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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Gil M Doron
Author-X-Name-First: Gil M
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Max Pensky
Author-X-Name-First: Max
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Title: Editorial
Journal: City
Pages: 145-147
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2008
Month: 7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Zephyr
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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
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Author-Name: Colt .45
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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
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Author-Name: Eine
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Title: Shutters
Journal: City
Pages: 158-159
Issue: 1-2
Volume: 14
Year: 2010
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810903529209
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Year: 2011
Month: 8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Paula Lokman
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Lokman
Title: Introduction
Journal: City
Pages: 441-442
Issue: 3-4
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Year: 2011
Month: 8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Year: 2011
Month: 8
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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
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Year: 2011
Month: 8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Year: 2011
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2011.609024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Year: 2011
Month: 12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Bob Catterall
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Title: Introduction: From a mainstream to a critical narrative
Journal: City
Pages: 313-314
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
Month: 6
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Bob Catterall
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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
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Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall
Title: Editorial
Journal: City
Pages: 391-394
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
Month: 8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-X-Name-Last: Collective
Title: Athens 2004
Journal: City
Pages: 461-467
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
Month: 8
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Author-Name: Nick Wolff
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Author-X-Name-Last: Wolff
Title: Games Monitor
Journal: City
Pages: 468-473
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
Month: 8
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Title: Notes on NEOutopia
Journal: City
Pages: 595-606
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
Month: 10
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson
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Author-X-Name-Last: Atkinson
Title: Introduction
Journal: City
Pages: 68-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: George Jose
Author-X-Name-First: George
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Title: in Vasai Virar
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Victoria Nguyen
Author-X-Name-First: Victoria
Author-X-Name-Last: Nguyen
Title: Slow construction
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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
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Author-Name: Timothy Karis
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Author-X-Name-Last: Karis
Title: The wrong side of the tracks
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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
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Author-Name: Katharina Bodirsky
Author-X-Name-First: Katharina
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Title: Between equal rights force decides?
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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
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Author-Name: Marco Santangelo
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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
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Author-Name: Laura Kemmer
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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
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Author-Name: Bob Catterall
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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
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Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes de Souza
Title: Urban eco-geopolitics
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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
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Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo
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Title: Unprecedented natures?
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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
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Author-Name: Dimitris Dalakoglou
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris
Author-X-Name-Last: Dalakoglou
Title: Infrastructural gap
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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
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Author-Name: Chiara Rabbiosi
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Rabbiosi
Title: Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons
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Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbons
Title: Linking race, the value of land and the value of life
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Adrian Atkinson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Title: Erratum
Journal: CITY
Pages: 758-758
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.741772
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Author-Name: Margit Mayer
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Bob Catterall
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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
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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
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: CITY
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2012.753748
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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
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Author-Name: Brian Doucet
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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
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Author-Name: Enikő Vincze
Author-X-Name-First: Enikő
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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
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Author-Name: Richard Barras
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Andrew Clarke
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke
Title: The governance of mundane urban nuisances
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Hanna Baumann
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Baumann
Title: Disrupting movements, synchronising schedules
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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Author-Name: Liz Koslov
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: Koslov
Title: How maps make time
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Matthew Beaumont
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Beaumont
Title: The politics of the visor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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Author-Name: Matthew Gandy
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Gandy
Title: Cities in deep time
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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
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Author-Name: Louis Moreno
Author-X-Name-First: Louis
Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno
Title: Always crashing in the same city
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Ilse Helbrecht
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Alex Loftus
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Loftus
Title: Planetary concerns
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sukriti Issar
Author-X-Name-First: Sukriti
Author-X-Name-Last: Issar
Title: Editorial: We have never been urban
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Dominik Bartmanski
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bartmanski
Author-Name: Martin Fuller
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Fuller
Title: Reconstructing Berlin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Riina Lundman
Author-X-Name-First: Riina
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundman
Title: Spatial responsibilities during informal public events
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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
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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
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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
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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
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‘ … 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
