonymous and asymmetrical introduction of hazards into an urban environment customarily adopted for use in road cycling—the lifeless tacks mobilise a lively politics between urban modes of existence. Journal: City Pages: 329-347 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325211 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325211 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:329-347 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luiza Bialasiewicz Author-X-Name-First: Luiza Author-X-Name-Last: Bialasiewicz Title: ‘That which is not a mosque’ Abstract: This paper takes as its starting point the forcible closure of an art exhibit at the 2015 Venice Biennale in order to illustrate wider dynamics of rising Islamophobia across Europe today. THE MOSQUE was the Icelandic national contribution to the Biennale, an exhibit that lasted only two weeks before being shut down by the local authorities for ‘public safety reasons’. Presented in its press release as ‘merely a visual analog’ of a mosque, the installation was made ‘real’ as the Venetian Islamic community began using it as a site for gathering and prayers, an all-too-real performance that sparked protests and brought the installation’s closure. The fate of THE MOSQUE is a compelling story that speaks to a series of broader struggles over visibility and invisibility, and over who and what has the right to appear in the landscape of a European city. It speaks to the phantom menace of a fetishized Islam that is haunting Europe today, as nativist and anti-immigrant movements mobilize against perceived threats to imagined urban orders. Journal: City Pages: 367-387 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325221 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325221 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:367-387 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oli Mould Author-X-Name-First: Oli Author-X-Name-Last: Mould Title: The Calais Jungle Abstract: The Calais Jungle has existed in some form for several years. It grew in size tremendously as a result of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, but was spectacularly demolished in October 2016. When the Jungle was still standing, it was a site of intense violence perpetuated by the local police, state authorities as well as French legal systems. Much of the literature that has explored the Jungle thus far has rightly depicted it as an unofficial refugee camp, a ‘state of exception’ and a site of biopolitical experimentation with distinct ‘camp geographies’. However, it is the contention of this paper that while these experimentations occur and fuel the precariousness of the site, the Jungle can be seen as a slum, and indeed, that it can be seen as a slum of London’s making. Journal: City Pages: 388-404 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325231 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325231 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:388-404 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paolo Cardullo Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Cardullo Title: Gentrification in the mesh? Abstract: The paper offers a critical perspective on practices of construction and consumption of wireless mesh networks in urban environments. It narrates Open Wireless Network (OWN) in Deptford, at a time when this inner borough of London was undergoing an intense gentrification process. Drawing on critical urban theory, the ethnography frames OWN as a socio-technical assemblage deeply entangled with everyday city life. It argues that gentrification poses challenges to a grass-roots wireless network like OWN, because it risks reducing it to an individualised utility and an aesthetic provision. The initial findings suggest the communitarian construction of this wireless network has helped to maintain a commitment to reciprocity, potentially offering—for its users, developers and participants—pockets of resistance against their cultural displacement. Although providing free wireless broadband to many, the paper argues that wireless communication became of secondary importance to the locals who joined the network. For years in fact, OWN contributed to face-to-face interventions, local knowledge exchange and transfer of competences, becoming a relatively known presence in the area. The research operates on a multidisciplinary level evoking hackers, technology and the production of urban space. It wants to stitch back together some of the literature on socio-technical assemblage and on the ‘right to the city’. Journal: City Pages: 405-419 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325236 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325236 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:405-419 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Caspar Pearson Author-X-Name-First: Caspar Author-X-Name-Last: Pearson Title: The imaginative struggles of Europe Abstract: This paper examines a number of works of art that relate to the issues of borders, mobility, space and place in Britain and the European Union (EU). It focuses on the years 2014–16 in which the financial crisis, the migration crisis and the impending referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU weighed heavily upon public debate. Some of the works considered—installations by the Italian group The Tomorrow and by Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture—can be related directly to the EU’s own initiatives: specifically, the New Narrative for Europe that was championed by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. Others—stencilled murals by the street artist Banksy in Clacton-on-Sea and Calais—approach the issue of Europe more obliquely. All of the works, it is argued, engage in forms of visual and spatial thinking that bear upon the idea of Europe and its much-discussed imaginary. Journal: City Pages: 348-366 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1325640 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325640 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:348-366 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Author-Name: Ola Söderström Author-X-Name-First: Ola Author-X-Name-Last: Söderström Title: On alternative smart cities Abstract: Smart urbanism seems to be everywhere you turn. But in practice the agenda is an uncertain one, usually only partially developed, and often more about corporate-led urban development than about urban social justice. Rather than leave smart urbanism to the corporate and political elites, there are opportunities now for critical urban scholarship to not only critique how it is currently constituted, but to give shape to a globally oriented alternative smart urban agenda. An ambition like this means taking the ‘urban’ in ‘smart urban’ much more seriously. It means foregrounding the knowledges, political priorities and needs of those either actively excluded or included in damaging ways in mainstream smart urban discourses. We outline steps towards an alternative smart urbanism. We seek to move beyond the specific to the general and do so by drawing on radically different initiatives across the Global North and South. These initiatives provide tantalizing openings to a more socially just use of digital technology, where urban priorities and justice drive the use—or lack of use—of technology. Journal: City Pages: 312-328 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:312-328 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ileana Pătru-Stupariu Author-X-Name-First: Ileana Author-X-Name-Last: Pătru-Stupariu Title: The other side of the mountain, facing the urban landscape Journal: City Pages: 520-523 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1327172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:520-523 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dieter Rink Author-X-Name-First: Dieter Author-X-Name-Last: Rink Title: The awakening of civil society in Eastern Europe Journal: City Pages: 524-527 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1327173 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327173 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:524-527 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lisa Tilley Author-X-Name-First: Lisa Author-X-Name-Last: Tilley Author-Name: Ashok Kumar Author-X-Name-First: Ashok Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar Author-Name: Thomas Cowan Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Cowan Title: Introduction: Enclosures and discontents Journal: City Pages: 420-427 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1331562 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1331562 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:420-427 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Charalampos Tsavdaroglou Author-X-Name-First: Charalampos Author-X-Name-Last: Tsavdaroglou Author-Name: Konstantinos Petrakos Author-X-Name-First: Konstantinos Author-X-Name-Last: Petrakos Author-Name: Vasiliki Makrygianni Author-X-Name-First: Vasiliki Author-X-Name-Last: Makrygianni Title: The golden ‘salto mortale’ in the era of crisis Abstract: As formulated by Marx ([1867] 1990. Capital. Vol. I. London: Penguin, 200), ‘the leap taken by value from the body of the commodity into the body of the gold is the commodity’s salto mortale’. Following autonomous Marxist literature (De Angelis 2007. The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital. London: Pluto Press; Federici 2011. ‘Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.’ The Commoner, other articles. Accessed January 28, 2017, http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=113; Hardt and Negri 2009. Commonwealth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), the circulation of capital could be interrupted by social, class, gender or ecological struggles. In order to unsettle this view, we build on recent critical scholarship on new enclosures, land-grabbing and the permanence of primitive accumulation and we explore the inter-articulation of gold mining projects and neoliberal policies in the era of crisis. In this effort, we examine the case of Greece, a country at the epicenter of the recent financial and social crisis. During the last decade, the Canadian company Eldorado has undertaken a gold mining investment in the environmentally sensitive area of Skouries. A fruitful social struggle has emerged against this project, both in the rural site and in the urban Greek metropolis. Through this examination we investigate how the financial crisis provides an opportunity for multinational mining corporations to expand their zones of exploitation and how social resistance can reclaim common resources. Journal: City Pages: 428-447 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1331563 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1331563 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:428-447 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ron J. Smith Author-X-Name-First: Ron J. Author-X-Name-Last: Smith Author-Name: Martin Isleem Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Isleem Title: Farming the front line Abstract: UN OCHA, the international body tasked with the documentation of the impacts of the ongoing conflict and occupation in Israel and Palestine, noted as early as 2009 that the No Go Zones imposed by the Israeli military represented a taking of 30% of the total arable land in Gaza (UN OCHA OPT 2010. ‘Between the Fence and a Hard Place.’ UN OCHA Special Reports, 1–36). This taking, as part of a larger siege on Gaza, creates great difficulty for farmers attempting to support the nutritional needs of the population of the territory. These zones, coupled with the increasing reliance on unreliable food aid provided by the United Nations, undermines independent development and food sustainability within the Gaza Strip. In response, a small number of Gazan farmers are risking life and limb to return to these areas and plant essential food crops knowing that they are thereby targets of lethal violence from the Israeli occupation forces. This paper, based on a series of interviews and participant observation with farmers and activists in the No Go Zones, explores the resistance mobilized by a population deemed surplus and hostile to the Israeli state. It examines the border zones as sites of primitive accumulation, and the political effects of categorizing people as surplus. Journal: City Pages: 448-465 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1331566 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1331566 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:448-465 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Judith Verweijen Author-X-Name-First: Judith Author-X-Name-Last: Verweijen Title: Luddites in the Congo? Abstract: The expansion of industrial mining in the war-ridden eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has provoked resistance from those depending directly and indirectly on artisanal mining for their livelihood, and has been faced with violent actions from politico-military entrepreneurs. By analyzing the interplay between armed and social mobilization against industrial mining in the Fizi–Kabambare region, this paper sheds new light on the relations between industrial mining, resistance and militarization. It argues that the presence and practices of industrial mining companies reinforce the overall power position of politico-military entrepreneurs. This occurs both directly, by efforts to co-opt them, and indirectly, by fueling dynamics of conflict, insecurity and protection that crucially underpin these entrepreneurs’ dominance. At the same time, due to the eastern Congo’s convoluted political opportunity structure for contentious action, politico-military entrepreneurs enlarge the scope for social mobilization against industrial mining. They offer a potential counterweight to repressive authorities and provide collective action frames that inspire contentious politics. Yet they also harness popular resistance for personal or particularistic purposes, while extorting the very people they claim to defend. These complexities reflect the ambiguous nature and versatility of both armed and social mobilization in the eastern Congo, which transcend socially constructed boundaries like the rural/urban, state/non-state and military/civilian divides. Journal: City Pages: 466-482 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1331567 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1331567 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:466-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philip Proudfoot Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Proudfoot Title: The smell of blood Abstract: This paper is about how the Syrian government lost control over its rural and rural-to-urban constituents. From the twin perspective of ethnography and political economy, I show how the same pressures that structured men’s decisions to migrate from the countryside to sell labour power in the city resemble the material foundations for the uprising itself. The dominant narrative of the Syrian uprising is that protests calling for democracy were suppressed with violence, and with that the movement degraded into a sectarian civil and proxy war. Contra this narrative, I describe from a moment of cynicism expressed toward the Baʿth party’s official slogan how the government once relied not only on the ‘repressive apparatus of the state’, but also a politico-economic system that guarded against total impoverishment. Following liberalising reforms in the 1990s—deepened in the 2000s—this arrangement crumbled; agricultural input subsidies were stripped; food price capping was removed; guaranteed pricing on crops was cancelled; and import barriers fell. In attempting to answer challenges thrown up by Syria’s position within global capitalism, the government abandoned its welfare pact. In a context rapidly determined by accumulation by dispossession and mass impoverishment, Syria’s marginalised population vocalised chains of what Ernesto Laclau (2005. On Populist Reason. London: Verso) would recognise as ‘populist demands’. These demands were refused or responded to via transparent propaganda. Against a backdrop of uprisings across the Arab world, the Baʿth party’s remaining thread of a social contract snapped. Journal: City Pages: 483-502 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1331568 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1331568 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:483-502 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco Author-X-Name-First: Ana Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Cabrera Pacheco Title: Primitive accumulation in indigenous Mexico Abstract: This paper analyses the transformation of the Maya solar in relation to the contested Marxian theory of primitive accumulation. The Maya of Yucatán are part of the Maya indigenous populations of south-east Mexico and Central America. Their solar, a house and garden plot that has historically supported an intricate indigenous system of land, livelihoods and identities, is today under threat along with the way of life it once sustained. The paper argues that a spatial–temporal reworking of primitive accumulation that draws on both a decoloniality perspective and critical geography can help us better understand both the historical and contemporary significance of the solar’s plight. Using this theoretical framework, the paper shows how the solar has in fact been historically constructed through different cycles of enclosure, dispossession and resistance in Mexico. The Spanish colonial period (1542–1821) enforced its ‘rationalisation’ in ways that disrupted space and time of native populations; the hacienda period, before and after independence (1821), constrained the solar within the accumulation of Maya land and labour by oligarchic powers; the post-revolution (1910) period saw its strengthening alongside land (re)distribution policies that were nevertheless bound up in forms of primitive accumulation; and most recently, the neo-liberal turn under the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994) has directly undermined it through politically imposed processes of marketisation and commodification at every scale. Through this same historical lens, the paper also shows how Maya populations in Yucatán have been able to, following Bayat (2000. ‘From “Dangerous Classes” to “Quiet Rebels”: Politics of the Urban Subaltern in the Global South.’ International Sociology 15 (3): 533–557), ‘quietly’ resist primitive accumulation by re-encroaching on their solares and reconstituting forms of commons to support their way of life. In this perspective, the same dialectic of dispossession and re-creation of commons can be detected amidst the extensive and ongoing commodification of Maya land, livelihoods and identities taking place under neo-liberal globalisation processes today. Journal: City Pages: 503-519 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1335476 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1335476 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:503-519 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Title: Editorial: A geology of Marx? Abstract: Not many would have heard of Neduvasal, a village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu where, since February 2017, farmers and environmental activists have been protesting against the Central Government's decision to award contracts for development and extraction of hydrocarbons to 31 sites across the country, a vaguely defined 10 km2 of land in Neduvasal being one of them. While the government has maintained that the protestors are ill-informed about the nature of the project, given the history of the national oil conglomerate, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) extracting hydrocarbons in this fertile delta region for decades, fears of oil exploration and production taking over farmers’ fields, livelihoods and future is not unfounded. Against a context of broad rural distress, this particular area has retained a comfortable agrarian economy, but has been fighting environmental threats (mostly around groundwater pollution) from crude oil leaks and abandoned oil wells for a while. The particular proposal that triggered agitations early this year comes out of the Discovered Small Fields initiative, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship energy policy (within the much trumpeted ‘Make in India’ enterprise) to reduce the country's dependence on oil imports by 10% by 2022. Within a 100 km distance of Neduvasal there are around 600 wells with only 200 in production. The remaining, barring a few that are used as injection wells are abandoned, resulting in the desiccation of nearly 2000 acres of fertile land (based on an estimate of roughly 5 acres per well), which have now been overrun by the invasive species Prosopis Juniflora, one that has triggered a parallel controversy around the ecology and economy of wastelands in India. Journal: City Pages: 249-252 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1399715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1399715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:3-4:p:249-252 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Editorial Journal: City Pages: 173-174 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147802 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147802 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:173-174 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Manuel Castells Author-X-Name-First: Manuel Author-X-Name-Last: Castells Author-Name: Emma Kiselyova Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Kiselyova Title: Russian federalism and Siberian regionalism, 1990–2000 Abstract: What are the likely outcomes of the current Russian period of transition? What can an overall analysis of the various forces and levels of action contribute to our understanding of the prospects for civic responsibilities and territorial identies in a context of globalization? In a pioneering account of the complexities of the 'regionalized, variable geometry' of the Russian developments of the last decade, Manuel Castells and Emma Kiselyova map the process of the primitive accumulation of power and resources that is taking place at the federal level and in each city and region, highlight the decisive importance of the Siberian region, and argue that Russia is poised between two major possibilities: a strong, centralized state that will coopt the forces of cultural and territorial identies; or moves towards a form of network state that will include these forces so as to 'reconstruct, develop and democratize Russia in the context of a globalized economy and a network society'. Journal: City Pages: 175-198 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147811 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147811 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:175-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jeri Johnson Author-X-Name-First: Jeri Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson Title: Literary geography: Joyce, Woolf and the city Abstract: Are cities in literature essentially 'imaginary spaces' or, rather, representations of material realities? Jeri Johnson explores these alternative conceptions–with reference to the metropolis as discussed by Benjamin and Simmel–in the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. For both writers, Johnson concludes, cities were both 'insistently themselves and persistently something other' (including utopian openings towards 'the possibility of charitable action as a stimulus to social cohesion'). Journal: City Pages: 199-214 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147820 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147820 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:199-214 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tony Harcup Author-X-Name-First: Tony Author-X-Name-Last: Harcup Title: Re-imaging a post-industrial city: The Leeds St Valentine's Fair as a civic spectacle Abstract: Faced with the perceived consequences of economic, social and cultural shifts variously labelled 'post-modernity', 'globalization' and 'the post-industrial revolution', an increasing number of urban authorities in the UK and beyond have adopted strategies of 're-imaging' their cities as 'creative cities' and/or attractive locations for footloose capital. The production of spectacular urban events has frequently played a central role in such strategies. Tony Harcup examines how one such event was conceived and developed to help transform the image of the West Yorkshire city of Leeds from that of a rather dirty northern English industrial town to that of a vibrant European 'city of culture'. As the event takes the form of a traditional funfair in the heart of a city, the author addresses historical and theoretical perspectives on fairs as locales of contested time and space. Drawing on the work of E.P. Thompson, Mikhail Bakhtin and others, and making a distinction between topdown, managed civic spectacles and a bottom-up, local street festival, Harcup goes on to question whether such events have the potential to transform participants' relations with each other and with their city. Journal: City Pages: 215-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147839 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147839 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:215-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Simon Parker Author-X-Name-First: Simon Author-X-Name-Last: Parker Title: Tales of the city: Situating urban discourse in place and time Abstract: Our understanding of cities must depend to a significant extent on an awareness of the language, including its figurative resources, that we use. In an exploratory reading of some stages-Antique, Renaissance, Industrial, Post-Modern-and related figurative devices used to characterize the development of cities, Simon Parker presents a cyclical rather than a linear account. It may then be instructive at one level, for instance, to compare the 'bread and circuses' of late antiquity with the rhetoric used by the new city builders of postmodernity in which 'in the space-time compression of production and habitat the aggregation of finance capital is busy disaggregating the human capacities on which this fatal accumulation still depends'. Journal: City Pages: 233-246 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147848 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147848 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:233-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gil M Doron Author-X-Name-First: Gil M Author-X-Name-Last: Doron Title: The Dead Zone and the Architecture of Transgression Journal: City Pages: 247-263 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147857 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147857 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:247-263 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sophie Style Author-X-Name-First: Sophie Author-X-Name-Last: Style Title: Community regeneration in Chiapas The Zapatista struggle for autonomy Journal: City Pages: 263-270 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147866 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147866 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:263-270 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William Siew-Wai Lim Author-X-Name-First: William Siew-Wai Author-X-Name-Last: Lim Title: Memories and urban places Journal: City Pages: 270-277 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147875 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147875 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:270-277 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Milan Prodanovic Author-X-Name-First: Milan Author-X-Name-Last: Prodanovic Title: Regional wars and chances for the reconstruction of Balkan cities in a global information society: Cities and citizens, urbanity and multiculture in the past, present and future of Balkan civilization Journal: City Pages: 277-287 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147884 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147884 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:277-287 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Bowman Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Bowman Title: The City (La Ciudad) the experience of immigration Journal: City Pages: 289-293 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147893 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147893 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:289-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martin Harris Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: The 'new' economy: Leadbeater's unbearable lightness of being Journal: City Pages: 293-295 Issue: 2 Volume: 4 Year: 2000 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147901 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604810050147901 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:4:y:2000:i:2:p:293-295 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Irit Katz Author-X-Name-First: Irit Author-X-Name-Last: Katz Title: Urban recalibrations and radical potentials Journal: City Pages: 128-132 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1536025 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1536025 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:128-132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luciano Vettoretto Author-X-Name-First: Luciano Author-X-Name-Last: Vettoretto Title: Contracting the Urban World Journal: City Pages: 133-138 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1536026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1536026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:133-138 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Renee Tapp Author-X-Name-First: Renee Author-X-Name-Last: Tapp Title: Renters' revolt Journal: City Pages: 123-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1574418 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1574418 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:123-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Leonie Tuitjer Author-X-Name-First: Leonie Author-X-Name-Last: Tuitjer Author-Name: Quentin Batréau Author-X-Name-First: Quentin Author-X-Name-Last: Batréau Title: Urban refugees in a ‘non-Convention’ city Abstract: This paper brings together literature from urban and refugee studies, aiming to contribute new theoretical insights about agency in the space of an urban assemblage to the study of the mundane mobility of refugees in Bangkok, Thailand. Drawing on empirical material gathered through qualitative interviews and ethnographic methodologies, the paper offers new insights into the daily struggles of refugees in a city located in a country that is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention. In particular, the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of becoming as a transformative capacity, as well as the notion of distributed agency, are highlighted to raise awareness to the ambivalent, complex and ambiguous ways in which agency is expressed by urban refugees in a non-Convention city. The paper aspires to offer both new theoretical perspectives as well as novel empirical data to consider the agency of refugees who are criminalised in their host country due to a lack of legal recognition, contending that these particular urban conditions are precisely the reason for their situated, contingent and ambivalent agency. Journal: City Pages: 1-16 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575077 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575077 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Derek Ruez Author-X-Name-First: Derek Author-X-Name-Last: Ruez Author-Name: Trushna Parekh Author-X-Name-First: Trushna Author-X-Name-Last: Parekh Title: ‘There is no political agenda’ Abstract: This paper examines the emerging trend for city governments to declare themselves compassionate. Opening up the ‘compassionate city’ as an object of critical scrutiny, we outline some of the key ways that compassion has been approached in critical scholarship before turning our attention to the politics of these urban commitments to compassion as they are enacted in practice. Focusing on the city of Louisville, where the ‘compassionate city’ imaginary has been taken on both by politicians and by economic, migrant and racial justice activists, we examine the potential of compassion as and in relation to other political grammars, and consider the polyvalent nature of the compassion as it has shaped public debate and political struggle in the city. We argue that this turn toward compassion should be evaluated and understood neither in terms of the good intentions of compassion proponents nor exclusively through analyses that reduce compassion to a single logic to be critiqued, but, instead, in terms of its contingent politics. In doing so, we respond to recent debates about the specificity of the political by emphasizing that the meaning of politics and the political grammars through which we understand urban problems are never the province of critical scholarship alone, and we highlight the value of approaches that can sensitize us to the ways that politics—and its meaning—can itself become a problem as the political nature of the compassionate city is called into question. Journal: City Pages: 17-34 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575078 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575078 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:17-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Taylor Shelton Author-X-Name-First: Taylor Author-X-Name-Last: Shelton Author-Name: Thomas Lodato Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Lodato Title: Actually existing smart citizens Abstract: In response to the mounting criticism of emerging ‘smart cities’ strategies around the world, a number of individuals and institutions have attempted to pivot from discussions of smart cities towards a focus on ‘smart citizens’. While the smart citizen is most often seen as a kind of foil for those more stereotypically top-down, neoliberal and repressive visions of the smart city that have been widely critiqued within the literature, this paper argues for an attention to the ‘actually existing smart citizen’, who plays a much messier and more ambivalent role in practice. This paper proposes the dual figures of ‘the general citizen’ and ‘the absent citizen’ as a heuristic for thinking about how the lines of inclusion and exclusion are drawn for citizens, both discursively and materially, in the actual making of the smart city. These figures are meant to highlight how the universal and unspecified figure of ‘the citizen’ is discursively deployed to justify smart city policies, while at the same time, actual citizens remain largely excluded from such decision and policy-making processes. Using a case study of Atlanta, Georgia and its ongoing smart cities initiatives, we argue that while the participation of citizens is crucial to any truly democratic mode of urban governance, the emerging discourse around the promise of smart citizenship fails to capture the realities of how citizens are actually discussed and enrolled in the making of these policies. Journal: City Pages: 35-52 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575115 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575115 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:35-52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jason Hackworth Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Hackworth Title: Urban crisis as conservative bonding capital Abstract: The rise of neoliberalism in the United States is often linked to the economic crises of the 1970s. Within this narrative, stagflation, the OPEC oil embargo and the first major postwar threats to American economic hegemony challenged the ideational supremacy of Keynesianism. With major corporate organizational help, the ideas of once obscure economists were then elevated to policy by sympathetic politicians. This narrative is important but fails to capture other elements of support for neoliberal policies. In the United States, reaction to the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and black political progress is an under-appreciated dimension of support for neoliberal ideas. This article explores the methods that conservatives have used to stitch together a coalition to capture resentment of the CRM, while appearing to be neutral on issues of race. These forms of conservative bonding capital have been crucial to the rise of neoliberal policies. Journal: City Pages: 53-65 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575116 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575116 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:53-65 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nipesh Palat Narayanan Author-X-Name-First: Nipesh Author-X-Name-Last: Palat Narayanan Title: The production of informality and everyday politics Abstract: Urban informality is a complex phenomenon and recent literature points towards the need to develop a new theoretical framework to analyse and interpret empirical observations. This paper uses Bourdieu’s practice theory to conceptualize informality as a set of practices, analysing two case studies from Jagdamba Camp, Delhi (India), and its surrounding neighbourhoods. The first case centres on practices around a community-managed water supply system and the second on practices around solid waste management. The case studies, based on data collected through qualitative fieldwork in 2015 and 2016, point to multifaceted interactions between formal and informal practices that result in manifestations of in/formal practices in the locality’s everyday politics. The paper argues that informality is not linked to particular people or places in an essentialist way, but dependent on the field in which these actors operate. Journal: City Pages: 83-96 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575118 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575118 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:83-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sam Johnson-Schlee Author-X-Name-First: Sam Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson-Schlee Title: What would Ruth Glass do? Abstract: This article is a contribution to debates in this journal surrounding the politics of urban epistemology. It uses a close reading of Ruth Glass’ introduction to London: Aspects of Change (1964) to advance a critique of urban knowledge production that suggests urban studies ought better to strive to accommodate the complex and often contradictory qualities of cities rather than seeking to tidy up these phenomena in exchange for clean terms of analysis. The example given in this paper is gentrification studies, which in some ways, fails to learn from the epistemic qualities of Ruth Glass’ essay, in which the term is coined. There is a risk that where academic taxonomy becomes too reified and too mobile it becomes a commodity itself which operates in an epistemology which reproduces the logic of capital. How might urban studies further strive to not only critically engage with cities but to produce ‘emancipatory’ knowledges which work to undermine the dominating logics which produce urban space? Journal: City Pages: 97-106 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575119 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575119 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:97-106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz Author-X-Name-First: Ammar Author-X-Name-Last: Azzouz Title: A tale of a Syrian city at war Abstract: Since 2011, the war in Syria has reshaped the lives of millions of Syrians with the displacement of over ten million people—more than half the population—inside and outside Syria, and the severe destruction of historical and modern cities and countryside. In Homs, the third largest city in Syria and the focus of this paper, entire neighbourhoods have been turned into rubble, destroying the familiar and reshaping the urban, social and cultural fabric of the city. However, despite this mass destruction and displacement, local architects, urbanists and residents are showing incredible levels of resilience; rehabilitating their partially damaged homes and providing shelter to the internally displaced population. Based on a series of interviews with architects and urbanists who remained in Syria, and with members of the Syrian diaspora, this paper explores the emerging relations between the urban past and present as citizens struggle to survive, to sustain lives and to envision a future. Memories of the pre-war Homs, and the surviving parts of the city, have become imagined and material places of refuge for many Homsis in the work of remembering, reflecting and seeking to reconstruct a vanished past—but also might be used to rethink the city, and to imagine its future. By engaging with Syrians, and narrating their stories in the time of war, this paper brings the element of human agency to the question of Syrian reconstruction; a dimension that too often is lost in studies of the Syrian crisis and of cities at war. Journal: City Pages: 107-122 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1575605 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1575605 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:107-122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alaina De Biasi Author-X-Name-First: Alaina Author-X-Name-Last: De Biasi Title: Squatting and adverse possession Abstract: In communities across the United States, abandoned properties serve as vestiges of past economic events that continue to contribute to neighbourhood disinvestment. In some communities, residents are actively recruiting squatters to help revitalize their neighbourhoods. Adverse possession emerges as a potential tool that can be used by squatters to help solidify their claims to the properties they occupy and help revitalize communities. To this end, this article provides examples of how reductions in crime, disorder, and fear of crime might be promoted through relaxed adjudications of adverse possession claims and cooperation from communities and local and state criminal justice systems. Journal: City Pages: 66-82 Issue: 1 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 1 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1579501 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1579501 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:1:p:66-82 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Editorial: From margins to centres … Abstract: ‘These are journeys enabled by trust with the ever-present possibility of distrust and epistemic violence; journeys of hope that must continuously recognize hopelessness and fears; and journeys that insist on crossing borders even as each person on the journey learns of borders that they cannot cross – either because it is impossible to cross them, or because it does not make sense to invest in dreams and sweat in these border crossings.’ (Nagar 2014, 5-6 quoted in Ramakrishnan, this issue). In our journeys through the city undertaken in hope of better understanding it, perhaps even of changing it, how do we grapple with the complexities of its spaces, its formations overlaid by our experience of it in the every day? How do we recognise the centres and the margins, sound out our own limits? City 21.2 is full of how we know what we know about the city, how we investigate it, what knowledge we overlay on top of the embodied experience of living in it, walking through it, being forced out of it, being imprisoned in it. How the colour of our skin and the content of our character stand among a host of things determining where and how we can safely traverse the urban, where that journey might begin, what paths are permitted us. Beginnings themselves are often denied. Our positionalities shape the lessons that we take away from these experiences, the ways in which we speak, and the people who are listening.This issue was put together in the late hours in the midst of my own fieldwork around homelessness in a city that felt bereft of hope, embodying the despair of deindustrialisation and austerity. My own journey—that seemed one of futility and heartbreak both—had an odd resonance with the special feature at the centre of this issue, The city and its margins: Ethnographic challenges across makeshift urbanism. It raised many questions as I worked through the articles collected here.The special feature highlights practices of reflexivity in undertaking urban ethnography, and how a focus on methodological questions reveals the ongoing discomfort with issues of voice and power that remain in tension, never resolved. This is particularly true of any study of the ‘margins’, places and peoples pushed to the fringes of economic, social and political power. Editors Michele Lancione, Elisabetta Rosa and Tatiana Thieme strive in their introduction to balance the need for unpicking the specific, the complex, the splintered, without losing sight the structural forces at play. It is a question forever unresolved within any number of disciplines, much less in combination or conversation among several of them. Some of the authors they call upon as representative—Amin and Thrift (2002) and Graham and Marvin (2001) on the one hand, Wacquant (2008) on the other—are familiar voices in the pages of City. So too is the multifaceted question of how to read and how to write the city, perhaps discussed most memorably in City 10 (2) on the subject of London. Bob Catterall wrote in the editorial ‘Such hope as there is will in part depend on how we write about cities’ (2006, 122). Is there hope to be found here over a decade on?The articles collected here question representation, reflexivity and subjectivity through journeys across space—whether across the globe or down the street—but also in time. A powerful process of learning is involved in the temporality of being present elsewhere, and this is a learning that cannot be hastened. They are complemented and challenged by Matthew Thompson’s ‘LIFE in a ZOO: Henri Lefebvre and the (social) production of (abstract) space in Liverpool’, which grapples with these same questions in a very different way. He uses Lefebvre to unpick how lived ‘social’ space has articulated with abstract space over several decades, represented by residents on the one side, and developers and planners on the other. The two book reviews—of Rashad Shabazz’s Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago, and Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice edited by Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell—engage more deeply in an exploration of embodied positionality. They show both its centrality to understanding geographies of mobility and exploration, as well as geographies of entrapment and incarceration. Several challenging questions can be engaged with through all of them: what happens in the space of encounter, how we tell these stories, and where, in the end, are the ‘margins’ and the ‘centre’ actually to be found? Journal: City Pages: 95-103 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1374711 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1374711 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:95-103 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Matthew Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: LIFE in a ZOO Abstract: Building on recent critical contributions towards conceptualising neighbourhood change as socially produced and politically ‘performed’, this paper takes a closer look at the work of Henri Lefebvre to understand the production of urban space as a deeply political process. A common critical characterisation of neighbourhood change—occurring through a grand Lefebvrean struggle between ‘abstract space-makers’ and ‘social space-makers’—is critically examined through an in-depth historical case study of the Granby neighbourhood in Liverpool. Here, these forces are embodied respectively in technocratic state-led comprehensive redevelopment, notably Housing Market Renewal and its LIFE and ZOO zoning models; and in alternative community-led rehabilitation projects such as the Turner Prize-winning Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust. By tracing the surprisingly intimate interactions and multiple contradictions between these apparently opposing spatial projects, the production of neighbourhood is shown to be a complex, often violent political process, whose historical trajectories require disentangling in order to understand how we might construct better urban futures. Journal: City Pages: 104-126 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353327 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353327 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:104-126 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tatiana Thieme Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana Author-X-Name-Last: Thieme Author-Name: Michele Lancione Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione Author-Name: Elisabetta Rosa Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: Rosa Title: The city and its margins Journal: City Pages: 127-134 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353331 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353331 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:127-134 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Lancione Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione Author-Name: Elisabetta Rosa Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta Author-X-Name-Last: Rosa Title: Going in, out, through Abstract: In this paper, we shift from conventional academic writing toward something similar to a dialogue, an encounter, a few hours spent in a virtual café where we chat and systematically try to excavate our respective ethnographic endeavours. Such experimentation in format is needed, we argue, in order to re-approach the questions characterising in-depth ethnographic work from a different, possibly fresher, perspective, and to communicate those more directly and freely. Rather than embedding our doubts, fears and wishful thinking in academic formalism, we spell those out aloud, as a composite and unfinished flow that touches upon relevant literature but is still raw and grounded in our current and respective fieldwork. Relying on our differentiated works with Roma people in Italy, France and Romania (2004–ongoing), in our dialogue we talk about the challenges of positioning; the construction of new (self)identities; the building of relationships of trust, care and affect, and their break; the role of ethnographic knowledge in activist work; the risk and the certainty of failure; the difficulties associated with entering and leaving the field. The aim of our dialogue is not to offer answers to questions that have been at the centre of the ethnographic discipline since the start, but to open a space of incremental and reciprocal learning that may serve as an inspiration for other young ethnographers like us. Journal: City Pages: 135-150 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353335 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353335 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:135-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Silvia Aru Author-X-Name-First: Silvia Author-X-Name-Last: Aru Author-Name: Maurizio Memoli Author-X-Name-First: Maurizio Author-X-Name-Last: Memoli Author-Name: Matteo Puttilli Author-X-Name-First: Matteo Author-X-Name-Last: Puttilli Title: The margins ‘in-between’ Abstract: The paper presents a case of engaged ethnography developed by a group of geographers from the University of Cagliari focusing on the everyday experience of urban marginality by the residents of Sant’Elia, a low-income district in Cagliari, Italy. Stigmatised for being ‘at the margins’ of the city, the district reveals on the one hand, degraded socio-economic conditions and, on the other hand, a strong sense of identity and belonging among its inhabitants. The main aim of the study is to discuss and contrast the stigma affecting Sant’Elia through the direct involvement of a group of women living in the district in participative fieldwork utilising a mixed set of both quantitative and qualitative tools and aimed at collecting a multilayered reality of ideas, emotions, perceptions, experiences and images of the district as perceived by its own inhabitants. By presenting the different phases, methodologies and results of the study, the paper operates at two different, albeit interconnected, theoretical and methodological levels. From a theoretical standpoint, it deconstructs the concept of marginality, showing what it means to live in a ‘difficult’ district on a daily basis. From a methodological point of view, it proposes a wider reflection on the politics of multimodal ethnography, by focusing on how the different positionalities of researchers and residents have been challenged by the fieldwork activities. Journal: City Pages: 151-163 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353337 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353337 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:151-163 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tung-Yi Kho Author-X-Name-First: Tung-Yi Author-X-Name-Last: Kho Title: Urban ethnography and the margins at the centre Abstract: Since its designation as China’s first Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen has become an important symbol of post-Mao China. This has involved the institutionalisation of the market as the preponderant mode of social organisation, accompanied by the faith that it would produce unprecedented wealth for all. Against this background Shenzhen has become a city where Chinese dreams are thought to be realised and, hence, a major destination for rural migrants in search of a ‘better’ life—the ‘good life’, so to speak. My ethnographic project in Shenzhen seeks to examine different views of what such a way of life might consist of. This has raised questions of how such an ethnographic investigation should be actualised, how the field defined, where the city sits vis-à-vis its margins, and what constitutes Shenzhen and what is out of bounds. At stake in the ethnographic undertaking is the fundamental question about ‘truth claims’ and how we come to them. Ethnography as ‘a return to the things themselves’ has the potential to offer an account of things ‘as they are’. Drawing from 30 months of research in Shenzhen, this paper details my ethnographic experience and reveals how knowing is foremost a corporeal affair. One has to be in situ to experience and know ‘the city’ and ‘its margins’. Journal: City Pages: 164-177 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:164-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: William Monteith Author-X-Name-First: William Author-X-Name-Last: Monteith Title: Showing ‘heart’ through ethnography Abstract: The practice of ethnography in the global south has been the subject of various critiques that encourage researchers to reflect on the complex issues of ethics, positionality and inequality. These issues are arguably particularly complex in urban settings such as the municipal marketplace, where a multitude of moral frameworks are in circulation, and where relationships and obligations are under constant observation. They raise a number of questions of the urban ethnographer: Whose framework counts when it comes to the estimation of obligations? To what extent is it useful to think of a single set of obligations to a disparate and diverse group of participants? And what role (if any) can ethnography play in responding to the live threats faced by marginalised urban populations, such as those of impoverishment and displacement? This paper responds to these questions by drawing on the author’s experience of ethnography in a marketplace in Kampala, Uganda. It argues that while there has been a tendency for scholars to take up a priori positions on the role of ethnography in the global south, the ethical relationship between ethnographer and interlocutor emerges only in the face-to-face encounter. In the case of Nakasero market, people place value on discreet acts of assistance and care; acts that demonstrate one’s ‘heart’ in an environment characterised by moral anxiety. Journal: City Pages: 178-189 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:178-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yimin Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Yimin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Space as method Abstract: Great urban transformations are diffusing across the global South, removing the original landscape of urban margins to make of them a new urban frontier. These processes raise questions of both validity and legitimacy for ethnographic practice, requiring critical reflection on both spatiality and method in fieldwork at the urban margins. This paper draws on fieldwork experience in Beijing’s green belts, which could also be labelled the city’s urban margin or frontier, to reflect on the space-time of encounter in the field. I aim to demonstrate how space foregrounds not only our bodily experiences but also ethnographic investigations of the daily life, and hence becomes a method. Beijing’s green belts symbolise a historical–geographical conjuncture (a moment) emerging in its urban metamorphosis. Traditional endeavours (immanent in various spatial metaphors) to identify field sites as reified entities are invalidated over the course of the space-time encounter, requiring a relational spatial ontology to register such dynamics. The use in fieldwork of DiDi Hitch, a mobile app for taxi-hailing and hitchhiking, reveals the spatiotemporal construction of self–other relations needing recognition via the dialectics of the encounter. In this relational framework, an encounter is never a priori but a negotiation of a here and now between different trajectories and stories as individuals are thrown together in socially constructed space and time. Journal: City Pages: 190-206 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353342 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353342 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:190-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kavita Ramakrishnan Author-X-Name-First: Kavita Author-X-Name-Last: Ramakrishnan Title: ‘Journeys of the I and we’ Abstract: For ethnographers repeatedly engaged with the same community on the ‘margins’, questions of access, positionality and representation become compounded by temporal dynamism. Participant and researcher subjectivities change over time, thus destabilizing identities and calling into question where and how to frame conversations. I reflect on bridging the gap between theoretical perspectives on the ‘margins’ and how inhabitants of a Delhi resettlement colony variously describe notions of liminality—from the metaphoric, to the geographic and to the social—over a prolonged ethnographic encounter. By bringing the temporal ‘journey’ of the researcher and interlocutor to the fore, I seek to open up a conversation on situated knowledges. More specifically, I ask how (and if) urban ethnographers can adequately capture shifting aspirations and feelings of in-betweenness, while grappling with one’s own responsibility to politically engaged research. Finally, I discuss the political relevance of evolving attitudes towards life on the margins, with implications for knowledge production and representation. Journal: City Pages: 207-218 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353344 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353344 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:207-218 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tatiana Thieme Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana Author-X-Name-Last: Thieme Title: Navigating and negotiating ethnographies of urban hustle in Nairobi slums Abstract: This paper reflects on doing and writing ethnography on the urban margins, where uncertainty and provisionality mark the everyday city. The discussion is situated within a postcolonial approach to ethnographies of ‘hustle’ in Nairobi slums, critically reflecting on methodological choices made to facilitate the licence to linger in intimate and interstitial spaces of neighbourhoods often closed off to visitors. The paper argues that while urban ethnography is foundational to postcolonial scholarship on African cities, it is also vexed with tensions between ethnographic experience of the provisional and uncertain lived reality in which ethnographers seek to embed themselves for periods of time, and the ethnographic representation that emerges in the form of ethnographic authorship. The paper engages with the methodological tactic of engaging in waste work as an ‘apprentice researcher’; and with the theoretical choice of deploying the very vocabularies and expressions of struggle of interlocutors living and working in the ‘slums’ of Nairobi. Journal: City Pages: 219-231 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353346 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353346 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:219-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Donald McNeill Author-X-Name-First: Donald Author-X-Name-Last: McNeill Title: Start-ups and the entrepreneurial city Abstract: Start-up technology and digital platform firms have become a much-talked about plank of urban economic development policy worldwide. The paper considers the various modes and practices of urban capitalism which sit behind these ‘disruptive’ business models, and connects it to the recent revisiting of the landmark essay by David Harvey (1989. ‘From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation of Urban Governance in Late Capitalism.’ Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 71 (1): 3–17) on urban entrepreneurialism. Attempts to rank and measure the relative strengths of start-up ‘ecosystems’ have put a new spin on inter-urban competition. Some of the best-known start-ups such as Uber and Airbnb have made direct incursions into the redrawing of markets of the collective consumption of urban services. Others may fly under the radar as they facilitate the rostering of casual labour, provide predatory payday loans, and push new on-demand consumption choices. And at the same time, digital platforms allow unprecedented opportunities for social enterprise and ‘defensive’ localist capitalism. The paper argues that urbanists must understand the diversity of start-ups and their different ways of framing the urban, and sets out a number of areas for further debate. Journal: City Pages: 232-239 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353349 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353349 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:232-239 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ted Rutland Author-X-Name-First: Ted Author-X-Name-Last: Rutland Title: The spaces that anti-blackness makes Journal: City Pages: 240-244 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353351 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353351 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:240-244 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: It matters who is walking Journal: City Pages: 245-248 Issue: 2 Volume: 21 Year: 2017 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2017.1353353 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2017.1353353 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:21:y:2017:i:2:p:245-248 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Title: Editorial: Assault on the everyday Journal: City Pages: 695-696 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2019.1720203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2019.1720203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:695-696 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth Millington Author-X-Name-First: Gareth Author-X-Name-Last: Millington Author-Name: Vladimir Rizov Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Rizov Title: ‘What makes city life meaningful is the things we hide’ Abstract: In this article we bring Marshall Berman’s writings on public space, politics and subjectivity into dialogue with a literary rendering of similar themes by Orhan Pamuk in his 2015 novel A Strangeness in my Mind. Our aim is to elaborate upon Berman’s undeveloped notion of ‘existential space’—first suggested in a review of an earlier Pamuk novel—through an extended encounter between the authors. This article begins by comparing the urban writings of Berman with Pamuk’s novel across three broad, overlapping themes: (1) the contingency of space; (2) authenticity and experience; and (3) openness, inclusivity and danger. In the analysis that develops out from this dialogue, we interpret existential space to imply any urban space—a room, a street, bar or square, for example—that is appropriated, in an act of struggle, by occupants or users as ‘an everywhere’: an inclusive place from which to connect with others and from where to pursue transcendent goals such as love, creativity, equality, justice or joy. This points to the fragile temporality of existential space, to how the meaning of the ‘present’ may be deferred or ‘hidden away in the back of the mind’ because such spaces are simultaneously concrete and preoccupied with another time (and place). Journal: City Pages: 697-713 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1718961 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1718961 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:697-713 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Dominic Teodorescu Author-X-Name-First: Dominic Author-X-Name-Last: Teodorescu Title: Racialised postsocialist governance in Romania’s urban margins Abstract: Postsocialist urban development is partially characterised by housing deterioration and the perpetual overrepresentation of Romanian Roma in substandard dwellings. These phenomena are particularly noticeable in the margins of larger Romanian cities. Many poor Romanians found, in urban peripheries, a last resort during a period of economic crisis and housing shortages. In the meantime, public policy and urban planning have focused on maintaining ‘collective order’ and accommodating the wishes of the ‘decently’ housed residents of the city. This is certainly the case in Bucharest, where squatters and homeless people have been expelled from central districts and where the same privileged districts receive substantially more attention. This collective order is apparently deemed more important than the needs of marginalised groups in Romanian society. This article examines how urban marginality is addressed at the municipal level and how ‘parsimonious’ public intervention in poor residential areas is justified. In doing so, I highlight the roles of postsocialist devolution, inadequate use of EU and national funds, and reviving racialisation in reproducing housing poverty. Journal: City Pages: 714-731 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1717208 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1717208 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:714-731 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Robert G. Hollands Author-X-Name-First: Robert G. Author-X-Name-Last: Hollands Title: Alternative creative spaces and neo-liberal urban transformations Abstract: Examples of alternative creative spaces exist in nearly all cities, arising at different historical periods, with all now weathering the recent corrosive effects of neo-liberal urbanisation and incorporative creative city policies. This paper examines three such spaces, the ‘art house’ KuLe which formed immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall; the alternative cultural centre OT301 which came about in Amsterdam in 1999 just around the beginnings of the ‘creative city turn’; and MACAO an urban cultural movement/ space which emerged in Milan in 2012, following the effects of the 2008 financial crash on creative work precarity. The key contribution this article makes to the literature on urban resistance and incorporation, is to provide a multi-layered historical analyses of three alternative creative spaces, existing in three different European cities, which emerged in three slightly varying time periods in relation to the development of the neo-liberal creative city. The first section of the paper conceptually outlines and critiques the coming together of neo-liberal and creative city transformations, provides a typology of what is meant by alternative creative spaces, and examines the importance of historical and place factors. The remainder of the article analytically explores the specific ‘place histories’ of the three alternative spaces mentioned above, as well as unveils their common current dilemmas, as they struggle to exist in the contemporary period. How have such spaces coped with the increasing pressures of property development, gentrification, and cultural incorporation, and what are the main difficulties and barriers today to surviving, and linking up to other urban social movements to create wider political change? It is argued that while the challenges here are considerable, these three spaces provide nuanced lessons and dilemmas common to all types of alternative creative spaces. Journal: City Pages: 732-750 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1720236 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1720236 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:732-750 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Keith Harris Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Harris Title: Making room for the extraeconomic Abstract: This paper revisits the 2011 debate in City over the relationship between assemblage urbanism and critical urban theory. Rather than emphasizing the somewhat exaggerated cleavage between the two sides of the debate, it seeks to address some of the incisive critiques that Brenner, Madden, and Wachsmuth ([2011]. “Assemblage Urbanism and the Challenges of Critical Urban Theory.” City 15 (2): 225–240) level against McFarlane's ([2011a]. “Assemblage and Critical Urbanism.” City 15 (2): 204–224) thought experiment regarding what assemblage thinking might bring to critical urban theory by returning to Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy. It both explores the lineage of the two central concepts defining Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy—the ‘state apparatus’ and the ‘war machine’—and uses aspects of the redevelopment of Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood as case study to argue that their political theory is especially well-suited for understanding the interaction of economic and extraeconomic forces (specifically ethics and aesthetics) in contemporary urban development. Journal: City Pages: 751-773 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1717759 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1717759 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:751-773 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vladimir Rizov Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir Author-X-Name-Last: Rizov Title: The photographic city Abstract: The concern of this text is the relationship between the city and photography. In order to examine the interrelation between the two, a significant case has been identified with Paris in mid-Haussmannisation in the period of mid to late 19th century. However, the particular focus utilised here is that of the structural logic of space and visibility in relation to photography. Photographs by the photographer commissioned to document the changes of Haussmannisation, Charles Marville, are used to illustrate the interrelations between street, façade, map and photograph. Key to this discussion is the context of modernity and its inheritance from the Enlightenment. Ultimately, this article puts forward a notion of the photographic city as the idea that modern Western cities are constructed on principles of transparency, order and legibility, which not only facilitated modern photography, but also allowed it to reproduce the city as exemplary of those same principles. Journal: City Pages: 774-791 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1718411 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1718411 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:774-791 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz Author-X-Name-First: Ammar Author-X-Name-Last: Azzouz Title: ‘I can smell Aleppo’ Journal: City Pages: 792-797 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1719762 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1719762 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:792-797 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vanessa Arapko Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa Author-X-Name-Last: Arapko Title: Debt in Islamic finance Journal: City Pages: 798-802 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1717220 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1717220 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:798-802 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Matthew H. McLeskey Author-X-Name-First: Matthew H. Author-X-Name-Last: McLeskey Title: The unpredictability of the land beneath your feet Journal: City Pages: 803-807 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1721156 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1721156 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:803-807 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chanel Lange-Maney Author-X-Name-First: Chanel Author-X-Name-Last: Lange-Maney Author-Name: Jacklyn Weier Author-X-Name-First: Jacklyn Author-X-Name-Last: Weier Title: Cities as feminist spaces? Towards experiments in thinking and living the urban differently Journal: City Pages: 808-810 Issue: 6 Volume: 23 Year: 2019 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1721163 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1721163 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:23:y:2019:i:6:p:808-810 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Antonis Vradis Author-X-Name-First: Antonis Author-X-Name-Last: Vradis Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Author-Name: Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Author-X-Name-First: Melissa Fernández Author-X-Name-Last: Arrigoitia Author-Name: Michele Lancione Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione Title: For the City yet to come Journal: City Pages: 1-4 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739412 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739412 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:1-4 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Linda Etchart Author-X-Name-First: Linda Author-X-Name-Last: Etchart Author-Name: Leo Cerda Author-X-Name-First: Leo Author-X-Name-Last: Cerda Title: Amazonians in New York Abstract: This article is the product of ongoing collaborative work over three years between indigenous intellectuals and western scholars with the aim of creating a new vision of New York as a centre of first-nation environmental and climate activism. It examines efforts of governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental communities and social movements from across the Americas as they came together in New York City to challenge consumer capitalism and the fossil fuel industry—powerful forces that drive the destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems. The article amplifies the voices of the first nation peoples of the Amazon basin, from Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, who spoke up during Climate Week in New York in September 2019 to defend their land rights, the Amazon rainforest and the Rights of Nature. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have taken a leading position in lobbying corporations—and the governments who support them—to rethink their ongoing extractive operations that are devastating national parks and protected areas across the continent. From a postdevelopment perspective, quoting directly from the voices of indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples in their engagement with the modernity of the city, the authors reveal the narrative fusion of the global and the local, the postmodern and the pre-modern. The article challenges binary divisions between the urban and the rural, the material and the spiritual—in an analysis of the confluence of Amazonians’ cosmovision of sumac kawsay/buen vivir, ‘life in plenitude’, and the environmental demands of climate activists and scholars of the Global North. This comes at a time when the ancestral peoples of Turtle Island (North America) and Abya Yala (South America) are joining together with the support of colonisers to reclaim the continent for themselves and for nature. Journal: City Pages: 5-21 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739440 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739440 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:5-21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ulises Moreno-Tabarez Author-X-Name-First: Ulises Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno-Tabarez Title: Towards Afro-Indigenous ecopolitics Abstract: Costa Chica is home to the largest Afromexican population in Mexico most of whom are of Afro-Indigenous descent. In 2019, Afromexicans gained official state recognition as collective ethnic minority subjects which opens up new political potentialities for organising strategies. This article examines the development of Afro-Indigenous politics in response to the ecological devastation that Costa Chica of Guerrero is experiencing as a consequence of climate change. I contextualise this research project in my personal experiences researching family histories and coming into a sense of Afro-Indigenous subjectivity. A brief overview of the historical human-nature relations influenced by slavery and colonialism helps to contextualise the socio-political and ecological situation in the region. Finally, I draw from my ethnographic work to suggest various ways in which Afro-Indigenous organisers can mobilise the new political category to address environmental concerns. In the conclusion, I return to my own personal experiences with trying to understand Afro-Indigenous politics arguing that while connections need to be made with other geographic experiences of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Afro-Indigeneity, one must stay attuned to the geographic particularities that shape subjectivity. Journal: City Pages: 22-34 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739912 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739912 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:22-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Margit Mayer Author-X-Name-First: Margit Author-X-Name-Last: Mayer Title: What does it mean to be a (radical) urban scholar-activist, or activist scholar, today? Abstract: This intervention responds to the invitation for an ‘agenda-setting contribution’ and reference to future urban scholars at a critical point in time for radical activist scholarship or scholar-activism. It does so by, first, sketching the moment we find ourselves in, in 2020—a moment marked by human-made existential threats to the planet and to the ways people have (re)produced societies and their preconditions in heretofore unknown ways. Next it scans some of the critical urban literatures produced over the last couple decades that have analyzed the causes, manifestations and interrelations of the economic, social and biophysical processes generating ‘the present crisis’. On the basis of this broad knowledge and given the urgency of the threats, it assesses the spectrum of proposals for how we might create or support the emergence of more sustainable as well as more just alternatives, calling for a politics of mobilization. Journal: City Pages: 35-51 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739909 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739909 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:35-51 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Daniel Aldana Cohen Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Aldana Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen Title: Confronting the urban climate emergency Abstract: Nothing will shape urban life in this century more than carbon—efforts to abolish it, and the consequences of its pollution. Critical urban studies must put the climate emergency at the very core of the discipline. This paper suggests four methodological injunctions to this end: (1) a field-wide development of carbon literacy along the lines of how all critical urbanists understand capital and inequalities; (2) research that links technical low-carbon urban projects to urban spaces’ core political conflicts; (3) both a recuperation of historical cases of democratizing, massive built environment intervention, and an engagement with the cutting-edge technologies of green urbanism, each in service of producing egalitarian visions of climate-friendly urban spaces; finally, (4) I argue that critical urbanists must join the fight, forging new alliances within and beyond universities to prevent eco-apartheid, and articulate a no-carbon, radically democratic alternative. Journal: City Pages: 52-64 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739435 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739435 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:52-64 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Knuth Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Knuth Title: ‘All that is Solid … ’ Abstract: As critical urbanists confront climate change, and prospective climate responses, we must ask crucial questions about the ‘lifetime’ of today’s urban fabrics and metropolitan forms. How durable or ephemeral will existing urban geographies prove in the face of societal devaluations and destruction associated with climate change? Will breaks in and with existing urban forms be suffered through climate change impacts, or waged proactively in the name of deep decarbonization? Dystopian climate imaginaries present such material ruptures, mass stranding of real estate assets, and ‘premature death’ as an existential urban crisis. I maintain here that they are, rather, business as usual for urban capitalism, and its own longer-unfolding crisis. Property developers and appraisers have frequently truncated the lifetime of urban built environments, in how they have represented buildings and their long-term value—and non-value—and in how these representations have become material fact. I consider some bodies of critical urban scholarship necessary to exploring such processes and their climate significance, an important task for City going forward. I argue that in contexts like the United States, this charge demands creative engagements between cultural studies and political economy. I consider several relevant discussions now emerging in urban political economy. First, I explore Tapp and Kay’s (2019. “Fiscal geographies: ‘Placing’ taxation in urban geography.” Urban Geography 40 (4): 573–581.) call for new ‘fiscal geographies’ as a provocation for urban climate futures. Specifically, I discuss how property taxation and valuation practices have become central to the ‘disposability’ and premature degradation of US urban built environments, and the climate significance of this wasting. Second, I consider emerging critical geographies of insurance as a window into urban coastal futures under climate change. Following recent interventions such as Johnson (2015. “Catastrophic fixes: Cyclical devaluation and accumulation through climate change impacts.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 47 (12): 2503–2521) and Taylor (2020. “The real estate risk fix: Residential insurance-linked securitization in the Florida metropolis.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. OnlineFirst), urbanists must question how promised financial solutions for climate change’s threat to these spaces risk compounding mass devaluations and erasures to come. Journal: City Pages: 65-75 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:65-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes de Author-X-Name-Last: Souza Title: The city and the planet Abstract: Beyond the discussion of such so-called ‘urban problems,’ it is worth paying attention to the question as to whether cities, notably large cities, would themselves be part of the solution or rather of the problem. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s theses on ‘urban society,’ recent discussions on ‘planetary urbanisation’ are deeply embedded in values such as Eurocentrism and a clear urban middle-class bias. It seems that to radically rethink social relations, technology and the spatial organisation of society, in order to avoid both an uncritical and often ethnocentric ‘urbanophilia’ and a naïve (if not reactionary) ‘urbanophobia,’ is a necessary task. The aim of this paper is to discuss the intellectual and ethical-political relevance of this kind of debate. Journal: City Pages: 76-84 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:76-84 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Glyn Robbins Author-X-Name-First: Glyn Author-X-Name-Last: Robbins Title: A new agenda for public housing Abstract: Housing is one of the defining social policy issues of our time. There is growing recognition that the housing market is failing and causing widespread damage, but alternatives struggle against deep-rooted capitalist norms and the perceived shortcomings of previous attempts to promote non-market housing. However, despite being a huge concern for millions of people, housing tends to operate below the mainstream political radar, as was demonstrated again by the December 2019 UK general election. This paper argues that a new agenda for public housing is gaining support and can overcome these obstacles, particularly by aligning itself to shifting lifestyle patterns and the urgency of combating climate change, thus enacting a true Right to the City. Journal: City Pages: 85-96 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739922 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739922 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:85-96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Veda Popovici Author-X-Name-First: Veda Author-X-Name-Last: Popovici Title: Residences, restitutions and resistance Abstract: Based on my experience as an organizer and militant researcher for the FCDL—Frontul Comun pentru Dreptul la Locuire [Common Front for Housing Rights]—in Bucharest, I propose a critical analysis of post-socialist property redistribution by emphasizing the role of Westernizing aspirational paradigms. Supported by findings of colleagues and comrades from similar organizations in Romania, I argue that restitutions are a key process for understanding the aspirational, racializing dynamics of property redistribution in post-socialism through their hegemonic narrative of restoring a pre-communist, ‘European’ class composition. I seek to build a situated scholar-activist perspective anchored in the experience and testimony of evictions produced by restitutions. Placing the resistance of the Vulturilor community in Bucharest, a mixed Romanian-Roma community, as the starting point of my analysis, I argue that the tactics of encampments run by evictees in the Romanian context are in fact a radical form of protest that breaks with standards of protest as formulated in normative Western narratives. By going beyond the conventional categories of ‘the concerned citizen’ to be found in some right to the city type of movements in the region, the strategies of evictees push the boundaries of radicalism and solidarity. At the same time, they make space for a protest practice outside of the civilizational narratives of Western becoming, breaking the aspirational paradigm of becoming a white middle-class West. Such struggles break with historical property regimes based on continous racialized dispossesions, setting a new threshold for political anti-racist struggles that go beyond the cultural. Journal: City Pages: 97-111 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:97-111 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Erin McElroy Author-X-Name-First: Erin Author-X-Name-Last: McElroy Title: Property as technology Abstract: This article considers how private property functions as a technology of racial dispossession upon gentrifying terrains, particularly in San Francisco amidst its ‘Tech Boom 2.0.’ By engaging with collective work produced with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), by reading the film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and by foregrounding critical race studies and urban studies literature, I decenter the novelty of technology in contemporary times. Rather, I consider how property itself has long served as a technology of racial dispossession, constituting a palimpsest for the contemporary gentrifying moment. This, I suggest, is particularly pertinent in theorizing the anti-Blackness of Tech 2.0 urbanism and its new instantiations of property technology, platform real estate, residential surveillance, eviction, and speculation. Thus, I argue that studies of techno-urbanism would do well to consider temporalities outside of their often-reified present. Yet at the same time, I look to community-based projects such as the AEMP which seek to repurpose geospatial technologies and data in order to produce emancipatory propertied futures, for instance, those of expropriation and decommodification. How might studies produced outside of the academy and the real estate industry alike serve as technologies for housing justice? How might practices such as these act as counterweights to property as a technology of racial dispossession? Journal: City Pages: 112-129 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739910 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739910 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:112-129 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Peter Marcuse Author-X-Name-First: Peter Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse Title: Wealth accumulation through home ownership Abstract: While homeownership is widely associated with a bundle of individual legal rights, it must be seen in relation to its social and political implications. This piece aims to differentiate the meaning and value of homeownership and make room for alternative tenures. Community Land Trusts are one promising alternative model. I argue that there is a great need to develop alternatives to homeownership and eventually to decommodify housing altogether. Journal: City Pages: 130-136 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739908 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739908 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:130-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Christina Heatherton Author-X-Name-First: Christina Author-X-Name-Last: Heatherton Title: Freighted Love: teaching, learning, and making a home in the maelstrom Abstract: In ‘Freighted Love: Teaching, Learning, and Making a Home in the Maelstrom’ Christina Heatherton describes the connections between poetry, theories of urban space, and what geographer Clyde Woods calls ‘blues epistemology.’ In this brief introduction to her three poems, ‘Freighted Love,’ ‘Pedagogy,’ and ‘Invasions,’ Heatherton stresses the need for these connections in theory and practice. Such an understanding, she argues, offers the potential for developing more socially-minded forms of teaching and scholarship as well as ways of being in the world. Journal: City Pages: 137-142 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739457 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739457 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:137-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alex Baker Author-X-Name-First: Alex Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Title: Eviction as infrastructure Abstract: Eviction might be considered a form of infrastructure: as a process of binding and unbinding people to a world in movement, producing the grounds on which action can take place. Going beyond a causal relationship between infrastructure and displacement, we may posit that eviction can be seen as a distributed, ongoing, system which binds people and creates the grounds for action. So, what might infrastructural theory reveal about evictions? How might we begin to study eviction as infrastructure? Journal: City Pages: 143-150 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739417 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739417 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:143-150 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Oren Yiftachel Author-X-Name-First: Oren Author-X-Name-Last: Yiftachel Title: From displacement to displaceability Abstract: Urban displacement has become a central topic in the social sciences. This welcome development, however, appears to focus on the act of displacement rather than the condition of displaceability. The literature on the subject is dominated by a ‘traditional-critical’ approach, concentrating almost solely on the impact of capitalism, neoliberalism and gentrification in the global ‘northwest’. This critical paper suggests that displacement and displaceability denote wider phenomena, often stemming from different spatial logics of power. It thus highlights the need to use ‘southeastern’ approaches, which focus on urban dynamics and concepts emerging from non-western societies or populations. These ‘views from the periphery’ highlight a pluriversal nature of the urbanization process during which several structural logics, such as (but not limited to) nationalism, statism, identity regimes and struggles for human and urban rights, interact with the exigencies of globalizing capitalism to generate new types urban citizenship. Within these settings, a shift to a prevailing condition of displaceability and to new assemblages of urban coloniality typifies the rapidly expanding southeastern metropolis and the framing of urban citizenship. The paper maps a matrix of ‘displaceabilities’ as an important critical analytical tool for the understanding of the changing nature of urban citizenship in the majority of world's urban regions. Journal: City Pages: 151-165 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739933 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739933 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:151-165 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mindy Thompson Fullilove Author-X-Name-First: Mindy Thompson Author-X-Name-Last: Fullilove Author-Name: Jacob M. Izenberg Author-X-Name-First: Jacob M. Author-X-Name-Last: Izenberg Author-Name: Cynthia Golembeski Author-X-Name-First: Cynthia Author-X-Name-Last: Golembeski Author-Name: Martha Stitelman Author-X-Name-First: Martha Author-X-Name-Last: Stitelman Author-Name: Rodrick Wallace Author-X-Name-First: Rodrick Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace Title: Main streets and disaster Abstract: Main Streets are civic/commercial centers of neighborhoods. They are also nodes in regional networks of streets, which together create a net of connection referred to here as the ‘tangle.’ This tangle serves as a physical substrate for community interconnection and its expression as collective efficacy. We examine two regions hit by disaster. We postulate that the unevenness of the Main Street nodes undermines collective efficacy and impedes recovery. This work has implications for planning for climate change and other future stressors. Journal: City Pages: 166-177 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739452 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739452 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:166-177 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz Author-X-Name-First: Ammar Author-X-Name-Last: Azzouz Title: 2011 Abstract: Peoples’ histories have been destroyed at the times of traumatic events in conflicts and wars. In the last decade, we have witnessed a radical transformation of cities in the Middle East and North Africa, as entire neighbourhoods have been razed to the ground, erasing communities’ memories and destroying their cultural heritage sites and architectural achievements. It is a decade of mass displacement of millions of people from their homelands. Many of them have left their homes with literally nothing and are unable to return to their homelands as their lives are at risk and as their homes have been wilfully destroyed. Émigré communities who find refuge across the world in refugee camps, in informal settlements or in urban areas in cities, witness the destruction of their homeland from afar. Their history is being constantly re-written by dominant political powers that whitewash peoples’ loss, pain and grief. In the face of this destruction, displaced communities reconstruct their own homelands in exiles that humanise and individualise their struggles. Through art, literature, poetry and other acts of creativity they renegotiate their past and reconstruct a destroyed memory through re-writing their own biographies of home. In this paper, a slice of these efforts is presented with a focus on Syria, where more than half of the population has been displaced from their home within and outside the country since 2011. Interviews are undertaken with a group of individuals who contributed towards telling an alternative narrative about Syria that contrasts with the narratives of the mass media, which turned the Syrian struggle into a database, with refugees, the lost and the death toll represented by numbers and figures. Their contributions play a significant role in protecting the past of diverse communities, in preserving our stories, our struggles and our pain, and in helping us never to forget. This new wave of culture in exile created by the living is a homage to the dead and to the generations yet to be. Journal: City Pages: 178-194 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739414 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739414 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:178-194 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jupiterfab Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Jupiterfab Title: Arts and social projects in the 21st century Abstract: The core focus of my work is to affect social change through art. I believe that art can go further than words and structured studies. Even in today’s technological age, art still has the power to touch people’s emotions and, together with other disciplines, can inspire people to change the way they look at themselves and the world. My art seeks to reflect the world around us, so that we may question what is behind the masks we wear as a society. Journal: City Pages: 195-209 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739463 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739463 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:195-209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amy E. Ritterbusch Author-X-Name-First: Amy E. Author-X-Name-Last: Ritterbusch Author-Name: El Cilencio Author-X-Name-First: El Author-X-Name-Last: Cilencio Title: ‘We will always be street’ Abstract: I have learned much about the limits and transformative potential of the street, la calle, as a site of struggle from and with radical organizations fighting against state violence in the urban global South. In this essay, I draw from these experiences as I continue to accompany various street-level social movements in Colombia and Uganda. I draw attention to the street as a site where state violence is enacted in tangible forms across scales. I illustrate, through discussion of a particular mural project in Bogotá, the way the state exerts its power and presence in society as pitted against the image of the urban poor. I urge scholars of street-level social movements and state violence to continue to look at this space of antagonism between the street and the state as a productive analytical space for radical geography and social movement scholarship, while keeping in mind the illustrated tensions. Additionally, in future work, I suggest we take a closer look at the class contrasts in street-level justice-seeking; the street, as a political space of encounter, between people propelled by the emotive forces of indignation and rage in mass acts of justice-seeking and those propelled by the structural forces of inequality and violence. Journal: City Pages: 210-219 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739915 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739915 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:210-219 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hung-Ying Chen Author-X-Name-First: Hung-Ying Author-X-Name-Last: Chen Author-Name: Lachlan Barber Author-X-Name-First: Lachlan Author-X-Name-Last: Barber Title: CityPsyche—Hong Kong Abstract: Hong Kong citizens’ fierce and evolving struggles, developing from the summer of 2019 onwards, have spawned countless stories, protest tactics, sacrifices, and debates in Hong Kong society and beyond. In this article, we probe Hong Kong’s condition, asking: what is the psyche of the city for which protesters are willing to risk their futures? What are the soul and esteem that these protesters hope to preserve for Hong Kong? How does the psyche of the city in revolt reflect the broader political-economic and social conditions of Hong Kong? To venture answers we adopt the notion ‘topological operations’ to unpack the constitution of the spatial and the psychic in three threads: the search for liberation; the transformation of fear into aspiration; and a mixture of caring and destructing practices. In so doing, we suggest the battles of Hong Kongers have revealed an autonomous departure from territorial contouring plans—one which inspires and reverberates far away—to the emerging ethics of care towards places in their fullness in which impossibility actuates the possible. Journal: City Pages: 220-232 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739431 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739431 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:220-232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kgaugelo Lekalakala Author-X-Name-First: Kgaugelo Author-X-Name-Last: Lekalakala Title: Tales of the vulnerability of African black women in transit spaces Abstract: This visual project uses original surrealist collage-making as a critical architectural tactic to capture and expose the vulnerability of black female bodies in spaces of urban–rural transit. The surrealist images act as an allegorical tool to comment critique and question the very ‘real’ experiences and vulnerabilities black African women face as they transit between urban and rural landscapes today. My images move beyond the limited methods provided by traditional architectural knowledge to explore alternative spatial imaginaries of everyday issues of vulnerability and safety and to reveal some of the nuanced gendered dynamics black women experience in transit spaces. By drawing attention to how women linger and navigate through such spaces, my work seeks to provoke questions regarding the potential for more progressive and imaginative urban futures in the way urban transit and public space is designed. Journal: City Pages: 233-243 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739904 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739904 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:233-243 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hyun Bang Shin Author-X-Name-First: Hyun Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Author-Name: Yimin Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Yimin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Author-Name: Sin Yee Koh Author-X-Name-First: Sin Yee Author-X-Name-Last: Koh Title: Whither progressive urban futures? Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia Abstract: Compressed development experiences, especially in Asia, have translated into expectations for ‘fast cities’ where time and space are compressed to materialise ‘real’ Asia experiences. However, what does ‘fast urbanism’ mean for those who see Asian cites as reference points? Moreover, what does ‘fast urbanism’ mean for those who have living memories of such fast-paced development, and how might this be different for their future generations? This intervention addresses these two questions by reflecting on the politics of temporality, calling for critical attention to the ideological imposition of ‘fast’ development in Asia and beyond. We argue that the ‘Asian speed’ of development was enabled in specific historical and geographical conjunctures, which entailed the appropriation of individual and collective aspirations through the invention of a certain kind of futurity and, in so doing, consolidated local politico-economic structures that displace both the present and the future. Journal: City Pages: 244-254 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739925 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739925 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:244-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq Author-X-Name-Last: Simone Title: The shift Abstract: Whereas religious practice has conventionally been associated with the stabilization of urban processes through social anchorage and the mobilization of common identity, it does also entail a sense of continuously shifting perspectives. Urbanity is seen and experienced through multiple prisms and possibilities, something that Islamic concepts related to circulation, displacement and intersection have long emphasized. Currently a politics of mobilizing religious practices is key to understanding how the social fabric of cities is remade, and this essay discusses its limits and possibilities. Journal: City Pages: 255-262 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739929 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739929 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:255-262 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lila Leontidou Author-X-Name-First: Lila Author-X-Name-Last: Leontidou Title: Mediterranean cities of hope Abstract: This essay puts to doubt the supposed ephemerality of social movements in Mediterranean cities, focusing on Greece and discussing Spain as well. During the aftermath of anti-austerity mobilizations international networking expands, the change in values affects society, and diverse economies emerge. A new generation of digitally literate and highly educated millennials, instead of lingering in unemployment and precarity or succumbing to the brain drain, are involved in alternative and creative ventures and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). On the basis of a map of solidarity structures in Attica and a two-dimensional typology of initiatives in Greece we argue that, though these ventures are vulnerable, they transform urban public spaces. Hybrid hubs of solidarity and creativity add up to affect urban landscapes towards a grassroots version of the ‘smart city’. In the 2010s, despite the crisis, and with a short-lived positive role of the state when the Left was in power, geographies of hope have been emerging in Mediterranean Europe. Journal: City Pages: 263-275 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:263-275 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bradley Garrett Author-X-Name-First: Bradley Author-X-Name-Last: Garrett Author-Name: Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita Author-X-Name-First: Maria de Lourdes Author-X-Name-Last: Melo Zurita Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Boring cities Abstract: Most of the world’s major cities are now undergirded by complicated subterranean infrastructures; buried communication networks, water and waste management systems, storage vaults, transportation corridors, and even underground housing. In the past, only states, backed by tax revenue, could afford to undertake the boring and excavation required to build such spaces. Today however, the private sector seeks to profit from building, maintaining, and owning urban undergrounds. In this article, we traverse five underground assets in five cities—Sydney, Mexico City, Singapore, Los Angeles and Beijing—to query the political implications of underground privatisation. In allowing municipal underground infrastructure built for public provision slip into the hands of individuals and corporations, we suggest that the boring taking place under cities is far from boring, it’s the next chapter of neoliberalism, where we hand over control of the critical infrastructure that makes urban life possible. Journal: City Pages: 276-285 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739455 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739455 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:276-285 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss Author-X-Name-First: Fran Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss Title: City government and urban inequalities Abstract: What potential do city governments have to prevent and mitigate worsening urban inequalities? Focusing on different urban scales of government, this discussion goes beyond the core tasks of urban service provision to consider strategies of: (i) distribution and deliberation (e.g. revenue measures, living wages or participatory budgeting); (ii) housing and planning (e.g. equity planning, inclusionary zoning, anti-displacement measures, social housing programmes); (iii) environment and infrastructure (e.g. water and waste services, mass transit and non-motorised transport alternatives); and (iv) urban citizenship (e.g. freedom of information, association and movement; public realm and open space strategies). Journal: City Pages: 286-301 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739931 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739931 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:286-301 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: Between passion and reason Abstract: CITY has always been a forum for passionate urban scholarship. But what role do the passions play in urbanization(s) today? And should we even make room in urban scholarship for such a volatile part of the human condition? Across the vast breadth of contemporary urban scholarship, today we find deeply paradoxical answers to these questions. So much contemporary urbanization is explained as being confined and codified by free-market rationalities [Peck 2013. Constructions of Neoliberal Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press]. With increasing force, these rationalities are then mobilized in technological innovations that have the power to condition the perception and behavior of citizens [Wyly and Dhillon 2018. “Planetary Kantsaywhere.” City 22 (1): 130–151]. Our casino capitalist, smart cities therefore seem bent on pursuing and installing the whatever-the-cost perverse urban rationalities of climate catastrophe [Madden 2019. “Editorial: City of Emergency.” City 23 (3): 281–284]. And yet, this unreasonable rationality is now producing symptomatic populisms that are distinctly passionate. Few cities have been immune to popular sentiments that have rejected appeals to reason, free market or not [Rossi 2018. “The Populist Eruption and the Urban Question.” Urban Geography 39 (9): 1425–1430]. Many citizens seem sick of the incessant compulsion to reason, they simply want their desires realized. How then should critical urban scholarship approach the current confluence of (free market) rationality and (populist) passion? This contribution examines this question via the political philosophy of David Hume. Isaiah Berlin is said to have claimed of Hume that ‘No man has influenced the history of philosophy to a deeper or more disturbing degree.’ Hume’s arguments about the primacy of passions can help us to understand how the remnants of neoliberal rationalities cohabit today’s cities with various populisms. More importantly, Hume might also offer insights into how critical scholarship can have progressive purchase in such turbulent times. Journal: City Pages: 302-313 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739436 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739436 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:302-313 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Colin McFarlane Author-X-Name-First: Colin Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane Title: De/re-densification Abstract: In this article, I set out an approach to cities and urbanisation through a relational geography of urban density. While density has long been central to the urban question, I argue for a focus on the relationship between densification, de-densification, and re-densification as basis for understanding urban transformations and futures. A focus on the relational geographies of de/re-densification entails attending to three vital inter-related processes: urban transformation, sociospatial inequality, and ecological crisis. Taken together, this demands a critical approach to the framing and operation of de/re-densification geographies. I reflect on the implications for a politics of density. Journal: City Pages: 314-324 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:314-324 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Meriem Chabani Author-X-Name-First: Meriem Author-X-Name-Last: Chabani Author-Name: John Edom Author-X-Name-First: John Author-X-Name-Last: Edom Title: Reassessing the conditions for hospitality in public space Abstract: What are the limits to sociality in public space? Within architectural and urban discourses, the shared spaces of our cities are often evoked as a democratic right and the place where democracy—the claim and exercise of rights—is enacted, providing a representation of society while being the site for its production. Where does this leave sociality? In the intellectual tradition of Kant, the conditions for sharing public space are provided by a universal right to hospitality mediated by tolerance. Derrida responds that tolerance is merely postponed hostility, whereas true hospitality requires asserted rights to be displaced by opening and recognition as a precondition for sociality. In this contribution, we draw on our work with our Paris-based architecture practice TXKL, and New South, a research platform that focuses on deconstructing and reconfiguring ways of thinking about, designing and representing the metropolises of the global south. These examples are presented in order to make the case for shared spaces conditioned by rules that offer alternatives to Kant’s right to hospitality. We argue that such spaces may afford modes of sociality premised upon opening and recognition through forms of hospitality that more closely correspond to the notion elaborated by Derrida. Journal: City Pages: 325-342 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739429 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739429 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:325-342 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mitch Miller Author-X-Name-First: Mitch Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: Dialectograms Abstract: ‘Invented’ by artist and researcher Mitch Miller, ‘dialectograms’ are detailed, intricate drawings of place. Made mostly in Miller’s home city of Glasgow, they are drawn with and through close collaboration with local communities of interest. A process as much as a product, the ‘dialectogram’ borrows liberally from the disciplines of cartography, oral history, architecture and sociology, is articulated through visual disciplines such as illustration and sequential art and informed by writers such as Judith Okely, Michel de Certeau and Tim Ingold. In a decade of experimentation and testing of the limits of drawing, mapping and participatory practice the ‘dialectogram’—originally the signature piece of one artist has since developed into a methodology that has itself, been (liberally) borrowed by many others. Journal: City Pages: 343-347 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1741991 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1741991 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:343-347 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhe Jiang Author-X-Name-First: Zhe Author-X-Name-Last: Jiang Author-Name: Tassia Kobylinska Author-X-Name-First: Tassia Author-X-Name-Last: Kobylinska Author-Name: Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Title: Art with marginalised communities Abstract: In contrast to the dominant masculinised discourses on global cities, this project explores the feminised and private spheres of global cities—‘domestic work’ in London. Domestic work is of particular concern for London, given the concentration of domestic workers in the capital and the large numbers of migrants employed in the sector. In the polarised London labour market, migrant domestic workers are concentrated at the bottom end of the labour market and suffer from high levels of exploitation, but often face difficulties to articulate their social and political will and to intervene in public forums. Our participatory video project with 12 migrant domestic workers from The Voice of Domestic Workers, a grassroots campaigning and advocacy organisation in London, suggests that participatory art can play a significant role in supporting the voice of marginalised communities. It reveals the power of art as a voice of dissent and as a tool for advancing social justice. Our project also highlights the importance of shifting the attention from the object of art and art as end product, to the subject of art and art as a social process in which social relationships may be restructured, in order to better understand the potential role of art in helping oppressed groups to achieve social changes. The latter approach implies a stronger sense of agency regarding the ability of marginalised communities to participate directly in structural changes. Journal: City Pages: 348-363 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739460 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739460 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:348-363 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aruan Braga Author-X-Name-First: Aruan Author-X-Name-Last: Braga Author-Name: Bira Carvalho Author-X-Name-First: Bira Author-X-Name-Last: Carvalho Title: Imagens do Povo Abstract: Imagens do Povo (Images of the People) is a photography collective located in Nova Holanda, a favela in Rio de Janeiro that aims to democratise access to photographic language. It is a node for training, networking and the insertion of popular photographers into the job market, developing actions across education, communication and art. Its focus is on promoting documentary photographers whose work values the histories and cultural practices of favela communities. The programme combines photographic technique with social issues, recording the daily life of favelas, using a critical perspective that takes into account human rights, culture and place. In this process, photographers and communities rescue and strengthen their identity ties through the use of photographic language, which becomes an instrument for accessing and mapping different cultural expressions of the places where they live. The collective’s politicised and humanist photographic practice produces images of powerful, joyous and creative favelas; contrasting with dominant representations of favelas as spaces of need and violence. Favelas are also often regarded as peripheral in the mass media and collective imagination, contributing to their marginalisation and exclusion. However, favelas are often located within the centre of the city and Imagens do Povo present these informal urban settlements as much more than a response to housing demand; representing them as legitimate expressions of lifestyles that have the power to revolutionise the city and overcome its inequalities and socio-spatial hierarchies. Therefore, Imagens do Povo affirm the periphery as the centre and create, develop and expand, both materially and symbolically, the contemporary city. Journal: City Pages: 364-375 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739426 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739426 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:364-375 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Author-Name: Ellen Clifford Author-X-Name-First: Ellen Author-X-Name-Last: Clifford Author-Name: Andy Greene Author-X-Name-First: Andy Author-X-Name-Last: Greene Author-Name: Paula Peters Author-X-Name-First: Paula Author-X-Name-Last: Peters Author-Name: Keith Walker Author-X-Name-First: Keith Author-X-Name-Last: Walker Title: Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts Abstract: The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism brought many gains for disabled people, but neoliberal capitalism has been ripping them away in the most brutal and demeaning of ways. Disabled people have been pushed to the margins in both industrial and post-industrial cities that have sought the most productive waged labour and ideal bodies. As such, the capitalist city disables people, and thus by default the city that disabled people must fight for is an anti-capitalist city based on use value. As the interview with DPAC demonstrates, disabled people are fighting both collaboratively and confrontationally, rolling their way into new spaces and working collectively to model what a future society could look like. It is therefore argued that disabled people's protests present a core challenge to the capitalist city, and thus their presence in both urban street movements and academic debate is crucial for any radical Right to the City movement. Disabled people are calling for an ableing city shaped to meet the needs of its inhabitants, rather than its inhabitants being coerced into shaping themselves to fulfil the needs of the capitalist city. As such, the city that disabled people call for is not just for them, but for anyone who is segregated, excluded or dispossessed by the capitalist city. Journal: City Pages: 376-399 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739458 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739458 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:376-399 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Akwugo Emejulu Author-X-Name-First: Akwugo Author-X-Name-Last: Emejulu Author-Name: Leah Bassel Author-X-Name-First: Leah Author-X-Name-Last: Bassel Title: The politics of exhaustion Abstract: Drawing on our comparative research project conducted in six European cities, this article proposes a tentative politics of exhaustion as a way to understand the promise and perils of women of colour activists’ solidarity work. Through an examination of how women of colour activists strategise, organise and mobilise, we demonstrate the political and psychological impact of exhaustion. To declare exhaustion, we argue, is to hail the equally exhausted to build solidarity. Understanding the politics of exhaustion can help shed light on the creative practices of women of colour activists in European cities today, as well as highlight the structural processes that demand activists’ exhaustion. Journal: City Pages: 400-406 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739439 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739439 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:400-406 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo Author-Name: Christophe Delory Author-X-Name-First: Christophe Author-X-Name-Last: Delory Title: Photography as urban narrative Abstract: Questioning whether we think as much about how we write as to what we write, I undertook recently a more rigorous reflection on what I saw as an exercise in ‘writing the city into the urban’. As I encountered the risk of writing the city out of the urban, I sought to write the city (creatively) back into the (critical) urban. It involved a gesture where photographic images of the city offered new meanings to the textual abstraction of the urban. It is no small act, nor an innocent one. It is also a longstanding one in the representational practices of writing the city. The simple task of juxtaposing photographs with a text while offering new ingenious forms of ‘writing’, opens up questions of not only how these images could very well question the validity of the text but also how photography’s ability to generate an archive of the (city’s) present draws attention to its own ethnographic (im)possibilities and epistemological crisis. Journal: City Pages: 407-422 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1739413 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739413 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:1-2:p:407-422 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Title: Campaigning in the time of coronavirus Journal: City Pages: 423-430 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1791551 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1791551 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:423-430 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olga Jitlina Author-X-Name-First: Olga Author-X-Name-Last: Jitlina Author-Name: Anni Kangas Author-X-Name-First: Anni Author-X-Name-Last: Kangas Author-Name: Daria Krivonos Author-X-Name-First: Daria Author-X-Name-Last: Krivonos Author-Name: Elisa Pascucci Author-X-Name-First: Elisa Author-X-Name-Last: Pascucci Author-Name: Anna Tereshkina Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Tereshkina Title: Escaping a migrant metropolis Abstract: This article narrates the politics of escape from borders and labour discipline in a post-Soviet migrant metropolis drawing on the art-activism project Nasreddin in Russia. It explores the relation between control and autonomy in urban migrations through a trans-aesthetics: a set of visual and verbal stories weaving together experiences and outcomes of the art project with academic debates on late capitalist urbanization. The encounter of artistic practices and migrants’ embodied, everyday struggles to inhabit the city, it is suggested, has potential for disrupting the disciplinary and exclusionary effects of capitalist transformations and migration enforcement. This is made visible through transient spaces of escape in which the everyday lives and social worlds of migrants, constrained by the precarization of labour and by the multiplication and diversification of bordering practices, are reclaimed through laughter, mobility and care. This point is illustrated by focusing on three such spaces and practices: trickster politics in the housing market, acts of disidentification and care work on the city ‘as a body.’ The article offers a methodologically innovative contribution to ongoing debates on aesthetic political economy, cities and borders and artistic and activist interventions in global cities. Journal: City Pages: 431-451 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781403 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1781403 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:431-451 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane Author-X-Name-First: Mfaniseni Fana Author-X-Name-Last: Sihlongonyane Title: Reinventing urban South Africa through global-Africanisation Abstract: Globalisation and Africanisation remain largely polarised and diametrically opposed to each other between the global and the local in much of the literature focusing on urban restructuring in South Africa in the 1990s. This polarisation has rendered invisible the in-between spaces of glocalisation which yield to new signs of urbanity, and the innovative sites of collaboration and contestation in the act of defining a new urban hood in South Africa. This paper seeks to go beyond the polar-opposite way of thinking about globalisation and Africanisation. It explores the glocal encounter between the two discourses by looking at how the local is created within the discursive terms of global culture and vice versa as well as the material crossovers, within and between the two discursive categories. The thrust of argument in the paper is that the post-apartheid reconstruction process has been driven by a new political culture of global-Africanisation whereby local aspirations and global orientations and vice versa, are now discursively accepted as co-determinants in the creation of South African urban identities. Journal: City Pages: 452-472 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781405 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1781405 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:452-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rike Sitas Author-X-Name-First: Rike Author-X-Name-Last: Sitas Title: Cultural policy and just cities in Africa Abstract: In the vastly unequal contexts typical in African cities and amidst the poly crisis of rapid urban development, it is vital to understand how cultural heritage intersects with urban planning, design and development. Although integrating cultural heritage into the urban agenda is crucial to developing sustainable cities, the ways in which culture is being defined by and asserted in global policies such as the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals discourses is problematic and may land in unexpected ways in African cities. By drawing on examples from two African cities, the article starts by exploring how cultural heritage is articulated in the African and global urban agenda, paying particular attention to the skewing towards specific articulations of cultural heritage. Secondly, the article considers how policies land in African contexts, engaging with the limitations of devolved policies and normative assumptions of the built environment, tourism and creative industries. Thirdly, the article explores examples of intangible and ephemeral culture in the form of festivals that function tangentially to the current culture-urban agenda, but that are helping to counterbalance inequitable urbanisms. Finally, drawing on these examples, the article identifies policy opportunities to promote fair and sustainable cities through cultural citizenship and implementing policy for more just African cities. Journal: City Pages: 473-492 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1782090 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1782090 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:473-492 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Romit Chowdhury Author-X-Name-First: Romit Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury Title: Homosocial trust in urban policing Abstract: The exercise of social control in cities has been linked in a fundamental way to a wide variety of policing mechanisms in urban contexts. This article builds on the literature on urban policing by foregrounding ‘masculinities’ as a unit of analysis for understanding everyday practices of law enforcement on city streets. It describes quotidian interactions between male public transport vehicle operators and traffic police in contemporary Kolkata, India, to make a set of analytical observations about three interrelated concerns (a) the gendered character of urban policing, (b) the emotional and moral ethos of urban law enforcement, and (c) the production of the city as a male space. Through these analyses the article develops the concept of ‘homosocial trust’ as an explanatory framework for understanding gendered dimensions of the everyday state, place-making, and mobility in the ordinary city. Such a heuristic draws thought to the vocabulary of masculinity used by men, who are otherwise framed in a conflictual relationship, to transact situational trust and make city streets inhabitable for themselves. The article shifts the emphasis in studies of urban policing away from conflict to mundane collaboration between law enforcement officers and urban publics to highlight the masculinities of everyday state practice through which the city is reproduced as a space of patriarchal power. The article draws on ethnographic interviews with autorickshaw drivers, taxi drivers, traffic police personnel, and participant observation at workshops conducted by the police with transport workers to sensitize them to safe road practices in Kolkata. Journal: City Pages: 493-511 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781410 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1781410 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:493-511 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gillian Rose Author-X-Name-First: Gillian Author-X-Name-Last: Rose Title: Actually-existing sociality in a smart city Abstract: This paper explores the forms of sociality that are implicit in discussions about a range of smart projects in one actually-existing smart city. Current scholarship on smart cities focuses almost entirely on their digital infrastructure and on the figure of the ‘smart citizen’. This paper argues that smart city projects also emerge and develop through specific understandings of the social. The paper explores understandings of smart sociality by analysing nearly sixty interviews with a wide range of actors involved in smart city projects in the UK city of Milton Keynes. Implicit in those interviews are three overlapping but distinct forms of smart sociality, which the paper terms sociological, neoliberal and cybernetic. The paper argues that it is important to engage both empirically and theoretically with these three understandings of the social in relation to smart, because they suggest that the reconfiguration of human activity assumed in smart city discourses is more diverse than most current scholarship acknowledges. The paper concludes by arguing that if this diversity is to become a critical resource, urban scholarship must give more empirical and conceptual attention to cybernetic forms of sociality in particular. Journal: City Pages: 512-529 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781412 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1781412 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:512-529 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ramin M-Keivani Author-X-Name-First: Ramin Author-X-Name-Last: M-Keivani Author-Name: Erick Omena de Melo Author-X-Name-First: Erick Author-X-Name-Last: Omena de Melo Author-Name: Sue Brownill Author-X-Name-First: Sue Author-X-Name-Last: Brownill Title: Durable inequality and the scope for pro-poor development in a globalising world Abstract: Cities are today undergoing major economic and spatial transformations in line with the requirements of global capital and neoliberalism. The main question to address in this scenario is: what is the scope for actions aiming to advance a more pro-poor agenda and curb the acute inequality found in the metropolises of the so-called developing countries? With that concern in mind, this paper examines the potentials and limitations of recent redevelopments in Rio de Janeiro to counteract durable inequality, as conceptualised by Charles Tilly. To do so we analysed secondary evidence and recent primary fieldwork drawing on 48 interviews with a range of stakeholders involved in the city’s preparations for recent mega events, urban development and resistance to evictions, particularly in Vila Autódromo and Providência communities. Results show that there is room for progressive intervention and change at the local level if the underlying drivers of structural inequality are appropriately identified and systematically targeted by combined state and social movements’ political actions. Journal: City Pages: 530-551 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1782091 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1782091 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:530-551 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sybille Frank Author-X-Name-First: Sybille Author-X-Name-Last: Frank Author-Name: Mirjana Ristic Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana Author-X-Name-Last: Ristic Title: Urban fallism Abstract: In March 2015, an activist movement ‘Rhodes must fall’ from the University of Cape Town initiated a new form of global socio-political protest, which spread in cities worldwide and was characterized by spatial practices of occupying, modifying and pulling down monuments in public space. Presenting key theoretic points of this special feature in City, this introduction explores the phenomenon of ‘urban fallism’–the ways in which the action of contesting, transforming and/or removing a monument from urban space operates as a means of political struggle and as a form of political engagement in urban contexts. It outlines and integrates the contributions to this special feature, which covers a range of historic and contemporary cases in different urban, geographic and socio-political contexts, including: post-colonialism in Africa and the Americas; post-communism and post-imperialism in Europe and Asia; and wars in the Middle East. Drawing on original research and analyses from the fields of archaeology, history, art history, heritage studies, architecture, urban design, and sociology, the papers in this special feature highlight how the fall of monuments operates as a tool for political resistance against marginalization, discrimination and exclusion, a catalyst for democracy and social justice, and a means of dealing with contested heritage. As such, contributions of this special feature speak about the urban politics of race and identity and raise questions about the role of collective memory in the struggle of opposing and/or marginalized social groups for their right to the city and their place and recognition in society. Journal: City Pages: 552-564 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784578 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784578 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:552-564 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nick Shepherd Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Shepherd Title: After the #fall Abstract: On March 9th 2015, Chumane Maxwele, a student at the University of Cape Town, threw a bucket of shit at a statue of Cecil Rhodes, prominently sited at the main pedestrian entrance to the university. A month later, following concerted protest action by the student-led social movement, #RhodesMustFall, the statue was removed. In this paper I situate the Rhodes statue and the events of #RMF into historical relation with the broader memorial and symbolic landscape of the Groote Schuur estate, the landscape of which the University of Cape Town forms a part. I argue that an imperial legacy is deeply inscribed in this landscape in architectural form, the organization of space, forms of the gaze, and embodied habitus. The University of Cape Town upper campus was conceived in terms of two architectural tropes, the idea of the Temple-on-the-hill, and the idea of the site of prospect. These, in turn, derive from Rhodes Memorial, slightly further up the slope. In this context, the Rhodes statue was the most obvious materialization of a more generalized coloniality, which remains a part of the ambiguous legacy of the Groote Schuur estate and the University of Cape Town. Journal: City Pages: 565-579 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784579 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784579 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:565-579 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mary Niall Mitchell Author-X-Name-First: Mary Niall Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell Title: ‘We always knew it was possible’ Abstract: This paper examines the removal of the statues of General Robert E. Lee, General P. G. T. Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans as an illustration of a highly racialized strain of urban fallism: fallism pitting the proponents of diversity and inclusion against conservative, often white nationalist sympathisers. It argues that urban fallism in the context of New Orleans is a social movement driven by grassroots activists seeking the elimination of prominent monuments to white supremacy from the city’s streets. This movement is working within a long tradition of political critique of ‘Lost Cause’ ideology, reaching back to the myth’s inception in the late 19th century. The fallism that occurred on the streets of New Orleans in 2017, albeit made legal via formal channels, was made possible because of community activists who not only raised public awareness about the historical significance of the monuments but also refused to quarantine the statues in the past. The controversy speaks directly to the legacy of slavery and white supremacy in the United States, a legacy thrown into relief with the 2016 U.S. election and the reassertion of white nationalist politics and policy under the Trump administration.So what meanings do these statues hold now that white nationalism is in the headlines and the nation is divided between conservatives and progressives, echoing Civil War-era and Civil Rights-era politics? This paper uses public debate and street protest surrounding monument removal to explore the relationship between urban fallism, historical memory, and contemporary racial politics. Journal: City Pages: 580-593 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784580 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784580 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:580-593 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Derek N. Boetcher Author-X-Name-First: Derek N. Author-X-Name-Last: Boetcher Title: Iconoclasm and response on Dublin’s Sackville/O’Connell Street, 1759–2003 Abstract: The residents of Dublin, Ireland have developed a robust commemorative infrastructure throughout the city since the early eighteenth century. A prominent site in this landscape is at the centre of O’Connell Street (Sackville Street from the late 1700s to 1924). Today, the Spire of Dublin (2003) is located at this site. But it projects an ambiguous connection to both the city’s and the country’s factious history. Two other statues previously stood on the site, both commemorating British imperial military figures: the Blakeney Monument (1759) and Nelson’s Pillar (1808). Both works were intentionally destroyed in acts of urban iconoclasm. An analysis of the changes in the monumental public art on this site over the centuries demonstrates that iconoclasm has been a factor in shifting Irish attitudes toward the British and themselves, Irish associations with power and memory, and a potent symbol in Dublin’s urban landscape. This is established by using an expanded conceptualisation of iconoclasm that incorporates a series of post-fall responses to a monument and its site’s physical state and context over time, the site’s continued symbolic meanings, and the site becoming home to new monumental or other symbolic expressions. The result illustrates that this site has been significantly inscribed into British imperial and Irish national iconography regardless of the monument or public sculpture it has held. Journal: City Pages: 594-604 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784582 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784582 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:594-604 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Renato Cymbalista Author-X-Name-First: Renato Author-X-Name-Last: Cymbalista Title: What to do with the bandeirantes Abstract: This paper analyses the debates about the monument of Bandeirante in São Paulo, Brazil, inaugurated in 1953. “Bandeirante” is a mythical and symbolic construction of a historical character who had heroically conquered the interior of America for Portugal. Since the 1980s various intellectual and social movements have raised awareness of the ideological dimension of the Bandeirantes, including their role as enslavers of Indigenous people, propagators of infectious diseases and usurpers of territories. Correspondingly, the monument of Bandeirante has been the subject of protests connected to Indigenous rights. In October 2013, protestors against the proposal for a Constitutional Amendment that would threaten the Indian Territories in Brazil had thrown red ink on the monument, symbolizing the bloodshed. The monument of Bandeirante has thus ceased to be the place of admiration and became a site of revolt, contrasting aspects of the past that are the focus of this paper. The main question of this paper is if it is possible to mobilize the monument as a space for dialogue and negotiation by preserving its physical integrity and, at the same time, giving visibility to the demands of those whose rights have been violated. Journal: City Pages: 605-615 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784583 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784583 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:605-615 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aaron J. Cohen Author-X-Name-First: Aaron J. Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen Title: The limits of iconoclasm Abstract: Urban fallism in early revolutionary Russia was a political and aesthetic struggle rooted in imperial Russian civic culture. Few tsarist monuments were taken down in Moscow and Petrograd in 1917 and 1918 despite the violence of the social revolution and near universal hatred for the old regime. This selective iconoclasm occurred because the criteria for removal of statues in those cities reflected the aesthetic agenda of artists, critics, and campaigners from late imperial Russia who convinced Bolshevik politicians to accept their authority in art matters.After the February Revolution in 1917, public proposals for the large-scale dismantling of tsarist monuments received pushback from art professionals who argued that monuments should be protected according to their artistic value, not destroyed for their political representations. The Bolsheviks who took over in October 1917 deferred to such art experts on issues regarding monument demolition. The most recent monuments associated with official narratives and realist aesthetics of the deposed Nicholas II were removed, whilst others were protected as aesthetically desirable. Preservationists thus successfully changed the definition of political art from narrative content to aesthetic form and preserved some statues that political revolutionaries wanted to destroy. Today the Putin government seeks to protect Lenin monuments through a similar depoliticisation of revolutionary content inside a framework of historic preservation. Journal: City Pages: 616-626 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784584 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784584 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:616-626 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Quentin Stevens Author-X-Name-First: Quentin Author-X-Name-Last: Stevens Author-Name: Gabriele de Seta Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: de Seta Title: Must Zhongzheng fall? Abstract: Taiwan’s thousands of statues of former dictator Chiang Kai-shek have encountered varying fates since Taiwan’s democratisation in 1987. Citizens have iconoclastically pulled down or beheaded numerous Chiang statues. Many have been removed from public view to the rural grounds outside his temporary mausoleum. Those that remain standing are regularly defaced with paint and slogans highlighting Chiang’s crimes. A more carnivalesque denigration of Chiang is university students secretly redecorating several campuses’ statues on significant historical dates, particularly 2/28, when the dictatorship bloodily suppressed a 1947 uprising. These costumes metaphorically critique Chiang, portraying him as a blood-sucking mosquito or ghoulish Halloween pumpkin. Graduating students at Taipei’s elite high school playfully transform its centrally-placed Chiang statue into an Oscar statue, an astronaut, and film characters. These redecorations parody the commemorative statue genre, implying such objects’ triviality and interchangeability. The paper explores these critical, humourous actions as forms of e’gao, a predominantly-online mode of hilariously parodying pop culture, crossing over to address difficult built heritage. A different set of responses to Chiang’s statues also reflect Taiwan’s democratic pluralism. Not everyone wants to see them removed or defaced. A social media community is dedicated to cleaning their neighbourhoods’ Chiang statues after 2/28. A 10-metre-high statue of Chiang, with its massive Memorial Hall and honour guard, remains among Taipei’s leading tourist attractions. Taiwan's Ministry of Culture has given this statue temporary heritage protection, and is exploring ways to recontextualise its meaning. Democracies respect such heterodoxy toward the past; they allow different actors to respond differently. Journal: City Pages: 627-641 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784593 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784593 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:627-641 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: José Antonio González Zarandona Author-X-Name-First: José Antonio Author-X-Name-Last: González Zarandona Author-Name: Nour A. Munawar Author-X-Name-First: Nour A. Author-X-Name-Last: Munawar Title: The unfallen statues of Hafez Al-Assad in Syria Abstract: The destruction of statues representing political figures carries symbolic meanings that are negotiated by the people who attack the statue and the regime that the statue represents. Across the Syrian territory, statues of Hafez Al-Assad symbolized the oppressive Ba’athist regime which shaped Syria's past and present for more than almost half a century. As a result, a cult of personality ensued. This paper analyses the destruction of Hafez Al-Assad statues as a case of iconoclasm, framed by how the Ba’athist regime used elements of the past to glorify the personality cult of Hafez Al-Assad (1971–2000) and later his son Bashar Al-Assad (2000-present), Syria's current president. Drawing on the work of political scientists, the paper will establish how this cult of personality operated, to understand how Syrians living under an authoritarian regime engaged with images of Hafez Al-Assad and on which terms. Furthermore, by considering the re-erection of statues representing Hafez Al-Assad the paper will also discuss unfallism to better describe the process of destruction and re-erection of statues in Syria. The underlying argument of this paper is that the destruction and re-erection of statues in Syria are acts that question the purpose of destroying a statue today, amidst the current climate of removal of statues in different parts of the world as a response to dismantling systems of oppression. Journal: City Pages: 642-655 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784594 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784594 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:642-655 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mirjana Ristic Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana Author-X-Name-Last: Ristic Title: Post-fallism Abstract: This paper explores the afterlife of the fallen Lenin Monument, which once stood since 1970 on the Leninplatz in the former East Berlin. In 1991, the monument was dismantled into 129 pieces and buried under a sand hill in a forest in Müggelheim, in the far south-east of Berlin. In 2015, its head was dug out and displayed in Berlin’s Spandau Citadel at the permanent exhibition showing the city’s fallen monuments from Prussian times to today. This paper analyses architectural, urban and political effects of the re-emergence of the Lenin Monument head. It does so by looking at the debates surrounding its restoration; its form and disposition within the spatial setting of the exhibition, its encounter by and interaction with the public and its meanings. The analysis is based on the site observation and participant observation of the statue’s head within the exhibition and discourse analysis of its representation in the exhibition materials and in media. The argument is that the re-emerged part of the Lenin Monument forms a ‘counter-monument’ that challenges the political roles of both the original and the fallen monument. It contests the notion of the monument as an icon of political authority, which was the purpose of the original Lenin Monument. It also represents a way of coming to terms with the past that enables the public to critically engage with the legacy of the past authoritarian regime in contrast to the fall of the Lenin Monument, which was a means of suppressing it. Journal: City Pages: 656-667 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1784595 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1784595 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:656-667 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nina Ebner Author-X-Name-First: Nina Author-X-Name-Last: Ebner Title: Thinking racial capitalism from the Inland Empire Journal: City Pages: 668-673 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781415 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1781415 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:668-673 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paolo Cardullo Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Cardullo Title: Provincialising smart cities Journal: City Pages: 674-676 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1781416 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1781416 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:3-4:p:674-676 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: The urban process under covid capitalism Journal: City Pages: 677-680 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1846346 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1846346 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:677-680 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrew Wallace Author-X-Name-First: Andrew Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace Title: The returned Abstract: Amid a globalised crisis in secure housing provision, this article zooms in on the specific experiences of older working-class people coping with public housing demolition and forced neighbourhood transition in London. London’s new-build mixed tenure housing developments provide varying proportions of social rental housing, some of it made available to tenants of the council estate it replaced. This article examines the experiences of older people who have taken up the ‘opportunity’ of ‘return’ and explores the multi-faceted work they are forced to undertake as they move into unfamiliar and capricious social, physical and political landscapes superimposed on the collapsed infrastructure of their old estate. The article brings themes of ‘un-homing’, ageing in place and everyday ‘repair’ work into encounter and calls for greater qualitative understanding of the ‘return’ experience as a dimension of forced relocation by housing restructuring and tenurial mixing projects. Journal: City Pages: 681-697 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833535 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833535 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:681-697 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Samuel Mutter Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Author-X-Name-Last: Mutter Title: Subtracting and extracting circulation Abstract: This paper traces the growing influence of logistics as power in the governance of the London Underground, a system of public transportation in the midst of multiple processes of digitisation, connecting trains and passengers deep below ground to systems of real-time monitoring and communication. Such processes are often explained through the framework of the ‘smart city’. However, the paper argues that this is an unsatisfactory approach which fails to account for the unique combination of requirements underlying the transition: the need to make circulations resilient to risks whilst simultaneously increasing revenues in light of significant funding cuts. Instead, the article builds upon a set of theories of logistics as a form of power constituted through the amalgamation of ‘subtractive’ and ‘extractive’ aspects of circulatory governance. On the one hand logistics aims to ensure circulations by managing their frictions; on the other it attempts to extract added value from the circulations it ensures. The paper illustrates this duality by examining both the involvement of private logistics specialists in the Underground’s digitisation, and Transport for London’s emerging use of passenger WiFi data for the purposes of both resilience and value extraction. The article’s latter sections examine the broader socio-political implications of logistical power for how urban infrastructures are used and experienced. Journal: City Pages: 698-720 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1837560 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1837560 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:698-720 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz Author-X-Name-First: Ammar Author-X-Name-Last: Azzouz Title: Re-imagining Syria Abstract: Debates on Syria’s reconstruction have already started to emerge, often concomitant with new waves of violence, re-destruction and social exclusion. These debates are shaped by the elite and the powerful and sometimes by local architects, but in most cases their visions and projects fail to engage with ordinary Syrians, neglecting their struggle, suffering, aspirations and hopes for the future of Syria. Given this neglect, this paper brings the voices of Syrians to the debate on reconstruction and destruction of Syria in an attempt to link them to the fortunes of new architecture, and more broadly, the New Syria. The paper builds on a series of interviews with Syrians inside and outside Syria and emphasises on the importance of drawing on the voices of Syrians now, before major reconstruction has begun. With the lack of adequate voices of citizens, it is crucial to engage with Syrian communities to give them the right to be heard regarding their towns and cities at the time of imagining and re-imagining Syria and its future reconstruction. The paper shows how reconstruction could be destructive and exclusive, and how it could be used as a tool of punishment and violence. It provides insights and perspectives for intellectuals, policymakers, architects and activists interested in exploring alternatives to reconstruing forms of Syria without being narrowed to the formulation of ‘heritage’. Journal: City Pages: 721-740 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833536 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833536 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:721-740 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ozge Ozduzen Author-X-Name-First: Ozge Author-X-Name-Last: Ozduzen Title: ‘We are not Arabs and Taksim is ours’ Abstract: Conceptualising place-making as a dialectic process that contributes to both empowerment and repression, this article examines a mediated and spatial form of ‘refugee voice’ and the reactionary responses to the presence of refugees through a widespread video from Turkey. By using video as a place-making tool, the paper investigates the political agency and reception of Syrians in Turkey through a recently controversial YouTubed event that showcases Syrians’ celebration of the New Year’s Eve in Taksim Square. This mundane event has received wide-ranging reactions on physical spaces as well as online geographies. To understand the online place-making practices of Syrians and reactionary Turkish ‘hosts’ and study the visual politics of the text and context of the video, the paper combines multimodal discourse analysis of the video and content and sentiment analyses of its YouTube comments. The paper contributes a digital perspective to both claiming rights to the cities and enclave societies in the so-called post-refugee crisis period, whilst throwing light on a new regime of nationalism in Turkey and on a global scale. Journal: City Pages: 741-758 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833538 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833538 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:741-758 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neethi P. Author-X-Name-First: Neethi Author-X-Name-Last: P. Title: New revanchism and the urban undesirables Abstract: This paper addresses the experience of revanchist urban transition among street-based sex workers—male, female and transgender individuals—in Bangalore city in India, over the last two decades. While analysing this, this study lays out the everyday struggles of this section of informal workers, against revanchist forces that further perpetuate their marginalised status. To capture these experiences, oral narratives from nearly five dozen sex workers were collected over nearly eighteen months of fieldwork, as well as from half a dozen organisations supporting them. This was further complemented by longitudinal archival information, elicited from reports published in Bangalore editions of newspapers over the period 1998–2018, from the archival collection housed by the organisation Sangama. This paper also provides a discussion on the ongoing human rights and citizenship empowering initiatives among this section of workers, by identifying the role of various individuals, organisations and movements in this regard. The paper then concludes by highlighting the vital need to improve the inclusiveness of these informal workers in urban life and urban transition, not only by law enforcement but also in public consciousness. Journal: City Pages: 759-777 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833540 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833540 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:759-777 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tathagatan Ravindran Author-X-Name-First: Tathagatan Author-X-Name-Last: Ravindran Title: When a pandemic intensifies racial terror Abstract: Bolivian urban spaces witnessed dramatic racialized power struggles in the context of the ouster of the indigenous President Evo Morales in a coup in November 2019 and the current lockdown of the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Repression of indigenous protests against the usurpation of power by racist extreme right-wing forces led to massacres, forced disappearances and severe human rights violations. Furthermore, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic intensified the process of racist stigmatization as urban indigenous sectors were vilified as a threat to the lives of white-mestizo middle class citizens. Besides examining the impacts of anti-indigenous structural racism on the vulnerabilities of Bolivian indigenous people in the context of the pandemic outbreak, this article also highlights the forms in which the pandemic is turned into an opportunity by racist political forces to intensify racial stigmatization of indigenous people. By showing the striking continuities between the racial terror inflicted on indigenous people after the usurpation of power by extreme right wing forces in 2019 and the stigmatization of the same social sectors in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, this article underlines how the abandonment and stigmatization of indigenous people during the pandemic, rather than being an aberration, is yet another manifestation of long term historical processes underlying colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and deracination. In response, indigenous activists produced alternative narratives and policy proposals to counter those of the state and the dominant society, (re)imagining the city in the process. This article examines the implications of these urban spatial struggles in dialog with an interdisciplinary body of literature on racialized urban geographies and the relationship between the biopolitical and the necropolitical. Journal: City Pages: 778-792 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833541 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833541 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:778-792 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michiel Baas Author-X-Name-First: Michiel Author-X-Name-Last: Baas Author-Name: Delphine Pagès-El Karoui Author-X-Name-First: Delphine Pagès-El Author-X-Name-Last: Karoui Author-Name: Brenda S.A. Yeoh Author-X-Name-First: Brenda S.A. Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh Title: Migrants in global cities in Asia and the Gulf Abstract: This Special Feature reflects on how cosmopolitanism is inscribed and refracted in non-western cities with global city ambitions. We focus on Asia and the Gulf to provide a counter-reading of cosmopolitanism from various cities with both unstated or explicit non-integration policies, ranging from metropoles where migrants and foreigners correspond to a small minority (such as Tokyo and Seoul), to globalizing cities where migrants constitute a substantial minority (such as Singapore) or to cities where they constitute a large majority (such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha). The papers explore how cosmopolitanism works in situations strongly marked by racial, ethnic, social, and gender hierarchies, in cities characterized variously between the two extreme poles of ‘mixing’ and ‘segregation’, and reflecting on different ways of managing diversity. They examine how categories of difference are constructed, not only by the state (cosmopolitanism from above), but also by migrants themselves (cosmopolitanism from below). The papers examine how different categories of ‘migrants’—from highly skilled professionals to low-skilled, and middle-class migrants, and from students to ‘second generations’—strive to be part of the city while negotiating opportunities and constraints emanating from the envisioned cosmopolitanism of the global city. Taking the perspective that cosmopolitan urbanism goes beyond notions of a ‘melting pot’, métissage, or integration, we instead focus on the politics of inclusion and exclusion that shape the juxtapositions and encounters between different social groups. In this spirit, this Special Feature revisits cosmopolitanism through non-western cities to reconceptualize cosmopolitan urbanism outside the prevailing western paradigm of integration. Journal: City Pages: 793-804 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1843278 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1843278 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:793-804 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yasser Elsheshtawy Author-X-Name-First: Yasser Author-X-Name-Last: Elsheshtawy Title: Urban enclaves and transient cosmopolitanism Abstract: Cities in the UAE are typically hailed as being among the most cosmopolitan in the world. There is however a deep divide within these cities separating the well-to-do from the impoverished, Emirati from expatriates, and workers from professionals. Such a condition defies the very idea of cosmopolitanism. Yet by looking closer and beyond the conventional sites of spectacle, spaces can be found permitting a certain degree of coming together that may run against conventional forms of cosmopolitanism but which nevertheless allow for varying degrees of inclusivity. Some are restricted to certain social groups while others tend to be more inclusive, accommodating varying ethnic groups and social classes. However, all share a desire for people to come together and circumvent the restrictions placed on them by the formal and hegemonic city. The paper draws on extensive mapping studies carried out over a period of six years with the aim of uncovering informal activities and behaviors carried out by the people who populate these settings. Three sites are presented as case studies to problematize the construct of cosmopolitanism. Inspired by the work of urbanists who studied similar processes in settings worldwide, the study engages the literature on informal urbanism. At the same time, it contributes to the cosmopolitan discourse by showing how a unique manifestation of this construct is maintained in the highly controlled and restrictive societies of the Arabian Peninsula. Finally, such an analysis demonstrates the resilience of city dwellers and their ability to circumvent such conditions. Journal: City Pages: 805-817 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1843279 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1843279 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:805-817 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aurélie Varrel Author-X-Name-First: Aurélie Author-X-Name-Last: Varrel Title: A job in Dubai and an apartment in Bangalore Abstract: This article engages migration studies and urban studies to examine the differentiated roles of highly skilled Indian migrants in the metropolitan real estate markets of the UAE and India. It aims at highlighting their transnational engagement in the property market ‘back home’ in the absence of conditions for a real cosmopolitan social fabric in the UAE. Despite the demographic significance of Indian migrants in the UAE, the illiberal politics of migration management prevailing in the UAE have relegated them to transience. Dubai has been at the forefront of certain reforms to encourage foreigners to invest in the local property market, with uncertain results so far. Conversely the Indian real estate sector has developed techniques to capture migrant remittances and channel them into the booming metropolitan property markets of India. I will explore these mechanisms with a focus on the fast-growing South Indian metropolis of Bangalore through a qualitative multi-sited research project conducted in Bangalore and Dubai. It aims at highlighting the importance of transnational connexions between the urban fabric of these two cities, and more generally the significance of international migrations and remittances for urban dynamics in the Global South. Journal: City Pages: 818-829 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1841446 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1841446 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:818-829 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laure Assaf Author-X-Name-First: Laure Author-X-Name-Last: Assaf Title: ‘Abu Dhabi is my sweet home’ Abstract: In Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, foreign residents constitute more than 88% of the population. This demographic situation is the result of both massive flows of labor migration following the advent of the oil wealth in the late 1960s, and practical limitations in the attribution of nationality which prevent foreign residents from gaining citizenship. This paper offers a look at migration in the Gulf through a different angle, by focusing on second-generation foreigners who are born in Abu Dhabi. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young men and women of diverse Arab nationalities who all grew up in the city, I show how these young adults craft modes of sociability and daily practices which make use of the interstices of urban space—informal spaces, vacant plots, and parking lots. These practices allow them to build a sense of belonging to the city at a very local scale, thus bypassing the national community to which they do not have access. This locality is also inherently cosmopolitan through being in touch with the cultural and linguistic diversity of Abu Dhabi’s residents. Although it is rarely acknowledged as such, I argue that the ordinary cosmopolitanism at play in the shaping of Abu Dhabi’s specific locality contributes to shaping young people’s subjectivities and their expressions of belonging. Journal: City Pages: 830-841 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1837562 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1837562 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:830-841 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bubbles Beverly Asor Author-X-Name-First: Bubbles Beverly Author-X-Name-Last: Asor Title: ‘Strangers amongst us' Abstract: The making of cosmopolitan cities necessitates competence to engage and live with difference and diversity. More often than not, diversity is treated as a challenge to social integration especially in urban areas with a short history of and less exposure to diversification. However, such overemphasis on diversity as a challenge overlooks a more nuanced approach to urban diversity that is lived and experienced by migrants and the local population. This paper explores ‘diversity on the ground’ transpiring in ‘mundane’ encounters between Filipino migrants and South Koreans in Seoul. I analyze how ‘taken-for-granted’ migrant-local encounters and the social processes surrounding these intercultural interactions are crucial in facilitating or impeding civility and mutual recognition that are crucial in the cosmopolitanization of a global city. Following Erving Goffman’s theory of social interaction, I interrogate migrants’ and local citizens’ behavior towards each other in public spaces following a social script of ‘getting along’ despite the (in)visibility of differences and otherness. Based on interviews with migrants and Koreans and spatial ethnography of Catholic migrant spaces, I identify two types of encounters: purposeful encounters between migrants and Korean (non)Catholics in given contexts of interactions performing specific interaction rituals, and accidental encounters between Korean public and Filipino migrants when the latter perform both mundane activities and ‘strange’ sociocultural and religious activities in the sacred and public spaces. This paper concludes with some thoughts into how intercultural encounters within religious spaces contribute to the shaping of urban diversity and making of a cosmopolitan city. Journal: City Pages: 842-857 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1843280 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1843280 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:842-857 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bradley Hinger Author-X-Name-First: Bradley Author-X-Name-Last: Hinger Author-Name: Elise Quinn Author-X-Name-First: Elise Author-X-Name-Last: Quinn Title: Black aesthetic emplacement: Thinking beyond neoliberal capitalist explanations of gentrification Journal: City Pages: 858-861 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833542 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833542 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:858-861 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Faith MacNeil Taylor Author-X-Name-First: Faith MacNeil Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor Title: The promise of being free to be Journal: City Pages: 862-864 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833545 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833545 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:862-864 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Valz Gris Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Valz Gris Title: City air beyond the city. Can the planetary mine lead us to emancipatory urban futures? Journal: City Pages: 865-870 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833547 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833547 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:865-870 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gareth Millington Author-X-Name-First: Gareth Author-X-Name-Last: Millington Title: Cosmopolitisation, urbanisation and circulation Journal: City Pages: 871-876 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 24 Year: 2020 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1833585 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1833585 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:24:y:2020:i:5-6:p:871-876 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sana Ahrar Author-X-Name-First: Sana Author-X-Name-Last: Ahrar Author-Name: Caitlin Flanagan Author-X-Name-First: Caitlin Author-X-Name-Last: Flanagan Title: How a map can dictate reality Journal: City Pages: 209-212 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1890956 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1890956 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:209-212 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ulises Moreno-Tabarez Author-X-Name-First: Ulises Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno-Tabarez Title: Making impact strange/making strange impact Journal: City Pages: 1-6 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 3 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1915650 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1915650 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:1-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Naama Blatman Author-X-Name-First: Naama Author-X-Name-Last: Blatman Title: Indigenous urban life beyond city bounds: a more-than-urban approach Journal: City Pages: 187-192 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1847850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1847850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:187-192 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Delphine Pagès-El Karoui Author-X-Name-First: Delphine Author-X-Name-Last: Pagès-El Karoui Title: Ambivalent cosmopolitanism from above in Dubai Abstract: This paper focuses on new forms of governance of diversity in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), unpacking the ambivalence of its cosmopolitanism from above. It explores how the Dubai government’s narratives brand Dubai as a cosmopolitan city, rarely using the term but conveying the idea by promoting diversity, emphasizing on tolerance and happiness as two core national and urban values. The main hypothesis is that the government uses Dubai’s own landscape as the principal tool (alongside others, such as policies, institutions, discourses, events) to embody this new ideology, engraving its symbols into built landscapes and making it visible to all. Behind these inclusive cosmopolitan narratives are diverse ‘regimes of visibility’ which sometimes serve to hide strong logics of exclusion. Journal: City Pages: 171-186 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1885918 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1885918 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:171-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Deniz Ay Author-X-Name-First: Deniz Author-X-Name-Last: Ay Author-Name: Basak Demires Ozkul Author-X-Name-First: Basak Author-X-Name-Last: Demires Ozkul Title: The strange case of earthquake risk mitigation in Istanbul Abstract: As an aspiring global city, Istanbul is at the crossroads of capital, political struggle, and socioeconomic transformation. Unfortunately, Istanbul is also at the crossroads of major active fault lines. This paper analyzes earthquake risk mitigation planning for the megacity since the last big seismic catastrophe of the Marmara Earthquakes in 1999 that hit the region, including Istanbul. We use the concept of riskscape to explore the political and technocratic construction of seismic risk and how this implies different experiences of risk to investment portfolios, the state, and the ordinary people living in the city. Our empirical analyses focus on the ‘Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project’ (ISMEP), launched as a World Bank project in 2005 and still ongoing as of 2020. We argue that the ISMEP project epitomizes the ‘strange case’ of earthquake risk mitigation in Istanbul due to its organizational complexity, financial expansion over its lifetime, and progression as a megaproject sponsored by international development funding despite its contraction in institutional targets. Our findings suggest that this centralized and non-transparent earthquake risk mitigation approach in Istanbul creates a fragmented riskscape for the megacity. The earthquake risk continues to threaten millions of inhabitants’ lives and livelihoods while making room for speculative real estate development. Journal: City Pages: 67-87 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1885917 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1885917 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:67-87 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Henriette Bertram Author-X-Name-First: Henriette Author-X-Name-Last: Bertram Title: Integrating gender into spatial planning Journal: City Pages: 204-208 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1847849 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1847849 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:204-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chandra Russo Author-X-Name-First: Chandra Author-X-Name-Last: Russo Title: The art of care Abstract: Building on emerging work that considers urban life and designs through the lens of care, this article examines how a performative care practice might serve as an oppositional ethic and strategy in the late capitalist city. The analysis is based on the Guerrilla Grafters, an eco-arts collective that surreptitiously grafts fruit onto sterile city trees in San Francisco. Original data include interviews with participants and critics and a qualitative analysis of relevant media accounts. The article proposes that the Guerrilla Grafters are engaged in a performative care practice, a public facing set of actions that make visible and valuable the labor as well as ethics of attending to the interdependence of all life. This performative care practice is a discursive, relational and spatial strategy that seeks to interrupt relations of dominance and ideologies that cheapen certain life. Through a case study of performative care, this study provokes a more general examination of how care ethics and practices work in oppositional practices under dynamics of neoliberalism and ecological crisis in cities of the Global North. Journal: City Pages: 7-26 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1885912 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1885912 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:7-26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bo McMillan Author-X-Name-First: Bo Author-X-Name-Last: McMillan Title: Contextualizing the devaluation of homes in Black neighborhoods Journal: City Pages: 193-198 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1891715 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1891715 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:193-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Glyn Robbins Author-X-Name-First: Glyn Author-X-Name-Last: Robbins Title: Cities consumed by greed Journal: City Pages: 199-203 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2020.1847843 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2020.1847843 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:199-203 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katherine Dawson Author-X-Name-First: Katherine Author-X-Name-Last: Dawson Title: Under the wire Abstract: This paper discusses the occupation of an electricity transmission line right-of-way (ROW) at a busy interchange to the western edge of Accra, Ghana. In planning documents, ROWs are depicted as open spaces and obtaining permits to develop the land is prohibited. However, across the city, people continue to live and work under the wire, describing their occupancy as one of ongoing temporariness. Drawing from fourteen months of ethnographic research in Accra, I unpack the production of this urban temporality and argue that this ongoing temporariness is not linear, but should rather be understood as a condition punctured by events which both threaten and re-establish temporary occupation. I contend that it is only by attending closely to a splintered temporality, that we may grapple with the ways in which ongoing temporariness takes hold in cities marked by uneven access to land, income and capital. Journal: City Pages: 27-45 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1885903 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1885903 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:27-45 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Azat Zana Gündoğan Author-X-Name-First: Azat Zana Author-X-Name-Last: Gündoğan Title: Rethinking centrality Abstract: In this paper, I tackle the center-periphery dynamics under planetary urbanization by focusing on Gebze, the gigantic industrial city just outside of Istanbul’s administrative borders. Through an empirical study of peripheral urbanization processes in the Gebze-Istanbul axis, the paper engages with the planetary sub/urbanization debates and serves the triple purpose: (I) to emphasize the significance of peripheralization and the center-periphery dialectics to critique the predominant emphasis on centrality in urban and regional research which relegates the socio-spatial and political transformations of the peripheries to the background, (II) to offer an alternative approach to depictions of cities as sentient, anthropomorphic actors in a hierarchical and competitive Darwinian ecology, and (III) to contribute to planetary sub/urbanization debates by zooming in on some of the micro-spaces of peripheral Gebze during the extended urbanization process in greater Istanbul. Through a transdisciplinary methodology, the paper provides a local ontology by displaying how peripherality is constructed not merely from above and the center by the state or economic actors, but also by the people from below and the periphery, as it were, during their everyday rhythms, activities, negotiations, and coping. By resisting the merely expanded application of the term suburban, and instead taking seriously the complex web of governance, agency, defeat, organization, and exploitation within the lives of Gebze’s inhabitants, the article concludes that such phenomena make any universalizing claim about the urban or the suburban incomplete. Journal: City Pages: 46-66 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1890955 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1890955 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:46-66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kajsa Lundberg Author-X-Name-First: Kajsa Author-X-Name-Last: Lundberg Title: Visual criminology and lives lived in public space Abstract: In January 2017, several homeless people gathered outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia. The gathering gained significant media attention and led to an immediate political response, with the city council proposing changes to ban rough sleeping in the city. Drawing on insights from visual criminology and moral geography, I scrutinise how visual regimes and aesthetic judgements helped motivate this punitive response. To do so, I combine ten in-depth interviews with homelessness service providers and a critical discourse analysis of how Melbourne’s two daily newspapers reported on the camp. I identify how the newspapers represent homeless people as violating the idealised aesthetics of the city, a violation which comes to discursively justify their criminalisation. Moreover, the way a person looks and their belongings, if stored in public space, direct their reception and whether or not they become subjected to police interventions. Finally, representations of homelessness matter and alternative representations of homeless people could shift the emphasis away from criminalisation, in favour of policy responses to homelessness attuned to structures of social and economic inequalities. Journal: City Pages: 108-128 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1885915 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1885915 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:108-128 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Simon Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Simon Author-Name: Angeles Arano Author-X-Name-First: Angeles Author-X-Name-Last: Arano Author-Name: Mariana Cammisa Author-X-Name-First: Mariana Author-X-Name-Last: Cammisa Author-Name: Beth Perry Author-X-Name-First: Beth Author-X-Name-Last: Perry Author-Name: Sara  Pettersson Author-X-Name-First: Sara  Author-X-Name-Last: Pettersson Author-Name: Jan Riise Author-X-Name-First: Jan Author-X-Name-Last: Riise Author-Name: Sandra Valencia Author-X-Name-First: Sandra Author-X-Name-Last: Valencia Author-Name: Michael Oloko Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Oloko Author-Name: Tarun Sharma Author-X-Name-First: Tarun Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma Author-Name: Yutika Vora Author-X-Name-First: Yutika Author-X-Name-Last: Vora Author-Name: Warren Smit Author-X-Name-First: Warren Author-X-Name-Last: Smit Title: Cities coping with COVID-19 Journal: City Pages: 129-170 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1894012 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1894012 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:129-170 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Viktor Bensus Author-X-Name-First: Viktor Author-X-Name-Last: Bensus Title: Improving local governance with citizen engagement? Abstract: Recent studies have focused on participatory innovations—implemented over the past three decades in cities around the world—as a means to improve local governance and citizen involvement in decision making. This paper focuses on an overlooked type of innovations, quotidian participatory mechanisms (QPMs). Using a case study of two different middle-class districts in the metropolitan area of Lima, this paper argues that municipalities implemented QPMs to reconcile their need for economic growth and service provision, shifting from long-term planning to routine problem-solving. QPMs have three central characteristics: the search for efficient solutions to quotidian problems, the individualized treatment of public urban issues, and the use of new information and communication technologies. By excluding deliberation, QPMs can reshape the relationship between residents and local government in two ways. They can either foster a customer-citizen logic or a patronage logic. In so doing, QPMs help to socialize citizens over how to participate and define what content falls under the scope of participation, reducing participation to a level of tokenism by excluding its political dimension. Journal: City Pages: 88-107 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1885913 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1885913 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:1-2:p:88-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Susan Hansen Author-X-Name-First: Susan Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen Title: Negative curation and contested claims over the public visual landscape Abstract: This paper explores the graffiti and street art produced during the 2017 postal plebiscite for same sex marriage in Australia, including activists’ creative visual responses to the hate speech that proliferated in urban and suburban areas during this highly charged period. The paper has a particular focus on the wholesale erasure of street art and graffiti bearing political messages in support of, or against, marriage equality. Communities increasingly exert stewardship over the public visual landscape, and may engage directly in buffing graffiti or street art deemed offensive, or defending and restoring work deemed valuable. This analysis draws on repeat photography and video materials showing a series of attempted erasures of pro-same sex marriage murals by so called religious ‘activists.’ These materials show both the active challenges from passersby these erasures attracted, and the buffers’ defense of their actions, which affords a unique level of insight into the divisive social dialogue of this period. Journal: City Pages: 474-485 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:474-485 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Julia Tulke Author-X-Name-First: Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Tulke Title: Figuring crisis Abstract: This essay contributes to the growing body of research on crisis-related street art in Athens by focusing specifically on the political potential of artworks that posit the human figure as the central device of expression. Through the work of the artists One Yuro and EX!T I argue that figurative street art stages a powerful response to the biopolitics and affective regime of the crisis by rendering visible and sensible the embodied effects of precarity that it bestows upon the subject. In fostering a dynamic interplay between the body of the city, the bodies on the streets, and the bodies on the walls, these artworks claim the urban landscape of Athens as a space for collectively processing and addressing the prolonged state of exception, in turn offering a symbolic point of departure for reimagining the crisis city as a site from which collective forms of solidarity and resistance may emerge. Departing from fetishizing notions of crisis creativity, they form part of a broader ecology of resistance that is sustained by a relationship to the social world of crisis that is poetic and performative rather than mimetic and representational, weaving a sense of political potentiality into the very fabric of everyday life. Journal: City Pages: 436-452 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943218 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943218 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:436-452 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paridhi Gupta Author-X-Name-First: Paridhi Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta Title: Images of belonging Abstract: The process of rapid urbanisation in Delhi has resulted in the engulfing of nearby villages into the city's urban ambit. Despite being turned into ‘urban villages’, these formerly more rural spaces still suffer exclusion from urban planning, their state stuck in the process from rural to urban. Khirkee area is one of many such urban villages of Delhi, with national and international migrants. The area is also visibly a masculine space. Women are scarcely seen, except when doing their household chores. By looking at the community art produced by young adults in the area, the article explores how they are manoeuvring this heterogeneous and masculine space to not only challenge gender roles but also formulate their own community. The Khirkee Collective also challenges the masculine gaze through their murals, asserting their idea of womanhood and their relationship with the public space. Journal: City Pages: 486-496 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943224 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943224 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:486-496 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah Moser Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Author-X-Name-Last: Moser Title: Exploring life in the shadows of fast urbanism Journal: City Pages: 556-560 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1939969 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1939969 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:556-560 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Carastathis Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Carastathis Author-Name: Myrto Tsilimpounidi Author-X-Name-First: Myrto Author-X-Name-Last: Tsilimpounidi Title: Against the wall Abstract: In the imaginary of nation-states, and in much (forced) migration and border studies, the wall is the metaphor par excellence of ‘hardened, securitised’ and, ultimately, ‘violent borders’ (Jones 2016). It is not incidental that the previous US President’s attempts to further institutionalise virulent anti-immigrant racism found purchase in the rallying cry ‘Build a Wall.’ While they function to restrict movement, walls, fences, and other border barriers are much more than a physical infrastructure separating the interior from the exterior of nationalised space. Although they appear to be a visual synecdoche for national sovereignty, Wendy Brown has argued that the frenzied construction of walls actually coincides with the ‘waning’ of national sovereignty in light of the penetration of neoliberal capitalist globalisation (2010, 23-24). In this introduction, we approach the ‘instability’ of walls (and state power) from another direction: we underscore the ways in which walls, in times of crisis, are repurposed as canvases of resistance, which communicate, amplify, and incite embodied resistance to authoritarianism and state violence. Not only walls built on borders—such as the wall at the Evros/Meriç border built by the Greek government—but walls inside nation-states proliferate, which form part of the hard fabric of our daily bordered reality. Journal: City Pages: 419-435 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1941659 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1941659 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:419-435 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michele Acuto Author-X-Name-First: Michele Author-X-Name-Last: Acuto Title: Defying transience? On giving cosmopolitanism a chance Journal: City Pages: 549-552 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1939968 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1939968 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:549-552 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Katharina Knaus Author-X-Name-First: Katharina Author-X-Name-Last: Knaus Author-Name: Nina Margies Author-X-Name-First: Nina Author-X-Name-Last: Margies Author-Name: Hannah Schilling Author-X-Name-First: Hannah Author-X-Name-Last: Schilling Title: Thinking the city through work Abstract: Practices, organisations and sites of work are deeply entangled with urban development and impact on the way social interaction and spaces are experienced and constructed. Especially since the industrial revolution, spaces of work and home have been conceptually separated with boundaries drawn between the public and private sphere, between spheres of production and reproduction. Nevertheless, this divide has been subject to constant change and negotiation, with boundaries between the productive and reproductive sphere increasingly blurring—especially since the spread of digital technologies. The increasing muddying of these boundaries and what this might mean for our understanding of the urban is the central subject of this special feature. The included contributions therefore investigate how these blurring boundaries unfold in the city both on a social and spatial level in order to challenge and rethink the ways we conceptualise work in urban studies. Journal: City Pages: 303-314 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1939966 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1939966 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:303-314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sarah H. Awad Author-X-Name-First: Sarah H. Author-X-Name-Last: Awad Title: Urban dialogues Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore political street art images as sequences in a dialogue that feeds from, and extends to, wider political discourse. The paper argues for the centrality and predominance of the visual in the way everyday political discourse is negotiated and in the process through which space is produced in the city. The images are conceptualized through sociocultural psychology as intervention tools that are used by different social actors in response to different political dialogues in public discourse. A longitudinal methodology is used to follow the transformative social lives of those images as they borrow from, and respond to, one another. A longitudinal series of images will be presented from one wall in the area of Tahrir Square during and after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, images which were made by different social groups in response to political and social changes, and which thus demonstrate contested political dialogue in the form of inscribing and re-inscribing the recent history of the revolution. Journal: City Pages: 510-525 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943233 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943233 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:510-525 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Konstantinos Avramidis Author-X-Name-First: Konstantinos Author-X-Name-Last: Avramidis Title: Crises and/of representations Abstract: This article focuses on the Athens Polytechnic, an emblematic site that has been the epicentre of historical ruptures during which it has been extensively graffitied. It is based on a corpus consisting of graffiti writings on this particular building during three key crises moments in Greece's modern history. It critically examines an architectural drawing of graffiti writings on the edifice and reflects on the methods followed to produce this drawing of writings. The article develops in four parts each of which gradually unfolds the relationship between crisis and representation. Crises and representations are seen as opportunities for criticality and, by extension, sites of critique. By studying key moments of crises of representation in the public domain, as these are expressed in graffiti writing, the Polytechnic becomes the site of writing that registers the various responses to the overwhelming forces of crises. As a representation of these crises, the site of drawing is turned into a montage table—an ‘atlas’ in Warburg's terms—where these crises are resituated, or rather recomposed, thus forging relations and producing new nexuses of meaning. Ultimately, the article aims to show how representations and/of crises have the capacity to operate as sites of knowledge production whilst introducing an architectural design research method to study urban phenomena. Journal: City Pages: 526-542 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943236 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943236 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:526-542 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Natalia Samutina Author-X-Name-First: Natalia Author-X-Name-Last: Samutina Author-Name: Oksana Zaporozhets Author-X-Name-First: Oksana Author-X-Name-Last: Zaporozhets Title: The more buffed, the more persistent Abstract: This article examines the crisis of informal urban imagery as an indicator of a crisis of urban communication. It refers to the situation of the late 2010s–20s when the saturation of the city with graffiti and street art became a new urban routine. The article argues that compared to the past, it is not the presence but the absence of informal urban imagery or a sharp disproportion in favor of commercial or propaganda images that indicates a crisis of urban communication. Focusing on Moscow, the article shows that the ‘absence’ of informal imagery results from the project of world-class city making that includes the large-scale reorganization of the urban environment and the top-down muralization. Street artists contest the ‘absence’ through small urban inscriptions that enrich urban communication with new meanings. These informal street images initiate spontaneous discussions involving urban dwellers in a dialogue that does not fit the ‘programmable communication’ imposed by the reorganized urban environment. The article assumes that the crisis of urban imagery and communication is not general and uniform, therefore, the analysis at the city level is needed to identify its scope and character. Journal: City Pages: 453-473 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943221 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943221 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:453-473 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Moving between I and we: Care and collective work in City Journal: City Pages: 213-217 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1941642 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1941642 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:213-217 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Samantha Cenere Author-X-Name-First: Samantha Author-X-Name-Last: Cenere Title: Making translations, translating Making Abstract: Shared spaces dedicated to digital fabrication such as Fablabs and Makerspaces, together with co-working spaces and start-ups incubators, are said to contribute to the sociospatial reconfiguration of work in digital urban economies characterised by sharing practices and self-organization. However, part of the academic literature on the topic partially reproduces the representations of Makers provided by the mainstream discourse developed by tech-gurus and consultants, which understand them as entrepreneurial innovators. Moreover, when Making is analysed as a new form of work, its spatial dimensions are identified either in the city or in the organisation in which Makers gather, considering both as bounded containers. To offer a more nuanced conceptualisation of Makers’ work and arguing that Making as a new, heterogeneous form of value production entails different spatialities, the paper claims for analyses that start from a practical, relational, and more-than-human understanding of what Makers do. Drawing on a recent post-structuralist strand in economic geography and mobilising an Actor-Network sensibility, the article claims for an approach to the study of Makers and Fablabs as economic phenomena that goes beyond understanding them as part of a new urban infrastructure of workplaces targeting self-organised, entrepreneurial, yet collaborative individuals in the age of digital capitalism. Through the ethnographic study of a community of Makers that gather around the main Fablab of the post-industrial Italian city Turin, the paper shows how heterogeneous actor-networks translate Making as a form of value production in multiple and contingent ways, in which the distinction between production and reproduction is variously challenged. Journal: City Pages: 355-375 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935782 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935782 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:355-375 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jorgen Doyle Author-X-Name-First: Jorgen Author-X-Name-Last: Doyle Author-Name: Hannah Ekin Author-X-Name-First: Hannah Author-X-Name-Last: Ekin Title: Children’s poetics of fragments in a riverside kampung in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Abstract: In this paper, we attend to the everyday creative practices of residents of a riverbank settlement, kampung Ratmakan, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the materials through which urban imaginaries are constructed. Building on Colin McFarlane’s recent insight that while ‘fragmentation’ is a crucial term in the grammar of urban theory, the fragments themselves have received little attention, we inquire into how children mobilise material and temporal fragments to produce unique forms of public life and imaginaries of what is possible in the city. Through a collaborative art project conducted with residents of kampung Ratmakan, we contribute an empirical richness to McFarlane’s calls for a politics of urban fragments. Using art practice as both a method of inquiry and means of co-producing knowledge, we document some of the ways in which a sensory politics is articulated through children’s embodied modes of relating to their urban environment. Journal: City Pages: 277-302 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1936936 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1936936 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:277-302 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Prentiss A. Dantzler Author-X-Name-First: Prentiss A. Author-X-Name-Last: Dantzler Title: Subsidizing housing insecurity Journal: City Pages: 543-548 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935517 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935517 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:543-548 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zafeirenia Brokalaki Author-X-Name-First: Zafeirenia Author-X-Name-Last: Brokalaki Author-Name: Roberta Comunian Author-X-Name-First: Roberta Author-X-Name-Last: Comunian Title: Beyond the hype Abstract: The paper explores art and the city beyond the ‘hype’ of large cultural investment, urban creative titles and cultural place branding programmes. It emphasises the importance of exploring the neglected perspective of the role that everyday culture can play in cities, especially in moments of crisis. It investigates Athens and the economic crisis that affected urban life in the last decade to consider the impact this has had on everyday cultural practices, arts institutions and the experience of the city. Drawing on de Certeau’s concept of everyday practice and using the case study of Athens Fringe Festival, we highlight how ordinary artistic practice and everyday creativity in the city can shape new patterns of cultural participation, urban dialogue and, possibly, cultural citizenship, in a moment of crisis. The paper concludes by arguing for the need to re-orient academic scholarship and future research agendas on art and the city towards everyday creative practice, moving beyond conventional city marketing and institutional, cultural regeneration discourses and strategies. Journal: City Pages: 396-418 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935766 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935766 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:396-418 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paolo Cardullo Author-X-Name-First: Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Cardullo Title: Provincialising smart cities Journal: City Pages: 553-555 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1939970 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1939970 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:553-555 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kavita Dattani Author-X-Name-First: Kavita Author-X-Name-Last: Dattani Title: Platform ‘glitch as surprise’ Abstract: The emergence of on-demand domestic work sectors in cities across the world has been called the ‘Uber-isation of domestic work’. In India, the sector and its surrounding hype was short-lived as some of the country's key on-demand domestic work providers were unable to maintain sufficient profit margins and were forced to change their models or shut down altogether. This paper examines the rise and fall of the on-demand domestic work sector in urban India, drawing on 22 interviews and 2 focus groups with 32 women domestic workers across Delhi and its surrounding National Capital Region (NCR), and 2 interviews with experts in Delhi and Mumbai. Through these narratives, the paper reveals the factors which govern the failure and absence of the sector. Using Uber as a heuristic, the paper unsettles the concept of ‘Uber-isation’ as a universally applicable framework to understand platform economy activities, exposing the intersectional gender and class assumptions built into this conceptualisation. It argues that the techno-masculinist logics of on-demand domestic work platforms, which are built into the attempt to ‘Uber-ise’, have disregarded the socio-spatial relations of the city. An empirical case of what Leszczynski has called ‘glitch as surprise’, when the platform economy unexpectedly fails to manifest, this case reminds us that the city, rather than a simple site of economic practice, is socially reproduced. Journal: City Pages: 376-395 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935786 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935786 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:376-395 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kiley Goyette Author-X-Name-First: Kiley Author-X-Name-Last: Goyette Title: ‘Making ends meet’ by renting homes to strangers Abstract: Created to help its founders pay their rent during a housing crisis, Airbnb promotes its services as a supplemental income strategy to ‘make ends meet’ by renting their homes to strangers. This article compares Airbnb ‘home sharing’ to its historical precursor of taking lodgers and boarders in early industrial North American cities, an important form of supplemental income for women and one of the few remaining alternatives to wage income. Historicizing Airbnb shows that this source of supplemental income cannot be separated from gendered and racist ideologies that value certain practices while stigmatizing others. Such ideologies shaped labour markets as well as the housing policies that responded to the crisis of social reproduction in the industrial era, with repercussions still felt in the context of platform urbanism. Thinking the city through this work highlights the interrelation between household economies, housing strategies and the division of labour in the period, with implications for how we analyze short-term rental platforms like Airbnb. Journal: City Pages: 332-354 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935777 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935777 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:332-354 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Timothy Moss Author-X-Name-First: Timothy Author-X-Name-Last: Moss Author-Name: Friederike Voigt Author-X-Name-First: Friederike Author-X-Name-Last: Voigt Author-Name: Sören Becker Author-X-Name-First: Sören Author-X-Name-Last: Becker Title: Digital urban nature Abstract: Within policy and research debates on the smart city, the urban environment has become an arena of contestation. Claims that digitalisation will render the city more resource-efficient are countered by criticism of the tensions between smart and sustainability practices. Little attention has been paid, however, to the role of nature in digitally mediated urban environments. The flora, fauna and habitats of a city are a void in research and policy on digital urbanism. This paper provides one of the first conceptually grounded, empirical studies of ‘digital urban nature’ in practice. Taking the empirical example of Berlin, the paper demonstrates how a single city can spawn a rich variety of digital nature schemes, develops from this a typology to guide future research and analyses two schemes in depth to illustrate the aspirations and limitations of digital technologies targeting urban nature. The empirical findings are interpreted by bringing into dialogue pertinent strands of urban research: first, between smart environments and urban nature to explore ways of representing nature through digital technologies and, second, between digital and urban commons to interpret changes in the collective and individual use of urban nature. The paper reveals that digital platforms and apps are creating new ways of seeing and experiencing nature in the city, but often cling to conventional, anthropocentric notions of urban nature, with sometimes detrimental effects. More broadly, it suggests that exploring practices of digitalisation beyond the remit of conventional smart city policy can enrich scholarship on digitally mediated human-nature relations in the city. Journal: City Pages: 255-276 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935513 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935513 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:255-276 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Aiko Ikemura Amaral Author-X-Name-First: Aiko Author-X-Name-Last: Ikemura Amaral Author-Name: Gareth A. Jones Author-X-Name-First: Gareth A. Author-X-Name-Last: Jones Author-Name: Mara Nogueira Author-X-Name-First: Mara Author-X-Name-Last: Nogueira Title: When the (face)mask slips Abstract: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks and the act of masking have become emotive subjects for social and political debate. In Brazil, one of the countries most severely affected by the pandemic, the seemingly mundane act of mask-wearing has become part of a deep social, political and economic crisis at the centre of which is the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. In this paper we explore the politics of (un)masking in Brazil from three vantage points in which the mask serves to dramatise the country’s current moment. Firstly, we trace the connections and disjunctions between the politics of mask-wearing and the genealogies of hygienist policies associated with the modern aspirations of the Brazilian republic. Secondly, we consider how masks are incorporated into the everyday life of the city through popular economies, which reveal the potentialities and limitations of work beyond the modern ideals of waged labour. Finally, we explore the incorporation of masks in urban street-art. We approach graffiti and murals as situated performances of symbolic resistance that contest and reveal the incoherences of Bolsonaro’s anti-science discourse. In tandem, these three perspectives foreground practices of (un)masking that expose long-standing tensions and new contemporary challenges that characterise the politics of a ‘crisis society’. Journal: City Pages: 235-254 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 7 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1946325 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1946325 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:235-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eva Mos Author-X-Name-First: Eva Author-X-Name-Last: Mos Title: Platformization in the third sector Abstract: In addition to platforms in paid consumer transactions, recent years have seen the rise of platforms operating in the third sector. This raises questions on how these platforms are embedded in urban spaces as well as how they reconfigure social relations in the city. This article aims to address these questions by examining how volunteer platforms (re)organize civic and social engagement in the city and how volunteering and civil society relations are encapsulated as a platform transaction. Specific attention is paid to the role of Berlin-based volunteer platform GoVolunteer in response to the 2015 refugee ‘crisis’ in Berlin, which spurred the emergence of spontaneous citizen initiatives and a lack of state coordination. By providing a logistical solution to this social-urban crisis the platform aimed to act as digital intermediary in a time of political chaos. As GoVolunteer developed after the peak of the crisis, it leveraged on the multitude of third sector organizations present in the city, established a large team of interns carrying out the daily operational tasks behind the scenes, and developed partnerships with the Berlin Senate. Journal: City Pages: 315-331 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935773 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935773 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:315-331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Clare Cannon Author-X-Name-First: Clare Author-X-Name-Last: Cannon Title: The case of Booker T. Washington High School Abstract: In this article, I synthesize insights from urban growth machine and risk society theories to advance scholarship that furthers an understanding of why and how environmental racism, in this case rebuilding a school on toxic land in a Black community, is produced during prolonged recovery to disaster. Using a single, embedded historical case, I focus on the redevelopment of the Booker T. Washington High School in the heart of New Orleans, LA with confirmed worrisome concentrations of highly toxic and carcinogenic elements and the associated health risks conferred to majority Black children who will attend. Using an explanation building technique, I find explanatory support for recovery machine theories that argue post-disaster funding is used to propel growth machine dynamics. In other words, reinvestment creates environmental risks that amount to environmental racism. Building on this theory, I illustrate through the case how redevelopment of post-disaster New Orleans manufactures environmental risk and how local groups experience that risk differently adding to sociological theorizations on the contested nature of risk. I discuss implications of the intersections of urban growth, environmental risk, and inequalities for cities. Journal: City Pages: 218-234 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1935510 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1935510 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:218-234 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Piyarat Panlee Author-X-Name-First: Piyarat Author-X-Name-Last: Panlee Title: Visualising the right to protest Abstract: With its vast network of canals, Thailand’s capital Bangkok once earned its nickname as ‘Venice of the East’ during the nineteenth Century. Although many of the ‘khlongs’ (canals) have long been filled in to form roads, enough remains of their function to stir the hope of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to ‘revive’ the city’s reputation. Under the plan to modernise the network of waterways and promote water transport as a primary means of transportation, about 50,000 residents along nine canals are required to relocate. After many attempts, the last round of orders by the military government, BMA is finally going ahead with its plan in 2015. From an ethnographic perspective employing visual methods, this paper aims to explore urban interventions through the ‘presence’ of graffiti in the area of Chumchon Rim-Naam, more generally the relationship between eviction and graffiti under the military government. It pays close attention to socio-political discontent and counterculture through the lens of daily class struggle. Moreover, it attempts to examine the experiences of those impacted by eviction and the stories of those canal squatters who are victims of this injustice. For the authority, graffiti that appears to come in the form of a political statement has become more than just a public nuisance. The paper demonstrates that in embracing the concept of visual politics, and to further crystallise their roles in and relationships to the socio-political movement, there is the need to examine the city through visual methods critically. The specificities of visual tools and aesthetic experience in the contentious political times in which we live can and have been utilised strategically and instrumentally to mobilise people's opinions, memories, experiences and their social relationships. Journal: City Pages: 497-509 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1943229 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1943229 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:3-4:p:497-509 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hamish Kallin Author-X-Name-First: Hamish Author-X-Name-Last: Kallin Title: Chasing the rent gap down on Edinburgh’s waterfront Abstract: Despite the affluence of its city centre, Edinburgh’s waterfront remains a largely undeveloped patchwork of ex-industrial docklands. The Waterfront Edinburgh project in the early 2000s was an ambitious attempt to regenerate the former Granton Harbour. This paper takes a long-term view of the fate of that project—from grand potential, through stagnation and crisis, and back again to grand potential—to consider anew the use of the rent gap model in a context where gentrification seems to have failed. Threading together the changing fate of this site reveals the imaginary nature of potential and the limits to the state’s power, whilst reminding us that potential land values can (and must) go down as well as up. Journal: City Pages: 614-633 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1976559 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1976559 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:614-633 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Michael Friesenecker Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Friesenecker Author-Name: Arnoud Lagendijk Author-X-Name-First: Arnoud Author-X-Name-Last: Lagendijk Title: Commercial gentrification in Arnhem and Vienna Abstract: Gentrification is produced and manifested in very diverse ways at different locations and scales. As argued earlier in CITY (Loftus, Alex. 2018. “Planetary Concerns.” CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 22 (1): 88–95), this ‘planetary’ aspect of gentrification should be seen as an abstract ‘point of arrival’, grounded in the analysis of real-concrete practices that highlight the production of differentiation. Our study aims to contribute to this debate by focusing on mechanisms and resistances behind the local enactment of ‘creative-city’ policies. Thus, our two-city study seeks to highlight local differences through the engagement with ideas, framing and practices associated with commercial gentrification. By deploying Callon’s concepts of ‘diagrams’, ‘framing’ and ‘overflowing’, we compare how ideas and practices of commercial revitalisation are enacted, stabilised and resisted in two Western European neighbourhoods—Klarendal in Arnhem, The Netherlands, and Reindorf in Vienna, Austria. The study traces how, through local policy and neighbourhood practices, the circulation and translation of global ‘creative entrepreneurship’ imaginaries result in different framings of the ‘creative entrepreneur’, with the capacity to somewhat abate the negative social implications of ‘creative city’ policies. Yet, while in Reindorf this mutation is based on a broader affinity with a social-market perspective, in Klarendal it merely comes from everyday resistance by entrepreneurs and neighbourhood actors. There is still considerable need, accordingly, for political change at municipal level. Journal: City Pages: 698-719 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1988285 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1988285 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:698-719 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Max Rousseau Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Rousseau Title: A new grand narrative of decline Journal: City Pages: 803-807 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2001978 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2001978 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:803-807 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gülsüm Baydar Author-X-Name-First: Gülsüm Author-X-Name-Last: Baydar Author-Name: Selin Güngör Author-X-Name-First: Selin Author-X-Name-Last: Güngör Title: The Pit of Shame Abstract: This article examines the complicated relationship between affect and power in the production of urban space. Focusing on a valuable site in the Basmane neighborhood of İzmir, which is conspicuously named Pit of Shame due to its neglected condition, it analyses the discourses and practices that relate the site to shame. Although the discourse around shame has been largely mobilized by supporters of neoliberal policies to justify profit-generating projects on the site, close examination reveals the emergence of different spatial practices and discursive twists on shame by ethnically and economically marginalized groups that have inhabited the site. Based on the latter, the article aims to contribute to the existing literature on the relationship between space and affect by focusing on alternative mobilizations of shame towards different political ends concerning a specific spatial and historical context. Informed by both recent socio-cultural studies on the relationship between affect and the production of space and psychoanalytical and Deleuzian theories of shame, it shows that how a particular affect is mobilized in relation to a specific space is far more significant than what affect is mobilized. Journal: City Pages: 634-651 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1987754 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1987754 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:634-651 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Maciej Kowalewski Author-X-Name-First: Maciej Author-X-Name-Last: Kowalewski Title: A nostalgic look at bygone urban lifestyles in the TV series Pretend it’s a city Journal: City Pages: 785-790 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2001971 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2001971 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:785-790 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Federico Cugurullo Author-X-Name-First: Federico Author-X-Name-Last: Cugurullo Title: When the past, present and future of cities collide Journal: City Pages: 791-793 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1973817 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1973817 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:791-793 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel Bok Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Bok Title: The durability of deprivation Journal: City Pages: 798-802 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2001977 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2001977 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:798-802 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jason Hackworth Author-X-Name-First: Jason Author-X-Name-Last: Hackworth Title: Foregrounding racism as a cause of urban decline Journal: City Pages: 808-812 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2001981 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2001981 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:808-812 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Loretta Lees Author-X-Name-First: Loretta Author-X-Name-Last: Lees Author-Name: Beverley Robinson Author-X-Name-First: Beverley Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson Title: Beverley’s Story Abstract: This article considers the different dimensions of an individual’s attempt to survive gentrification. The focus is on Beverley Robinson, a displacee from the Aylesbury Estate in London, who has experienced the slow violence of gentrification and displacement over an extended period of time. We argue that her ‘survivability’ has been, and indeed continues to be, key in her resistance to gentrification. Few academic studies of gentrification have focused in depth on an individual’s everyday fight for survival in the face of gentrification; this article zooms in on the experience of one displacee. The individual displaced by gentrification, Beverley Robinson, interrogates her own experience, and in so doing she shares her autobiography with us; and this is interlocked, dovetailed, with an ethnographic biography undertaken by Loretta Lees, a scholar-activist who has worked with and fought with her. Journal: City Pages: 590-613 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1987702 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1987702 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:590-613 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Title: Ja! Damit Berlin unser Zuhause bleibt! That Berlin will remain our home! حتى تظل برلين بيتنا Berlin evimiz kalsın diye! чтобы берлин оставался нашим домом Aby Berlin pozostał naszym domem! Journal: City Pages: 561-569 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2012074 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2012074 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:561-569 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elia Apostolopoulou Author-X-Name-First: Elia Author-X-Name-Last: Apostolopoulou Author-Name: Danai Liodaki Author-X-Name-First: Danai Author-X-Name-Last: Liodaki Title: The right to public space during the COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: Governmental policies to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) have directly and decisively intervened with literally every facet of people’s life transforming the geographies of everyday lives across the Global South and North. In this paper, we explore the shifting relationship of urban dwellers to public space during the COVID-19 pandemic with the aim to unravel the uneven ways lockdown measures and restrictions on movement have impacted the residents of Athens, the capital of Greece. By focusing on the way the relationship of different social groups to public space has been affected by governmental measures, we show how the reconfiguration of the production of urban public space has disproportionately affected people along lines of class, ethnicity and gender. We argue that governmental measures have so far deepened systemic inequality, segregation and social, spatial and environmental injustice in the city and have imposed unprecedented restrictions in people’s democratic rights, consolidating a shift towards a more authoritarian version of neoliberal urbanism. By opposing and challenging the possibility of only dystopian futures that has dominated public discourse and collective imagination within this ongoing global public health crisis, we address a call to radical scholars and activists to start envisaging possibilities for a plural use of space and a new undisciplined, radical politics of coexistence in shared, safe spaces along the lines of a geography of togetherness, care and resistance. Journal: City Pages: 764-784 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1989157 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1989157 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:764-784 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gabriele D’Adda Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele Author-X-Name-Last: D’Adda Title: Urban mobilizations and municipal policies to un-make housing precarity Abstract: In Spain, the Global Financial Crisis soon became a housing crisis. The Spanish national governments, despite the recognition of the right to an adequate housing by Article 47 of the Spanish Constitution, prioritized the rescue of the financial system and the application of austerity measures contributing to a sharp increase in housing precarity. In Barcelona, the social consequences of the housing crisis overlapped with the long-term effects of urban transformations and the growth of tourism promoted by the so-called ‘Barcelona Model,’ implemented since the end of the seventies. However, Barcelona can be also considered the epicentre of a grassroots response to urban and housing precarity. This response has been promoted by social movements and later, municipal institutions. In this article, starting from the experience of Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca - PAH (‘Platform of People Affected by Mortgages’) I consider the strategies used by this social movement since 2009 to respond to housing precarity. Then I look at how between 2015 and 2019 the municipal government led by Barcelona en Comú - BeC faced housing and gentrification-related problems, considering the main strategies adopted in these fields, their impact and limits. Using this twofold analysis, I will argue that, thanks to the strategies, counternarratives, mobilizations and policies developed by social movements, and later the municipal government, Barcelona is becoming a laboratory of possible responses to the housing crisis. Through a rights-based approach, the focus is moving from the needs of markets, profit and economic growth to the needs of those affected by housing precarity. Journal: City Pages: 740-763 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1981696 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1981696 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:740-763 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Meg Holden Author-X-Name-First: Meg Author-X-Name-Last: Holden Author-Name: Cédissia About Author-X-Name-First: Cédissia Author-X-Name-Last: About Author-Name: Claire Doussard Author-X-Name-First: Claire Author-X-Name-Last: Doussard Author-Name: Hugo Rochard Author-X-Name-First: Hugo Author-X-Name-Last: Rochard Author-Name: Annika Airas Author-X-Name-First: Annika Author-X-Name-Last: Airas Author-Name: Apolline Poiroux Author-X-Name-First: Apolline Author-X-Name-Last: Poiroux Title: Off-cycle Abstract: Comparative case study research in two prototype model sustainable neighbourhoods, Fréquel Fontarabie in Paris (France) and Dockside Green in Victoria (Canada), sheds new light on questions of ecogentrification in urban redevelopment cycles. The two cases are chosen for their superficial similarities, as mutual but independent frontrunners of the international movement to build sustainable neighbourhoods. They are also chosen for contrast value; the notable difference is that Fréquel is state-led and state-certified, dominated by social housing, compared to Dockside which is private sector-led and third party certified, dominated by market housing. The two cases offer certain shared features, including urban design, infrastructure, and amenities associated with green, bourgeois, and participatory democratic values. Beneath the surface, we examine how the redevelopment models pursued cycles of creative destruction of waste and value differently from how this cycle functions under hegemonic neoliberalism. In both cases, new wastes are identified and new values created, that reach beyond economic capital into social, political and ecological territory as well. Confronting the specific dynamics of waste and value formation in different urban contexts offers new means to advance understanding of neighbourhood redevelopment and transformation and how values of solidarity and nature can be advanced off-cycle from the persistent churn of new forms of capital. Journal: City Pages: 671-697 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1988346 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1988346 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:671-697 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Emma Arnold Author-X-Name-First: Emma Author-X-Name-Last: Arnold Title: Sexualised advertising and the production of space in the city Abstract: While the prevalence of advertising in urban space has been broadly critiqued, how the diverse forms of the new media landscape produce affect and space in the city is not well understood. Exploring outdoor advertising that contains sexualised representations of women, this paper considers how certain images produce space and may potentially impact women’s experience of the city. Sexualised and hypersexualised depictions of women in advertising are problematic for many reasons. This is because advertising is not only concerned with selling goods and services but because it also has an ideological function, contributing to the reproduction of inequalities including the potential subjugation of women. This paper goes further to suggest that these types of images contribute to a fluid production of sexualised space when situated in the city, exacerbated at night when many advertisements become illuminated in backlit or digital displays. These effects compound the invisible walls of the city that already influence women’s navigations, mobilities, and rights to the city. Reflecting on and analysing select photographs taken in Norway, this paper offers a provocative exploration of the spatial and temporal effects of sexualised outdoor advertising. Journal: City Pages: 570-589 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1973815 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1973815 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:570-589 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Akira Drake Rodriguez Author-X-Name-First: Akira Drake Author-X-Name-Last: Rodriguez Title: ‘Power-difference couplings’ and white supremacy in the Rust Belt Journal: City Pages: 794-797 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2001972 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2001972 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:794-797 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Morgan Mouton Author-X-Name-First: Morgan Author-X-Name-Last: Mouton Author-Name: Melanie Rock Author-X-Name-First: Melanie Author-X-Name-Last: Rock Title: Governing cities as more-than-human entities Abstract: The field of urban studies has scrutinised digital technologies and their proliferation, but rather little attention has been paid to databases. Furthermore, contributions to date have focused almost exclusively on how digital technologies interface with human populations in cities. By contrast, we draw attention to databases maintained by city governments that contain identifying information about pet dogs and their legal owners in cities. Methodologically, our study merges database ethnography with multi-species ethnography. Conceptually, we contend that “dog data” contribute to orderly conduct in urban space. This orientation to urban governance illustrates “trans-biopolitics,” in the sense of socially-situated and technologically-mediated power relations that operate through multi-species entanglements. As such, this article extends the literature on (neoliberal) urban policing by providing a fine-grained analysis of how emergent forms of social control become palpable. In general terms, the adoption and use of digital technologies by city governments has increased their capacity to enforce rules and regulations. Overall, we find that the more legible dogs and their legal owners become in databases, the more governable both dogs and people become in urban life. Journal: City Pages: 652-670 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1981026 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1981026 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:652-670 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Senyo Dotsey Author-X-Name-First: Senyo Author-X-Name-Last: Dotsey Author-Name: Francesco Chiodelli Author-X-Name-First: Francesco Author-X-Name-Last: Chiodelli Title: Housing precarity Abstract: This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. With this aim, the article presents an inductive journey, anchored in the analysis of the roots of migrant housing problems in Italy. Specific attention is paid to the connection of causal factors internal to the housing system (e.g. the shortcomings of the public housing system, the marginality of the private rental market, and the spread of illegal renting) with the functioning of public institutions, demonstrating that the housing precarity of migrants in Italy is institutionally constructed, maintained and shaped. Subsequently, the reflection lands on the notion of precarity; use of said term – which is usually confined to the analysis of the labor market − is extended to the field of housing. Four main epistemological dimensions of the concept of precarity are identified and explored: i) the centrality of the political and institutional creation of precarity; ii) the intersection of personal attributes and structural forces, of local and global causes; iii) the understanding of sectoral problems as part and parcel of an ontological condition of risk and uncertainty; iv) the indication of precarity as a potential point of departure for collective political agency, in particular among the disparate groups which − despite being marginalized by neoliberal exploitation − are not represented by traditional working-class organizations. The paper concludes with a note on migrant housing in pandemic times. Journal: City Pages: 720-739 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 25 Year: 2021 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.1979802 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.1979802 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:25:y:2021:i:5-6:p:720-739 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Megan Nethercote Author-X-Name-First: Megan Author-X-Name-Last: Nethercote Title: Theorising vertical urbanisation Abstract: Taller, denser and more diverse city skylines are a hallmark of 21st century urban change. Although vertical urbanisation is increasingly ubiquitous, this development has not followed a single universal pattern. It is not uniform in its scale, its target neighourhood types, nor in its design, which spans ‘starchitect’-designed skyscrapers and generic tower blocks. Urban scholars have traditionally considered vertical development via less specific concepts such as intensification, and only recently has the expression ‘vertical urbanisation’ risen in prominence. There remains however a lack of integration and theorisation of vertical expansion across social science debate. This siloing of diverse perspectives encourages isolated accounts and hinders shared understandings around the processes it entails. Yet interest lies not only in examining the specifics of each new local crop of towers, but also in explaining the process of vertical expansion itself as performative and constitutive of shifting social relations. Equally, integrating distinct local, historical, and institutional trajectories within robust theoretical schema can enhance understandings of vertical expansion in particular times and places. This paper steps towards these ambitions by conceptualising residential vertical urbanisation as a special kind of spatial fix. Using intertextual theorisation and drawing upon Aalbers and Christophers’ recent theorisation of housing’s functions under capitalist political economy, this article positions residential high-rise development within the circuitry of capitalist accumulation. In particular, and independently of national or local specifics, it develops an exploratory conceptual schema for high-rise housing development based on its three interrelated functions as: labour and capital intensive commodities; as investments on real estate markets tied to financial markets; and as cultural artefacts of distinction both in inter city competition and geopolitics, and in class relations. The proposed theorisation does not explain vertical expansion in every case, indeed it emphasises the importance of interrogating the role of intermediaries, states, and local opportunity structures in understanding the local contours of vertical expansion. Nonetheless, by providing a theoretically informed heuristic that is sensitive to temporal and geographic contingencies, and into which specific occurrences of vertical expansion can be embedded, this framework offers to promote communication between these occurrences as related yet locally contingent phenomena of financialised capitalism. Journal: City Pages: 657-684 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549832 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549832 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:657-684 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicholas Thoburn Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Author-X-Name-Last: Thoburn Title: Concrete and council housing Abstract: It is commonly appreciated that issues of ‘class’ are significant to Brutalist architecture, yet in the two main trends of today’s Brutalist critical revival, the place and features of class are sidelined or obscured. Addressing that problem, this article proposes an original concept of ‘class architecture’ through analysis of the social and aesthetic form of Robin Hood Gardens, the east London council estate designed by ‘New Brutalist’ architects Alison and Peter Smithson and currently undergoing demolition. The concept of class architecture is developed here in two ways. First, it appraises the imagistic aspects of the estate’s route to demolition, as the urban ejection of working-class populations is cloaked and lent motive force by its repackaging as a ‘blitz’ on the putative ‘concrete monstrosities’ of post-war estates. Second, class architecture reconstructs how class – a fraught and unstable condition, ever pulled out of shape – is modulated in Robin Hood Gardens’ built form. Through these two aspects of class architecture, the article seeks to reclaim the aesthetics of Brutalism from discourses of abjection and the burgeoning ‘middle-class Brutalism’ that would cleanse concrete modernism of its working-class dimensions. Based on three years’ research at Robin Hood Gardens, the article enlists the Smithsons’ critically neglected methodology of the ‘as found’ and draws on interviews with residents, site observation, photography, and the Smithsons’ architectural writing. Journal: City Pages: 612-632 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549203 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549203 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:612-632 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Agata Lisiak Author-X-Name-First: Agata Author-X-Name-Last: Lisiak Author-Name: Reece Cox Author-X-Name-First: Reece Author-X-Name-Last: Cox Author-Name: Flavia M. Tienes Author-X-Name-First: Flavia M. Author-X-Name-Last: Tienes Author-Name: Sophia Zbinovsky Braddel Author-X-Name-First: Sophia Author-X-Name-Last: Zbinovsky Braddel Title: “A city coming into being” Abstract: This collaborative essay applies experimental walking and writing methods to address the experience of modernity in contemporary Berlin. Engaging critically with Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts Into Air and using Franz Hessel's Walking in Berlin as our guide, we explore the city's scenes and sounds. Our reflections—some captured through photography, some expressed in prose—give way to essential questions: How does walking help us interrogate the experience of modernity? Can it help us understand what it means for Berlin (or any other city) to be “a city coming into being”? How do we make it come into being? Even when walking the same route, each person is bound to experience the city differently, and so we find it makes little sense to try to impose a single reading of contemporary Berlin. We invite the reader to walk through the city with us, but we do not insist on holding hands. Our text quite literally reflects various points of view on the city and should be considered a series of occurrences, reflections, and impressions that work both in contrast and concert. Walking a city produces countless readings, and our text aims to reflect that multiplicity: the reader may read it straight through, randomly, or hopscotch-style. If parts of the essay appear to be “melting into air,” this elusiveness reflects the experience of modernity which Berman wrote about and which we tried to also capture here. We hope that the format—collaborative, experimental, engaged, and open—will yield new reflections on urban modernities and open up new perspectives on urban theory and methods. Journal: City Pages: 877-893 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1555960 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1555960 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:877-893 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pablo Sendra Author-X-Name-First: Pablo Author-X-Name-Last: Sendra Title: Assemblages for community-led social housing regeneration Abstract: This paper connects two debates previously featured in City: ‘Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis’ and ‘London’s Housing Crisis and its Activism’. The paper uses assemblage thinking to explore how community organisations and campaigns in London use a combination of different tools, which engage with the planning system