Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

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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Land and Territory – Thinking Aloud with Brett Christophers and Penelope Anthias

Posted on October 4, 2019 by stuartelden

Land and territory on Thinking Allowed Land Struggles: From Bolivia to Britain, the way that land is owned and controlled is central to many contemporary inequalities and political battles. Laurie Taylor talks to Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social … Continue reading →

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Law and Humanities Summer School, University of Hong Kong, 8-13 June 2020

Posted on September 23, 2019 by stuartelden

Law and Humanities Summer School, University of Hong Kong, 8-13 June 2020 The Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong will hold its first law and humanities summer school, 8-13 June 2020. This … Continue reading →

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Sun-Young Park, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris – U Pittsburgh Press, 2018

Posted on February 5, 2019 by stuartelden

Sun-Young Park, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris – University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018 Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019

Posted on January 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019 The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. … Continue reading →

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