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Title: Banksy’s subversive gift
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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
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Title: Corrigendum
Journal: City
Pages: 312-312
Issue: 2
Volume: 22
Year: 2018
Month: 3
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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
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Title: Editorial: Grounding technical democracy and critical urban studies
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‘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
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bobbette
Title: Contortions of the unconsolidated
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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
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Author-Name: Ignacio Farías
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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
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Author-Name: Ignacio Farías
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Title: Devising hybrid forums
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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
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Author-Name: Eduardo Ascensão
Author-X-Name-First: Eduardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ascensão
Title: Interfaces of informality
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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
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Title: Cultivating torment
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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
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Author-Name: Anders Blok
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Title: Assembling urban riskscapes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Title: The future with Chinese characteristics
Journal: City
Pages: 645-649
Issue: 4
Volume: 20
Year: 2016
Month: 7
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Author-X-Name-Last: Moses
Title: Whiter than white
Journal: City
Pages: 650-653
Issue: 4
Volume: 20
Year: 2016
Month: 7
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Title: Editorial
Journal: City
Pages: 121-122
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2006
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Author-Name: Ernesto Capello
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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
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Author-Name: Amos Nascimento
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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
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Author-Name: Themis Chronopoulos
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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
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Author-Name: Ian Gordon
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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
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Author-Name: Michael Edwards
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Hisham Ashkar
Author-X-Name-First: Hisham
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashkar
Title: The role of laws and regulations in shaping gentrification
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Mona Khechen
Author-X-Name-First: Mona
Author-X-Name-Last: Khechen
Title: The remaking of Ras Beirut
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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
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Author-Name: Bob Catterall
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Author-X-Name-Last: Catterall
Title: Editorial: Trumped? Some groundings
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‘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
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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
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Author-Name: Michael Byrne
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
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Title: Bad banks and the urban political economy of financialization
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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
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Author-Name: Nils C. Kumkar
Author-X-Name-First: Nils C.
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Title: The meaning of the park
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Stephen Graham
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Graham
Title: Vanity and violence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Athina Arampatzi
Author-X-Name-First: Athina
Author-X-Name-Last: Arampatzi
Title: Territorialising social movements
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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
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Author-Name: Günter Gassner
Author-X-Name-First: Günter
Author-X-Name-Last: Gassner
Title: Wrecking London’s skyline?
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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
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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?’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Monika Grubbauer
Author-X-Name-First: Monika
Author-X-Name-Last: Grubbauer
Title: In search of authenticity
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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
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Author-Name: Graham Owen
Author-X-Name-First: Graham
Author-X-Name-Last: Owen
Title: The shotgun of selective belonging
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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
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Author-Name: Guy Julier
Author-X-Name-First: Guy
Author-X-Name-Last: Julier
Title: Consultant social design, austerity and citizenry
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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
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Author-Name: Marcus Willcocks
Author-X-Name-First: Marcus
Author-X-Name-Last: Willcocks
Title: Building social? More like designing to afford contestation
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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
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Author-Name: David Coyles
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Coyles
Title: The security-threat-community
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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
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Author-Name: Hanna Katharina Göbel
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna Katharina
Author-X-Name-Last: Göbel
Title: Users with/out bodies
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‘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
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Author-Name: Sandra Uskoković
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Uskoković
Title: Choreographing architecture
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‘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
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Author-Name: Camillo Boano
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Author-Name: Giorgio Talocci
Author-X-Name-First: Giorgio
Author-X-Name-Last: Talocci
Title: Inoperative design
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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
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Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss
Author-X-Name-First: Fran
Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkiss
Title: Socialising design? From consumption to production
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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
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Author-Name: David J. Madden
Author-X-Name-First: David J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Madden
Title: Editorial: A catastrophic event
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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
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Author-X-Name-First: Joshua K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Leon
Title: Global cities at any cost
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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
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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
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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
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Title: Towards a paradigm of Southern urbanism
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Paul Waley
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Joshua Evans
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Stephen Graham
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Graham
Title: Elite avenues
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Gordon MacLeod
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: MacLeod
Title: The Grenfell Tower atrocity
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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
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Author-Name: John Hutnyk
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Title: Marx in Calcutta