and other actions or strategies outside planning, to resist council estate demolition and propose alternative community-led plans incorporating the needs and wishes of residents. The paper first looks at the planning tools available in the English Localism Act 2011 for involving residents in decision-making processes, examining their limitations when being used to oppose council estate demolition while proposing alternative plans. Four case studies of campaigns and community organisations—Greater Carpenters Neighbourhood Forum, Focus E15, Save Cressingham, and West Ken and Gibbs Green Community Homes—are then used to explore how they have generated three kinds of assemblages which create capabilities for self-organisation, resisting demolition, and influencing decision-making processes. The first kind of assemblage combines formal and informal strategies—some engaging with the planning system and some not; the second uses both formal and informal organisations based on the desired objectives and the nature of their actions; and finally, the third builds support networks with professionals and other initiatives. Journal: City Pages: 738-762 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549841 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549841 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:738-762 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Joe Penny Author-X-Name-First: Joe Author-X-Name-Last: Penny Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: The ambivalent and undecided (dis)order of things Journal: City Pages: 609-611 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1571771 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1571771 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:609-611 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ian M. Cook Author-X-Name-First: Ian M. Author-X-Name-Last: Cook Title: Sizing the city Abstract: We need to retheorise urbanism from the perspective of smaller, post-colonial cities in the global South to account for both relational size on a global scale and localised city-specific contexts. Cities like Mangaluru, in south India, cannot be solely understood as mere variations within universal processes, especially when these processes are theorised through big cities in the global North. They must also be explored through detailed analyses that, whilst attuned to global processes, recognise historical and contextual particularities as key for understanding city-specific urbanisms. However, because inhabitants and state officials often frame smaller cities as mere variations—and often as inferior variations—of large ‘Western’ cities, we must interrogate how such universal, global North centred thinking informs the urbanism of such places. Taking a relational and relative understanding of smallness, the article conceptualises Mangaluru as a ‘smaller’ as opposed to just a ‘small’ city. Building on this, it is argued that smaller post-colonial cities in the global South are characterised by 1) niche positioning; 2) a feeling of relative lack; and 3) the dense intimacy of relationships. Furthermore, through an analysis of Mangaluru’s most common framings—as a port, as an education hub, and as a city of vigilante attacks—it shows how these dominant characterisations are exceeded and reworked amidst the unpredictability and flux of urban change. Journal: City Pages: 703-720 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549836 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549836 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:703-720 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alice Hertzog Author-X-Name-First: Alice Author-X-Name-Last: Hertzog Title: Looking for home: explorations of migrant domestic space Journal: City Pages: 894-897 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507138 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507138 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:894-897 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philip Lawton Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Lawton Title: Situating revanchism in the contemporary city Journal: City Pages: 867-874 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1548821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1548821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:867-874 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nick Lombardo Author-X-Name-First: Nick Author-X-Name-Last: Lombardo Author-Name: Trevor J Wideman Author-X-Name-First: Trevor J Author-X-Name-Last: Wideman Title: Recentering land use Abstract: In this debate, we argue that scholars examining questions of value and exclusion in the planning process would benefit greatly by looking at the legal and spatial processes of land use and property more closely and recognizing the ways that law reflects and shapes social relations of place. We contend that the relationship between planning, property, and land use needs to be taken more seriously in order to challenge the conventional notion of land use as a predetermined, static, and taken for granted aspect of the urban landscape. We aim to open up new avenues for understanding urban processes of valuation and exclusion by examining existing understandings of the relationship between law and land use, and giving evidence for why scholars should pay attention to them. This debate builds on and complements recent debates on property, law, and everyday life in the city, and aims to continue unpacking the black box of land use. It calls for a renewed attention to the socio-legal aspects of the land use/property relationship to better understand urban processes of valorization and exclusion. Journal: City Pages: 856-866 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1548820 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1548820 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:856-866 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola De Martini Ugolotti Author-X-Name-First: Nicola Author-X-Name-Last: De Martini Ugolotti Author-Name: Michael Silk Author-X-Name-First: Michael Author-X-Name-Last: Silk Title: Parkour, counter-conducts and the government of difference in post-industrial Turin Abstract: The following paper aims to offer a critical discussion of the unfolding politics of belonging and exclusion taking place in Turin’s regenerating cityscape as a way to illuminate the paradoxes, tensions and daily negotiations of emerging forms of social and spatial restructuring in the post-industrial city. In developing this analysis, we engage with an integrated methodological approach that privileges the voices and experiences of about 30 young men, mostly of migrant origins and aged 16–21, practicing parkour in the city’s public spaces. In addressing these issues, we focus on the participants’ engagement with one of the symbols of Turin’s (multi)cultural, community-oriented and creative renewal, the post-industrial urban park of Parco Dora in order to unpack the processes of inclusion/exclusion and the conduct of conduct enacted in the creation, management and use of the city’s regenerating areas. Our discussion of the participants’ ambivalent and contested practices in Turin’s cityscape enabled us to address how these young men re-inscribe tensions, instabilities and fault-lines relational to the ‘selective story-telling’ characterising Turin’s narratives of consensual transformation, post-industrial renaissance and (multi)cultural vitality. In particular, by engaging with the participants’ bodily and spatial negotiations in Turin’s public spaces through the lens of counter-conduct, we highlight the significance of recognising and examining partial, but productive forms of urban contestation within contemporary, pacified scenarios of urban regeneration. Journal: City Pages: 763-781 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549849 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549849 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:763-781 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marianne Morange Author-X-Name-First: Marianne Author-X-Name-Last: Morange Author-Name: Francesca Pilo' Author-X-Name-First: Francesca Author-X-Name-Last: Pilo' Author-Name: Amandine Spire Author-X-Name-First: Amandine Author-X-Name-Last: Spire Title: Experiencing regularisation in Accra, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro Abstract: In the prolific contemporary discussions on the right to the city, little attention has been paid to the multifaceted political meaning of the reshaping of city dwellers’ rights, duties and responsibilities through regularisation processes inspired by neoliberal logics. This paper fills in this gap by engaging in an analysis of the dialectical relation between the political dimension of everyday life, urban rights, neoliberal urban policies and political emancipation. We thereby break from a radical reading of Lefebvre’s notion and from a focus on political mobilisation in order to cast a new light on the debate on the right to the city. Three regularisation policies, all linked to the affirmation of a commercial or fiscal relationship to the state are considered through a cross-case analysis: the regularisation that followed the forced displacement of street traders in central Accra; an in situ process of regularisation of street trading in a Cape Town central market; the regularisation of electricity services in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a policy that seeks to re-establish a commercial relationship with favela residents by redefining their rights and responsibilities as registered customers of a private electricity provider. We resort to an exploratory notion, the actual right to the city, to examine how these forms of administrative regularisation have reshaped urban life. We argue that these processes of regularisation convey de-politicisation dynamics, such as the fragmentation and individualisation of political identities, along with the possible re-politicisation of certain stakes, such as the strengthening of individual and collective political expectations toward the State. This tension is due to the ambiguous nature of the new social and spatial contract between State and citizens emerging from regularisation. Beyond the necessary analysis of political struggles against neoliberal policies, and the essential assessment of their impact on urban inequalities, we therefore call for a better consideration of the ambiguous and less visible political impact of processes of selective inclusion and recognition by the State on the way city dwellers envision their rights and duties. Journal: City Pages: 685-702 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549834 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549834 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:685-702 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Pratichi Chatterjee Author-X-Name-First: Pratichi Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee Title: Property happens—conflict as a window into the unstable nature of ownership Journal: City Pages: 902-906 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1518377 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1518377 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:902-906 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Moriel Ram Author-X-Name-First: Moriel Author-X-Name-Last: Ram Title: The politics of architectural models Journal: City Pages: 898-901 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1507136 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1507136 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:898-901 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gökçe Sanul Author-X-Name-First: Gökçe Author-X-Name-Last: Sanul Author-Name: Bas van Heur Author-X-Name-First: Bas Author-X-Name-Last: van Heur Title: Spaces of openness Abstract: This paper contributes to debates on urban citizenship and public culture. Drawing on detailed empirical research in Istanbul, Turkey, we analyse two key contemporary arts organisations that experiment with new organisational and curatorial practices in order to realise cultural infrastructures of common life in a city strongly shaped by urban development along neoliberal and neoconservative lines. Empirically, this directs attention to the near-complete absence of Turkish government actors and in turn the major role played by Turkish private businesses as well as public organisations, mostly from Europe, in supporting the contemporary arts in Istanbul. This particular institutional geography of funding and support sustains a local space of openness and autonomy from state intervention and enables these organisations to develop situated strategies of urban engagement. Theoretically, this paper develops the notion of spaces of openness and argues that these spaces are usefully conceptualised as experimental, networked and solidary. Journal: City Pages: 801-819 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:801-819 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Thaisa Comelli Author-X-Name-First: Thaisa Author-X-Name-Last: Comelli Author-Name: Isabelle Anguelovski Author-X-Name-First: Isabelle Author-X-Name-Last: Anguelovski Author-Name: Eric Chu Author-X-Name-First: Eric Author-X-Name-Last: Chu Title: Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro Abstract: This paper contributes to global perspectives on gentrification by interrogating the experiences of urban redevelopment and transformation in the global South. Through unpacking the contradictions of public space revitalization and upgrading in two favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we critically examine changes to the socio-spatial fabric of informal settlements over time. Our analysis reveals that upgrading projects, when combined with state-led favela pacification, create socio-spatial legibility through three inter-related pathways of physical, symbolic, and economic discipline. In the outset, favela upgrading increases property prices and produces an urban scenario molded for outsiders while simultaneously invisibilizing traditional cultural and social uses. For favela residents, however, upgrading is experienced as iterative processes of securitization and restriction, which involve strategies such as environmental clean-up, property enclosure, police violence, and new exclusionary forms of investments. As a result, the most socially vulnerable residents are controlled, coercively driven away, and slowly erased. Over time, the apparent integration of the formal and informal city, of the rich and the poor, of the ‘asphalt’ and the ‘hill’ in Rio de Janeiro produces new forms of separation, segregation, and fragmentation. Journal: City Pages: 633-656 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549205 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549205 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:633-656 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jorge Sequera Author-X-Name-First: Jorge Author-X-Name-Last: Sequera Author-Name: Jordi Nofre Author-X-Name-First: Jordi Author-X-Name-Last: Nofre Title: Shaken, not stirred: New debates on touristification and the limits of gentrification Abstract: The recent touristification of the historic downtown quarters of many European cities is not without its social, spatial and economic impacts. In turn, many global cities show a lack of efficient tools in tackling and addressing the negative impacts derived from touristification. Facing this, some scholars have importantly examined the interplay between tourism, gentrification and urban change. However, we urban studies scholars have not yet admitted the existence of serious limitations regarding our current theoretical, conceptual and methodological approach in exploring the Tourist City. In this paper we argue that the rapid and intense touristification of central areas of post-industrial cities across the world requires a new breakthrough approach in order to understand the process of urban touristication in all its complexity. That is why we argue that what many scholars sometimes erroneously call ‘tourism gentrification’ need to go beyond the ‘classical’ approach used to explore how urban touristification affects the social, cultural and urban fabric of our cities. Journal: City Pages: 843-855 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1548819 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1548819 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:843-855 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hillary Angelo Author-X-Name-First: Hillary Author-X-Name-Last: Angelo Author-Name: Boris Vormann Author-X-Name-First: Boris Author-X-Name-Last: Vormann Title: Long waves of urban reform Abstract: This article maps urban reform movements onto ‘long waves:’ consistently patterned technological and economic cycles that repeat over time. Using the example of the United States, we argue that periodizing urban reform movements in this way reveals surprising similarities in different historical contexts. Across cycles, two tropes repeatedly appear: discourses of efficiency, that propose technological solutions to urban problems, and those of beauty, that turn to nature to improve social arrangements through design. Within cycles, reform discourses follow a similar pattern in each case: they roll out amidst the excitement of an emergent socio-technical paradigm, but, used as guidelines for its institutionalization, create new social problems even as they aim to remedy the old. In each wave planners and decision-makers try to out-engineer and out-design inequality (and other social problems), and each time they fail. We use this analytic to historicize the contemporary ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’ city, arguing that it is only the latest in a series of beauty and efficiency solutions to urban problems, and its promises should be taken with more than a grain of salt. Journal: City Pages: 782-800 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549850 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549850 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:782-800 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mor Shilon Author-X-Name-First: Mor Author-X-Name-Last: Shilon Author-Name: Rachel Kallus Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Kallus Title: Noise, nuisance, nuances Abstract: This study empirically analyzes the Ben Gurion International Airport (NATBAG) expansion project, with specific reference to aircraft noise measurements. Drawing on Actor Network Theory (ANT), the study traces a non-human actor—a noise level formula—that participates in the NATBAG planning process. In particular, we conduct an exploration of how a noise level formula engages different actors, concepts and entities, while also playing a pivotal role in social struggles over the airport’s operation. The paper draws on the qualitative methods of in-depth interviews and content analysis. Following the empirical examination, the paper argues for ANT to be employed as a useful toolbox to analyze present-day planning processes. The conclusion suggests that planning scholars should acknowledge the role of non-humans in shaping planning processes, the relational constitution of planning categories and vocabularies, and the processuality of planning. Journal: City Pages: 721-737 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549839 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549839 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:721-737 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Title: “Orient yourself properly.” Introduction to Scenes & Sounds Journal: City Pages: 875-876 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1577636 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1577636 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:875-876 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Elvin Wyly Author-X-Name-First: Elvin Author-X-Name-Last: Wyly Author-Name: Joseph Daniels Author-X-Name-First: Joseph Author-X-Name-Last: Daniels Author-Name: Tanaz Dhanani Author-X-Name-First: Tanaz Author-X-Name-Last: Dhanani Author-Name: Christa Yeung Author-X-Name-First: Christa Author-X-Name-Last: Yeung Title: Hayek in the cloud Abstract: Smart cities theory and policy emphasizes the new—new cities, new technologies, and new possibilities of efficiency, innovation, and optimization. While some of the technological details of smart cities are indeed new, the underlying philosophy involves economic and policy traditions built in the mid-20th century—which were in turn premised on 19th-century epistemological revolutions. In this paper, we suggest that today’s Silicon Valley smart-city disruptions are the culmination of the social and political philosophies of Friedrich Hayek, fused with World War II cybernetics and the evolutionary methodological syntheses of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Today’s cosmopolitan world urban system, with its dynamic hierarchies of entrepreneurial informational innovation and promises of politically neutral managerial efficiency, encodes the automated software updates of a dominant but unstable operating system of social and cultural conservatism that consolidated the self-perceptions of Western civilization. Yet the evolution of conservatism—especially American conservatism—has produced an ignorance of its own history and contradictions. The planetary urbanization of Hayek’s smart-cities triumph, therefore, promises a transhumanist future of apocalyptic beauty in a robotic siege of the very foundations of cultural conservatism. Journal: City Pages: 820-842 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 22 Year: 2018 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2018.1549863 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2018.1549863 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:22:y:2018:i:5-6:p:820-842 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Philip Ashton Author-X-Name-First: Philip Author-X-Name-Last: Ashton Author-Name: Rachel Weber Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Weber Title: Crowd control Abstract: We examine the rise of crowdfunding platforms in the wake of the global financial crisis, particularly the claim that they offer an alternative to established methods of raising capital for real estate investment, enterprise development, and civic projects. We interrogate how these novel methods of aggregating users and their money in digital space produce different collective subjectivities. Drawing from an industry study of civic crowdfunding portals in the United States and legal research into the regulatory apparatus governing them, we put forth a two-part typology to help make sense of the varied business models of crowdfunding platforms and the ways in which those models invoke and harness crowds as concrete social formations. The first distinguishes crowdfunding platforms based on what is being circulated—the substance of the payment and the economic relations it embodies and creates. The second focuses on the legal dimension of these relations, both within the transaction and in the way sites constitute the crowd through the inherited financial-regulatory vocabularies governing the issuance of securities. Journal: City Pages: 128-141 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2018852 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2018852 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:128-141 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gaby Steiner Author-X-Name-First: Gaby Author-X-Name-Last: Steiner Title: Public green Abstract: Gaby Steiner is a visual artist and photographer from Switzerland. During her visits to Beijing she witnessed dramatic urban changes and started to explore the transformations around the Beijing Greenbelt as a researcher with a camera. This visual essay includes the photographic exploration of a particular aspect of rapid urban change in China. It is about the greenbelt of the City of Beijing and its effects. The photographic work is intended to illustrate the background to social and urban change. The artistic and photographic perspective is complemented and further illuminated by Yimin’s analytical perspective. Journal: City Pages: 179-186 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2034328 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2034328 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:179-186 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Filippo Celata Author-X-Name-First: Filippo Author-X-Name-Last: Celata Author-Name: Filip Stabrowski Author-X-Name-First: Filip Author-X-Name-Last: Stabrowski Title: Crowds, communities, (post)capitalism and the sharing economy Abstract: In this introductory article, we reflect upon the ambivalences of the term ‘sharing economy’, and the disillusionment about its potential to create a space for postcapitalist, peer-to-peer, non-market or more socially intense forms of exchange. We argue that, at the same time, these ambivalences show how the diffusion of sharing practices is open to a variety of different outcomes, and an interesting terrain for exploring the limits and alternatives to (digital) capitalism as we know it. On this basis, we introduce the contents of the Special Feature, whose aim is to explore such limits, focusing in particular on the role that ‘communities’ and ‘crowds’ play in the discursive formation and in the practical operations of digital sharing platforms. Journal: City Pages: 119-127 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2018846 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2018846 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:119-127 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anastasiya Halauniova Author-X-Name-First: Anastasiya Author-X-Name-Last: Halauniova Title: Good and bad concrete Abstract: The article examines the devaluation of concrete in Central and Eastern Europe and local residents’ and architectural professionals’ commitment to ‘modernize’ socialist-period concrete housing estates due to the perceived ‘poor’ quality of materials and their ‘unaesthetic’ appeal. Using the case of the estate Wrocław Manhattan built in 1972–1978 in the Polish city of Wrocław and renovated in 2015–2016, I argue that, although modernist estates in the region and in western European contexts share seemingly identical aesthetic stigma and devaluation, different forces drive their regeneration. Drawing on archival research, interviews, go-alongs, and photo-elicitations with architectural professionals and inhabitants, this article demonstrates that ‘modernization’ of socialist-period housing estates in Central and Eastern Europe is motivated not by classist stigmatization of their inhabitants, but by a social imaginary that socialism ‘deviated’ from western European modernity and it therefore requires aesthetic ‘improvement’ and ‘fixing’. To address this insight, the article uses a sociology of valuation lens to follow people’s practices of valuing, devaluing, and transforming various properties of the estate’s concrete so as to ‘modernize’ it. I propose the concept of fugitive modern that connotes people’s quest to update the built environments associated with an ‘unfinished’ socialist modernity and calls attention to the catch-up labor poured into adding value to built environments commonly perceived as devoid of quality and beauty. Journal: City Pages: 28-50 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2019490 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2019490 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:28-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Filip Stabrowski Author-X-Name-First: Filip Author-X-Name-Last: Stabrowski Title: Political organizing and narrative framing in the sharing economyAirbnb host clubs in New York City Abstract: As cities accommodate, resist, and negotiate with the spread of so-called ‘sharing economy’ companies, the question of how these businesses actively construct new markets (or sub-markets) through political mobilization and rhetorical strategy has become increasingly salient. This paper explores the ways in which the home-sharing platform Airbnb has sought to carve out a regulatory and discursive space for operation through the political mobilization of its ‘hosts’ in New York City. Based on nearly two years of ethnographic research, the paper argues that host clubs are not merely top-down transmission belts for the company’s political lobbying strategy; beyond political organizing, they are also sites in which the very practices of hosting through Airbnb are affirmed, rehearsed, learned, and debated. On the one hand, Airbnb host clubs are both physical embodiments of, and mechanisms for, the narrative framing of ‘home-sharing’ as a particular kind of economic activity that is more democratic, inclusive, and sustainable than the traditional hospitality industry. On the other hand, Airbnb host clubs reveal and reflect the tensions – between hosts and Airbnb, and among hosts themselves – that persist over the practice of home-sharing. As the calls for tighter regulation and increased penalties for illegal short-term rentals continue to grow, however, the question of whether host clubs constitute a viable mechanism for political mobilization and regulatory reform remains an open one. Journal: City Pages: 142-159 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2018853 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2018853 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:142-159 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jeroen Stevens Author-X-Name-First: Jeroen Author-X-Name-Last: Stevens Title: Teatro Oficina Abstract: The main argument of this article holds that São Paulo’s notorious Teatro Oficina has been working toward an emblematic form of critical urbanism ever since its inauguration in 1958. Throughout six decades, the theater has been an urbanistic laboratory, where a combination of theatrical, architectural and urban experiments continuously reflected and reacted upon ongoing metropolitan transformations. Located in São Paulo’s downtown neighborhood of Bixiga, Teatro Oficina’s architectural history involves a complex assembly of artistic, social, intellectual, architectural and urbanistic movements. By unfolding a spatial memoir of the theater, this contribution probes the agency of theater-architecture as a means for investigating and intervening in the spatial production and reproduction of the city. In doing so, the aim is to examine the distinct quest for a more profound right to the city that emanates from such ‘theatrical-architectural’ critique and action. If implementing the right to the city is indeed critical urban theory’s ultimate purpose, how then has Oficina been perpetually putting such right into debate and practice? In other words, what form of critical urbanism emanates from the distinctive convergence of movements in theater, architecture and urbanism? Journal: City Pages: 96-118 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2030530 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2030530 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:96-118 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Sharda Rozena Author-X-Name-First: Sharda Author-X-Name-Last: Rozena Title: Displacement on the Lancaster West Estate in London before, during, and after the Grenfell fire Abstract: This paper draws on ethnographic biographies to reveal the multiple experiences of displacement among three residents on the Lancaster West Estate in London. It is a longitudinal study of before, during, and after the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017. Drawing on in-depth, individual ethnographic biographies, I respond to gentrification scholars’ calls for more qualitative methodological approaches to studying the experiences of the displaced. The temporal lens used adds value in showing that residents were being displaced before the fire and that they have continued to experience displacement even when rehomed. The Grenfell literature tends to focus largely on the causes of the fire but here I consider the lived subjective experiences of displacement, slow violence, unhoming and rehoming, among residents on the Estate. Upholding and preserving these voices is crucial for the Grenfell Inquiry and in resisting state-led gentrification. Journal: City Pages: 6-27 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2017705 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2017705 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:6-27 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yimin Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Yimin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: The porous urban Journal: City Pages: 1-5 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2041291 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2041291 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:1-5 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alva Zalar Author-X-Name-First: Alva Author-X-Name-Last: Zalar Author-Name: Johan Pries Author-X-Name-First: Johan Author-X-Name-Last: Pries Title: Unmapping green space Abstract: In this article, we study the ongoing redevelopment of post-war, modernist residential area Rosengård, located in Sweden’s third biggest city Malmö. We show how a planning and design strategy for this area has come to focus on a ‘compact city’ typology in line with Malmö’s strategy for creating a ‘near, dense, green and mixed city’. Such compact city typology emphasizes high density, urbanity, proximity and mixed-use as key values for renewal, but also threatens the green spaces in areas designated for densification. This article illustrates how renewal plans for modernist residential areas with generous green space provision also ensure dispossession of residents’ rights to green space. Our analysis highlights how this planned dispossession is preceded by a discursive dispossession carried out by the way urban planning represents these spaces. The Rosengård case illustrates how a compact city vision imposed on marginalized modernist areas co-emerges with new forms of expert knowledge which both ‘unmaps’ existing green spaces and defines them as problematic and requiring interventions. The article highlights the important, but not yet sufficiently explored, dispossession of the right to public green space in racialized poor peripheries of Northern cities already facing intense displacement pressure. We argue that this type of renewal of modernist areas not only tends to neglect mapping important public spaces and uses of space, but actively produces blind spots by deploying a compact city planning epistemology which necessarily undermines rights to green space in the city and should put into question the compact city as the default sustainability fix. Journal: City Pages: 51-73 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2018860 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2018860 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:51-73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Albert Arias-Sans Author-X-Name-First: Albert Author-X-Name-Last: Arias-Sans Author-Name: Alan Quaglieri-Domínguez Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Quaglieri-Domínguez Author-Name: Antonio Paolo Russo Author-X-Name-First: Antonio Paolo Author-X-Name-Last: Russo Title: Home-sharing as transnational moorings Abstract: Barcelona, one of the main destinations for Airbnb users, has turned into one of the main stages for the now global debate around short-term rentals and their impacts on resident communities. Criticism has mostly focused on the conversion of housing into conventional tourist apartments while less attention has been paid to the problematization of short-term rentals in primary residences. Important questions thus arise as to whether these allegedly genuine forms of home-sharing should be ‘formalised’ at all through a regulation, and which type of controls should be applied. Our research helps to excavate this issue, shedding further light on the different logics and practices behind the development of home-sharing, and discusses the limitations of a regulation which is being introduced. To this end, it offers an in-depth analysis of the home-sharing supply in Barcelona, tackling its social and spatial logics, which is framed in the broader debate on processes of social change affecting inner cities. It then focuses on el Raval, one of Barcelona's core neighbourhoods where home-sharing practices have become more diffused, revealing how these practices are strongly correlated with high residential mobility and the presence of a single-dweller childless European resident population. Finally, we argue that home-sharing becomes an equally problematic agency of conversion of housing into a mooring for mobile communities, further contributing to potential gentrification and the displacement of residents. Journal: City Pages: 160-178 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2018859 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2018859 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:160-178 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Neil Gray Author-X-Name-First: Neil Author-X-Name-Last: Gray Title: Correcting market failure? Stalled regeneration and the state subsidy gap Abstract: This paper develops the neologism state subsidy gap to underscore the necessity of state intervention in the formation and potential closure of rent gaps. The state subsidy gap is the economic gap that must be bridged by the state to make a currently unviable urban investment scenario potentially profitable for private developers. The pertinence of this conception is particularly apparent in old industrial, relatively impoverished cities where global capital is less likely to dump its surpluses with secure expectation of profitable returns. The issue is exacerbated in economically risky neighbourhoods encompassing fragmented land ownership, poor infrastructure and large-scale areas of urban devalorisation. Such conditions necessitate substantial derisking public intervention if ‘market failure’ is to be addressed—yet success is never guaranteed and is far from universal. It is argued that much closer attention to the stalling, interruption or failure of urban regeneration projects is imperative given the extent of public expenditure and the limited social outcomes arising from attempts to correct market failure. Here, the concept of the state subsidy gap shows its value, shedding light on unjust social outcomes, exposing capitalism’s inherent vulnerabilities, and illustrating the dependence of private capital on public interventions for its reproduction. Journal: City Pages: 74-95 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2021.2017193 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2021.2017193 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:74-95 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Chhandita Das Author-X-Name-First: Chhandita Author-X-Name-Last: Das Author-Name: Priyanka Tripathi Author-X-Name-First: Priyanka Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathi Title: Curating cartographic modernity: politics and aesthetics Journal: City Pages: 187-190 Issue: 1 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 01 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2029030 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2029030 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:1:p:187-190 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Huda Abuzaid Author-X-Name-First: Huda Author-X-Name-Last: Abuzaid Author-Name: Oren Yiftachel Author-X-Name-First: Oren Author-X-Name-Last: Yiftachel Title: Thrownapartness – a view from Al-Quds/Jerusalem Abstract: This visual essay introduces the concept of ‘thrownapartness’ as an embedded logic of contemporary urbanization, existing in dialectical tension with ‘throwntogetherness’. Tracing the working of urban walls, displacement and abandonment on the fringes of Al-Quds/Jerusalem provides a stark contrast to the perceived image of cities as hubs of mixing, toleration and liberalism. In Al-Quds, as in a growing number of cities, minorities and marginalized groups are commonly racialized, displaced and segregated, creating a colonial regime of de-facto urban apartheid. In such settings, Doreen Massey's concept of ‘throwntogetherness’ appears like a distant mirage, with its portrayal of flexibility, indifference and coexistence (albeit within an exploitive political economy and oppressive ‘power geometries’). In times of rapid change and multiple crises, the putative ‘threat’ from ‘unwanted’ or ‘deeply different’ groups harbored in urban space drives authorities to use colonial separation strategies, such as ghettoization or ‘gray spacing’ which minimize or prevent encounters. Such settings, we argue, require critical attention to ‘urban thrownapartness’ – a concept that extends Massey's formulations of ‘throwntogetherness’, in order to better fathom the workings of contemporary cities. Journal: City Pages: 411-421 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2056353 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2056353 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:411-421 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Justin Kadi Author-X-Name-First: Justin Author-X-Name-Last: Kadi Author-Name: Walter Matznetter Author-X-Name-First: Walter Author-X-Name-Last: Matznetter Title: The long history of gentrification in Vienna, 1890–2020 Abstract: This article distinguishes between six historical phases of gentrification in Vienna. These phases emanate from shifting demographic, economic and housing policy circumstances that have decisively shaped gentrification dynamics in the city. Vienna is a rather unusual context compared to cities that are typically in the focus of gentrification research: for considerable parts of the 20th century, the city experienced pronounced demographic decline and economic stagnation. Meanwhile, strong state intervention from the 1920s onwards has shaped the urban housing market. We show how these particular circumstances have moulded gentrification processes throughout the past 130 years. We draw three broader arguments from our analysis: first, there is great value in historicizing gentrification research. Not only does it add empirical evidence to whether and how gentrification functioned prior to it first being mentioned in 1960s London, but also offers a substantial insight into current mechanisms of gentrification. In Vienna, institutions, rules and buildings from earlier periods persist and continue to exert considerable influence on the specificities of gentrification dynamics today. Second, the Vienna case highlights the need to develop more locally specific periodizations of gentrification that give more consideration to contextual circumstances. Third, the analysis points to two specific forms of neighbourhood downgrading since 1890, which are relevant in Vienna and possibly also in other cities: ‘incumbent downgrading’ for 1918–1938, and ‘reverse gentrification’ for the atrocities of Nazi housing policy between 1938 and 1945. Journal: City Pages: 450-472 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2054221 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2054221 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:450-472 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tahl Kaminer Author-X-Name-First: Tahl Author-X-Name-Last: Kaminer Title: Postscript Abstract: This postscript to the Special Feature describes the explicit and implicit temporalities of gentrification in gentrification theory. It asks whether the papers in this collection affirm or disrupt the accepted understanding of gentrification as a phenomenon that emerged in the postwar years in the context of urban deindustrialization. It argues that a robust definition of gentrification, which identifies the historicity of the phenomenon and its temporal boundaries, is required in order to avoid the co-optation of gentrification definitions and theories and the ‘naturalization’ of gentrification. And, lastly, it suggests that critical history writing and historiography can contribute to gentrification studies’ project of denaturalizing the process by grounding it in long-term processes with a historical dimension. Journal: City Pages: 542-552 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2058821 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2058821 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:542-552 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Brandi Summers Author-X-Name-First: Brandi Author-X-Name-Last: Summers Title: Urban phantasmagorias Journal: City Pages: 191-198 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2059196 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2059196 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:191-198 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: The Editors Title: Correction Journal: City Pages: ei-eii Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2051321 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2051321 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:ei-eii Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Karl Krähmer Author-X-Name-First: Karl Author-X-Name-Last: Krähmer Title: Degrowth and the city Abstract: Degrowth is both an academic debate and an activist call for a necessary socio-ecological transformation. It proposes a just and selective quantitative reduction of societal throughput to achieve ecological sustainability, social justice and individual well-being. What does such a transformation imply for cities, for place and space in general? Recently research has begun to explore this question, at the intersections of the degrowth project with geography, urban and planning studies. The present systematic review of this stream of the degrowth literature argues that contributions convincingly criticise mainstream solutions of sustainable urban development and portray an inspiring variety of local and sectoral alternatives. They also discuss the possibilities of spatial planning for degrowth. But the literature, related to a limited conceptualisation of space, lacks consideration for larger geographical scales (localism is prevalent). Also, limited attention is paid to material flows (the focus is on formal outcomes in the built environment) and there sometimes is a lack of reflection about positionality (with a tendency to apparently universalist solutions). Drawing in particular on Doreen Massey’s conceptualisation of the relationality of space and place, a conceptual framework is proposed for further research. It evidences questions neglected in the reviewed literature: how to spatialise degrowth beyond the local scale, not reducing the argument to a dualism between local = good and global = bad? And, how to transform not only the physicality of places but also the material and immaterial relations they are based on? The proposed framework, embracing a situated, relational and multiscalar understanding of space and its socio-ecological transformation, might be a first step in approaching these and other open questions in the debate on degrowth, cities and space. Journal: City Pages: 316-345 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2035969 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2035969 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:316-345 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frances Brill Author-X-Name-First: Frances Author-X-Name-Last: Brill Title: Cladding and community Abstract: The longstanding housing crisis in the UK, and London in particular, has been exacerbated in recent years by an increased understanding of the flammability of buildings and the arrival of what activists term ‘The Cladding Scandal’. In this paper, I show how in response to the health and financial risks of The Cladding Scandal, disparate groups come together to challenge the dominant politics of expertise through the enrolment of traditionally ‘expert’ forms of knowledge within community groups. I analyse community building practices, especially the lines of communication, to show a means by which the social reproduction of the city is sustained, to argue that such practices constitute an important but under-recognised form of expertise. Drawing together geographies of emotion and social reproduction theory, I demonstrate the productive possibilities of thinking through the social reproduction of the city and its politics of expertise by questioning the role, types and circulation of particular emotions. Journal: City Pages: 224-242 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055922 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2055922 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:224-242 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ruth Fincher Author-X-Name-First: Ruth Author-X-Name-Last: Fincher Title: Epilogue Abstract: This epilogue provides an extended conclusion to the Special Feature’s consideration of what happens in the lives of migrants and refugees when they are ‘throwntogether’ in certain urban places with colonial pasts and hostile social and political environments. The contemporary literature on urban encounters across difference pays homage to Doreen Massey’s concept of ‘throwntogetherness’ - her idea that places are fields of multiple interactions, formed through the politics of social practices. Despite the respect it gives to Massey’s work, the suggestion is made that past literature about encounters may have overemphasised the ‘togetherness’ part of Massey’s concept and paid insufficient attention to the ‘thrown’ part of it. The epilogue considers questions that a strong focus on ‘throwing’ might have us pose when togetherness turns out to be violent and unwelcoming for minorities and migrants. Journal: City Pages: 433-438 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055931 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2055931 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:433-438 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Shawn Bodden Author-X-Name-First: Shawn Author-X-Name-Last: Bodden Title: A work-in-progress politics of space Abstract: For Doreen Massey, space is a challenge of multiplicity, encounter and relation: a ‘throwntogetherness’ that demands ongoing negotiation. Space, Massey argues, is open—it is capable of being made otherwise. Drawing on Massey’s ideas, this essay reflects on the everyday political work of community projects to open up space for new possibilities of living with difference within hostile political environments. Through a combination of ethnographic storytelling, photography and diagrammatic sketches, I follow ‘stories-so-far’ from the Auróra community centre in Budapest, Hungary and its members’ project to build a community garden. Rather than focus on prevailing discourses which frame Hungarian politics as a battle between an illiberal government and a liberal opposition, I shift attention to everyday experiences of this hostile political environment by examining projects as mundane and local techniques through which community groups describe, assemble, and work on their own better possible futures. In so doing, I also argue for a praxeological, rather than ontological reading of Massey’s work: rather than presuming a priori that all space is open, we should follow Massey in analysing the situated and ongoing ‘terms of engagement’ through which people open up—and close down—better possible spaces and better ways of living with difference. Journal: City Pages: 397-410 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055930 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2055930 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:397-410 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Teresa Graziano Author-X-Name-First: Teresa Author-X-Name-Last: Graziano Title: The ‘blemish of the past': (un)usual paths of gentrification in a Mediterranean city throughout history Abstract: Contemporary gentrification challenges long-entrenched conceptualizations. In particular, in ‘peripheral’ urban contexts of the Global North, the phenomenon is often interwoven with variegated processes stemming from the specific evolution of their historical centers. This paper scrutinizes the transformations of a marginal central district in a Southern Europe ‘peripheral’ city, Catania, named San Berillo. A series of postwar demolitions and reconstructions, followed by the local community’s forced displacement, fueled socio-economic decline and growing rates of territorial stigmatization. Since the early 2000s, some transformations partially modified narratives about the district. By retracing the evolution of San Berillo I deconstructed the role of the ‘blemish of the past’ in (re)shaping old and current imaginaries upon which the district’s identity is built. The aim is to understand, from an historical perspective, to what extent the Haussmann-like postwar demolition and eviction programme can be judged through the lens of gentrification and urban stigmatization, and if contemporary transformations have been shaping a context at risk of being gentrified (or re-gentrified). In so doing, the paper provides novel theoretical insights about gentrification in Southern Europe by mobilizing the concept of intersection to explain the phantom-like gentrification emerging as a (in)visible repertoire of past memories that loom over the district at different levels: as an operational framework for community-led and/or tourism-based initiatives, as a heterotopic discursive practice, as a buzzword for anti-gentrification counter-narratives. Journal: City Pages: 473-495 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2054222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2054222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:473-495 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ross Beveridge Author-X-Name-First: Ross Author-X-Name-Last: Beveridge Author-Name: Markus Kip Author-X-Name-First: Markus Author-X-Name-Last: Kip Author-Name: Heike Oevermann Author-X-Name-First: Heike Author-X-Name-Last: Oevermann Title: From wastelands to waiting lands Abstract: In debates urban wastelands can appear caught between stigmatisation and romanticisation, viewed either as blight or obscure opportunity. How can we conceive of these spaces in a more productive, yet contingent, way? This article examines the political and conceptual meanings of urban voids and explores their significance to understandings of cities and urban development. To emphasise the ways in which voids are mobilised for particular agendas, the article shows how professional and political lenses on the ‘city’ become entangled with these spaces and generate exclusions and contradictions. This is illustrated through a discussion of emblematic voids in Berlin and the ways in which they are made legible in relation to wider socio-political objectives. Taking inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s notion of the wish image, voids are seen to become subject to utopian wishes for the city. Projecting desires onto these voids, city lenses mobilise support for broader wishes for the city, whilst never fully realising them. To usefully consider the relations between voids, cities and citizens, we draw on German debates to think of voids as Brachen, meaning fallow or waiting lands, where absences of urbanisation offer a moment of pause to reveal the diverse wish images involved in the making of cities. As waiting land, the void asks questions of urbanites: for what purpose is it waiting, how should it be (re-)related to the city and who should be responsible? Journal: City Pages: 281-303 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2040200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2040200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:281-303 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Gawlewicz Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Gawlewicz Author-Name: Oren Yiftachel Author-X-Name-First: Oren Author-X-Name-Last: Yiftachel Title: ‘Throwntogetherness’ in hostile environments Abstract: In this paper, we set a framework for the Special Feature on urban living together by highlighting the main forces which, we contend, have significantly reshaped urban citizenship in recent times. Nearly two decades after the formulation of Doreen Massey’s influential concept of ‘throwntogetherness’, we engage it in a conversation with differing, often contrasting, urban realities. Throwntogetherness highlights the making of urban space through fluidity, openness and diversity within a ‘power geometry’ of global neoliberalism. We analyse the concept’s engagement with recent countervailing forces, in particular neo-nationalism and the digitisation of the city. These forces have mobilised a range of ‘hostile environment’ policies towards migrant, indigenous and marginalized communities, propelling practices of bordering, denial of rights, housing displacement and exclusion. The new assemblage of forces, we further argue, intensify the dialectic tension between throwntogetherness and ‘thrownapartness’ and increasingly lead to ‘urban apartheid’ in cities across the globe. We draw on contributions to the Special Feature which engage with these tensions in Bologna, Rome, Singapore, Glasgow, Budapest, Jerusalem/Al-Quds and Dhaka. These case studies illustrate the re-making of urban citizens throwntogether and thrownapart in contemporary hostile environments. Journal: City Pages: 346-358 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2056350 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2056350 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:346-358 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero Title: Time and symbols in the contentious city Abstract: The morphology of the urban habitat displays the outcomes of agonistic, competing interests. Often, conflicts focus on the symbols that in the city eulogise the prevailing groups and celebrate their achievements. Modifying the urban morphology, therefore, is among the ways ruling groups and their achievements can be contested, with the subaltern attacking signs, symbols and images that remind them of their subordination. This paper looks at mythic (or systemic) violence, and at signs and symbols embedded in the city, it then refers to the defacement and toppling of monuments (discussed in City, Volume 24, Numbers 3–4, June-August 2020) and concludes with an analysis of such recent actions as contentions around social time, struggles over memory and temporality. Journal: City Pages: 304-315 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2048481 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2048481 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:304-315 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tanjil Sowgat Author-X-Name-First: Tanjil Author-X-Name-Last: Sowgat Author-Name: Shilpi Roy Author-X-Name-First: Shilpi Author-X-Name-Last: Roy Title: Throwntogetherness in Dhaka: rethinking urban planning Abstract: Rapid spatial growth and rural-urban migration in Dhaka have influenced the dynamic evolution of the city’s unplanned and old neighbourhoods. Despite development control and planning regulations, following the diverse needs of the residents, most neighbourhoods evolve through organic transformation and restructuring of space. This photo essay argues that the ‘throwntogetherness’ of the citizens in these neighbourhoods results from cohesion, mutual support, and affordability priorities. In contrast, the pursuit of ordered and regimented urban space in the city denies the fluid transformation that has led to high value planned residential areas and condominiums, predominantly to provide exclusive urban services to those who can afford them. However, such placemaking creates fragmentation and encourages hostility and ‘thrownapartness’. This essay contends that the planned production of space in this city should recognise the value of diversity, fluidity and openness and move away from exclusive and rigid space making. Journal: City Pages: 422-432 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2057070 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2057070 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:422-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tim Verlaan Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Verlaan Author-Name: Aimée Albers Author-X-Name-First: Aimée Author-X-Name-Last: Albers Title: From hippies to yuppies: marginal gentrification in Amsterdam’s Jordaan and De Pijp neighbourhoods 1960–1990* Abstract: Challenging the prevailing assumption that gentrification is a recent development, this contribution explores the (re)discovery of central urban living in Amsterdam by using the concept of marginal gentrification. Two inner-city neighbourhoods that have experienced the influx of marginal and middle-class gentrifiers, the Jordaan and de Pijp, will serve as case studies. In historiography, the transformation of both areas is portrayed as an unexpected and sudden development kickstarted by neoliberal housing policies in the early 1990s. However, historical research on Anglophone case studies has demonstrated that gentrification should be understood as a long-term process of social, cultural and economic change, already beginning in the 1960s. Through the use of newspaper articles and policy documents from the period under research, this contribution will reveal how the changing living preferences and consumer cultures of ‘urban pioneers’ can be understood as a case of marginal gentrification. Thus, this contribution will offer a deeper understanding of the ways in which structural changes in Amsterdam’s urban society shaped the everyday life of its citizens, and identify some of the inequalities in which these changes resulted for specific social strata. Journal: City Pages: 496-518 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2054223 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2054223 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:496-518 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tim Verlaan Author-X-Name-First: Tim Author-X-Name-Last: Verlaan Author-Name: Cody Hochstenbach Author-X-Name-First: Cody Author-X-Name-Last: Hochstenbach Title: Gentrification through the ages Abstract: Gentrification is one of the most striking urban developments of our time, radically impacting residential, consumption and investment patterns, and urban culture more broadly. Commonly explained as the transformation of working-class or vacant areas of central cities into middle-class and/or commercial areas, it has become a key term in both academic and popular debates. Yet despite its contemporary significance, little is known about gentrification processes predating the repopulation of Western cities from the 1980s onwards. While geographers and urban sociologists are more