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When AIs become oracles: generative artificial intelligence, anticipatory urban governance, and the future of cities
Federico Cugurullo and Ying Xu
Policy and Society, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 98–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae025
Published: 01 August 2024
.... Abstract Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is boosting anticipatory forms of governance, through which state actors seek to predict the future and strategically intervene in the present. In this context, city brains represent an emerging type of generative AI currently employed in urban governance...
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The platform fix: analyzing mechanisms and contradictions of how digital platforms tackle pending urban-economic challenges
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Alica Repenning and Sina Hardaker
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 24, Issue 5, September 2024, Pages 615–636, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae015
Published: 15 May 2024
... in order to overcome the limitations of the current economic situation. This idea was first introduced in his book “The Limits to Capital” and has since become a central concept in the study of economic geography, particularly urban and regional development, global capitalism, and the uneven distribution...
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Pathways to green urbanism: evaluating Jeddah’s environmental sustainability progress and prospects
Ibrahim Rizk Hegazy and others
International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, Volume 19, 2024, Pages 1177–1188, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctae051
Published: 26 April 2024
... re-use, please contact [email protected] Abstract This research provides a comprehensive analysis of environmental sustainability in Jeddah, focusing on the unique challenges and opportunities it faces as a rapidly urbanizing city in an arid region. The study evaluates Jeddah’s...
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Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain
Hulya Dagdeviren
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 79–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbad031
Published: 24 October 2023
...Hulya Dagdeviren local governments austerity urbanism debt Covid-19 Britain The Covid-19 pandemic, following the austerity programmes of varying intensity in the aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC), exacerbated the pressures on local governments in advanced capitalist economies...
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Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring
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Sneha Krishnan
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 16, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 349–359, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad010
Published: 24 May 2023
...Sneha Krishnan [email protected] Abstract There is a proliferation of digitalisation of urban and health services in India under the Smart City and Digital Health missions, respectively. This study brings digital and feminist geographies together to understand the role of technologies in urban...
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Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–2016
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Apollonya Maria Porcelli and others
Social Problems, Volume 70, Issue 3, August 2023, Pages 791–808, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac048
Published: 24 August 2022
... into social movements in Greater Boston since the 1960s as a long-term shift from “protecting places” to “providing services.” Consonant with a shift from centralized to decentralized municipal government, we show how an initially unified resistance to urban renewal morphed into two diverging and opposing...
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Unintended Consequences? The Effects of Neighbourhood Walkability on Crime in Nine US Cities
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James C Wo and Young-An Kim
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2023, Pages 304–329, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac011
Published: 30 March 2022
... of neighbourhood walkability is rooted in New Urbanism ( Jacobs 1961 ; Talen 1999 ). Neighbourhoods characterized by street intersection density, proximity to transit stops and a mix of land uses are viewed to enhance prosocial interaction among local residents, storeowners and employees and persons...
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Reconnecting Religion and Community in a Small City: How Urban Amenities Afford Religious Amenities
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Audra Dugandzic
Sociology of Religion, Volume 83, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 434–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srab059
Published: 29 December 2021
... in the street when there are no sidewalks, and one can ignore a “Hello” or respond to it with a scowl. Still, understanding the affordances of an environment can help scholars make sense of patterns of behavior as well as mechanisms that help explain it. cites and communities urbanism culture cultural...
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Introduction to Material Displacements
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Sarah A Lichtman and Jilly Traganou
Journal of Design History, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 195–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epab027
Published: 07 August 2021
... urbanism, deterritorialization, and border thinking. It then presents work published in the Journal of Design History by design historians and theorists who have envisioned design’s relation with displacement through diverse perspectives. Each author contributing to this issue reveals the power...
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Place and Space in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Old London: The Thieves’ House on West Street
Patricia Smyth
Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2021, Pages 357–383, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcab010
Published: 11 May 2021
... to the emerging metropolis designed for the circulation of labour and capital. melodrama topography urbanism spectacle panoramas The proposed demolition in 1844 of the infamous ‘Thieves' House’, a dilapidated structure situated on West Street in the notorious London slum of West Smithfield, was the focus...
