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The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany
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In Germany, the territorial and environmental impacts of climate change intersect in key ways with the nation’s varied demography. In this pair of papers, researchers at TU Dortmund University urge spatial planners to synchronize their approaches to climate and demographic shifts at the city and regional
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Urban Desires and Lust for Land
20 April, by & translated by -
Insecure Lives Under Extreme Climate Conditions: Insights from a Fishing Hamlet in Tamil Nadu, India
17 April, by
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Floods, Animals and Shared Urban Futures?
10 April, byWhen the city of Bangkok flooded following tropical storms in 2011, an altered urban waterscape erased the neat divide between human and nonhuman spaces. Leonie Tuitjer draws attention to two
The Urban Heart of a Just Transition: How Cities Plan for Social Justice in Climate Action
3 April, byCities are often framed as sustainability saviors. Alexa Waud analyzes 20 climate action plans of cities that participate in the international Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, and argues that in
Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements
27 March, byThroughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack thereof) between municipal governments and residents. Guillem Ramirez Chico
The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York
20 March, byWhat are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color? James Shelton offers new insights in a consideration of the recent East New
The Everyday Activism of Chicago’s Public High-School Football Coaches
13 March, byFor several generations, high-school football programs have been an important part of the social fabric in economically challenged Chicago neighborhoods. Sociologist Lawrence Johnson, himself a
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements | CALL FOR PAPERS
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Looking Forward to 2020 While Looking Back: A Brief History of the US Census
27 February, byAs preparations for the 2020 census are under way in the United States, Frank Donnelly looks back at how the census evolved from a basic head count to a sophisticated operation. The
Nature’s Worth: Using Human Markets to Value Ecosystems’ Contributions
20 February, by &Mattijs van Maasakkers’ The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States: The Challenge of Trading Places pulls readers into the complex relationship between environment and
New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture
13 February, byVanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner institutions that have disappeared in the accelerated gentrification of the last two
“People of Color Are Not Props”: Black Branding and Community Resistance in Gentrifying Brooklyn
6 February, byWhen a new white-owned upscale bar-restaurant in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights advertised rosé wine served in 40-ounce bottles and a purported “bullet-hole-ridden” wall,
The Cost of Good Intentions: Planning Gridlock in San Francisco
30 January, byThe culture of protest that marked development and planning in San Francisco during the 1970s and 1980s was a response to the trauma of urban renewal. But this culture has left an ambiguous
Institutional Roadblocks to Achieving Environmental Justice Through Public Participation: The Case of CSO Control in US Cities
24 January, by
How Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Hurt Girls and Women
16 May 2017, by
Bargain hunting in the “small-commodity city” of Yiwu, China
10 November 2015, by
The Triumph of Density and the Agony of Sprawl
23 November 2011, by
Urban Desires and Lust for Land
20 April, by & translated by
- The Territorial and Environmental Impacts of Climate Change in Germany
25 April, by & & &
Insecure Lives Under Extreme Climate Conditions: Insights from a Fishing Hamlet in Tamil Nadu, India
17 April, by
Progressive Mayors and Urban Social Movements | CALL FOR PAPERS
6 March, by
Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements
27 March, by
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