inclined to focus on recent developments, historians seem wary of using the term when examining the social transformations of bygone eras. Although a limited number of historians have forayed into the field, so far historical approaches have been undeniably scarce. At the same time, the latest gentrification handbook counts up to 500 pages, but only mentions the history of the phenomenon as a backdrop against current events. This historical backdrop is, furthermore, distinctly Anglophone. This leaves us with a remarkable gap in the historical understanding of gentrification, which we believe is attributable to disciplinary boundaries and—from a historical perspective—the relative newness of the term. Journal: City Pages: 439-449 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2058820 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2058820 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:439-449 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Samantha Thompson Author-X-Name-First: Samantha Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson Title: Understanding Black feminist spatial politics in Atlanta’s public housing Journal: City Pages: 553-557 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2046906 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2046906 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:553-557 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Austin Zeiderman Author-X-Name-First: Austin Author-X-Name-Last: Zeiderman Author-Name: Katherine Dawson Author-X-Name-First: Katherine Author-X-Name-Last: Dawson Title: Urban futures Abstract: This article offers an analytical reflection on how urban futures have been imagined throughout history and into the present. Considering this question at a global scale, it examines the place of urbanization within the development of the modern/colonial order, accounting for the imagined futures that have supported this world-historical process. Three thematic sections—idealization, capitalization, and securitization—frame the discussion. Capturing desires for societal betterment alongside attempts to extract economic value and imperatives to govern anticipated threats, these heuristics provide insight into forms of urban future-making and future-thinking that continue to reverberate across contemporary projects, debates, and struggles. This lays the groundwork for the critical analysis of urban futures that identifies what is at stake in imagining the future of cities in one way rather than another. Journal: City Pages: 261-280 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2035964 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2035964 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:261-280 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giacomo-Maria Salerno Author-X-Name-First: Giacomo-Maria Author-X-Name-Last: Salerno Title: Touristification and displacement. The long-standing production of Venice as a tourist attraction Abstract: Gentrification processes in the Italian context are frequently connected to the rise of the tourist industry, which has led several cities with a rich architectural and cultural tradition (such as Venice, Florence or Rome) to experience rapid demographic change and displacement. The combined effects of modern industrialization and suburbanization processes and a conservationist approach to urban heritage have left the physical fabric of some historical cities mostly intact, but have deeply transformed their social fabric, progressively dismantling their traditional mixture of social classes.Through the emblematic case of Venice, this paper aims to retrace the choices that have contributed to the rise of the city-as-an-attraction, starting from Venice’s early economic specialization in the tourist industry at the end of the eighteenth century and following its development through the last two hundred years. From the construction of the mainland new towns of Mestre and Marghera to the ongoing touristic saturation of the historical city, Venetian gentrification and touristification processes can be interpreted as a peculiar expression of an implosion/explosion urban dynamic, which laid the ground for the rise of the current tourist monoculture. Journal: City Pages: 519-541 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055359 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2055359 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:519-541 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Orlando Woods Author-X-Name-First: Orlando Author-X-Name-Last: Woods Author-Name: Lily Kong Author-X-Name-First: Lily Author-X-Name-Last: Kong Title: Class(ify)ing Christianity in Singapore Abstract: This paper considers how two facets of identity—religion and class—are performed, (re)produced and negotiated within the spaces of the Christian school, home and church in Singapore. We show how the social structuring of one space can inform and influence the structuring of another. Spaces of Christianity in Singapore tend to be mutually reinforcing, strengthening the linkages between religion and class, and in particular reifying the position of Christianity as a religion of the privileged classes. However, the ways in which Christian spaces are reified can become problematic when space is in fact shared with less privileged groups, such as Christians from lower socio-economic classes, and foreign domestic workers. In such instances, the interlinked spaces of Christian privilege and position can cause differences within the community to become points of negotiation and compromise. As a result, they can lead to the social (re)positioning of individuals, and the reproduction of both inclusionary and exclusionary forms of religious citizenship. Journal: City Pages: 373-384 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055927 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2055927 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:373-384 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Fernando Tamayo Author-X-Name-First: Fernando Author-X-Name-Last: Tamayo Author-Name: Libardo Ariza Author-X-Name-First: Libardo Author-X-Name-Last: Ariza Title: Building a secure city Abstract: There is a set of relationships between crime governance and segregation in big cities. As an excuse to justify security and reduce crime, several techniques have been used to build cities where certain populations receive the benefits, while others bear the weight of the control techniques implemented. In this paper, we analyze how Colombian security policies have led to the emergence of a particular device of urban segregation rationalized through the justification of security. This device has been made possible by controversial discourses and practices implemented in Bogotá for governing public space and crime during the last three decades, that not only favor the preservation of traditional forms of spatial segregation, but also allow new ways of managing and perpetuating urban exclusion. Journal: City Pages: 243-260 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2056349 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2056349 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:243-260 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Giuseppe Carta Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe Author-X-Name-Last: Carta Title: For postsecular space Abstract: Conflicts over formal and informal mosques constitute one of the dimensions upon which patterns of Islamophobia are enacted and experienced. Fostered by discursive arrangements embodied in everyday encounters with difference, such conflicts affect Muslims’ access to the public city. This article advances two arguments. First, by understanding postsecular space through Doreen Massey’s [2005. For Space. London: Sage] concept of throwntogetherness—the coming together of a multiplicity of imaginative trajectories of inhabiting human and non-human worlds—it argues for the centrality of imagination in thinking geographically. The article maintains that to challenge Islamophobia’s embodied knowledge requires to challenge imagination, framed as the capacity of mediating discursive thought and sense-perception. Second, the article argues for a postsecular thinking that exceeds the search for consensual paths of interreligious cohabitation and instead looks to publicly negotiate conflicts by pluralising imagination, identities, aesthetics, city forms, and theologies. These arguments are illustrated in reference to the multidisciplinary participatory project, “Reimagining the Mosque, Opening the City”, I conceived and co-curated with Muslim and non-Muslim scholars and artists in Rome and Bologna, Italy. Journal: City Pages: 359-372 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2058822 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2058822 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:359-372 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Bjarke Skærlund Risager Author-X-Name-First: Bjarke Skærlund Author-X-Name-Last: Risager Title: Rent gap governance Abstract: While gentrification in some contexts has been analysed as a profit-driven process best explained by the rent gap, state governance, e.g. through social mixing, has elsewhere been seen as the main driver of this urban process. With the concept of rent gap governance, the aim of this article is to show that profit and governance can be mutually constitutive parts of gentrification in the neoliberal city. Even when gentrification is a political premise, the rent gap can remain important, but its formation and closure might be unconventional. Empirically, the article centres on Denmark’s 2018 ‘Ghetto Law’, a social-mix policy aiming to govern a racialized surplus population by reducing non-profit housing in stigmatized areas through privatization of housing and land and new-build. Building on recent elaborations of rent gap theory, I suggest three mechanisms for rent gap governance in the Danish case: increased potential rent, depressed ground rent, and subsidized and envisioned rent gaps. I ground this model with a case study of the sale of the non-profit housing complex Schackenborgvænge. I analyse rarely-available qualitative and quantitative data and consider the immediate social consequences of the sale. The result is a murky picture of localized rent gap governance. Journal: City Pages: 199-223 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2042638 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2042638 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:199-223 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Gawlewicz Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Gawlewicz Title: Throwntogetherness in the context of Brexit: Diverse community spaces in the East End of Glasgow Abstract: The 2016 UK’s vote to leave the European Union (i.e. Brexit) has evoked a sense of insecurity and non-belonging among EU citizens and other migrant and minoritised ethnic communities in British cities. Against this backdrop, little is known about how migrant and established populations produce inclusive community spaces, in particular in areas with a history of deprivation. In response, this article explores how Polish migrants and the long-settled residents ‘come together’ in the East End of Glasgow, a rapidly changing area with a history of poverty and multiple inequalities, to work on community food projects and create inclusive spaces of throwntogetherness. Methodologically, the article draws upon 40 interviews with the long-settled residents and more recent Polish migrants in the area, 10 interviews with representatives of community organisations and associated fieldwork (e.g. occasional participant observation). The article finds that in ‘throwing together’ diverse local populations, the East End food spaces are conducive to positive encounter against the backdrop of a wider hostile environment. By conceptually engaging with the Masseyan notion of throwntogetherness, the article re-thinks those spaces as continuously becoming and overcoming difference. Journal: City Pages: 385-396 Issue: 2-3 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 05 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055928 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2055928 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:2-3:p:385-396 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Author-X-Name-First: Author-X-Name-Last: Author-Name: Nabeela Ahmed Author-X-Name-First: Nabeela Author-X-Name-Last: Ahmed Author-Name: Alexander G. Baker Author-X-Name-First: Alexander G. Author-X-Name-Last: Baker Author-Name: Akash Bhattacharya Author-X-Name-First: Akash Author-X-Name-Last: Bhattacharya Author-Name: Sally Cawood Author-X-Name-First: Sally Author-X-Name-Last: Cawood Author-Name: Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco Author-X-Name-First: Ana Julia Author-X-Name-Last: Cabrera Pacheco Author-Name: Mallo Maren Daniel Author-X-Name-First: Mallo Maren Author-X-Name-Last: Daniel Author-Name: Matheus Grandi Author-X-Name-First: Matheus Author-X-Name-Last: Grandi Author-Name: Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez Author-X-Name-First: Christian O. Author-X-Name-Last: Grimaldo-Rodríguez Author-Name: Prince K. Guma Author-X-Name-First: Prince K. Author-X-Name-Last: Guma Author-Name: Victoria Habermehl Author-X-Name-First: Victoria Author-X-Name-Last: Habermehl Author-Name: Katie Higgins Author-X-Name-First: Katie Author-X-Name-Last: Higgins Author-Name: Lutfun Nahar Lata Author-X-Name-First: Lutfun Nahar Author-X-Name-Last: Lata Author-Name: Minsi Liu Author-X-Name-First: Minsi Author-X-Name-Last: Liu Author-Name: Christopher Luederitz Author-X-Name-First: Christopher Author-X-Name-Last: Luederitz Author-Name: Soha Macktoom Author-X-Name-First: Soha Author-X-Name-Last: Macktoom Author-Name: Rachel Macrorie Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: Macrorie Author-Name: Lorena Melgaço Author-X-Name-First: Lorena Author-X-Name-Last: Melgaço Author-Name: Inés Morales Author-X-Name-First: Inés Author-X-Name-Last: Morales Author-Name: Elsa Noterman Author-X-Name-First: Elsa Author-X-Name-Last: Noterman Author-Name: Gwilym Owen Author-X-Name-First: Gwilym Author-X-Name-Last: Owen Author-Name: Basirat Oyalowo Author-X-Name-First: Basirat Author-X-Name-Last: Oyalowo Author-Name: Ben Purvis Author-X-Name-First: Ben Author-X-Name-Last: Purvis Author-Name: Enora Robin Author-X-Name-First: Enora Author-X-Name-Last: Robin Author-Name: Lindsay Sawyer Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay Author-X-Name-Last: Sawyer Author-Name: Jessica Terruhn Author-X-Name-First: Jessica Author-X-Name-Last: Terruhn Author-Name: Hita Unnikrishnan Author-X-Name-First: Hita Author-X-Name-Last: Unnikrishnan Author-Name: Thomas Verbeek Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Verbeek Author-Name: Claudia Villegas Author-X-Name-First: Claudia Author-X-Name-Last: Villegas Author-Name: Linda Westman Author-X-Name-First: Linda Author-X-Name-Last: Westman Title: Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university Abstract: We are an international collective of Early Career Academics (ECAs) who met throughout 2020 to explore the implications of COVID-19 on precarious academics. With this intervention, our aims are to voice commonly shared experiences and concerns and to reflect on the extent to which the pandemic offers opportunities to redefine Higher Education and research institutions, in a context of ongoing precarity and funding cuts. Specifically, we explore avenues to build solidarity across institutions and geographies, to ensure that the conduct of urban research, and support offered to ECAs, allows for more inclusivity, diversity, security and equitability. Journal: City Pages: 562-586 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2091826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2091826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:562-586 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: Tired city: on the politics of urban exhaustion Journal: City Pages: 559-561 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2084264 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2084264 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:559-561 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Tauri Tuvikene Author-X-Name-First: Tauri Author-X-Name-Last: Tuvikene Author-Name: Raili Nugin Author-X-Name-First: Raili Author-X-Name-Last: Nugin Author-Name: Kadri Kasemets Author-X-Name-First: Kadri Author-X-Name-Last: Kasemets Author-Name: Tarmo Pikner Author-X-Name-First: Tarmo Author-X-Name-Last: Pikner Author-Name: Anu Printsmann Author-X-Name-First: Anu Author-X-Name-Last: Printsmann Author-Name: Karin Dean Author-X-Name-First: Karin Author-X-Name-Last: Dean Author-Name: Hannes Palang Author-X-Name-First: Hannes Author-X-Name-Last: Palang Title: The landscape approach to planetary urbanization: beyond the planetary urbanization approach Abstract: While the term ‘landscape’ consistently appears in the argumentation of planetary urbanization, it remains an under-conceptualized signifier in this theory. This is a missed opportunity. Written by scholars who study landscape, this paper scrutinizes the planetary urbanization approach by adding the ‘landscape perspective’. The article offers an analytical framework and tools to unpack contemporary processes of extended urbanization in a more nuanced way by elaborating six concepts: peri-urbanization, political ecologies, representations, communities, place practices, and stewardship. We argue that bringing the landscape approach into dialogue with planetary urbanization enables this theory to be better applicable. Journal: City Pages: 723-744 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2079884 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2079884 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:723-744 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marit Rosol Author-X-Name-First: Marit Author-X-Name-Last: Rosol Author-Name: Gwendolyn Blue Author-X-Name-First: Gwendolyn Author-X-Name-Last: Blue Title: From the smart city to urban justice in a digital age Abstract: The smart city is the most emblematic contemporary expression of the fusion of urbanism and digital technologies. Critical urban scholars are now increasingly likely to highlight the injustices that are created and exacerbated by emerging smart city initiatives and to diagnose the way that these projects remake urban space and urban policy in unjust ways. Despite this, there has not yet been a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of justice in the smart city literature. To fill this gap and strengthen the smart city critique, we draw on the tripartite approach to justice developed by philosopher Nancy Fraser, which is focused on redistribution, recognition, and representation. We use this framework to outline key themes and identify gaps in existing critiques of the smart city, and to emphasize the importance of transformational approaches to justice that take shifts in governance seriously. In reformulating and expanding the existing critiques of the smart city, we argue for shifting the discussion away from the smart city as such. Rather than searching for an alternative smart city, we argue that critical scholars should focus on broader questions of urban justice in a digital age. Journal: City Pages: 684-705 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2079881 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2079881 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:684-705 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Amy Y. Zhang Author-X-Name-First: Amy Y. Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang Title: Rethinking ‘elsewhere’ Journal: City Pages: 745-750 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2083339 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2083339 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:745-750 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Lucas Pohl Author-X-Name-First: Lucas Author-X-Name-Last: Pohl Title: The empty city: COVID-19 and the apocalyptic imagination Abstract: The year 2020 was accompanied by a new apocalyptic zeitgeist. After the COVID-19 pandemic shattered lifeworlds in many societies around the world, it seemed easy to imagine it to be the end of the world. No image was more evocative of this moment than that of the empty city. Due to the various lockdowns implemented in numerous countries, images of empty cities spread across the media. This paper investigates this image by emphasising the political implications of the apocalyptic imagination. By focusing on those who remain in the public space after the city was emptied, this paper questions whether the image of the empty city simply fuels the fantasies of ‘urban exploration’, as critiques have stated, or if it, rather, paves the way for an open view of the inequalities produced by urban societies today. Therefore, the paper stresses that the remaining people we see in the images of emptied public spaces are mainly those who either have no home to stay inside or work for those who stay inside. Subsequently, it investigates the particular qualities of public spaces pictured during the lockdowns. Imagining cities as empty has been vehemently criticised through the notion of ‘ruin porn’. In contrast to this critique, the paper emphasises that the image of the empty city allows us to see the city with ‘inhuman’ eyes, which leads to a shift in perspective through recognising how little public space is still available when it no longer functions under the imperative of the pre-pandemic status quo. In concluding, the paper reflects on the subversive, or ‘emancipatory’, potential of witnessing the urban void opened up by the pandemic. Journal: City Pages: 706-722 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2081004 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2081004 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:706-722 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mikko Kyrönviita Author-X-Name-First: Mikko Author-X-Name-Last: Kyrönviita Author-Name: Antti Wallin Author-X-Name-First: Antti Author-X-Name-Last: Wallin Title: Building a DIY skatepark and doing politics hands-on Abstract: In recent years, informal and unauthorised amateur urban design solutions have become an urban trend in the global North. These Do-It-Yourself (DIY) urbanism actions can be playful commentaries, critical interventions or functional improvements to urban spaces. In general, DIY urbanism tries to make urban everyday life better, but it is not always considered a political act. This paper presents an ethnographic case study of a DIY skatepark building in Tampere, Finland, and describes a group of skaters’ political subjectivisation and how they learned hands-on to influence urban governance. After the city’s failed skatepark plan, the skaters turned their discontent into a tactical spatial appropriation, a DIY skatepark, and later shifted their mode of politics to strategic claim-making. By doing so, the skaters became not only skilled skatepark builders, but also an organised association promoting skateboarding and influencing urban development and culture. This paper argues that DIY urbanism has transformative potential to act as a catalyst for bottom-up change in a contemporary city. Journal: City Pages: 646-663 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2079879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2079879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:646-663 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Paola Jirón Author-X-Name-First: Paola Author-X-Name-Last: Jirón Author-Name: Walter Imilan Author-X-Name-First: Walter Author-X-Name-Last: Imilan Author-Name: Eduardo Osterling Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo Author-X-Name-Last: Osterling Title: Evangelists of the urban future. A decolonial critique of the smart city narrative in Santiago de Chile Abstract: The smart city (SC) is an urban planning model and image of the urban future that circulates globally. In order to broaden the scope of the SC literature, this article examines how the SC debate has played out in Chile, and specifically in Santiago, where SC initiatives are supported by a local alliance that includes segments of the government and technology companies. We analyse how the SC narrative has been performed and promoted, asking how it is portrayed, how the city is problematised and by whom. We describe the promotion of SC ideas here through the concept of evangelisation, which we see as the process of deploying narratives of the future centred upon notions of salvation and superiority. Working from a decolonial perspective, we find similarities in the way that the SC is promoted in Chile and other evangelisation processes that have been maintained for centuries in Latin America. We use this perspective to discuss SC narratives as forms of epistemic colonialism. Furthermore, drawing on participant observation at SC events held in Santiago, we discuss the disconnect between the promoters of SC policies, the people charged with implementing them, and the city dwellers who are impacted by them. We conclude by reflecting on the ways that a decolonial perspective can help scholars critically assess the SC model within the context of global policy mobilities and unequal urban power relations. Journal: City Pages: 664-683 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2079880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2079880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:664-683 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Glyn Robbins Author-X-Name-First: Glyn Author-X-Name-Last: Robbins Title: New York’s housing justice movement: facing the COVID eviction cliff edge Abstract: The coronavirus pandemic highlighted the deep-rooted links between poor housing and poor health, particularly for working class communities of colour, for whom the right to the city is systemically undermined by unaffordable, precarious and sub-standard housing. This paper examines these issues against the background of a grassroots movement against evictions in New York during 2021. It describes and discusses the organisation, tactics and strategies of that movement as it attempted to challenge the dominance and norms of the real estate industry. It suggests that the pandemic engendered a radical shift in the demands of tenant and housing justice organisations, which led to New York being virtually eviction free for 22 months. While this success partly arises from the particular circumstances of New York, it is argued that there are lessons to be learned for housing campaigns elsewhere. However, questions are raised about the extent to which ‘professionalised activism’ represents a sustainable model and the capacity for local mobiisations to influence national political forces at a time of unprecedented volatility in an age of crisis capitalism. Journal: City Pages: 610-629 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2079878 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2079878 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:610-629 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Rachel McArdle Author-X-Name-First: Rachel Author-X-Name-Last: McArdle Title: ‘Squat City’: Dublin’s temporary autonomous zone. Considering the temporality of autonomous geographies Abstract: ‘Squat City’ was an autonomous social centre and squat that was open for nearly three years in Dublin, Ireland, and the space played a key role in the development of autonomous and anarchist politics in the city. In framing my research, I began with the concept of ‘temporary urbanism’, a well-developed area in urban studies, cultural geography, and planning, that focuses on the temporal aspects of short-term places and spaces. I noted that the concept of autonomous geographies was important to understanding the politics and culture of short-term uses of space like squats, direct actions, protests, and social centres, but that temporary urbanism was not discussed in tandem with autonomous geographies. Using Squat City as the case study, I bring these two ideas together, to create a meaningful discussion based on the similarities between them. The reasons why urban actors are motivated to create these short-term projects can vary greatly, including the urban actors involved in squats, autonomous social centres, direct actions, and protests. What can we learn about city residents’ motivations and politics, how urban spaces are used in the city, and how can we consider the timeframes of autonomous geographies? By focusing on the everyday scale and use value of cities, how do alternative urban practices challenge what we may understand as the normal workings of cities? In this article, I discuss Squat City as a temporary autonomous zone to think about the temporality of radical practices. Journal: City Pages: 630-645 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2082149 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2082149 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:630-645 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Danielle Kerrigan Author-X-Name-First: Danielle Author-X-Name-Last: Kerrigan Title: ‘Don’t wake papa bear!’ Understanding media representations of landlord-tenant relations Abstract: Landlord–tenant relations are one of the core social relations of daily life yet are surprisingly under-theorized by housing scholars and geographers. This article begins to address this gap by applying for feminist scholarship on hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity to the case of the expansion and subsequent retrenchment of rent-control policy in Ontario, Canada in 2017–2018. Through a discourse analysis of government policy documents and news media coverage, I demonstrate that portrayals of landlords and tenants broadly conformed to characteristics of hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity, respectively, with landlords most commonly portrayed as ‘rational’ and tenants most commonly portrayed as ‘vulnerable’. Landlords benefit from traits associated with hegemonic masculinity even if they themselves do not embody them. Similarly, landlords benefit from the portrayal of tenants as passive victims, in need of paternalistic government protection, as opposed to potentially powerful collective actors. Journal: City Pages: 587-609 Issue: 4 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2067719 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2067719 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:4:p:587-609 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2125181_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Loïc Wacquant Author-X-Name-First: Loïc Author-X-Name-Last: Wacquant Title: Rethinking the city with Bourdieu’s trialectic Abstract: My forthcoming book Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023) is not intended as an eclectic combination of the structuralist and the phenomenological takes on the city rehearsing Pierre Bourdieu’s influential critique of the deadly antinomy of objectivism and subjectivism. Nor does it aim just to make room for the author of Distinction in the pantheon of theorists before which students of the city are expected to genuflect. I intend the book, not as an addition, but a challenge to the urban canon and a springboard for a possible reconstruction of urban theory and inquiry around what I christen the Bourdieusian trialectic of symbolic space, social space, and physical space. In this paper, I provide a compact characterization of the trialectic and then draw out its implications for the theory and comparative study of the city. Journal: City Pages: 820-830 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2125181 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2125181 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:820-830 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2124713_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Max Holleran Author-X-Name-First: Max Author-X-Name-Last: Holleran Title: Pandemics and geoarbitrage: digital nomadism before and after COVID-19 Abstract: Digital Nomads (those working for higher wages in developed countries but living in less expensive locations, most often in the Global South) are known for their ability to practice geoarbitrage: they search for a lower cost of living while working remotely. Many in this group have merged economic ideas about mobility with cultural beliefs around the value of uprootedness as a means to live independently and appreciate experiences over possessions. This article, drawing from 900 social media observations and 25 long format interviews, shows how the coronavirus pandemic challenged core practices of digital nomads because of lockdowns and border closures. It also shows how the pandemic made some in this group reconsider their relationship with their home countries. For some Nomads, it fostered a greater appreciation of welfare state services: such as high-quality medical care, unemployment benefits, and vaccine access, but this was not always the case. A number of informants were relieved to return to their wealthy home countries in a moment of crisis, but others—using a more Libertarian understanding of their own position as independent purchasers of social services—resented the state ‘calling them back’ during the pandemic. Last, the paper considers whether digital nomadism will become more attractive with the growing acceptance of remote work and what ramifications this could have for destinations in the Global South that are already experiencing ‘transnational gentrification.’ Journal: City Pages: 831-847 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2124713 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2124713 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:831-847 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126200_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Vera Polido Baeta Author-X-Name-First: Vera Author-X-Name-Last: Polido Baeta Author-Name: Beacon Mbiba Author-X-Name-First: Beacon Author-X-Name-Last: Mbiba Author-Name: Georgia Butina-Watson Author-X-Name-First: Georgia Author-X-Name-Last: Butina-Watson Title: Circumventing the investor-friendly city and displaceability in Maputo’s street economy space Abstract: This article explores how street economy workers are resisting the condition of ‘displaceability’ imposed upon them via exclusionary market-led redevelopment and state-municipal practices in Maputo, Mozambique. In particular, it focuses on how street and market workers engage in forms of ‘street politics’ to build their rights to produce, to inhabit and to work in public spaces from which they are being excluded. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of ‘displaceability’ and adopting a spatial perspective, we describe and discuss the main exclusionary aspects of current market-led redevelopment in Maputo’s peri-central area, including municipal and state practices and the (non)use of planning laws. Against this background, we examine the circumventing tactics of street and market vendors. We construe these tactics in the terrain of social legitimacy—or actual rights—as forms of challenging market-driven state practices of demolitions, resettlement, forced zoning, and social banishing of street economy workers. Journal: City Pages: 963-982 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:963-982 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126182_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Moniza Rizzini Ansari Author-X-Name-First: Moniza Author-X-Name-Last: Rizzini Ansari Author-Name: Carolina Amadeo Author-X-Name-First: Carolina Author-X-Name-Last: Amadeo Title: Law, the city and the poor: a roadmap Abstract: In this introduction to the themed Special Feature ‘Law at the margins of the city’, we present a roadmap of concepts and practices across the various fields that are explored in this collection of articles. We invite readers to visit a disciplinary and creative encounter by untangling different routes and layers connecting law, finance, raciality, urban poverty and radical insurgencies. The aim is to delineate and reinaugurate an existing but still not entirely explored area of knowledge, in which the contributing articles provoke insightful critiques about legal articulations on and from the margins of the city. Through a multi-sited perspective, reflected in the contexts from which the invited authors are writing, we suggest that the ‘problem of poverty’ is not only globalised, but also embedded in and facilitated by globally effective legal processes. By bringing together variegated urban experiences in the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, Mozambique, Colombia, Turkey and India, that could be read as isolated and localised, a clear global pattern reveals itself in the transformation of cities and their margins. Likewise, a global web of insurgent practices emerges through the local ways in which law is appropriated by resistance groups from the margins. As will be seen in the contributions to this Special Feature, by disputing law and by disputing space, these ongoing practices can work to destabilise an entire world-making system of property, raciality and urban organisation. Journal: City Pages: 911-928 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126182 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126182 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:911-928 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126198_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Priya S. Gupta Author-X-Name-First: Priya S. Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta Title: Governing Gurgaon as a financial investment Abstract: This article explores the spatialization of financial capitalism through an examination of the private governance of Gurgaon, Haryana, India, a city which has become something of an emblem of neoliberal real estate development. Gurgaon illustrates the processes through which financialized values, rationalities, and culture permeate urban governance and reshape urban space. The way that capital lands in Gurgaon—what is built, for whom, and how populations are both shaped and shape themselves around it—demonstrates what happens when the rationalities of finance govern urban spaces. The primary argument here is that Gurgaon demonstrates the ‘private acting like the public’—meaning, a private actor assuming the governance responsibilities of public actors while executing those responsibilities in the interest of finance. This form of governance includes the following dimensions: the assumption of the duties of local government by private actors such as real estate developers; the transformation of the built environment to both reflect the desires of investors and to include only certain populations; and a form of self-governance whereby the population takes it upon itself to transform in the reflection of financial values and financialized lifestyles. In short, governance power is delegated to private actors—here, real estate developers and investors—and the eventual result is the use of land and a social order that benefits financial instruments and investment. Crucially, though, Gurgaon’s experience also illustrates that this ‘permeation’ is a constant process and is not as simple as financialization landing and local government and geography receiving it. Local government and geographies shape financialization at the same time that their land and resources are financialized into globally traded assets. Journal: City Pages: 947-962 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126198 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126198 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:947-962 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126172_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues Author-X-Name-First: Cristina Author-X-Name-Last: Udelsmann Rodrigues Title: Hesitant migration to emergent cities: Angola’s intentional urbanism of the ‘centralidades’ Abstract: This article discusses migration to rural areas in Africa and its relation to the emergence and development of new towns and urbanism. New conditions of mobility and the establishment and development of newly urban and proto-urban areas call for a reassessment of mobility and settlement dynamics. Changing contexts of urban-rural relations with important societal implications, new transformations and reconfigurations of urban forms call for analyses beyond rural exoduses, unequal territorial development, or the primacy of major cities. In Angola, urban construction, namely of the new ‘centralidades’—emergent new cities made of blocks of buildings and respective infrastructure in vacant areas in the countryside—attempts the creation of cities before the agglomeration of population or the undertakings to attract migration, other than just housing. This intentional urbanisation is thus characterised by hesitant settlement, which this article analyses using empirical material collected in a variety of Angolan centralidades. Journal: City Pages: 848-869 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:848-869 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126231_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Naomi C. Hanakata Author-X-Name-First: Naomi C. Author-X-Name-Last: Hanakata Author-Name: Monika Streule Author-X-Name-First: Monika Author-X-Name-Last: Streule Author-Name: Christian Schmid Author-X-Name-First: Christian Author-X-Name-Last: Schmid Title: Incorporation of urban differences in Tokyo, Mexico City, and Los Angeles Abstract: Reinvestment and intensification are common processes in many urban areas across the world. These transformations are often analyzed with concepts such as ‘urban regeneration’, ‘urban renaissance’, or ‘gentrification’. However, in analyzing Shimokitazawa (Tokyo), Centro Histórico (Mexico City), and Downtown Los Angeles, we realized that these concepts do not fully grasp the qualitative changes of everyday life and the contradictory character of the urbanization processes we observed. They do not take into consideration the far-reaching effects of these processes, and particularly do not address the underlying key question: how is urban value produced? Therefore, we have chosen a different analytical entry point to these transformations, by focusing on the production, reproduction, and incorporation of the intrinsic qualities of the urban. We found Lefebvre’s concept of ‘urban differences’ and Williams’ concept of ‘incorporation’ particularly useful for analyzing our empirical results. In this contribution, we compare the ‘incorporation of urban differences’ in the three case study areas and offer this concept for further discussions and applications. Journal: City Pages: 791-819 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126231 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126231 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:791-819 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126168_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Laura Cipriani Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Cipriani Title: Land of sand: reclaiming the sea, landscapes and lives in Malacca, Malaysia Abstract: Today, the landscapes of Asia—and Southeast Asia in particular—are undergoing major transformations, many of which are due to urbanisation processes that impact coastal areas. These are often controversial reclamation projects, generically referred to as the ‘war of sand’—an (in)visible conflict named for the raw material used to develop artificial land for property development. In Malacca, Malaysia, coastal urbanisation engenders serious environmental damage via the elimination of mangroves, deterioration of water quality and marine ecosystems, and erosion. It also causes severe social and economic transformation that leads to specific social dynamics marked by the marginalisation of certain ethnic minorities. This invites us to rethink the right to the city and the landscape in the moment of reclaiming land. For this purpose, this article describes how coastal development and reclamation projects are heavily mining local communities and the environment. The sand war, it turns out, is not purely a resource-grabbing conflict nor a real estate process with heavy environmental implications, but an implicit war against ethnic and religious communities. Inequality is a consequence not by accident but by design. Journal: City Pages: 888-910 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126168 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126168 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:888-910 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126216_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Begüm Özden Fırat Author-X-Name-First: Begüm Özden Author-X-Name-Last: Fırat Title: A double movement of enclosure and commons: commoning Emek movie theatre in three acts Abstract: The article focuses on the relationship between the urban renewal project that led to the demolition of the Emek movie theatre, located in the center of Istanbul, and the commoning struggle, which emerged against the enclosure of the site. The enclosure of the site was a pioneering project intending to control, regulate, and tame socio-spatial relations, curtail ‘unruly’ cultural practices and expunge the history and cultural memory of Beyoğlu district while the commoning struggle stood against not only spatial eviction and social expulsion from the center of the city, but also defied physical, social and cultural marginalization—that is, being decentered from the urban center. In reading this case, I develop a dialectical argument in which enclosure, led by capital and facilitated by the state, unavoidably engenders forms of resistance, which in turn propitiates new forms of commoning. The dialectics of enclosures and commoning practices is understood in three interrelated ‘acts of contestation’: property-making, subjectification and imagination. The first act of property-making relates to the ‘past.’ It discusses how everyday uses of public spaces can become a zone of contestation, problematizing violent histories of the making of state and private property and proposes common property as an alternative. The second act focuses on the ‘present’ of commoning movements and considers how they produce non-capitalist value practices against the process of capitalist subjectification endorsed by the spatial regime of enclosure. The third act, namely imagination, looks at the practices that, while resisting enclosure, also challenge the impossibility of imagining a future different to that of capitalism. As a final act, the article proposes that an emergent culture of the commons is being built even though local commoning struggles seem to fail in the short-term. Journal: City Pages: 1029-1044 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126216 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126216 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:1029-1044 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126208_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Mara Nogueira Author-X-Name-First: Mara Author-X-Name-Last: Nogueira Author-Name: Hyun Bang Shin Author-X-Name-First: Hyun Bang Author-X-Name-Last: Shin Title: The “right to the city centre”: political struggles of street vendors in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Abstract: The article aims to investigate the relations between work and urban space, focusing on the struggles of street vendors for the ‘right to the city centre’ in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We join critical debates on Brazil’s internationally praised urban reform by focusing on informal workers. Beyond lacking the protection of labour laws, the ‘right to the city’ (RttC) of such workers has been consistently denied through restrictive legislations and policies. In the context of the ‘crisis’ of waged labour, we explore the increasing centrality of urban space for working-class political struggles. Looking at Belo Horizonte, the article traces the relation between urban participatory democracy and the development of legal-institutional frameworks that restricted street vendors’ access to urban space in the city. In the context of an urban revitalisation policy implemented in 2017, we then explore the use of legal frameworks to remove street vendors from public areas of the city and the resulting political resistance movement. The discussion focuses on the emergence of the Vicentão Occupation, a building squatted by homeless families and street vendors in conflict with the local state. Through this case, we explore the radical potential of contemporary articulations of Henri Lefebvre’s framework emerging from the confluence of diverse local urban struggles for ‘the right to the city centre’. Ultimately, we argue for an understanding of the RttC as a process and a site of continual struggle whose terrain is shaped, but cannot be replaced by, legal frameworks that need to be constantly contested and evolving to reflect the shifting socio-spatial relations. Journal: City Pages: 1012-1028 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126208 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126208 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:1012-1028 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126201_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: David Thomas Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas Title: The Brighton Homeless Bill of Rights Abstract: ‘Homelessness’ in the UK, currently at record levels, is the focus of an ever-expanding mass of law, policy, procedures, practices, and institutions and enterprises of all sorts, from government, local government, national and local NGOs. All are implicated in the drive to keep houseless people in their place, obedient, out of sight, receiving assistance in the ‘appropriate’ way. This contribution is an account of a successful activist campaign to make a UK city adopt a Homeless Bill of Rights. It is unusual as a campaign using a legal discourse, that of human rights, not to create legally enforceable rights but as a political tool to force a different kind of visibility and equality. The political philosophy of Jacques Rancière helps to theorize these issues. Journal: City Pages: 983-997 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126201 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126201 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:983-997 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Raquel Rolnik Author-X-Name-First: Raquel Author-X-Name-Last: Rolnik Author-Name: Carolina Amadeo Author-X-Name-First: Carolina Author-X-Name-Last: Amadeo Author-Name: Moniza Rizzini Ansari Author-X-Name-First: Moniza Author-X-Name-Last: Rizzini Ansari Title: Territorial dispossession under financialised capitalism and its discontents: insurgent spatialities and legal forms Abstract: The financialisation of land and housing marks a new empire colonising the urban landscape in which territories are increasingly captured and populations are dislocated and dispossessed. Under this model of urban development, the link between capital and built space has reached unprecedented scale and speed by mobilising new legal, political and economic instruments. In this article, we examine how law constitutes and operates this link by enabling a true domination of finance over built space. At the foundation of the connection between space and finance lies the liberal idea of private property, which has historically modulated the territorial organisation of cities and established borders between the city and its margins. Identified all over the world as outcast and subnormal, the urban margins are stigmatised, criminalised and racialised places which are under permanent threat and, simultaneously, functional to the real estate financial capital. Performing the role of preferred territories to be used as new frontiers of capital expansion, these places can be deeply marked by violence and destruction in the name of legality. But in addressing this scenario, it is important to recognise that the city is under dispute and, beyond the capture of territories by finance, there is also a permanent movement of emplacements, generating landscapes for life. Different resistance experiences in cities around the world, with their use of insurgent tactics such as occupations, communal forms of ownership and other collective and complex bonds with land, perform blockages against the referred submission of built space to finance. We argue that, in this ‘urban warfare’, space is not the scenery where battles take place, but rather the object of these battles itself. In this context, insurgent spatialities and legal forms emerge as key collective processes of building new forms of urban life. Journal: City Pages: 929-946 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:929-946 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2124693_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq Author-X-Name-Last: Simone Author-Name: Vanesa Castán Broto Author-X-Name-First: Vanesa Author-X-Name-Last: Castán Broto Title: Radical unknowability: an essay on solidarities and multiform urban life Abstract: If urban life emerges within a multiplex space, what forms of change are afforded by urban environments? The urban entails a series of relations and detachments that contain popular economies and urban commons. Rather than a system, the urban becomes an amalgamation of multiple forms. Thus, urban change does not follow one-off dramatic interventions, but rather, it results from numerous micro shifts constantly occurring in the urban environment. This kind of change entails lateral movements and movement sideways that add up to structural transformations. A crucial question is what kind of solidarities can deal with the barriers to urban life that people encounter and experience as a sense of impossibility, a ‘cannot’ that prevents their initiatives. Transcending such ‘cannot’ discourse will require discarding the moral looking glass that often taints urban futures imaginations. Journal: City Pages: 771-790 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2124693 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2124693 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:771-790 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2124728_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ihnji Jon Author-X-Name-First: Ihnji Author-X-Name-Last: Jon Title: Is it true that we’re actually living in separate universes? Journal: City Pages: 1072-1077 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2124728 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2124728 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:1072-1077 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2135307_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Lindsay Sawyer Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay Author-X-Name-Last: Sawyer Title: Don’t write to ‘us’ Journal: City Pages: 751-754 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2135307 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2135307 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:751-754 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126243_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Ladin Bayurgil Author-X-Name-First: Ladin Author-X-Name-Last: Bayurgil Title: Urban elite on the fringes of the growth coalition: homeowners’ selective opposition to urban transformation in Istanbul Abstract: This research is an examination of the role of the urban elite in an earthquake risk-driven urban transformation process in Istanbul, Turkey. By displaying the mechanisms through which urban transformation in Istanbul’s privileged areas is invited and implemented by the urban elite that I locate on the fringes of the growth machine, this research contributes to the literature on urban growth, and specifically the role of the urban elite in this growth coalition. This article displays the urban elite’s ambivalent approach, which I describe as selective opposition: simultaneously occurring growth-controlling discourses and growth-engaging activities by affluent residents, who are neither fully members nor opponents of the growth coalition and who critique growth politics from which they accumulate wealth. This research displays the mechanisms through which the urban elite reproduce their power, privilege, and wealth, and hence sheds light on the processes of inequality reproduction and affluence maintenance. Journal: City Pages: 870-887 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126243 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126243 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:870-887 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2124727_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Derek S. Denman Author-X-Name-First: Derek S. Author-X-Name-Last: Denman Title: Pragmatic environmentalism and democratic life Journal: City Pages: 1067-1071 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2124727 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2124727 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:1067-1071 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2103904_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Agata Lisiak Author-X-Name-First: Agata Author-X-Name-Last: Lisiak Title: Politics of maintenance and care: Rosa Luxemburg’s commonplace urban theorizing Abstract: Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) is commonly known as a political thinker, economist, and revolutionary socialist. A person of versatile interests and skills, she was certainly a widely admired public speaker, journalist, publisher, teacher, translator, editor, and party leader, as well as an amateur botanist, an occasional painter, and – particularly in her final years – an avid birdwatcher. What also powerfully comes through in her writing (especially her letters), but has received little attention to date, is that she had the mind and pen of an urban ethnographer. In her thick, vivid accounts of urban sights and sounds, Luxemburg generously tapped into her senses and emotions, in the process revealing how affect shapes urban experiences and imaginaries. Focusing on practices and politics of maintenance and care, this paper offers an analysis of Luxemburg’s multisensory descriptions of her urban surroundings and ‘the unavoidable challenge of negotiating a here-and-now’ that Doreen Massey theorized as throwntogetherness. Taking seriously Luxemburg’s observations in and about the city recorded in her letters and botanical notebooks reveals the small acts of commonplace theorizing that in academia are still too rarely recognized for what they are. Journal: City Pages: 755-770 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2103904 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2103904 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:755-770 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2124722_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Danielle Zoe Rivera Author-X-Name-First: Danielle Zoe Author-X-Name-Last: Rivera Title: ‘Everyday’ planning in the Anthropocene Journal: City Pages: 1063-1066 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2124722 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2124722 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:1063-1066 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126222_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Johanna del Pilar Cortes-Nieto Author-X-Name-First: Johanna del Pilar Author-X-Name-Last: Cortes-Nieto Title: Securing the port against the Black poor in Buenaventura, Colombia Abstract: In May 2017, the community of Buenaventura, Colombia’s main port and the city with the largest Afrodescendant population, went on a general strike. By scrutinising this event, this article reveals some shades of the entanglements of race, class, political subjectivity, security, capitalist development and histories of colonialism that structure the racial dynamics of space. Relying upon discourse analysis of policy papers, legal regulations and secondary sources, coupled with informal interviews and direct observation, it is argued that violence and coercion have been central techniques for harnessing the local poor population in accordance with the needs of the port as the emblem of capitalist development. The article pays particular attention to how law is implicated in the violence deployed in the city-port either as a legitimising factor or as discursive formation which portrays the local population as dangerous and thereby as a security threat to the port. This narrative about the insecurity of the poor, created and recreated by the law, reinforces the image of the Black population as undeserving poor, while at the same time legitimising the coercive interventions that have characterised the control of criminality and social mobilisation in the city-port. However, the strike allows us to see that precarity and violence have resulted in a politically active population and sophisticated levels of mobilisation which have managed to stop capitalist development, at least for a while. Journal: City Pages: 1045-1062 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126222 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126222 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:1045-1062 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2126204_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20220907T060133 git hash: 85d61bd949 Author-Name: Veronica Pecile Author-X-Name-First: Veronica Author-X-Name-Last: Pecile Title: Between urban commons and touristification: radical and conservative uses of the law in post-austerity Southern Italy Abstract: The movement for the urban commons in Southern Italian cities has been facing the increasing touristification of the historic centres, a process of value extraction built on the character of ‘authenticity’ and ‘marginality’ of the urban poor’s living to the external gaze. In this resistance, activists encountered the law both as a counter-hegemonic tool exploited to assert their claims over the urban space and as a governmental technique deployed by the public administration to partially tame their political praxis into bureaucratic frameworks. The law has thus been used both to shelter the marginalised from the effects of touristification and as a means to govern urban space by extracting value from urban poverty. This analysis highlights how movements opposing the commodification of urban poverty could gain political strength from creatively exploiting legal tools, which would allow them to protect the interests of the poor and achieve wealth distribution. It also stresses how urban studies would benefit from integrating the perspective of critical legal studies that considers the law as a battleground