What Can ‘Disruptive Urban Technologies’ Tell Us about Power, Visibility and the Right to the City?
If urban scholars are to go beyond an approach that addresses the creation of the technological city as a slash-and-burn approach, aiming to radically reorder the social in the mode … Continue reading
The End of Public Space (Redux?)
Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Don Mitchell (1995, 2016) has debated the nature public space, and why under late capitalism, public space has a tendency to both ‘end’ and be produced…
Know Your City: Slum Dwellers Count
In February 2018, Slum Dwellers International (SDI) launched a landmark publication titled “Know Your City: Slum Dwellers Count,” showcasing the extraordinary contribution of the Know Your City (KYC) campaign to … Continue reading
Tourism and Degrowth: Impossibility Theorem or Path to Post-Capitalism?
Originally posted on ENTITLE blog – a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology:
by Robert Fletcher, Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blázquez-Salom and Ivan Murray “Touristification” of cities is increasingly met by discontent of local…
Living on the Wrong Side of the Redline
Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
On Valentine’s day 2018, Admiral Harry Harris revealed that an evacuation plan for Non-essential personnel and military dependents was being developed for South…
Evolution of Slum Redevelopment Policy (PHASE 1)
Originally posted on {FAVEL issues}:
Slums have always been part of the urban landscape since the Industrial Era and over the years, policies such as public housing, slum upgrading, tenure…
From Life-Filled Imagery to Dead Plazas – Why Cities Need a Place-Driven Future
Originally posted on From Rurban to Urban:
Does anyone else pay attention to this: many times the renderings of new urban development projects include a plaza or similar open space,…
You can’t silence the data when it’s so deafening: The poor have borne the cost of tax and welfare reforms.
Originally posted on RIGHTS in context DERECHOS en contexto:
This article was published in Left Foot Forward. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published today the distributional results…
