Miami Beach forever? Urbanism in the back loop
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.10.016
Abstract: Abstract In the Anthropocene, coastal cities are increasingly cast as climate change first responders: both “front lines” where uncertain futures are unfolding and “laboratories” in which experimental resilience infrastructures are being tested out. Engaged with… read more here.
Keywords: beach; miami beach; urbanism; back loop ... See more keywords
Intersectional climate urbanism: Towards the inclusion of marginalised voices
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.08.005
Abstract: Abstract Experiences of and responses to climate change are diverse, influenced by many socioeconomic, spatial, and physical factors. Academics and activists have called for climate policies and practices that affirm climate justice; ensuring that climate… read more here.
Keywords: climate urbanism; climate policies; climate justice; climate ... See more keywords
Property outlaws in the Southland: The potential and limits of guerrilla urbanism in the cases of arts gentrification in Boyle Heights and street vending decriminalization in Los Angeles
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DOI: 10.1057/s41289-019-00086-6
Abstract: Los Angeles has recently been the site of two notable cases of guerrilla urbanism. In one, street vendors formed advocacy groups and a coalition with allies that lobbied city council and overturned a citywide ban… read more here.
Keywords: guerrilla urbanism; property; boyle heights; los angeles ... See more keywords
Eco-communities as insurgent climate urbanism: radical urban socio-material transformations
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DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1850618
Abstract: ABSTRACT Eco-communities are permanent interventions to build and reshape the urban, aform of insurgent urbanism. Using examples from already-existing urban eco-communities the ways such projects demonstrate lasting material, social and economic transformations are illustrated through… read more here.
Keywords: communities insurgent; climate urbanism; eco communities; urbanism ... See more keywords
Governing green urbanism: The case of Shenzhen, China
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DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2016.1271623
Abstract: ABSTRACT Mainstream green urbanism is usually advocated for overcoming climate change and responding to the challenges of socioeconomic polarization in a market-dominated society. The purpose of Shenzhen’s pursuit of green urbanism is different. Shenzhen has… read more here.
Keywords: green urbanism; urbanism case; governing green; urbanism ... See more keywords
Contesting Eco‐Urbanism from Below: The Construction of ‘Zero‐Waste Neighborhoods’ in Chinese Cities
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DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12813
Abstract: Abstract How should we understand the recent rapid spread of eco-urbanism around the world and its move into the mainstream? This understanding has become increasingly dominated by narratives of the urban sustainability fix, which stresses… read more here.
Keywords: eco urbanism; chinese cities; contesting eco; urbanism ... See more keywords
The ideological alignment of smart urbanism in Singapore: Critical reflections on a political paradox
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098017746528
Abstract: Over the past decade, much has been written about the potential of smart urbanism to bring about various and lasting forms of betterment. The embedding of digital technologies within urban infrastructures has been well documented,… read more here.
Keywords: ideological alignment; alignment smart; urbanism singapore; smart urbanism ... See more keywords
Theorising small city as ordinary city: Rethinking development and urbanism from China’s south-west frontier
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018762925
Abstract: A recurrent critical argument in urban studies holds that theories about relationships between cities and globalisation need to account for a broader diversity of urban experiences and contexts. Scholarship needs to move beyond the narrow… read more here.
Keywords: china south; city; west frontier; south west ... See more keywords
Entitled urbanism: Elite informality and the reimagining of a planned modern city
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018767011
Abstract: This article traces a history of an elite yet informal neighbourhood of Bani Gala in the planned modern city of Islamabad in Pakistan. By focusing on the role of elite homebuilders in the informal development… read more here.
Keywords: planned modern; bani gala; city; urbanism ... See more keywords
Glitchy vignettes of platform urbanism
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DOI: 10.1177/0263775819878721
Abstract: ‘Platform urbanism’ has recently gained traction as a designator for emergent dynamics and material configurations associated with the increasing presence of digital platform enterprises in cities. Initial scholarly engagements with platform urbanism have tended to… read more here.
Keywords: glitchy vignettes; urbanism; vignettes platform; platform urbanism ... See more keywords
Oran’s Front de Mer Projects 1891–1961: Premises of a Modern Urbanism
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DOI: 10.1177/15385132221130251
Abstract: This article reviews the urban revitalization and modernization actions of Oran’s Front de Mer, from the late nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. Throughout this period, when Algiers was undergoing a transformation based… read more here.
Keywords: mer projects; projects 1891; urbanism; front mer ... See more keywords