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Globalizing Control Research: The Politics of Urban Security in and beyond the Alaouite Kingdom of Morocco
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Jonas Hagmann
Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2021, ogab004, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogab004
Published: 02 April 2021
... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract How do urban security assemblages evolve? Scholars inspired by Deleuze's Control Thesis detect profound shifts in the ways security operates. Different to Foucault's...
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Global trends in sustainability rating assessment systems and their role in achieving sustainable urban communities in Saudi Arabia
Ibrahim Hegazy and others
International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 882–893, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctab018
Published: 03 March 2021
[email protected] Abstract Sustainability as a concept is tackled a lot in contemporary urbanism due to its importance; consequently, this led to the development of global trends toward achieving it. The current research attempts to identify how sustainability could be achieved in urban design and how to comply...
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Jiehebu or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies
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Yimin Zhao
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, November 2020, Pages 527–542, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa032
Published: 20 November 2020
...Yimin Zhao More than one decade ago, Simone and Boudreau (2009) coordinated a writing experiment to unveil ‘the strange language of urbanisation’. They highlighted the articulations between ‘emplaced yet always mobile voices’ to make a trans-urban language of urbanisation possible, which...
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Towards an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison
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Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, November 2020, Pages 491–508, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa025
Published: 16 September 2020
...Helga Leitner; Eric Sheppard Turning to inter-urban comparison, initial proposals for a methodology of relational inter-urban comparison have stressed the direct horizontal relations between cities (for example, McCann and Ward, 2012 ; Ward, 2010 ), as Peck (2020) also notes. Conjunctural...
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The ordinariness of struggle and exclusion: a view from across the north–south urban ‘divide’
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Nancy Ettlinger and Debangana Bose
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, November 2020, Pages 509–526, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa014
Published: 01 September 2020
... This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Comparative literature on subaltern urbanism neglects inequalities...
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Global economic crisis, austerity and neoliberal urban governance in England
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Richard Meegan and others
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 137–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rst033
Published: 20 January 2014
... be seen in the diverging trajectories between Bristol and Liverpool. An additional consideration in the English context is that whilst austerity urbanism in the USA is developing in a federal state system, in the UK it is being played out in what is, despite recent devolutionary moves towards Scotland...
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‘Picking up the pieces’: austerity urbanism, California and fiscal crisis
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Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 81–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rst030
Published: 26 December 2013
...Mark Davidson; Kevin Ward austerity urbanism California crisis finance redevelopment R38 R58 Abstract California continues to be at the epicentre of the current Great Recession. Cities around the state are facing a multiple-fronted assault on their fiscal situation. Although not new...
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Architectural and Spatial Design Studies: Inscribing Architecture in Design Studies
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Jilly Traganou
Journal of Design History, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 173–181, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epp009
Published: 01 June 2009
..., such as cultural and urban geography, vernacular studies, interior design, spatial anthropology, material culture, and media studies. This field could be tentatively named as architectural and spatial design studies, showing its affiliation with a broader range of spatial disciplines and practices that includebut...
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Global City, Megacity: Calixthe Beyala and the Limits of the Urban Imaginary
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Dawn Fulton
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 176–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqp001
Published: 17 February 2009
...Dawn Fulton The extreme gaps between wealth and poverty that characterise contemporary global capitalism play out with particular force in the world's urban spaces. While Raymond Williams' foundational study The Country and the City illuminated the polarities of exploitation...
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Environmental Pressures on Building Design and Manchester’s John Rylands Library
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Catherine Bowler and Peter Brimblecombe
Journal of Design History, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 175–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/13.3.175
Published: 01 September 2000
... adopting electric light and air filtration inside. Valuable books and manuscripts were protected with carefully designed cases. Although not everyone was happy with the building, it has remained as an example of a determined attempt to cope with a very aggressive urban environment. Champneys confronted...
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