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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
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Title: Participatory budgeting, austerity and institutions of democracy
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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
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Author-Name: William Kutz
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Author-X-Name-Last: Kutz
Title: Financialization interrupted
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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
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Author-Name: John Hutnyk
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hutnyk
Title: The museum of vernacular regeneration
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Emma Arnold
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Arnold
Title: Aesthetics of zero tolerance
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Mirza Tursić
Author-X-Name-First: Mirza
Author-X-Name-Last: Tursić
Title: The city as an aesthetic space
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Muna Guvenc
Author-X-Name-First: Muna
Author-X-Name-Last: Guvenc
Title: Propositions for the emancipatory potential of urban spectacle
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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
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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’
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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
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Author-Name: Alberto Vanolo
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Vanolo
Title: Scenes from an urban outside
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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
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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
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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’
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‘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
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Author-Name: Maximilian Sternberg
Author-X-Name-First: Maximilian
Author-X-Name-Last: Sternberg
Title: Transnational urban heritage?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Luiza Bialasiewicz
Author-X-Name-First: Luiza
Author-X-Name-Last: Bialasiewicz
Title: ‘That which is not a mosque’
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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
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Author-Name: Oli Mould
Author-X-Name-First: Oli
Author-X-Name-Last: Mould
Title: The Calais Jungle
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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
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Author-Name: Paolo Cardullo
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Cardullo
Title: Gentrification in the mesh?
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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
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Author-Name: Caspar Pearson
Author-X-Name-First: Caspar
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearson
Title: The imaginative struggles of Europe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Judith Verweijen
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Verweijen
Title: Luddites in the Congo?
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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
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Author-Name: Philip Proudfoot
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
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Title: The smell of blood
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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
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Author-Name: Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Cabrera Pacheco
Title: Primitive accumulation in indigenous Mexico
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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
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Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo
Author-X-Name-First: Pushpa
Author-X-Name-Last: Arabindoo
Title: Editorial: A geology of Marx?
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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
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Editorial
Journal: City
Pages: 173-174
Issue: 2
Volume: 4
Year: 2000
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604810050147802
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Jason Hackworth
Author-X-Name-First: Jason
Author-X-Name-Last: Hackworth
Title: Urban crisis as conservative bonding capital
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sam Johnson-Schlee
Author-X-Name-First: Sam
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson-Schlee
Title: What would Ruth Glass do?
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Alaina De Biasi
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Title: Squatting and adverse possession
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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
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Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons
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Title: Editorial: From margins to centres …
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‘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
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Author-Name: Matthew Thompson
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Title: LIFE in a ZOO
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Michele Lancione
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Author-X-Name-Last: Lancione
Author-Name: Elisabetta Rosa
Author-X-Name-First: Elisabetta
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosa
Title: Going in, out, through
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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
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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’
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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
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Author-Name: Tung-Yi Kho
Author-X-Name-First: Tung-Yi
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Title: Urban ethnography and the margins at the centre
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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
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Author-Name: William Monteith
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Monteith
Title: Showing ‘heart’ through ethnography
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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
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Author-Name: Yimin Zhao
Author-X-Name-First: Yimin
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao
Title: Space as method
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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
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Author-Name: Kavita Ramakrishnan
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Title: ‘Journeys of the I and we’
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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
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Author-Name: Tatiana Thieme
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Title: Navigating and negotiating ethnographies of urban hustle in Nairobi slums
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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
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Author-Name: Donald McNeill
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Title: Start-ups and the entrepreneurial city
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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
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Author-Name: Ted Rutland
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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
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Author-Name: Andrea Gibbons
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Gareth Millington
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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’
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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
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Author-Name: Dominic Teodorescu
Author-X-Name-First: Dominic
Author-X-Name-Last: Teodorescu
Title: Racialised postsocialist governance in Romania’s urban margins
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Keith Harris
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Title: Making room for the extraeconomic
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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
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Author-Name: Vladimir Rizov
Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir
Author-X-Name-Last: Rizov
Title: The photographic city
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Ulises Moreno-Tabarez
Author-X-Name-First: Ulises
Author-X-Name-Last: Moreno-Tabarez
Title: Towards Afro-Indigenous ecopolitics
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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
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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?