for social conflict. Journal: City Pages: 998-1011 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 26 Year: 2022 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2126204 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2126204 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:26:y:2022:i:5-6:p:998-1011 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2181542_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulises Moreno-Tabarez Author-X-Name-First: Ulises Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno-Tabarez Title: rural hauntings, urban spectres: lyrical reflections of a border dweller Journal: City Pages: 1-14 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2181542 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2181542 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:1-14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2172907_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Debbie Humphry Author-X-Name-First: Debbie Author-X-Name-Last: Humphry Title: ‘I’ve always felt these spaces were ours’: disability activism and austerity capitalism Abstract: This paper reflects on City’s interview with the UK activist group, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), examining their practices of resistance within the broader structural frame of austerity capitalism. This enables an exploration of how capitalism has constructed disability as an exclusionary category over time to support the accumulation of wealth, from urban industrialisation to austerity capitalism. The paper also engages with Gargi Bhattacharyya’s argument that austerity is deployed through a post-colonial logic of racialisation, exploring how this notion may be applied to disabled welfare claimants. It also explores her argument that austerity marks a shift towards a post-consent politics but argues that both coercion and consent are key dimensions of state governance that seek to produce public acquiescence to punitive policies that threaten disabled people’s livelihoods and lives. Indeed, the multiple struggles against austerity, including those by DPAC, clearly indicate the failure of moves towards a post-consent politics. The paper demonstrates how the city, therefore, is not only a key site for exclusion but also a central site for resistance. DPAC’s resistances disrupt and contest austerity’s processes and model an alternative prefigurative politics based on collaborative care and the use value of social reproduction. This opens up possibilities for post-capitalist futures and a right to the city based on collective rights and power. DPAC positions itself as both an identity and a class campaign, integrating reformist strategies into a longer-term anti-capitalist agenda and reaching outwards to other urban struggles that are similarly resisting the harms inflicted on bodies and minds by global capitalism. Therefore, building on the work of Mary Jean Hande, this paper argues that disabled people are not simply worthy of inclusion when theorising and constructing anti-capitalist and urban resistance, but are integral to and at the forefront of such struggles. Journal: City Pages: 162-189 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2172907 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2172907 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:162-189 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2180827_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sanjeev Routray Author-X-Name-First: Sanjeev Author-X-Name-Last: Routray Title: Paper struggles: documents, inscriptions, and citizenship negotiations in Delhi Abstract: The paper analyses how documents, particularly ration cards and voter IDs, mediate and constitute urban citizenship claims, especially on the part of the poor to gain access to welfare services in Delhi. It examines how citizenship is claimed, negotiated, performed, and realized through various documentary, inscriptive, and enumeration counter-tactics. Enumeration counter-tactics include letter-writing, office visits, self-surveys, the solicitation of information through the Right to Information policy, and the production of counterfeit documents. In this respect, I argue that the bureaucratic calculations marked by arbitrariness and indeterminacy remain a predominant mode of urban governance and dispossession. Yet these calculations also precipitate counter-tactics by the poor, drawing our attention to the heterogeneous character of the state. The counter-tactics provide an understanding into the ways in which communities implicate themselves with the state by forging relationships, establishing and inventing kinship ties, and subverting social hierarchies in unanticipated ways. Journal: City Pages: 137-161 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2180827 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2180827 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:137-161 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2172911_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Geetika Anand Author-X-Name-First: Geetika Author-X-Name-Last: Anand Title: In the meanwhile or as a gamble: juxtaposing incremental building in informal settlements of Cape Town and Delhi Abstract: Building incrementally, and many times repeatedly, is a reality in informal settlements of the global South. However, the everyday lived experiences and logics of residents in this process are not well documented. Juxtaposing incremental building in the informal settlements of Cape Town and Delhi, this photo essay makes visible the varied form incrementalism takes in these two contexts. It also highlights the drivers that inform and shape the mode of incrementalism—‘in the meanwhile’ in Kosovo, Cape Town and ‘as a gamble’ in Gayatri Colony, Delhi—rooted in the distinct spatial, legal and political contexts of the two cities. Journal: City Pages: 232-246 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2172911 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2172911 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:232-246 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2170694_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Håkan Thörn Author-X-Name-First: Håkan Author-X-Name-Last: Thörn Author-Name: Dominika V. Polanska Author-X-Name-First: Dominika V. Author-X-Name-Last: Polanska Title: Responsibilizing renovation: governing strategies and resistance in the context of the transformation of Swedish housing policy Abstract: This article contributes to the emerging body of literature in the field of urban studies that addresses the classical ‘division of labour’ between analyses of the workings of urban power at the macro- and micro-levels. Our theoretical framework aims to capture how processes of power are exercised in processes of urban restructuring. In the field of gentrification studies there have been calls for theoretical developments based on analyses of various local contexts in which rent gaps may be exploited in similar yet varied ways. We contribute to this discussion through an analysis of governing strategies and protests linked to urban restructuring in the context of the so-called Million Programme in Sweden’s two largest cities. In particular, we address the consequences of public housing companies being forced to operate according to ‘business principles’. Importantly, we demonstrate how advanced liberal government, under the influence of neoliberal ideology, has largely worked through a process of responsibilization. We discern a chain of responsibilization leading from the macro-, via the meso-, to the micro-level – ultimately involving the individual tenant; and highlight how a struggle that we call a politics of responsibility has taken place around each link in the chain. Journal: City Pages: 209-231 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2170694 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2170694 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:209-231 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2178273_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Alberto Vanolo Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Author-X-Name-Last: Vanolo Title: Autistic cities: critical urbanism and the politics of neurodiversity Abstract: Autism and neurodiversity are key topics in current public debate and in the social sciences. A vast multidisciplinary literature has explored spatial dimensions of neurodiversity, particularly by analyzing autistic experiences in private and public spaces and the design of autistic-friendly environments. Building on this literature and by presenting my personal experience as the father of an autistic child, this paper explores connections between critical urban studies and the social and political dimensions of neurodiversity. Focusing on different meanings, positions, and discourses shaping autistic experiences and neurodivergent identities in the capitalist city, the paper draws on the notions of ‘queering’ and ‘cripping’ autism. Lastly, the paper presents four tentative propositions about autistic cities, with two goals in mind: imagining more just, liveable and empowering cities, and suggesting that critical urban studies can themselves be stimulated by the encounter with neurodiversities. Journal: City Pages: 190-208 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2178273 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2178273 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:190-208 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2180826_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sharda Rozena Author-X-Name-First: Sharda Author-X-Name-Last: Rozena Title: Communal interaction and creativity as revolution: resistance to corporate landlords by regulated tenants Abstract: This paper will chart the multiple ways that regulated tenants in my family home of Webb Place, a tenement building in Kensington, London, experience gentrification-induced displacement. I then discuss how community and creativity play a part in their resistance and survival. Landlords and property management companies have subjected regulated tenants, in this specific context, to a long process of ‘slow violence’ and displacement that has included negligence and harassment intended to stress, harm, anger, and ultimately push out residents. Not only does this ‘slow violence’ occur behind the closed door of the building but so does resistance to it. Communal interaction and creativity have helped regulated tenants to mock power structures and repurpose space while also trying to survive the gentrification of their home. While this displacement is not unique to regulated tenants, this paper adds to much-needed theoretical work that centres on regulated tenants—indeed, in-depth analysis of gentrification and displacement among this subfield is essentially non-existent in the UK, until now. Journal: City Pages: 76-105 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2180826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2180826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:76-105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2171948_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sabine Ameer Author-X-Name-First: Sabine Author-X-Name-Last: Ameer Title: Understanding the expression of (in)security, (in)equality and (in)justice in the nuclear suburbs of Pittsburgh Journal: City Pages: 262-266 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2171948 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2171948 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:262-266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2144105_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: José Edgardo A. Gomez Jr. Author-X-Name-First: José Edgardo A. Author-X-Name-Last: Gomez Jr. Title: That other pandemic: COVID-19 as Bogeyman and the rise of urban dystopias Abstract: This survey and analysis of accounts from different countries show how the initial global decline of Covid-19 has been shadowed by the prolongation of instrumental usages of the pandemic that threatens to impede, or even reverse the restoration of societal functioning. This is especially true in cities, where government action upon dense populations is more visible and likely to be felt by citizens. By comparing and categorizing such instrumentalization vis-à-vis theorizing on the way states (or state proxies) determine when ‘states of exception’ exist, this research demonstrates that the recruitment of Covid-19 as a bogeyman of sorts initiates slippage into dystopian urban conditions. The study also shows that such improvisations of public health crises can be located in politics-cum-media discourses, and that information and resource-access asymmetries, insufficient technical capacities and pre-existing vulnerabilities need to be addressed not only through medical intervention, but through clear-headed policies and proactive citizenship in order to dispel negative advantage-seeking behaviors in the face of a shifting pandemic scenario. Journal: City Pages: 106-136 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2144105 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2144105 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:106-136 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2145633_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Bissell Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Bissell Title: Negative urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city Abstract: On-demand digital platforms are shaping processes of urbanisation by transforming governance processes, worker subjectivities and consumption practices. However, claims about such transformations risk ignoring the diverse and often underspecified ways that evaluations about platform urbanism are being made. This paper grapples with our incapacities to know platform urbanism, not as pragmatic barriers that can be overcome, but as limits to be reckoned with. Reflecting on fieldwork encounters with people speaking about on-demand platforms from diverse governance, production and consumption perspectives, the paper foregrounds experiences of unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in platform urbanism. These concepts invite a rethink of the subjectivities involved in evaluating platform urbanism and they provoke questions about the operation of power. The paper argues that attending to these ‘negatives’ provides an alternative counter-political perspective that apprehends both the instability of politics and our practices of judgement. Ultimately, admitting a more aporetic understanding of platform urbanism is not about hobbling our capacities to intervene as urban theorists, but about questioning what intervention might look like and what might be possible. Journal: City Pages: 56-75 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2145633 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2145633 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:56-75 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2169558_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Japhy Wilson Author-X-Name-First: Japhy Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson Title: Apocalypse and utopia in the salvagepunk metropolis Abstract: This paper explores the nature of utopia in the context of our apocalyptic present. Drawing on Evan Calder Williams’ concepts of salvagepunk, it interprets the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon as a (post)apocalyptic metropolis. It excavates the origins of Iquitos in genocidal violence and extractivist destruction, deconstructs the modernising megaprojects designed to rescue the city from its isolated status, and explores the subaltern forms of its everyday production. In doing so, the paper problematises accelerationist and pluriversal fantasies of escape from planetary socioecological breakdown, and discerns an apocalyptic utopia emerging at the urban cutting edge of the Anthropocene. Journal: City Pages: 39-55 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2169558 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2169558 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:39-55 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2149945_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Author-X-Name-First: Jaz Hee-jeong Author-X-Name-Last: Choi Author-Name: Kit Braybrooke Author-X-Name-First: Kit Author-X-Name-Last: Braybrooke Author-Name: Laura Forlano Author-X-Name-First: Laura Author-X-Name-Last: Forlano Title: Care-full co-curation: critical urban placemaking for more-than-human futures Abstract: Can participatory engagements in the form of more-than-human co-creation be a generative form of socially and ecologically-just and critical urban placemaking? In recent years, there has been growing interest across sectors in bringing together diverse needs, desires, and experiences through co-creative processes that foster transformative futures, which involve caring with, and for, specific stakeholders. However, institutionalised and increasingly formulaic approaches to care and participation raise questions of who exactly is being included and excluded, how co-creation is carried out, and to what ends. This article explores three interrelated examples of critical urban placemaking in the arts, interrogating how we might design for liveable urban futures as matters of care. We propose that this is achievable through the critical conceptual lens of ‘care-full co-curation' which prioritises the vital co-existence of all beings, and designs with and alongside the needs and lived experiences of human and other-than-human actors and agencies alike. Journal: City Pages: 15-38 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2149945 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2022.2149945 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:15-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2173401_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Samuel Holleran Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Author-X-Name-Last: Holleran Title: From graves to gardens: Berlin’s changing cemeteries Abstract: Declining burial rates and limited grave tenure mean that many cemeteries in Germany’s capital are largely empty, in contrast to the increasingly crowded city around them. Some have been left to go wild: sprouting trees and underbrush that are home to birds and foxes. Their unsanctioned use—by guerilla gardeners, beekeepers, and dog walkers—is common. In an effort to normalise these activities, the Protestant Cemetery Association invited community groups to ‘activate’ several of their sites, showing a willingness to recast cemeteries as ‘green infrastructure.’ These activations follow a long history of repurposing ‘fallow’ lands in Berlin, which has increased as skyrocketing land values have intensified competition for space. The spatial politics of ‘sunsetting’ burial grounds are complex and highly contingent. Through interviews, photographs, and participant observation, this piece asks how emotionally charged sites for memorialisation transition to neighbourhood amenities, with a particular focus on the power of greening as something bordering on a civic religion in Germany. It also looks at the future of ageing cemeteries that, in the next decade, will close completely. These desanctified lands have been promised twice—as sites for housing and community facilities, and as climate-mitigating parklands—putting densification and urban greening at loggerheads. Journal: City Pages: 247-261 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2173401 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2173401 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:247-261 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2171949_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Richard Ballard Author-X-Name-First: Richard Author-X-Name-Last: Ballard Title: Post-Fordism and urban inequality: the case of Johannesburg Journal: City Pages: 267-269 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2171949 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2171949 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:1-2:p:267-269 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2197550_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn Author-X-Name-First: Maedhbh Nic Author-X-Name-Last: Lochlainn Title: Take back the city: occupation, housing activism, and digital/material contention in post-crash Dublin Abstract: This paper adopts an empirical focus on the everyday practices of Take Back the City, a housing activist campaign in Summer 2018 in Dublin, as an illustration of occupations as digital/material contention. It outlines how the temporary political occupations of vacant buildings were organised and unfolded across a digital/material nexus. I argue that reading occupations as digital/material (a) extends understandings of how urban struggles actually take place in contemporary cities, and (b) highlights the central role of the digital in contentious space-times before, during, and in the wake of temporary political occupations. I use the Take Back the City campaign to explore the relationship between urban spaces, digital technologies, and contemporary housing movements. Echoing recent work on radical urban space-times, I emphasise the digital/material practices and temporalities of the Take Back the City campaign as a useful example for research on the makeshift, improvised, and often uncertain ways in which digital technologies and urban space are now enrolled in struggles over housing futures. Journal: City Pages: 394-412 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2197550 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2197550 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:394-412 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2229695_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Agnes Gagyi Author-X-Name-First: Agnes Author-X-Name-Last: Gagyi Author-Name: Marek Mikuš Author-X-Name-First: Marek Author-X-Name-Last: Mikuš Title: Introduction: boom, crisis and politics of Swiss franc mortgages in Eastern Europe: comparing trajectories of dependent financialization of housing Abstract: This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF) mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of lending as a critical mechanism of the dependent financialization of housing in the region and look at its political and class-based repercussions in the four most significant national cases: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. This introduction reviews and connects the so far largely separate threads of research on CHF lending (on its political economy, partisan and movement politics, and debtors’ experiences), summarizes the case studies, and draws out their key comparative insights. While lending waves originated in the same macrostructural relations and produced similar booms and crises, the management of the crises diverged significantly, depending on macroeconomic conditions, the projects of political elites, and debtors’ class background and modes of contestation. The two main openings for contestation were litigation and political pressure, with varied limitations and results across national contexts. While delivering some important achievements, the politics of debtors’ movements remained limited to a single-issue and legalistic contestation of specific predatory lending practices, which ultimately defended mortgaged homeownership from excessive financial predation. This reflects middle-class debtors’ position in the multi-scalar hierarchies of dependent financialization, and the fact that litigation was the main state infrastructure available for their contestation. We argue that more progressive reactions to housing financialization would require movement infrastructures that are able to address the multiple scales of dependent financialization, and forms of cross-class local organization that are able to pursue agendas beyond available state infrastructures. Journal: City Pages: 560-578 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2229695 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229695 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:560-578 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2223879_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ Author-X-Name-First: Mustafa Kemal Author-X-Name-Last: Bayırbağ Author-Name: Seth Schindler Author-X-Name-First: Seth Author-X-Name-Last: Schindler Author-Name: Mehmet Penpecioğlu Author-X-Name-First: Mehmet Author-X-Name-Last: Penpecioğlu Title: Structural violence and the urban politics of hope in Ankara, Turkey Abstract: This paper examines the role of violence in Turkey’s state-coordinated pursuit of rapid urban transformation. We argue that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) implemented an urban development regime that relied on structural violence to control and distribute urban rent, housing and land. Despite framing this mode of urban transformation as a way to include marginalised urban populations in economy and society, it ultimately proved to be politically and economically unsustainable. In response to resistance, the AKP shifted its strategy to one of coercion in order to maintain control of the pace and scope of urbanisation. We present original research from Ankara and show how this strategic shift unfolded through an analysis of urban policy and planning practice. By highlighting the negotiated nature of Turkey's urban transformation and the limits of structural violence, this paper offers insights into the complexities of contemporary urban politics. Journal: City Pages: 464-482 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2223879 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2223879 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:464-482 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2213123_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mara Ferreri Author-X-Name-First: Mara Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreri Title: Radical difference in ‘transitional commoning’: hidden histories of London’s squats to co-ops Abstract: The wave of organised mass squatting that started in 1969 had a profound impact on London’s geographies, transforming the built environment and enacting different imaginaries and practices of home. Groups excluded from existing housing provision or seeking unconventional forms of collective dwelling turned to occupying publicly owned empty properties and setting up collectively managed homes as a form of precarious housing commons. Infrastructures of mutual support, local alliances and knowledge-sharing made possible for some of them to become formalised into ‘short-life housing co-operatives’ which provided affordable community-led housing for tens of thousands of individuals. Drawing on archival research and in-depth interviews, in this article I take a critical historical perspective to revisit the little-known case of squats that became short-life co-ops in London. I outline how squats and co-ops enabled and responded to the emergence of plural needs and desires at the intersection of multiple forms of oppression and struggles for women, gay and lesbian and Black liberation. I conclude by arguing the need for a research agenda that addresses radical difference in fluid processes of ‘transitional commoning’, to acknowledge and amplify powerful articulations of feminist, queer, and anti-racist reimagining of urban inhabitation. Journal: City Pages: 360-376 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2213123 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2213123 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:360-376 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2182055_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Don Travis Author-X-Name-First: Don Author-X-Name-Last: Travis Author-Name: Wayne Crichlow Author-X-Name-First: Wayne Author-X-Name-Last: Crichlow Title: Gillett Square Stories Abstract: This article by Future Hackney and the Gillett Square Community in London creates a new space for urban documentary work through a participatory project and collaborative authorship. The co-authors of the project are the photographers and the people depicted in the photographs, who also speak through the captions, allowing a wider definition of the auteur. Traditionally documentary photography involves one auteur, often male and an outsider. Wayne and I (Don Travis) are the photographers and we live and grew up around the areas we document and are therefore a part of the community that we engage and collaborate with. Future Hackney has spent the last four years working alongside residents to create images and oral histories of the Caribbean and African communities. This resulted in ‘Gillett Square Stories’ as a space of radical history through the Black experience and a living archive of memories and experiences, connecting past and present. The images and captions presented here express the rich stories of one inner London area that help explain our city’s post and present colonial history. Journal: City Pages: 654-670 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2182055 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2182055 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:654-670 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2230020_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pegah Behroozi Nobar Author-X-Name-First: Pegah Author-X-Name-Last: Behroozi Nobar Title: Zoorabad, a neighbourhood on the shoulders of the urban poor Abstract: This article explores the ‘quiet encroachment' movement that has been taking place in Iran for decades. Led by low-income people, this movement aims to reclaim the right to housing as a basic requirement for living. With a lack of social housing services and other relevant facilities, the urban poor in Iran have taken it upon themselves to informally occupy or purchase public lands, in order to improve their socio-economic situation by avoiding the cost of renting or buying housing in the formal market. One of the neighbourhoods that has undergone this transformation is ZoorAbad, situated on a hill near Tehran. The hill was designated as national public land in 1969, but due to industrial growth, poor people who migrated from villages to Tehran and its proximities were unable to afford formal housing prices so moved to ZoorAbad to build their own homes. In the 1990s, in line with the government’s speculative approach towards land, the Iranian government developed an ‘Improving Plan of ZoorAbad’, aimed at demolishing this informal settlement. It led to the demolition of more than 4000 housing units and the forced displacement of settlers. The two main groups of residents in ZoorAbad—landowners and tenants—have had different capacities to reject the municipality’s offer of purchase or to negotiate with the government. This piece illustrates how the government’s market-oriented approach to address the housing issue in informal neighbourhoods such as ZoorAbad can lead to financial loss and reduced opportunities for local residents. It sheds light on the contemporary grassroot strategies used by the urban poor to address their housing needs in ZoorAbad and the dynamics, strategies and shifting dynamics among various groups. Journal: City Pages: 671-680 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2230020 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2230020 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:671-680 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2214961_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Prince K Guma Author-X-Name-First: Prince K Author-X-Name-Last: Guma Author-Name: Mwangi Mwaura Author-X-Name-First: Mwangi Author-X-Name-Last: Mwaura Author-Name: Eunice Wanjiku Njagi Author-X-Name-First: Eunice Wanjiku Author-X-Name-Last: Njagi Author-Name: Jethron Ayumbah Akallah Author-X-Name-First: Jethron Ayumbah Author-X-Name-Last: Akallah Title: Urban way of life as survival: navigating everyday life in a pluriversal global south Abstract: Southern cities have become increasingly inscribed in broader postcolonial and neoliberal development forces. In tandem with global pandemics, digital threats, and migration and climate crises, these forces have posed critical implications for all residents, decimating the middle class, widening the gap between elites and masses, deepening the cost of living for the urban majority, and making it harder to rise through the ladder. In such an environment, navigating everyday life increasingly becomes synonymous with survival, constituting a proactive process of inhabiting the city, where the self and the urban are always in the making. This paper examines prominent accounts of the urban way of life as survival. We take one large city of Nairobi in eastern Africa as a representative case, highlighting manifold rhythms and ensembles of survival, such as how residents make ends meet, optimize for a soft life, niche social infrastructures, and cultivate technological infrastructures. In their material manifestations, these rhythms and ensembles demonstrate the role and centrality of urban residents as proactive producers and co-creators of multiple urban forms. They draw us to a mode of survival that is continuous rather than intermittent and of inhabitation that is reparative rather than castigatory. Journal: City Pages: 275-293 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2214961 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2214961 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:275-293 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2204718_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Julian B. Hartman Author-X-Name-First: Julian B. Author-X-Name-Last: Hartman Title: Performing community and claiming power in a split field: a review of Contesting Community Journal: City Pages: 686-690 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2204718 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2204718 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:686-690 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2223884_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Brij Maharaj Author-X-Name-First: Brij Author-X-Name-Last: Maharaj Title: Structural violence and the subversion of participatory planning—the struggle for the Warwick Market in Durban, South Africa Abstract: Deprivation, poverty, inequality, forced displacement, psychological harm, lack of public participation in planning and benign neglect are examples of structural violence in cities. In the case of benign neglect, public facilities are deliberately neglected in terms of maintenance and provision of basic facilities—a form of ‘slow violence’. Drawing from qualitative data sources that included participant observation, consultations with legal advisors and court hearings, this paper analyses the different forms of structural violence that were used in early 2009 in the city of Durban to try to replace the century old Early Morning Warwick Market which catered for the poor working class, with a mall. The Municipality’s participatory and consultative approach to upgrade the Warwick Avenue Triangle in the first democratic decade (1994–2004) is contrasted with the subversion of participatory planning in the second democratic decade (2004–2014), as Durban prepared for FIFA 2010. The mall development would have resulted in the loss of an important part of Durban’s history, heritage and culture. A key contention of this paper is that the fatally flawed neoliberal planning fiasco in Warwick Avenue was driven by a top-down process which favoured private corporate interests. The mall project was presented as a public–private partnership. However, in such partnerships local democracy is compromised as the fiscal prospects of local governments become dependent on the business decisions of the private sector. There were serious contradictions evident in the juxtaposition of large-scale public-private partnerships such as the mall, and the threats to displace low-income traders, a process which David Harvey called ‘accumulation by dispossession’. The historical and political processes of accumulated and incremental neglect and stigma which encapsulate ‘slow violence’ contributed to the decay and decline of the Early Morning Market. Attempts to displace traders and replace the market with a mall was basically a political decision, aided and abetted by some senior members in the ruling ANC government hierarchy—a shameful period in Durban’s democratic history. The threats to displace the traders in the Early Morning Market was a form of structural violence, which was reminiscent of the apartheid era. The structural violence of apartheid-capitalism continues at the level of outcomes (non-participation and displacement) even under a changed political structure (democracy), as the ANC government pursues a neoliberal agenda. Journal: City Pages: 501-519 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2223884 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2223884 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:501-519 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2219549_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Himanshu Burte Author-X-Name-First: Himanshu Author-X-Name-Last: Burte Author-Name: Lalitha Kamath Author-X-Name-First: Lalitha Author-X-Name-Last: Kamath Title: The structural violence of spatial transformation: urban development and the more-than-neoliberal state in the Global South Abstract: This Special Feature explores the socio-spatial transformations of cities in the Global South under hybrid neoliberal regimes over the last few decades, which have resulted in significant harm to poor and marginalised groups. Our focus is on identifying the nature of this harm as violence enacted through the very structures – cultural, social, political and institutional – that organise social life. We also aim to illuminate the often contradictory and negotiated responses – ranging from resistance to complicity – of the poor and marginalised populations that disproportionately face such violence. The papers presented offer case studies from four different cities in the Global South and demonstrate the emergence of a state-capitalist nexus around the pursuit of grandiose urban (re)development visions. This nexus is historically and socio-spatially specific but reveals an increased capacity, willingness, and even appetite, for enacting structural violence via diverse mechanisms over long temporalities through interplays between slow and spectacular forms of violence. Journal: City Pages: 448-463 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2219549 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2219549 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:448-463 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2214479_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rowan Tallis Milligan Author-X-Name-First: Rowan Tallis Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan Title: Cracking buildings, cracking capitalism: antagonism, affect, and the importance of squatting for housing justice Abstract: In this paper I argue that squatting provides a concrete and theoretical location for dismantling binaries between successful and failed resistance. Focusing on the development of a political and affective consciousness and the inherent antagonism within squatting above the temporality of an individual squat or occupation helps to recentre the ‘urban political’ and understand the value and power of the urban commons. I combine radical democracy and affect theory to argue for the centrality of squatting in challenging urban capitalist hegemony. Not only does squatting transform consciousness, but the physically and emotionally supportive practices that it engenders helps to return the emotive as well as the political to the urban environment. I support this claim with reference to the successful 2015 Aylesbury occupation in London, which the occupiers approached with affective solidarity and a desire to reclaim space through antagonistic urban insurrection. Journal: City Pages: 413-432 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2214479 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2214479 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:413-432 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2232682_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Title: Polycritical city? Journal: City Pages: 271-274 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2232682 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2232682 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:271-274 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2229199_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mathias Sosnowski Krabbe Author-X-Name-First: Mathias Author-X-Name-Last: Sosnowski Krabbe Title: From laissez-faire lending to the marketization of litigation: the case of Swiss franc debtors in Poland Abstract: This article presents a historical trajectory of Polish Swiss franc debtors, a group consisting of around 700,000 households commonly known as frankowicze, and provides a critical discourse analysis of social debates around their debt crisis. Initially convinced by banks that the franc was a stable currency, debtors saw their outstanding debt and monthly repayments soar after the czarny czwartek (Black Thursday) event in 2015 when the Swiss National Bank unpegged the franc from the euro. Social movements appeared and brought the issue from the private to the public sphere, but no political intervention followed. As a result, a frankowe tsunami of lawsuits is flooding the Polish judiciary with the help of specialized for-profit law firms. As most debtors belong to the middle class and are typically imagined to reside in gated communities or newer suburban developments, they have historically been unlikely candidates for sympathy in media and public discourse. The attempts of contestation, including a pivotal 2019 European Court of Justice verdict, have contributed to a reframing of debtors from failed neoliberal subjects to a group of European consumers whose rights have been infringed by banks. Journal: City Pages: 618-635 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2229199 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229199 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:618-635 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2223880_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Amita Bhide Author-X-Name-First: Amita Author-X-Name-Last: Bhide Title: Structural violence in much more than neoliberal times: the case of slum redevelopment in Mumbai Abstract: This paper examines the concept of structural violence through the lens of slum redevelopment policies in Mumbai. While slum redevelopment is often seen as a welfare policy that gives free houses to slum dwellers, the article argues that it is actually a form of ongoing structural violence that began as a scheme, but over time, has emerged as a regime of socio- spatial control that perpetuates dependence on speculative markets and creates new forms of exclusion. Additionally, the regime based on the unlocking of land values represents a violent social order that slowly changes the narrative and practices of informal settling and strikes at the heart of the political agency and voice of the basti residents. While the outcomes of this order are devastating, they are perpetuated through a facade of rehabilitation and a delegitimization of occupancy urbanism. Journal: City Pages: 483-500 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2223880 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2223880 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:483-500 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2219172_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Min Tang Author-X-Name-First: Min Author-X-Name-Last: Tang Author-Name: Viviana d’Auria Author-X-Name-First: Viviana Author-X-Name-Last: d’Auria Title: Popular cartography: collaboratively mapping the territorial practices of/with the urban margin in Mumbai Abstract: This paper foregrounds the methodological question of how the heuristic research practices of mapping and ethnography operate together to co-produce situated knowledge of/with the urban margin. By critically reflecting on collaborative map-making with young adults in Dharavi (Mumbai), it argues for mapping as an open-ended collaboration in which mappers’ various ‘finding’ and ‘founding’ acts to support the production of situated knowledge of an ever-shifting urban margin. The continuous efforts to make such knowledge visible is through re-reading, re-writing and re-drawing acts. The method prompted by this experience is proposed as ‘popular cartography’. It aims to transcend mappers’ backgrounds, technical skills, and disciplinary biases, and offers a collaborative medium for expressing often overlooked, opaque or difficult-to-describe lived experiences. Journal: City Pages: 321-346 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2219172 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2219172 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:321-346 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2219573_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Pedro Novais Author-X-Name-First: Pedro Author-X-Name-Last: Novais Author-Name: Camilla Lobino Author-X-Name-First: Camilla Author-X-Name-Last: Lobino Title: The conflict over urban land in Vila Autódromo, Rio de Janeiro: mediation through violence Abstract: This paper deals with the conflict over urban land between the City of Rio de Janeiro and the residents of Vila Autódromo, a slum neighbouring the area that would become the centre of activities for the 2016 Olympic Games. The work was based on an action research that lasted five years, accompanied by interviews and fieldwork starting from the third year. City Hall launched a series of initiatives that involved practices of intimidation and different forms of violence to implement an urban project. The residents, in turn, resorted to legal and technical support, producing an abundance of critical material regarding the compromise of social rights and the democratic experience. The case of Vila Autódromo shows that City Hall, through its agents, was able to deal with the ambiguities and imprecisions in the law to pursue its goals. It also demonstrates that resistance can sometimes stall and thwart the reproduction of violent structures, even if at great cost. Journal: City Pages: 541-559 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2219573 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2219573 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:541-559 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2223856_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Milo Miller Author-X-Name-First: Milo Author-X-Name-Last: Miller Title: “We kind of created our own scene”: a geography of the Brixton Rebel Dykes Abstract: The ‘Rebel Dykes’ scene broadly refers to a network of punk anarchist feminists who first came together in the 1980s and were primarily based in squats in the south London neighbourhood of Brixton. As literature on lesbian urban geographies has demonstrated, lesbian identities, histories and communities are brought into being, negotiated and resisted in complex, shifting and specific spatial and temporal ways. Considering ‘lesbian’ and ‘dyke’ together while holding them in tension, this article contributes to this literature. Drawing on interviews with Rebel Dykes and their associates, this article assembles a geography of the Rebel Dykes by attending to spatial, material and infrastructural processes through which the Rebel Dykes—as a scene, a collective, a project—came to be. Formulations of dyke, lesbian and feminist, this article argues, make place and space and are themselves made in and through place and space; it is thus imperative to consider them in relation to and as contingent on the broader, specific histories, relations and spatialities in which they unfold. Further, in exploring anarchist feminist spatialities in 1980s London, this article engages with locations, histories, dynamics and political lineages under-explored in academic literature on British feminism and on squatting in England. Journal: City Pages: 433-447 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2223856 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2223856 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:433-447 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2223854_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Samuel Burgum Author-X-Name-First: Samuel Author-X-Name-Last: Burgum Author-Name: Alexander Vasudevan Author-X-Name-First: Alexander Author-X-Name-Last: Vasudevan Title: Critical geographies of occupation, trespass and squatting Abstract: At the heart of this Special Feature is a commitment to re-thinking the geographies of occupation, trespass and squatting. The interventions gathered below place particular emphasis on the importance of thinking with squatters, and how they, ultimately, seek to re-make the city on their own terms and with their own needs and desires in mind. At stake here, we argue, is a modest experimental form of ‘concept-work’ that is consonant with recent calls for a more fragmentary and open-ended approach to how we think about and inhabit cities. With this in mind, we offer three orientations that, in our view, advance and re-centre existing frameworks around urban occupation, trespass, and squatting: a critical historical perspective; an empirical focus on everyday geographies; and a theoretical lens that re-casts our understanding of spatial politics. Journal: City Pages: 347-359 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2223854 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2223854 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:347-359 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2219572_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ratoola Kundu Author-X-Name-First: Ratoola Author-X-Name-Last: Kundu Author-Name: Shivani Satija Author-X-Name-First: Shivani Author-X-Name-Last: Satija Title: Examining slow and spectacular forms of violence through the politics of redevelopment in Kamathipura Abstract: This paper analyses the contested nature of the redevelopment of historic red-light neighbourhoods and their impact on social–moral–economic relations, using the case study of Kamathipura in Mumbai, India. Specifically, this article highlights the contested nature of the attempted redevelopment of a historic, inner-city ‘red light’ neighbourhood showcasing two kinds of interconnected violence—slow (such as deterioration of infrastructure and dilapidated neighbourhoods due to state neglect) and spectacular (such as massive and planned urban restructurings and spatial transformations)—both founded on a moral argument for sanitising and commodifying space. While redevelopment plans remain largely on paper, the speculation seizes the neighbourhood and restructures social–moral–economic relations causing great harm to vulnerable groups, while leaving several others in a debilitating limbo. We argue that the moral stigma attached to historically marginalised red-light neighbourhoods creates a paradoxical situation where it both prevents sustained municipal intervention and catalyses large-scale redevelopment proposals that mask the insidious violence of neglect by the state. We develop this argument through an in-depth field study drawing from interviews, focus group discussions and life histories conducted between 2014 and 2019 with a range of groups working and living in Kamathipura, one of Asia’s largest and oldest red-light areas located in the island city of Mumbai. This paper traces the complex interlinkages between different forms of violence(s) and the moral regimes that enable and facilitate them through contested claims to the neighbourhood and its uncertain future. Journal: City Pages: 520-540 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2219572 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2219572 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:520-540 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2207248_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: J. Revel Sims Author-X-Name-First: J. Revel Author-X-Name-Last: Sims Author-Name: Carolina S. Sarmiento Author-X-Name-First: Carolina S. Author-X-Name-Last: Sarmiento Title: Squeezed in and pushed out: dual and contradictory displacements in Santa Ana, CA Abstract: This research examines housing insecurity and displacement within a gentrifying context. Through an interpretive analysis of four years of survey data produced through a community-based research (CBR) project on households in the Lacy neighborhood within the City of Santa Ana, California, we find that the neighborhood is simultaneously a site of eviction-based displacement and extreme overcrowding. The results complicate assumptions in the literature regarding the quantification of gentrification and suggest that in addition to direct spatial dislocation and the outward movement of households, highly localized micro-gentrification and regional exclusion may together produce forms of extreme spatial concentration within neighborhoods that make estimating gentrification-induced displacement difficult. Ultimately, by drawing attention to the combination of contrary displacement forms and observable housing deprivation, we argue that the special conditions that have emerged in the Lacy neighborhood are representative of a housing submarket that combines exclusion and insecurity with unequal exchange for renters. Journal: City Pages: 294-320 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2207248 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2207248 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:294-320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2229196_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Petra Rodik Author-X-Name-First: Petra Author-X-Name-Last: Rodik Author-Name: Marek Mikuš Author-X-Name-First: Marek Author-X-Name-Last: Mikuš Title: Moral economies of housing in post-boom Croatia: Swiss franc loans crisis and politics of housing financialization Abstract: This paper traces the Croatian Swiss franc loans crisis and debtors’ movement in the context of the wider politics of housing finance after the 2000s credit and housing boom. The movement mainly contested Swiss franc loans through litigation and demands for regulation of predatory lending practices. This selective and institutional articulation of the issue reflected the urban middle-class background of the movement’s constituency and its ambivalent position of having stakes in the financialized housing regime while resisting some of its consequences. Political and financial elites supported a relaunch of a more regulated version of finance-led, state-subsidized housing provision. The structural conditions resulting from the postsocialist housing privatization and the hegemonic ideology of homeownership have been instrumental in preserving the established model. Even then, the CHF loans experience contributed to a slow and gentle shift in the politics of housing towards a possibility of, and calls for, a less ownership-dominated and financialized model. Journal: City Pages: 579-598 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2229196 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229196 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:579-598 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2229200_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ana Vilenica Author-X-Name-First: Ana Author-X-Name-Last: Vilenica Author-Name: Milan Škobić Author-X-Name-First: Milan Author-X-Name-Last: Škobić Author-Name: Nemanja Pantović Author-X-Name-First: Nemanja Author-X-Name-Last: Pantović Title: CHF-indexed housing debts in Serbia: dependent financialization, housing precarity and housing struggles Abstract: The paper outlines the causes, unfolding and outcomes of the boom and bust of Swiss franc (CHF) loans in Serbia with a focus on their relation to class mobility in the setting of a transition to the market economy that transformed the methods of housing acquisition. This process resulted in an extreme housing precarity and declassing for segments of the post-Yugoslav middle and working classes, which has manifested in their dispossession of secure housing, savings, pensions, and the sense of having social security, working towards one’s own house and building a family. We demonstrate how besides contributing to declassing, housing precarity played a significant role in rendering CHF-indexed housing debt an opening that activated individual and collective strategies of resistance. Resistance by debtors, and its articulation in the public sphere, relied on multiple logics and tactics—from appeals for existing laws to be respected, to demands for a legal codification of the right to home, to the physical prevention of evictions. These sometimes contradictory and competing logics reflected varied social and economic positions of debtors with their related moralities as well as corresponding different reasonings on acquiring housing, social mobility, and approaches to the financialization of everyday life. By combining the analysis of debtors’ personal narratives, public discourses, and the political economy of dependent financialization in Serbia, we flesh out the connection between financialization, housing, ideas about social mobility, post-socialist transformation and declassing. The article reveals how and why predatory loans in post-socialist conditions lead to declassing through precarity and new forms of collective action. Journal: City Pages: 636-653 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2229200 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2229200 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:636-653 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2230770_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Agnes Gagyi Author-X-Name-First: Agnes Author-X-Name-Last: Gagyi Title: FX mortgages in Hungary: political crisis and capitalist reconstruction Abstract: This paper deals with the politics of the boom, crisis and aftermath of foreign currency-denominated (FX) lending in Hungary from the 2000s to the 2010s, focusing on the most problematic CHF loans. Here, the rolling out of FX mortgages was part of the late stage and crisis of Hungary’s neoliberal postsocialist model, and the politicization of the ensuing FX crisis became part of the conservative reorganization of the economy by the post-2010 Fidesz regime. Debtors’ movements formulated their grievances in the vocabulary of popular right wing anti-neoliberal movements of the late neoliberal regime. In the first stage of post-2010 Fidesz governance, they were embraced by conservative political propaganda, yet later repressed politically. Showing how links between debtors’ advocacy and conservative politics changed across time according to the progress of economic reconfiguration, the paper argues for specific attention to the strategic field of localized housing finance politics, beyond the abstract conflict between financial interests and housing needs. Journal: City Pages: 599-617 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2230770 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2230770 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:599-617 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2194156_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Madeleine Hamlin Author-X-Name-First: Madeleine Author-X-Name-Last: Hamlin Title: Racialized policing as urban growth strategy Journal: City Pages: 681-685 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2194156 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2194156 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:681-685 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2197551_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Margherita Grazioli Author-X-Name-First: Margherita Author-X-Name-Last: Grazioli Title: Eurhythmisation and organisational rites of housing squats in Rome Abstract: The paper explores the forms of social reproduction and organisation that punctuate the everyday life of the housing squats that are part of Housing Rights Movements in Rome through the analytical lens offered by Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean cities, with special focus on the concepts ‘eurhythmia’ and ‘rites’. It advances that the spatial transformations, alternative forms of social reproduction and politics envisaged by housing squatters out of necessity can be better understood through the notions of ‘eurhythmisation’ and ‘organisational rites’, that complement/update Lefebvre’s original vocabulary. The analysis is based on empirical materials collected during the author’s activist-ethnography within the Movimento per il Diritto all’Abitare (Movement for the Right to Habitation), focusing on three distinctive features of the housing squats’ habitation in common: the material and immaterial infrastructures of self-defence; the assembly as the time/space of collective habitation and deliberation; the commoning of social reproduction. Journal: City Pages: 377-393 Issue: 3-4 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 07 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2197551 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2197551 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:3-4:p:377-393 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2251851_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Guilberly Louissaint Author-X-Name-First: Guilberly Author-X-Name-Last: Louissaint Title: Zoo York: race, gender, enclosures, and the policing of the West Indian Carnival Abstract: In tracing the controversy-ridden social history of the West Indian Labor Day Carnival in Central Brooklyn, the phrase ‘Zoo York’ emerged as a powerful descriptor of city life as a staged and enclosed spectacle, an ethos that is enunciated by Carnival. The term ‘Zoo York’ was coined by the hip-hop generation of the 1970s. Zoo York is said to have been inspired by the physical, literal zoo in Central Park, but might have been influenced by the major construction projects that enclosed the inner city of New York City decades prior. In this analysis, Carnival is shown to be a method and praxis for examining the racial and gender aspects of the city. This method places the West Indian Carnival within a larger narrative of enclosure that has been critical in the policing of Black cultural aesthetics in the United States and beyond. Journal: City Pages: 697-714 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2251851 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2251851 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:697-714 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2209450_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Mark