Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

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

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

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,

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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