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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
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Author-Name: Daniel Aldana Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Aldana
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen
Title: Confronting the urban climate emergency
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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
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Author-Name: Sarah Knuth
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Knuth
Title: ‘All that is Solid … ’
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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
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Author-Name: Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo Lopes de
Author-X-Name-Last: Souza
Title: The city and the planet
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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
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Author-Name: Glyn Robbins
Author-X-Name-First: Glyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Robbins
Title: A new agenda for public housing
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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
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Author-Name: Veda Popovici
Author-X-Name-First: Veda
Author-X-Name-Last: Popovici
Title: Residences, restitutions and resistance
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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
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Author-Name: Erin McElroy
Author-X-Name-First: Erin
Author-X-Name-Last: McElroy
Title: Property as technology
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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
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Author-Name: Peter Marcuse
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Author-X-Name-Last: Marcuse
Title: Wealth accumulation through home ownership
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Alex Baker
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Author-X-Name-Last: Baker
Title: Eviction as infrastructure
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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
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Author-Name: Oren Yiftachel
Author-X-Name-First: Oren
Author-X-Name-Last: Yiftachel
Title: From displacement to displaceability
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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
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Author-Name: Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Author-X-Name-First: Mindy Thompson
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Author-Name: Jacob M. Izenberg
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz
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Title: 2011
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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
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Title: Arts and social projects in the 21st century
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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
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Author-Name: Amy E. Ritterbusch
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Author-Name: El Cilencio
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Author-X-Name-Last: Cilencio
Title: ‘We will always be street’
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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
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Author-Name: Hung-Ying Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Hung-Ying
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Author-Name: Lachlan Barber
Author-X-Name-First: Lachlan
Author-X-Name-Last: Barber
Title: CityPsyche—Hong Kong
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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
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Author-Name: Kgaugelo Lekalakala
Author-X-Name-First: Kgaugelo
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Title: Tales of the vulnerability of African black women in transit spaces
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: AbdouMaliq Simone
Author-X-Name-First: AbdouMaliq
Author-X-Name-Last: Simone
Title: The shift
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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
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Author-Name: Lila Leontidou
Author-X-Name-First: Lila
Author-X-Name-Last: Leontidou
Title: Mediterranean cities of hope
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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
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Author-Name: Bradley Garrett
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Fran Tonkiss
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Title: City government and urban inequalities
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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
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Author-Name: Mark Davidson
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Title: Between passion and reason
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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
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Author-Name: Colin McFarlane
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Author-X-Name-Last: McFarlane
Title: De/re-densification
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Mitch Miller
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Author-X-Name-Last: Miller
Title: Dialectograms
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‘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
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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
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Title: Art with marginalised communities
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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
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Author-Name: Aruan Braga
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Author-X-Name-Last: Braga
Author-Name: Bira Carvalho
Author-X-Name-First: Bira
Author-X-Name-Last: Carvalho
Title: Imagens do Povo
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Akwugo Emejulu
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Author-Name: Leah Bassel
Author-X-Name-First: Leah
Author-X-Name-Last: Bassel
Title: The politics of exhaustion
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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
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Author-Name: Pushpa Arabindoo
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Author-Name: Christophe Delory
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Delory
Title: Photography as urban narrative
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane
Author-X-Name-First: Mfaniseni Fana
Author-X-Name-Last: Sihlongonyane
Title: Reinventing urban South Africa through global-Africanisation
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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
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Author-Name: Rike Sitas
Author-X-Name-First: Rike
