Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield, Beyond Plague Urbanism – Monthly Review, Spring 2023 Andy tells me the striking cover image is by André Kertész.

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S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil, Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities – Polity, December 2022

Posted on December 10, 2022 by stuartelden

S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, Roger Keil, Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities – Polity, December 2022 Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are … Continue reading →

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Books received – Sevilla-Buitrago, Saberi, TCS, Polity, Gaston,

Posted on September 30, 2022 by stuartelden

Two excellent books I read in manuscript – Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning and Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto, the new special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Richard Polt, … Continue reading →

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Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance, edited by Dawn Lyon, Research in Urban Society 17 (requires subscription)

Posted on November 16, 2021 by stuartelden

Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance, edited by Dawn Lyon, Research in Urban Society 17 (requires subscription) 

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Tom Slater, Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question – University of California Press, September 2021, foreword by Loic Wacquant

Posted on April 12, 2021 by stuartelden

Tom Slater, Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question – University of California Press, September 2021, foreword by Loic Wacquant  Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift, Killer Cities – Sage, February 2021

Posted on February 4, 2021 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift, Killer Cities – Sage, February 2021 Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, … Continue reading →

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Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021

Posted on December 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021 This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s … Continue reading →

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Laleh Khalili and Sara Fregonese on the Beirut explosion

Posted on August 12, 2020 by stuartelden

Laleh Khalili, ‘Behind the Beirut explosion lies the lawless world of international shipping‘, The Guardian (via The Gamming – which has an important note about the title) Her book Sinews of War and Trade was published by Verso earlier this year. See also … Continue reading →

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Hilary Angelo, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens – University of Chicago Press, February 2021

Posted on July 31, 2020 by stuartelden

Hilary Angelo, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens – University of Chicago Press, February 2021 As projects like Manhattan’s High Line, Chicago’s 606, China’s eco-cities, and Ethiopia’s tree-planting efforts show, cities around the … Continue reading →

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Rowland Atkinson, Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich – Verso, June 2020

Posted on May 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Rowland Atkinson, Alpha City How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich – Verso, June 2020 How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us Who owns London? In recent decades, it … Continue reading →

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