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Urban Desires and Lust for Land
20 April, by
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In the Global South, vast swathes of periurban and agricultural land are being sold off and converted into financial windfalls. Éric Denis shows that the working classes also play a role in this commodification of land, giving rise to new means of producing the city. Moreover, this lust for land reveals these populations’ desire to see
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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
6 March, byIn recent years, even as national politics has shifted right in several advanced industrial democracies, explicitly progressive mayors have won office in major cities. The editors of
Where Does Public Land Come From? Municipalization and Privatization Debates
6 March, by &-
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, byRather than meaningfully involving representatives of environmental-justice communities in decisions about the hazards that disproportionately affect their health, public participation efforts
Birdwatching in the City: A Case for Multispecies Tourism
16 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
Insecure Lives Under Extreme Climate Conditions: Insights from a Fishing Hamlet in Tamil Nadu, India
17 April, by
Repositioning the state’s role through water politics in Mexico City’s informal settlements
27 March, by
- Climate Change and Social Change
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The Urban Heart of a Just Transition: How Cities Plan for Social Justice in Climate Action
3 April, by
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