Author-X-Name-Last: Sitas
Title: Cultural policy and just cities in Africa
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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
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Author-Name: Romit Chowdhury
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Author-X-Name-Last: Chowdhury
Title: Homosocial trust in urban policing
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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
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Author-Name: Gillian Rose
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Author-X-Name-Last: Rose
Title: Actually-existing sociality in a smart city
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sybille Frank
Author-X-Name-First: Sybille
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Author-Name: Mirjana Ristic
Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana
Author-X-Name-Last: Ristic
Title: Urban fallism
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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
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Author-Name: Nick Shepherd
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Author-X-Name-Last: Shepherd
Title: After the #fall
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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
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Author-X-Name-First: Mary Niall
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell
Title: ‘We always knew it was possible’
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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
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Author-Name: Derek N. Boetcher
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Title: Iconoclasm and response on Dublin’s Sackville/O’Connell Street, 1759–2003
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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
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Author-Name: Renato Cymbalista
Author-X-Name-First: Renato
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Title: What to do with the bandeirantes
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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
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Author-Name: Aaron J. Cohen
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Title: The limits of iconoclasm
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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
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Author-Name: Quentin Stevens
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Author-Name: Gabriele de Seta
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele
Author-X-Name-Last: de Seta
Title: Must Zhongzheng fall?
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Mirjana Ristic
Author-X-Name-First: Mirjana
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Title: Post-fallism
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Andrew Wallace
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Author-X-Name-Last: Wallace
Title: The returned
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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
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Author-Name: Samuel Mutter
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutter
Title: Subtracting and extracting circulation
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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
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Author-Name: Ammar Azzouz
Author-X-Name-First: Ammar
Author-X-Name-Last: Azzouz
Title: Re-imagining Syria
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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
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Author-Name: Ozge Ozduzen
Author-X-Name-First: Ozge
Author-X-Name-Last: Ozduzen
Title: ‘We are not Arabs and Taksim is ours’
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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
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Author-Name: Neethi P.
Author-X-Name-First: Neethi
Author-X-Name-Last: P.
Title: New revanchism and the urban undesirables
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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
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Author-Name: Tathagatan Ravindran
Author-X-Name-First: Tathagatan
Author-X-Name-Last: Ravindran
Title: When a pandemic intensifies racial terror
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Yasser Elsheshtawy
Author-X-Name-First: Yasser
Author-X-Name-Last: Elsheshtawy
Title: Urban enclaves and transient cosmopolitanism
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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
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Author-Name: Aurélie Varrel
Author-X-Name-First: Aurélie
Author-X-Name-Last: Varrel
Title: A job in Dubai and an apartment in Bangalore
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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
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Author-Name: Laure Assaf
Author-X-Name-First: Laure
Author-X-Name-Last: Assaf
Title: ‘Abu Dhabi is my sweet home’
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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
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Author-Name: Bubbles Beverly Asor
Author-X-Name-First: Bubbles Beverly
Author-X-Name-Last: Asor
Title: ‘Strangers amongst us'
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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
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Author-Name: Bradley Hinger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Naama Blatman
Author-X-Name-First: Naama
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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
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Author-Name: Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
Author-X-Name-First: Delphine
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Title: Ambivalent cosmopolitanism from above in Dubai
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Chandra Russo
Author-X-Name-First: Chandra
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Title: The art of care
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Glyn Robbins
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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
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Author-Name: Katherine Dawson
Author-X-Name-First: Katherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Dawson
Title: Under the wire
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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
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Author-Name: Azat Zana Gündoğan
Author-X-Name-First: Azat Zana
Author-X-Name-Last: Gündoğan
Title: Rethinking centrality
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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
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Author-Name: Kajsa Lundberg
Author-X-Name-First: Kajsa
Author-X-Name-Last: Lundberg
Title: Visual criminology and lives lived in public space
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Viktor Bensus
Author-X-Name-First: Viktor
Author-X-Name-Last: Bensus
Title: Improving local governance with citizen engagement?