Davidson Author-X-Name-First: Mark Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson Title: Participatory budgeting as democratization? The post-bankruptcy democratization of Vallejo, California Abstract: Theorists often suggest that participation within the political process is a necessary component of a democratic society. Participation enables power to be distributed throughout society thus ensuring some degree of political equality, a core premise of democracy. Over the past decade, a novel form of citizen participation within city budgeting that was developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil—participatory budgeting—has become an increasingly popular tool for democratizing cities. Participatory budgeting is now used to bring the management of city business, or at least parts of it, back under the control of residents. This article examines the introduction and evolution of participatory budgeting in the City of Vallejo, California. In 2012, Vallejo became the first U.S. city to operate participatory budgeting on a city-wide scale. Introduced after Vallejo’s contentious 2008 bankruptcy, participatory budgeting was implemented to make the city’s government more transparent, accountable and people-led. Each year, around 500 city residents have directly engaged in the process, and all residents vote on which resident-proposed projects they would like to see funded. The City of Vallejo can therefore claim that participation within city government has been increased and enhanced in meaningful ways. However, a critical assessment of Vallejo’s participatory budgeting project questions the extent to which it can be considered an act of democratization. Over its first five cycles of funding, the ability of the project to more equally distribute political power has diminished. Without organized citizens pushing for, and participating in, the process, established political coalitions have reasserted themselves, returning the city’s spending to pre-bankruptcy, pre-participatory budgeting patterns. The lesson of Vallejo’s participatory budgeting experiment is therefore that state-inspired participation in budgeting, even in a more radical form, does not necessarily ensure democratization. Journal: City Pages: 942-961 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2209450 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2209450 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:942-961 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2210965_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Madeleine Pill Author-X-Name-First: Madeleine Author-X-Name-Last: Pill Title: ‘Moving from protest to policy’: civil society responses to carceral governance Abstract: Baltimore’s exclusionary divisions are palpable in the city's long-standing concentration and segregation of its African American population and in its institutions of governance. The city is synonymous with carceral governance, or governance via the criminal justice system and other practices of control, which constrains the political expression of urban citizenship. A focus on the period since the city uprising in 2015, triggered by racist police violence, underlines that the fundamental struggle concerns the democratisation of the city’s governance and how this is envisaged. The research affirms a key schism between incremental change, associated with co-option into the status quo, and visions of radical, transformative change. But considering the choices and activities of three civil society organisations refines this bifurcated understanding of civil society responses to carceral governance. The organisations move from protest to policy by combining outsider strategies, focused on youth leadership development, with insider strategies of collaboration with, and policy advocacy targeted at, different tiers of government. In making choices about when they work with and when they work against the state and city elites, the organisations navigate the co-optive risks of incrementalism when it is perceived as contributing towards their vision of transformative change. Journal: City Pages: 905-924 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2210965 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2210965 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:905-924 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2260197_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Johan Pries Author-X-Name-First: Johan Author-X-Name-Last: Pries Title: Planning in and against the urban commons Journal: City Pages: 1070-1074 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2260197 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2260197 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:1070-1074 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2271716_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Dian Tri Irawaty Author-X-Name-First: Dian Tri Author-X-Name-Last: Irawaty Author-Name: Helga Leitner Author-X-Name-First: Helga Author-X-Name-Last: Leitner Author-Name: Eric Sheppard Author-X-Name-First: Eric Author-X-Name-Last: Sheppard Title: Practicing urban citizenship: housing justice activism from Jakarta’s margins Abstract: Notwithstanding the claims to equality associated with (neo)liberal democratic citizenship, capitalist cities are characterized by stark inequalities in access to land and living space. In response, grassroots movements and marginalized residents are struggling for a more socially and ecologically just urbanism. We conceptualize these movements as democratizing cities by practicing urban citizenship, following the tradition of scholarship that loosens citizenship from its confines as a bundle of rights and responsibilities conferred by nation-states on individuals. Such practices seek to realize existing rights rarely extended to marginalized urban residents and advocate for novel rights, e.g. to shelter, place, the city, and a voice in governance decisions affecting residents’ lives. We analyze the strategies and tactics pursued by Jakarta’s housing justice movement from Indonesia's democratization (reformasi) in 1998 to the present, seeking to assert and expand urban citizenship rights. Creatively moving between existing invited political spaces of citizenship and newly invented spaces, depending on political opportunity structures, movement leadership styles and local circumstances, the movement has experimented with strategies and tactics ranging from confrontation to negotiation, signing political contracts with governors, to now seeking to participate in the formal political process. We critically reflect especially on using a political contract to facilitate rights to place and security of tenure in ‘illegal’ kampungs. We conclude by reflecting on the insights our case study brings to how urban poor social movements’ citizenship practices contribute to democratizing cities and advancing socio-spatial justice. Journal: City Pages: 985-1006 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2271716 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2271716 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:985-1006 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2276600_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Ulises Moreno-Tabarez Author-X-Name-First: Ulises Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno-Tabarez Author-Name: Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero Author-X-Name-First: Tatiana Author-X-Name-Last: Acevedo-Guerrero Author-Name: Lindsay Sawyer Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay Author-X-Name-Last: Sawyer Author-Name: David Madden Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Madden Author-Name: Anna Richter Author-X-Name-First: Anna Author-X-Name-Last: Richter Author-Name: Yimin Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Yimin Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Author-Name: Hanna Baumann Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Author-X-Name-Last: Baumann Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons Title: Pluriversal urbanisms Journal: City Pages: 691-696 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2276600 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2276600 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:691-696 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2270877_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Amanda Tattersall Author-X-Name-First: Amanda Author-X-Name-Last: Tattersall Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Title: Urban people power strategies in a connected world: exploring the patterns of practice, exchange, translation and learning Abstract: Urban social movements, alliances and organisations use a range of strategies to contest injustice and inequality by making urban authority accountable to the ‘power of the people’. While there is irrepressible diversity in the strategies used to build and enact people power across global urban contexts, movement participants rarely start from scratch in developing these strategies. There are patterns of contestation that resonate and circulate between urban movements. This article outlines an approach to analysing the patterning, diffusion and translation of commonly used urban people power strategies in and between cities. To track these strategies, we mapped hundreds of examples of urban people power, conducted field research across a range of cities, and co-designed findings and frameworks at a two week gathering of urban activists from a diverse group of cities. We identified five strategies of people power that are commonly repeated across different urban contexts—playing by the rules, mobilising, organising, prefiguring, and running for office. We outline the key characteristics of these different strategies, and discuss the different channels and forms of diffusion that facilitate their exchange across diverse urban contexts. All forms of diffusion involve the hard work of translation and learning, but this work takes different forms for different strategies. We find that where people power takes on a more visible and modular form it is more able to spread through weak ties and digital channels. However, where people power practices are more practice-based and harder to see, strong ties and personal relationships are often needed to spread the strategy. This is illustrated with a case study of the diffusion and translation of an organising strategy between housing activists in Cape Town and Barcelona. Our research and modelling of people power strategies and diffusion is offered as a contribution to on-going work of movement translation. Journal: City Pages: 962-984 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2270877 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2270877 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:962-984 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2210966_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Rosemary Hancock Author-X-Name-First: Rosemary Author-X-Name-Last: Hancock Title: Faithful democracy: synthesising religious and political practice in the Sydney Alliance Abstract: This article examines the role religious institutions, communities, and individuals might play in democratising 21st-century cities. Based on participatory action research with the Sydney Alliance, a broad-based community organisation in Sydney, Australia, I examine how a civil society coalition attempts to draw religious communities into the political life of the city, the way religious culture and space shapes the political culture of the coalition, and the challenges faced by the coalition in working across religious and nonreligious difference. I argue that political coalitions like the Sydney Alliance that work across diverse worldviews are pulled in two different directions: the effort to democratise and make space for worldview plurality appears to lead to political moderation, despite apparent commitment to progressive social change. Whilst the effort to diversify democratic participation and syncretise the best aspects of religious and secular political cultures has promise, ultimately the contributions of religious organisations to democratisation in Sydney through the coalition is ambivalent. Journal: City Pages: 925-941 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2210966 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2210966 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:925-941 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2269341_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Yawei Zhao Author-X-Name-First: Yawei Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao Title: Throwing the urban and the rural together: unconventional ecological farms in China Abstract: Amidst the backdrop of heightened rural–urban interactions, this article delves into the burgeoning phenomenon of unconventional ecological farms in Dali, a Chinese city that is usually perceived as being on the periphery of the urban world. Employing the planetary urbanization thesis in conjunction with the notion of throwntogetherness, this article explicates the trajectories that underpin the emergence of these peri-urban establishments in a way that displays instances of urbanization. Additionally, this article reveals how ostensibly capitalist moments are intricately interwoven with, and fundamentally contingent upon, the coming together of two reconfigurative forces: (1) the changing aspirations and lifestyle preferences of Chinese urban dwellers, and (2) the increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability in urban governance, a trend that has gained momentum in the country over the past decade. In doing so, this article elucidates the dynamics of rural–urban relationships in contemporary China and highlights the efficacy of a relational approach to unveil the complexities of rural transformations. Journal: City Pages: 759-777 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2269341 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2269341 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:759-777 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2266192_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Suraya Scheba Author-X-Name-First: Suraya Author-X-Name-Last: Scheba Author-Name: Nate Millington Author-X-Name-First: Nate Author-X-Name-Last: Millington Title: Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House Abstract: Understood as a direct claiming and remaking of vacant space by marginalized urban residents, occupations claim the right to housing and disrupt property relations, surfacing conflicting rationalities between different valorizations of land and infrastructure. We are interested in occupation as a reparative practice, intervening into the socio-material fabric of the city, with the potential to remake urban life-worlds. We draw inspiration from scholarship on infrastructural repair, conceived as the necessary labor of sustaining and filling in the gaps of fragile systems of provisioning that would otherwise be abandoned or left to decay. We situate our reflection in Cape Town, at the Cissie Gool House occupation, a former hospital that was vacant when it was occupied in 2017. In paying attention to the labors of endurance at CGH, this paper advances an expanded conceptual framework of repair, conceiving of occupations as a reparative urban infrastructure that includes material and affective practices. Our concern is with the enactment of more emancipatory forms of reparative practices that prefigure more hopeful futures. In thinking with CGH, we draw out a set of practices that can be read as central to sustaining, reclaiming, and future-making, naming these: infrastructural repair, prefiguration, defiant endurance, and refusal. Journal: City Pages: 715-739 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2266192 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2266192 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:715-739 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2272077_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kah-Wee Lee Author-X-Name-First: Kah-Wee Author-X-Name-Last: Lee Title: A pedagogy of anachronism: learning through a misfit between theory and practice Abstract: This paper presents a pedagogy of anachronism where learning occurs through a misfit between theory and practice. It was developed and tested in a class taught from 2016 to 2019, where students repeated Kevin Lynch’s original 1960 experiment on cognitive mapping in a location much smaller in scale and with a very different social composition from the cities that Lynch analyzed. The deliberate misfit transformed a method designed to understand user perception into the very problem itself, provoking students to ask important epistemological questions and recognize the situatedness of theory. A pedagogy of anachronism resists the uncritical instrumentalization of canonical ideas and trains students to think deeply about the normative and epistemological basis of design/planning practice. The paper ends by suggesting different types of misfits that can extend this pedagogy for other learning objectives. Journal: City Pages: 740-758 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2272077 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2272077 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:740-758 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2269786_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: David Jenkins Author-X-Name-First: David Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins Title: (Dis)trust and (defunding) the police Abstract: The density, proximity and anonymity that are characteristic of urban life are often thought to make their spaces conducive to people learning those skills necessary for democracies to function effectively. However, in circumstances where trust between members of a democracy is in short supply, there is also the need to think about how cities can be designed to help manage distrust in ways that are compatible with commitments to democratic forms of government. In this paper, I critically examine a range of strategies that propose to balance trust and distrust through the design, use and management of urban environments. I argue that across this range of strategies—from the privatized security forces operating within gated communities to approaches conceived of as open enough to be described as anarchistic—there is an unexamined and unquestioned assumption that the institution of the police is compatible with democracy. More specifically, these strategies assume that police, adequately reformed and constrained, can help manage distrust between members of a democracy in a way that is compatible with democratic commitments. In contrast, this paper takes seriously the abolitionist argument that authentic democracy requires both a wholesale and complete rejection of the police as an institution and a commitment to develop alternative forms of community safety infrastructure that are used to manage and reduce the effects of distrust within urban space. Journal: City Pages: 850-868 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2269786 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2269786 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:850-868 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2265254_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Lai Ling Lam Author-X-Name-First: Lai Ling Author-X-Name-Last: Lam Title: Reinvented acts of citizenship in Hong Kong: young people's pursuit of democracy through autonomy in everyday life Abstract: This article examines the political imaginaries of youth activists in Hong Kong in the period between the Umbrella Movement of 2014 and the mass protests that began in 2019. Drawing on interviews with young people involved in a range of political movements, it traces the emergence of what I call reinvented acts of citizenship, which emphasise autonomous everyday life practices in the community as a form of citizenship and democratic participation. These are driven by the reflexive practices that are applied in daily life, which tend to inspire a communitarian type of citizenship. Even before the repression of the democracy movement through the 2020 passage of the National Security Bill, young people engaged in this form of citizenship had decided that the pursuit of autonomy in everyday life was a preferable and realistic alternative to struggles which sought to change the structures of representative democracy and rule in Hong Kong. The article charts the emergence of these reinvented acts of citizenship, considers their relationship to other forms of mainstream and activist citizenship in Hong Kong, and speculates on their future prospects as state repression takes hold in contemporary Hong Kong after the imposition of the National Security Law. Journal: City Pages: 1007-1029 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2265254 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2265254 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:1007-1029 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2209446_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jane Wills Author-X-Name-First: Jane Author-X-Name-Last: Wills Title: Bridging the gaps between demos and kratos: broad-based community organising and political institutional infrastructure in London, UK Abstract: This article explores the gap between people and rule (demos and kratos) in democratic societies by exploring the history and practice of broad-based community organising, as applied by London Citizens, United Kingdom (UK). The paper outlines the origins of this model of politics and how it has been translated from the United States to London and the UK. The paper highlights the power of mobilising the demos to put pressure on the decision-making governance structures that determine the kratos. While London Citizens does this through kratos-at-a-distance, the article goes on to explore how hyper-local, neighbourhood-scaled governance structures—‘community councils’—could provide a powerful tool to further connect demos to kratos. Such councils could underpin a democratic revival that combines representation and participation at the scale at which people still live their lives. Journal: City Pages: 890-904 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2209446 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2209446 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:890-904 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2256527_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Elton Chan Author-X-Name-First: Elton Author-X-Name-Last: Chan Title: Take back our city: reclaiming shopping malls in Hong Kong Abstract: Shopping malls have replaced traditional public spaces and become an integral part of urban life in many cities. This paper seeks to explore the role of shopping malls as protest sites in Hong Kong during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protest movement in 2019. As the protests decentralised and filtered throughout the city, shopping malls became sites of protest and battlegrounds between riot police and protesters. In addition to singing and chanting, organising sit-ins, and exhibiting protest art inside shopping malls, protesters also confronted mall employees as well as disrupted businesses. Based on information gathered through media reports, planning and policy documents, as well as ethnographic observations, this paper aims to examine the role of shopping malls in the urban development of Hong Kong, their function as public spaces during the protest movement, and how the politicisation of shopping malls shaped and sustained the protest movement. This paper contends that the protesters’ appropriation of shopping malls not only represented an important first step of reclaiming the right to the city, but also exemplified how such struggle and resistance can be extended beyond traditional protest sites and into different everyday spaces. Journal: City Pages: 778-794 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2256527 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2256527 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:778-794 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2255400_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Friederike Landau-Donnelly Author-X-Name-First: Friederike Author-X-Name-Last: Landau-Donnelly Author-Name: Martin Zebracki Author-X-Name-First: Martin Author-X-Name-Last: Zebracki Title: The politics of restor(y)ing: towards a conflictual approach to art in urban public space Abstract: This paper investigates the political implications of public art using frameworks of conflict and antagonism. We introduce ‘restor(y)ing’ as an analytical scaling device for examining public art’s potential to destabilise official planning processes and reclaim cities through acts of re-telling (restorying) and re-making (restoring) urban spaces. We probe how commissioned/formal and unsolicited/informal public art practices can concurrently operate as artistic activism – or ‘artivism’ – to subvert the status quo in urban contexts that encounter rising socio-spatial inequalities. We deploy restor(y)ing both as an epistemic and real-world commitment to challenging hegemonic powers, and thus amplify activist agendas of marginalised communities. Our argument demonstrates how such politics of restor(y)ing works as a device to unpack conflictual interrelations between ‘æffects’: affects and effects that political public art can invoke simultaneously, yet potentially unevenly. The politics of æffects reveal contestations around public art in urban planning contexts and policies, public communication, and reception. They foreground intended inclusions vs. systemic exclusions (politics of effects) and the emanating impacts on urban belonging vs. alienation (politics of affects). While much public art scholarship accentuates its alleged positive benefits, we attend to the (oft-ambiguous) negative, conflict-attuned æffects of public art. Ultimately, we advocate for an intersectional approach to restor(y)ing urban justice through public artivism. Journal: City Pages: 812-828 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2255400 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2255400 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:812-828 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2225233_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jaime Jover Author-X-Name-First: Jaime Author-X-Name-Last: Jover Author-Name: María Barrero-Rescalvo Author-X-Name-First: María Author-X-Name-Last: Barrero-Rescalvo Author-Name: Ibán Díaz-Parra Author-X-Name-First: Ibán Author-X-Name-Last: Díaz-Parra Title: ‘All our eggs in one basket’: touristification and displacement amidst the pandemic in Seville, Spain Abstract: Touristification refers to the multi-dimensional transformation of an area due to severe and rapid tourism intensification, which can harm that place's inhabitants in different ways. The activity’s boom in the 2010s brought about an exponential increase in short-term tourist rentals (STRs) in traditionally non-tourist areas across cities worldwide, triggering or expanding displacement dynamics. The study delves into the connections between touristification and displacement and how the latter has conditioned neighbors’ lives. As the health crisis abruptly stopped tourist hypermobility, we also question how displacement has been affected and the ways in which it might evolve in the post-pandemic city. We focus on Seville, the capital of Andalusia in southern Spain, a region highly dependent on the tourism and real estate sectors that has annually broken its visitors’ records until the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. We reflect upon how local populations in central and increasingly tourist neighborhoods have experienced expulsion before and amidst the pandemic through thirty interviews with residents and displacees from different socio-economic backgrounds in Seville's historic district. We conclude that the reconversion of STRs into long-term leases during and after the pandemic has resolved little compared with the damage already done. Journal: City Pages: 829-849 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2225233 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2225233 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:829-849 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2271247_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Kurt Iveson Author-X-Name-First: Kurt Author-X-Name-Last: Iveson Author-Name: Amanda Tattersall Author-X-Name-First: Amanda Author-X-Name-Last: Tattersall Title: Democratising cities: introduction Abstract: The world’s cities are plagued by serious ills of injustice, inequality and uneven development. Through hard-fought struggles against these urban inequalities and injustices, cities remain important breeding grounds for forms of democratic action that have the potential to reinvigorate the practice and potential of democracy itself. Contemporary struggles over rights to the city generate new answers to questions at the heart of the democratic ideal. In the everyday battles that take place over the institutions and infrastructures that will shape their everyday lives, urban inhabitants frequently resist the ossification of democracy in its inherited forms. Their struggles not only demand new solutions to the pressing urban challenges they face, they also challenge democracy as it is and make claims about democracy as it should be. As such, the historical geography of democracy maintains a close association with the city. This Special Feature on Democratising Cities brings together a survey of city-scaled possibility, canvassing diverse democratisation strategies across a variety of places. We treat democratisation as a process of extending and enacting a logic of equality as the foundation for legitimate authority in the face of specific problems and injustices. Our focus is on the doing of democratisation, exploring a set of innovative democratic practices that people in cities are employing in their efforts to make a better urban life—from alliances, networks, issue-based movements and citizen platforms to digital strategies, political contracts, participatory budgeting, occupations and alternative lifestyles and communities. We show how these practices of democratisation generate new understandings of the who, what, where, when and how of democracy itself. Journal: City Pages: 869-889 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2271247 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2271247 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:869-889 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2254146_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Sharda Rozena Author-X-Name-First: Sharda Author-X-Name-Last: Rozena Author-Name: Nevada Lynn Author-X-Name-First: Nevada Author-X-Name-Last: Lynn Title: The Real Faces of the Royal Borough: from academic research to art exhibition Abstract: The paper introduces the exhibition, The Real Faces of the Royal Borough. This touring exhibition combines digital portraiture by artist Nevada Lynn and research on gentrification and displacement by urban geographer Sharda Rozena. By focusing on the individual lives and experiences of twelve residents from Kensington and Chelsea, we highlight the everyday impact of gentrification in this London borough, including displacement, transient community, high costs of living and unaffordable rents. The portraits help us to humanise the housing crisis and increase people’s awareness of the injustices that arise from the ongoing gentrification of the Royal Borough. Journal: City Pages: 1052-1069 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2254146 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2254146 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:1052-1069 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2252998_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Jin-Tae Hwang Author-X-Name-First: Jin-Tae Author-X-Name-Last: Hwang Title: Urban commons and the state: critical reflections on Korean experiences Abstract: Recently, urban theorists and activists have led debates on the urban commons in Korea. This study sheds new light on the possibilities and contradictions of the state’s role in constructing urban commons in non-Western contexts, specifically amid Korean developmental urbanisation. Alternatively, I employ the concept of the ‘more-than-local state’ as a way of approaching not only the local state per se but also its inter-scalar interactions with supra-local states, such as the central state and its affiliates, surrounding policy-making processes. I take a critical perspective on what I call the ‘local state trap’ tendency, in which the local state is regarded as the only option for building urban commons. To support my argument, I focus on the urban commons-based urban development research project of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation, an agency affiliated with the central government, from a more-than-local state approach. Although the research project seems to fail to realise its content in practice, it could be understood as a ‘partial success’ in that it broadens our epistemological horizon on the relationship between urban commons and the state for future struggles. Journal: City Pages: 795-811 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2252998 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2252998 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:795-811 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2254166_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20230119T200553 git hash: 724830af20 Author-Name: Aya Nassar Author-X-Name-First: Aya Author-X-Name-Last: Nassar Author-Name: Mayada Madbouly Author-X-Name-First: Mayada Author-X-Name-Last: Madbouly Author-Name: Azza Ezzat Author-X-Name-First: Azza Author-X-Name-Last: Ezzat Author-Name: Abeer Abazeed Author-X-Name-First: Abeer Author-X-Name-Last: Abazeed Author-Name: Nayera Abdelrahman Soliman Author-X-Name-First: Nayera Author-X-Name-Last: Abdelrahman Soliman Author-Name: Menna Agha Author-X-Name-First: Menna Author-X-Name-Last: Agha Author-Name: Chihab El Khachab Author-X-Name-First: Chihab Author-X-Name-Last: El Khachab Author-Name: Amira Elwakil Author-X-Name-First: Amira Author-X-Name-Last: Elwakil Author-Name: Laila Mourad Author-X-Name-First: Laila Author-X-Name-Last: Mourad Author-Name: Mai Taha Author-X-Name-First: Mai Author-X-Name-Last: Taha Title: Objects, memories, and storytelling: experiments in narrating ideas of home Abstract: How do objects narrate the past, the everyday, and interrogate im/possible futures? How do they undo our ‘ideas of home’? What affects do they gather and what subjectivities and different forms of intimacy do they call into conversation? This compendium article brings a visual artist together with nine early career academics researching and archiving fragments from homes in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine (and their global connections). In doing so the piece offers different practices of narrating and visualising stories of and from home. The article moves from bridges and infrastructure to food and clothes and walls. Through attending to these fragments, the authors invoke questions about the ways in which objects archive colonialism, resistance, revolts, neoliberalism, consumerism, dispersion, migration, and exile. At the core of the article is the visual artist Azza Ezzat’s creative interpretation of these nine stories, with a visual rendition that asks how fragments of home become interwoven aesthetically. Ezzat is an Egyptian visual artist whose practice relies on unpacking urban elements and recreating an alternative geography of urban space. Journal: City Pages: 1030-1051 Issue: 5-6 Volume: 27 Year: 2023 Month: 11 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2254166 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2254166 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:27:y:2023:i:5-6:p:1030-1051 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2320005_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: D. Asher Ghertner Author-X-Name-First: D. Asher Author-X-Name-Last: Ghertner Title: Scripts, scribes and scribbles: notes on drafting the South Asian city Abstract: This paper explores the framework of ‘city drafting’ used in this Special Feature to highlight the inscriptive and documentary processes underpinning property making in South Asia. It considers two senses of drafting: as provisional and iterative writing process that sees texts as objects in motion, and as the technical art of drawing, notation, and inscriptional verification. It argues that the papers in this Special Feature, through their focus on city drafting, demonstrate the continuity of what Raman [2012. Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press] calls ‘document raj,’ or a colonial bureaucratic system that grounds the logic of property in documentary possession and that administers property through specific dispositions to writing. How property is known and hence possessed rests on a certain grammatology of the state, which can be understood through three ethnographic objects: scripts, or the historically specific orthographic and inscriptive rules for how property is written; scribes, or the bureaucrats and associated technical experts whose graphical and grammatalogical knowledges shape how property is made and unmade; and scribbles, or the notations, jottings, and markings that indexically draw land and documents into different relations. This Special Feature’s ethnographic focus on these three objects reveals the embeddedness of contemporary property and city making mechanisms in colonial documentary practices, thereby showing the epistemological limits of private property both in global metropolitan theory and as fungible economic form. Journal: City Pages: 113-120 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2320005 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2320005 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:113-120 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2180829_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Fabian Beran Author-X-Name-First: Fabian Author-X-Name-Last: Beran Author-Name: Henning Nuissl Author-X-Name-First: Henning Author-X-Name-Last: Nuissl Title: Assessing displacement in a tight housing market: findings from Berlin Abstract: Displacement from one’s home is a contested issue, not only in actual urban politics but also in urban research. Empirical studies rely on rather different notions of displacement, which makes a coherent picture of the phenomenon difficult to obtain. In this article, we first deal with the conceptual ambiguities in the debate on displacement so as to carve out an empirically viable definition of direct displacement that focuses on the decision-making process before a relocation. We then present and discuss our own empirical findings on displacement. Finally, we reflect on possible conclusions one could draw from these findings in relation to housing policy. Our empirical results come from a survey we conducted of more than 2,000 tenants who had recently moved from their homes in Berlin, Germany. We found that more than 15% of the respondents had experienced direct displacement. A rent increase after refurbishment or the selling of the property proved to be the most common triggers of displacement. Addressing these particular issues therefore appears to be critical to curbing displacement in tight housing markets. Journal: City Pages: 189-206 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2180829 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2180829 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:189-206 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2325755_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Juliana Canedo Author-X-Name-First: Juliana Author-X-Name-Last: Canedo Author-Name: Luciana da Silva Andrade Author-X-Name-First: Luciana da Silva Author-X-Name-Last: Andrade Title: Towards an insurgent urbanism: collaborative counter-hegemonic practices of inhabiting and transforming the cities Abstract: This article proposes a debate anchored in a dialogue between concepts of insurgent planning and humane urbanism and the idea of a subaltern urbanism through the lens of a critical reflection on the role of city-building professionals. The paper explores the idea of an insurgent urbanism as a collaborative praxis of city design and development that arises from the protagonism of marginalised communities and the accumulative knowledge of social movements, activists and scholars. It focuses on three different learning dimensions based on the experience of teaching/research actions developed at a self-organised squat in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 2018 and 2022. Dialoguing with ideas of social learning, it shows that these practices have created a relevant exchange of different types of knowledge and have contributed to the development of other solutions that challenge the hegemonic and neoliberal city production and can therefore be seen as alternatives for the development of more egalitarian and imaginative futures that expand beyond the context of squats in Brazil. Journal: City Pages: 121-142 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2325755 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2325755 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:121-142 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2322785_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Shubhra Gururani Author-X-Name-First: Shubhra Author-X-Name-Last: Gururani Title: Property-work, work of property: figuring land and caste in an urbanizing frontier Abstract: Property talk has gained a new amplitude amid soaring land prices in India’s agrarian-urban frontier. This article focuses on what is colloquially described as property ka kaam—property-work and ethnographically traces how property is continually made and remade on the ground. It heuristically identifies some of the key figures—the private developer, the religious leader, and the land broker—who, in their own specific ways, creatively improvise and draft the contours of an urbanizing frontier. It draws attention to everyday practices and discourses through which agropastoral land is turned into urban real estate and shows how the figures, working at different scales and capacities, navigate the complexly layered social-spatial dynamics of caste, class, community, and brotherhood to secure widespread consensus about urban transformation and coproduce an emergent agrarian-urban geography. This article opens a window into the opaque and dense world of property and highlights the contingent nature of property and place- and caste-based connections that undergird property-work. Journal: City Pages: 64-83 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2322785 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2322785 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:64-83 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2315876_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Ceall Quinn Author-X-Name-First: Ceall Author-X-Name-Last: Quinn Title: A more-than-human grammar of the urban Journal: City Pages: 293-296 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2315876 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2315876 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:293-296 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2213462_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Raffael Beier Author-X-Name-First: Raffael Author-X-Name-Last: Beier Title: Displaced but happy? Making sense of shantytown dwellers’ divergent views and experiences of resettlement in Casablanca Abstract: While researchers have observed a global rise in displacement, many countries in the Global South have set up large-scale housing programmes, aiming to ensure access for all to ‘affordable’ and ‘adequate’ housing. For residents of Casablanca’s shantytowns, this has created a paradoxical situation—enhanced displacement threats and hopes to be soon moving into a higher-quality home. The situation challenges common conceptualisations of displacement seeing it as a merely negative, forced moving. Therefore, this paper opens up the debate on how to account for heterogeneous or even contradictory experiences of displacement. Through the example of shantytown resettlement in Casablanca, it calls for more people-centred empirical research that explicitly acknowledges internal neighbourhood diversity and difference. Promising approaches may focus on displaceability, the analysis of people’s residential trajectories, and heterogeneity within post-displacement perspectives. Journal: City Pages: 207-225 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2213462 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2023.2213462 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:207-225 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2310463_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Carmel Christy K J Author-X-Name-First: Carmel Author-X-Name-Last: Christy K J Title: Women protestors from the islands in Kochi: environmental justice in South Asia Abstract: The island cluster in the South Indian port city of Kochi has been the site of immense development activities since the 2000s. Thickly populated by shore communities and other caste-oppressed groups, the islanders struggled and mobilised themselves against development projects which threatened their livelihood and marine ecology. One such protest against the Liquefied Petroleum Gas terminal of the Indian Oil Corporation in Puthuvype, a scenic island off the Arabian sea, went on for over a decade. The protestors, including large numbers of women, sustained their struggle despite the state repression in various forms and thereby inserted the need for environmentally and locally conscious development as a necessary step towards social justice. An analysis of this protest signposts the need to acknowledge environmental injustice towards marginalised communities, including shore communities, to deliberate about locally nuanced and relevant development for sustainable eco-futures in South Asia. Journal: City Pages: 280-292 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2310463 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2310463 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:280-292 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2320520_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Tanya Chaudhary Author-X-Name-First: Tanya Author-X-Name-Last: Chaudhary Title: The making of a peripheral town in Delhi Metropolis through the displacement of Basti dwellers Abstract: This paper reflects upon the aftermath of the eviction of working-class communities from the core locations of Delhi to Narela, over 42 kilometres from Delhi’s centre. The evictees were previously residing in ‘informal settlements’, which are colloquially known as bastis or labelled as ‘slums’ in policy documents. Drawing on interviews and focused group discussions, the paper examines the impact of displacement as experienced by the basti residents. I highlight the struggles that residents faced while making ‘home’ in their new area. Familiarity, repetition, networks, and safety are the few aspects I engage with to explain the process of placemaking in the city. I argue that displacement should be understood beyond the idea of physical dislocation. It should be seen through the lens of ‘place’ and how a place is constructed over a period of time against the larger spatial order that is produced in the cities. The paper contributes to academic understanding of the varying experiences of displacement within the affected communities and the contestations which produce spaces on the margins of cities in the Global South. Journal: City Pages: 226-254 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2320520 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2320520 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:226-254 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2322784_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Sangeeta Banerji Author-X-Name-First: Sangeeta Author-X-Name-Last: Banerji Title: Fixing Bhim Nagar: a new metonym for subaltern urbanism Abstract: This article investigates the processes and politics of slum demolitions in the megacity of Mumbai. Scholars of subaltern urbanism have celebrated the political agency and entrepreneurial ability of the metonymic slums in Mumbai. This article argues instead that paying close attention to the dynamics of the lived realities within informal settlements directs us to the limits of ethnographic and archival imagination where fixers operating within the ‘para-legal’ are practicing a new subaltern urbanism, one that is attentive to the complexity of community within the metonymic slum. Through a detailed analysis of the practices of two fixers, this article shows how, by placing themselves at crucial nodes in the demolition and rehabilitation process, the fixers, on the one hand, were able to delay the displacement of residents; on the other, they created hierarchies in the distribution of resettlement benefits. Focusing on the quotidian practices of fixers operating within the demolished informal settlement brings forth a complicated and contradictory politics that ensure the existence of diverse non-privatized land tenures in the city. Journal: City Pages: 24-43 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2322784 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2322784 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:24-43 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2324212_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Varun Patil Author-X-Name-First: Varun Author-X-Name-Last: Patil Title: From bureaucratic practice to competing policy: examining the durable and redistributive nature of land regularization politics in Bangalore Abstract: This article examines the politics of land regularization pushed for by lower and middle-income groups across various sites post the expansion of Bangalore in 2006, which has created numerous non-master planned settlements, especially in peri-urban areas. I argue for a rethinking of the debates on urban informality in Global South urbanisms through a focus on this politics. I describe the production of the urban through an ethnography of land’s social and administrative embeddings, which pays close attention to the historical and competing claims on land and the institutional complexity of bureaucracy. I also foreground the interpretative frames of residents, rather than planning codes. This methodological approach reveals how non-plan actors channelize various bureaucratic modalities, including higher state spaces, in order to negotiate and co-produce land policy. In sum, the article reveals how this mode of urbanization arises due to the state’s need to navigate complex rival claims on land and residents’ push for more equitable redistribution. This contests the sweeping diagnosis of land grab, failures of Master Planning, and the reckless extension of free markets on land, which usually frame analyses of urban informality. Journal: City Pages: 84-100 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2324212 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2324212 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:84-100 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2315873_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Zoë Ritts Author-X-Name-First: Zoë Author-X-Name-Last: Ritts Title: Designing justice in the city Journal: City Pages: 297-303 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2315873 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2315873 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:297-303 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2322383_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Shermeen Bano Author-X-Name-First: Shermeen Author-X-Name-Last: Bano Title: Geography of police repression and regulation of street based khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore Abstract: This paper looks at street-level strategies employed by the police in their everyday interactions with khwaja sira sex workers using the lens of peripheralization. The findings of this study, based on 35 in-depth interviews with street-based khwaja sira sex workers in Lahore, suggest three important strategies of police repression. These include territorialization; securitization and manipulation of violence across urban centers and peripheries. The paper argues that police repression of khwaja sira sex workers serves to disconnect them from urban centers, key social ties and safety nets, and socio-economic resources critical for their respectful survival in the city. The result is the peripheralization of khwaja sira individuals and their communities, increased dependence on precarious/traditional forms of khwaja sira livelihoods including sex work, and production of difference and marginality. Journal: City Pages: 143-160 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2322383 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2322383 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:143-160 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2322788_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Sheema Fatima Author-X-Name-First: Sheema Author-X-Name-Last: Fatima Title: Categorizing land: an account of leftover land in Patna Abstract: This paper is an account of Bihar State Housing Board (BSHB) and its role in allocating housing and land from the 1970s onwards in Patna. The housing board typifies the bureaucratic practices of property-making at its best and demonstrates how the bureaucracy strategically aligned itself with caste-driven state politics. The unstable nature of forward–backward caste-based partisan politics meant politicians made unceasing efforts to garner support to stay in power including that of the bureaucrats who had far more control and knowledge about administration rules. By creating the discretionary category of chit-put land, loosely translated as leftover or not useful for anyone, an elaborate rationale was created for land allocation. This flexibility was used for carving out new land parcels for the high-income and middle-income category in Patna. The board dexterously encroached on the land allocated for the urban poor in whose name the land acquisition was undertaken at the outset. Using minutes of the meetings of BSHB, the paper also argues for alternative approaches for drafting and mapping the spatial history of a non-metropolitan city without a master plan and maps. Journal: City Pages: 44-63 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2322788 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2322788 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:44-63 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2322786_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Tariq Rahman Author-X-Name-First: Tariq Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman Title: Shaky ground: the fraud of property in Lahore Abstract: The city of Lahore, Pakistan inherited a colonial land bureaucracy in which land is owned according ‘rights in land’ rather than ‘rights to land’. Unlike the absolute ownership provided by state-backed titles, rights in land is merely a presumption of ownership until proven otherwise, creating a permanent gap between ownership and property. These gaps are investigated by patwaris, or lower-level bureaucrats who confirm rights in land before property is sold. Against the backdrop of Pakistan’s booming real estate market, however, land has become Lahore’s most profitable financial asset, and the gap between ownership and property is increasingly exploited to wrangle control over land from others. In this context, ‘fraud’ has become a constant point of concern for both patwaris and residents, each of whom use fraud at various times to negotiate Lahore’s colonial-era bureaucracy with the present-day demands of living in the city. In this article, I argue that fraud mediates property relations in Lahore. In the city, all property is potentially fraudulent, and all fraud can potentially become property. Rather than a fixed relationship between ownership and property, Lahore’s land bureaucracy is characterized by continuously unfolding property relations as new loops of fraud are opened and old ones close. Journal: City Pages: 101-112 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2322786 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2322786 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:101-112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2315883_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Paul Watt Author-X-Name-First: Paul Author-X-Name-Last: Watt Author-Name: Alan Morris Author-X-Name-First: Alan Author-X-Name-Last: Morris Title: Special Feature: Putting urban displacement in its place Abstract: This paper offers a critical analysis of urban displacement and acts as an introduction to the Special Feature: ‘Putting urban displacement in its place’. It begins by noting the magnitude and significance of displacement, and summarises its constituent components. Drawing upon the work of Hirsh, Eizenberg and Jabareen [2020. “A New Conceptual Framework for Understanding Displacement: Bridging the Gaps in Displacement Literature between the Global South and the Global North.” Journal of Planning Literature 35 (4): 391–407], the paper then outlines four kinds of urban displacement processes which span cities in the Global South and North: development-induced displacement, slum clearance, eviction, and gentrification. Brief consideration is also given to the significance of studentification, touristification, and austerity for driving urban displacement. Next the paper explores three crucial issues regarding the conceptualisation of urban displacement: temporality, vulnerability to displacement, and its emotional impacts. The following section discusses rehousing/resettlement and post-displacement experiences. We then examine the contested relationship between displacement and gentrification. The penultimate section outlines some of the methodological challenges in undertaking research on displacement, and also returns to the theme of placing urban displacement via a discussion of urban politics. The final section summarises the four papers in the Special Feature. Journal: City Pages: 161-188 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2315883 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2315883 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:161-188 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2321024_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Indivar Jonnalagadda Author-X-Name-First: Indivar Author-X-Name-Last: Jonnalagadda Author-Name: Thomas Cowan Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Cowan Title: City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia Abstract: This Special Feature explores the negotiated bureaucratic politics shaping urbanization in South Asia. City drafting refers to the flexible and contextual practices, procedures and policies required to haul diverse property regimes into order and provisionally render urban land clear and settled. The drafted city, we argue, is necessarily provisional and uneven, left open to politicised remapping, redrafting and resettlement by a host of institutionally embedded brokers, bureaucrats, clerks and surveyors each wielding their own political and socio-technical vision of land. These drafting practices, not only shape a politics of uneven urbanisation in South Asian cities, but also help to explain the persistent fractal morphology of urban property in South Asia; spanning categories of public, private, non-private, commons, unauthorised, regularised, agrarian, urban and so on. While the South Asian city is commonly understood through the high-resolution imagery of masterplanners, policymakers and investors, city drafting methodologically focuses on the grounded bureaucratic struggles of the map, plot, record and title, through which claims to property rights, exclusions and access are shaped. Journal: City Pages: 7-23 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2321024 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2321024 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:7-23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2323388_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz Author-X-Name-First: Ammar Author-X-Name-Last: Azzouz Title: Erased city Journal: City Pages: 1-6 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2323388 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2323388 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:1-6 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 # input file: CCIT_A_2318826_J.xml processed with: repec_from_jats12.xsl darts-xml-transformations-20240209T083504 git hash: db97ba8e3a Author-Name: Thomas Aguilera Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Author-X-Name-Last: Aguilera Title: The political use of informal settlements as a reserve of undesirability: displacement, confinement and informality in Madrid Abstract: In the 2010s, more than 10,000 people were still living in informal settlements in Madrid while clearance and rehousing policies had been implemented since the 1960s. This persistence is due to the fact that the policies have always been selective, combining instruments for filtering the populations accepted for rehousing and evicting those considered unsuitable. This article shows that informal settlements have been made governable by (re)creating and (re)shaping zones of informality which ensure a role of reserve of undesirability through displacement, confinement and informalization of informal settlements dwellers: to make rehousing and social policies viable in the city centre, regional policies have relied on spaces of confinement at the margins of the city which have ensured the role of hosting, channelling and controlling the most marginal population built as a ‘surplus’. The article combines a historical political sociology perspective using archives and statistical analysis to explain the institutionalization of the policies and their socio-spatial effects on the long term. A multi-situated ethnography is also used to investigate the governance of informal settlements policies and their socio-spatial effects in the 2010s. Journal: City Pages: 255-279 Issue: 1-2 Volume: 28 Year: 2024 Month: 03 X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2024.2318826 File-URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13604813.2024.2318826 File-Format: text/html File-Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:28:y:2024:i:1-2:p:255-279