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.
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?
Daniel Campo’s The Accidental Playground is the result of an ethnographic action-oriented analysis focussed on the life course of a waterfront at Williamsburg’s Northside (also known as the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, BEDT). The context of the study is related with the redevelopment of its neighbourhood during the New York’s revitalization programme launched in the early 1990s.
In my article ‘The right to infrastructure’ that appears in Society and Space 32(2), I report on fieldwork I have been carrying out with grassroots and guerrilla architectural collectives (Basurama, Zuloark) in Madrid over the past four years. These collectives have developed some original technical and auto-constructive practices that, I suggest, may be thought of as prototypes for a type of open-source urbanism.
In this article, I consider the relationship between urban planning and context by investigating the planning practices associated with a land-use plan in Bordeaux described as “adapted to context.”