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Julia Tulke
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Tulke
Title: Figuring crisis
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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
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Author-Name: Paridhi Gupta
Author-X-Name-First: Paridhi
Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta
Title: Images of belonging
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sarah H. Awad
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah H.
Author-X-Name-Last: Awad
Title: Urban dialogues
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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
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Author-Name: Konstantinos Avramidis
Author-X-Name-First: Konstantinos
Author-X-Name-Last: Avramidis
Title: Crises and/of representations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Samantha Cenere
Author-X-Name-First: Samantha
Author-X-Name-Last: Cenere
Title: Making translations, translating Making
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Kavita Dattani
Author-X-Name-First: Kavita
Author-X-Name-Last: Dattani
Title: Platform ‘glitch as surprise’
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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
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Author-Name: Kiley Goyette
Author-X-Name-First: Kiley
Author-X-Name-Last: Goyette
Title: ‘Making ends meet’ by renting homes to strangers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Eva Mos
Author-X-Name-First: Eva
Author-X-Name-Last: Mos
Title: Platformization in the third sector
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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
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Author-Name: Clare Cannon
Author-X-Name-First: Clare
Author-X-Name-Last: Cannon
Title: The case of Booker T. Washington High School
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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
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Author-Name: Piyarat Panlee
Author-X-Name-First: Piyarat
Author-X-Name-Last: Panlee
Title: Visualising the right to protest
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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
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Author-Name: Hamish Kallin
Author-X-Name-First: Hamish
Author-X-Name-Last: Kallin
Title: Chasing the rent gap down on Edinburgh’s waterfront
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Megan Nethercote
Author-X-Name-First: Megan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nethercote
Title: Theorising vertical urbanisation
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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
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Author-Name: Nicholas Thoburn
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Thoburn
Title: Concrete and council housing
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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
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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”
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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
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Author-Name: Pablo Sendra
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Sendra
Title: Assemblages for community-led social housing regeneration
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Ian M. Cook
Author-X-Name-First: Ian M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cook
Title: Sizing the city
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Gaby Steiner
Author-X-Name-First: Gaby
Author-X-Name-Last: Steiner
Title: Public green
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Anastasiya Halauniova
Author-X-Name-First: Anastasiya
Author-X-Name-Last: Halauniova
Title: Good and bad concrete
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Jeroen Stevens
Author-X-Name-First: Jeroen
Author-X-Name-Last: Stevens
Title: Teatro Oficina
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Albert Arias-Sans
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Neil Gray
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Author-X-Name-Last: Gray
Title: Correcting market failure? Stalled regeneration and the state subsidy gap
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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
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Author-Name: Chhandita Das
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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
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Author-Name: Huda Abuzaid
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Justin Kadi
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Author-Name: Walter Matznetter
Author-X-Name-First: Walter
Author-X-Name-Last: Matznetter
Title: The long history of gentrification in Vienna, 1890–2020
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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
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Author-Name: Tahl Kaminer
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Title: Postscript
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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
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Author-Name: Brandi Summers
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Title: Urban phantasmagorias
Journal: City
Pages: 191-198
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 26
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2059196
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Title: Correction
Journal: City
Pages: ei-eii
Issue: 2-3
Volume: 26
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2051321
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Author-Name: Karl Krähmer
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Author-X-Name-Last: Krähmer
Title: Degrowth and the city
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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
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Author-Name: Frances Brill
Author-X-Name-First: Frances
Author-X-Name-Last: Brill
Title: Cladding and community
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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
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Author-Name: Ruth Fincher
