A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Considers the spatial form and social processes of cities and urbanization with particular attention to the geographies and politics of building theories of the urban.
I suggest that environmental gentrification also works through the conflation of both pollution and ‘health’ with different kinds of urban bodies and embodied (body-centred) practices. This happens not only via the removal of symbolically ‘dirty’ bodies and their replacement with symbolically ‘clean’ bodies, but also via the ways in which those ‘dirty’ bodies become seen as such by the symbolic displacement of environmental and industrial pollution onto them.
More Than Shelter provides a succinct overview of the history of public housing and privileges the voices of SFHA tenants. Her work provides scholars and public officials with a succinct overview of the history of San Francisco’s public housing, and offers them a number of thoughtful conclusions that might contribute to better initiatives in the future.
The open site is pleased to offer a conversation moderated by Tim Markham of Birkbeck with Scott Rodgers, Clive Barnett, and Allan Cochrane, the authors of “Media practices and urban politics: conceptualizing the powers of the media-urban nexus."
Secchi's death in September marks a great loss for urbanism. This interview is a gesture towards bringing his work to a wider Anglophone audience, reflecting on his legacy by exploring his intellectual production, critical pedagogy and practice, with a special focus on the exploration of his idea of a 'new urban question' and the formation of his reflexive urban research praxis.
Cities of Tomorrow: Planning, Justice and Sustainability Today is an important and most welcome addition to the limited texts available in Hebrew in the field of urban planning. The central question underpinning the different contributions is: how to plan the cities of tomorrow and to what extent and under what circumstances could they become more just and sustainable?
Turning to the case of Newark, NJ, this article shows how teachers have embraced a strategy not of bypassing or abolishing the institutions most hollowed out by neoliberal market rule but of taking these institutions over and imagining them anew.