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Author-X-Name-Last: Fincher
Title: Epilogue
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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
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Author-Name: Shawn Bodden
Author-X-Name-First: Shawn
Author-X-Name-Last: Bodden
Title: A work-in-progress politics of space
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Vincenzo Ruggiero
Author-X-Name-First: Vincenzo
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggiero
Title: Time and symbols in the contentious city
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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
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Author-Name: Tanjil Sowgat
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Author-Name: Shilpi Roy
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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
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Author-Name: Tim Verlaan
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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*
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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
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Author-Name: Cody Hochstenbach
Author-X-Name-First: Cody
Author-X-Name-Last: Hochstenbach
Title: Gentrification through the ages
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Giuseppe Carta
Author-X-Name-First: Giuseppe
Author-X-Name-Last: Carta
Title: For postsecular space
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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
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Author-Name: Bjarke Skærlund Risager
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Title: Rent gap governance
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Nabeela Ahmed
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Lucas Pohl
Author-X-Name-First: Lucas
Author-X-Name-Last: Pohl
Title: The empty city: COVID-19 and the apocalyptic imagination
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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
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Author-Name: Mikko Kyrönviita
Author-X-Name-First: Mikko
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Author-Name: Antti Wallin
Author-X-Name-First: Antti
Author-X-Name-Last: Wallin
Title: Building a DIY skatepark and doing politics hands-on
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Glyn Robbins
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Title: New York’s housing justice movement: facing the COVID eviction cliff edge
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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
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Title: ‘Squat City’: Dublin’s temporary autonomous zone. Considering the temporality of autonomous geographies
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‘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
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Author-Name: Danielle Kerrigan
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Title: ‘Don’t wake papa bear!’ Understanding media representations of landlord-tenant relations
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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
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Author-Name: Loïc Wacquant
Author-X-Name-First: Loïc
Author-X-Name-Last: Wacquant
Title: Rethinking the city with Bourdieu’s trialectic
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Priya S. Gupta
Author-X-Name-First: Priya S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Gupta
Title: Governing Gurgaon as a financial investment
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: David Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Title: The Brighton Homeless Bill of Rights
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‘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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sanjeev Routray
Author-X-Name-First: Sanjeev
Author-X-Name-Last: Routray
Title: Paper struggles: documents, inscriptions, and citizenship negotiations in Delhi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Alberto Vanolo
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Vanolo
Title: Autistic cities: critical urbanism and the politics of neurodiversity
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: David Bissell
Author-X-Name-First: David
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Title: Negative urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city
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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
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Author-Name: Japhy Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Japhy
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: Apocalypse and utopia in the salvagepunk metropolis
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Samuel Holleran
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Holleran
Title: From graves to gardens: Berlin’s changing cemeteries
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Agnes Gagyi
Author-X-Name-First: Agnes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Agnes Gagyi
Author-X-Name-First: Agnes
Author-X-Name-Last: Gagyi
Title: FX mortgages in Hungary: political crisis and capitalist reconstruction
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Margherita Grazioli
Author-X-Name-First: Margherita
Author-X-Name-Last: Grazioli
Title: Eurhythmisation and organisational rites of housing squats in Rome
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: David Jenkins
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins
Title: (Dis)trust and (defunding) the police
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sangeeta Banerji
Author-X-Name-First: Sangeeta
Author-X-Name-Last: Banerji
Title: Fixing Bhim Nagar: a new metonym for subaltern urbanism
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Author-Name: Sheema Fatima
Author-X-Name-First: Sheema
Author-X-Name-Last: Fatima
Title: Categorizing land: an account of leftover land in Patna
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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
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Author-Name: Tariq Rahman
Author-X-Name-First: Tariq
Author-X-Name-Last: Rahman
Title: Shaky ground: the fraud of property in Lahore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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