scholarly journals Decolonizing European Colonial Heritage in Urban Spaces – An Introduction to the Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Christoffer Kølvraa ◽  
Britta Timm Knudsen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Digging down into the global urban past

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Emma Hart ◽  
Mariana Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global City ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Diverse Communities

Abstract In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early modern global urban history can help explain the creation of spaces that facilitated connections between distant, global locations, as well as illuminate the emergence of networks of exchange between city communities around the globe. Yet, it also reveals the tense, messy negotiation of the meaning of these urban spaces, as well as the incredibly diverse communities they harboured.

scholarly journals Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052098052
Author(s):  
Ilker Ataç ◽  
Kim Rygiel ◽  
Maurice Stierl
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Civil Society Organisation ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The One ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
The City

Over the past years, we have seen a rise in political mobilisations in EUrope and elsewhere, by and in solidarity with migrant newcomers. This article focuses on specific examples of what we conceptualise as transversal solidarities by and with migrants, and rooted in the city, the focus of this special issue. The examples we explore in this article include: Trampoline House, a civil society organisation which provides a home to migrant newcomers in Copenhagen; Queer Base, an activist organisation in Vienna providing support for LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) migrants; and finally, the Palermo Charter Process, a coalition of diverse groups seeking to create open harbours and ‘corridors of solidarity’, from the Mediterranean to cities throughout EUrope. While these examples are situated in and across different urban spaces, they share a common grounding in building solidarity through spaces of encounters related to ideas of home, community, and harbour. By exploring these distinct solidarity initiatives in tandem, we examine, on the one hand, how the production of spaces of encounters is linked to building transversal solidarities and, on the other, how transversal solidarities also connect different spaces of solidarity across different political scales.

scholarly journals Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Author(s):  
Francesco Lo Piccolo
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
And Control

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, and according to a debate promoted by Benjamin Davy, we decided to have a special issue of the Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning on the intersections of human dignity, planning, and urban spaces. The articles in this special issue were written before the pandemic emergency, but nevertheless make a significant contribution in reflecting on the mutual relationships between human dignity and control of spaces, in ordinary as well as extraordinary times.

scholarly journals The Cities, Security and Poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-95
Author(s):  
Onur Tümtürk
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
Valuable Book ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Global World

The 2013 Meeting of the World Society for Ekistics was held in Ankara, Turkey under the theme of ‘The Cities, Security and Poverty’. The proceedings of this international meeting, edited by Meltem Yılmaz and H. Çağatay Keskinok, forms an overarching perspective for the changing power relations of the global world and its socio-spatial implications on human settlements with reference to the key issues of weakening public sphere and communality, increasing socio-spatial fragmentations and inequalities, and emerging security problems related with both political insurgences and environmental risks and degradations. Although the content of the proceedings book is not structured under certain sub-headings and themes, it is possible to categorize the contributions of the compilation of 18 distinctive articles as follow: (i) changing power relations and its implications on society and public sphere; (ii) spatial manifestations of changing power relations, spatial transformation and segregation; (iii) crime and security problems in urban spaces; (iv) ecological transitions and sustainability issues; (v) disaster risks and security concerns. The review of this valuable book would bring forward the problematic issues of security and poverty by especially highlighting the recent socio-spatial experiences in Turkish cities and hopefully offer a humble contribution for the upcoming Special Issue: Turkey, Urbanism and the New Habitat.

scholarly journals Public policies and the city: producing inclusive urban spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1007-1014
Author(s):  
Sonia Maria Fleury Teixeira ◽  
Joan Subirats ◽  
Daniel S. Lacerda ◽  
Ismael Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Abstract Research on cities have received increased attention over the years. Urban spaces are, on the one hand, a significant target of speculative financial investments and commodification of life, generating dynamics that are very difficult to contain within the competencies of local governments. At the same time, cities are the central space of everyday life, where there is resistance at many levels seeking to defend the conditions of living and subsistence of the majority of citizens. This special issue presents exciting contributions to the debate on public policies and the city. The articles published approach cities as urban spaces of diversity and encounters; the arena of discursive and material struggles; contradictory embeddedness of commodification and resistance; the focus of institutional disputes between exclusion and participation; and finally, changing spaces that respond to the need for new management technologies at a local level. Drawing on various theoretical frameworks and rich empirical discussions, this special issue reclaims cities as central spaces of everyday life, which are particularly important for protection and emancipation in a global scenario of uncertainty.

scholarly journals Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (15) ◽  
pp. 3009-3024
Author(s):  
Matthew Hayes ◽  
Hila Zaban
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Place ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Urban Strategy

This introduction to the special issue introduces the contributors’ articles and identifies key themes relating to how increased transnational mobility has affected urbanisation processes in many cities, resulting in the globalisation of rent gaps. A mix of local and transnational real estate interests work to attract higher-income lifestyle migrants and tourists, often from higher-income countries to lower-income urban space in order to increase its exchange value. In the process, however, they act to reduce the use value of urban space to lower-income residents. The introduction notes that the acceleration of lifestyle mobilities moving through urban spaces, and the development of transnational lifestyles of urban place consumption, have produced new forms of gentrification – not merely the spread of an urban strategy to new cities, but the planetarisation of rent gaps. Transnational gentrification is the form of contemporary urbanisation that occurs as a result of closing these rent gaps through attraction of higher income, transnational migrants, often from high-income countries in Northern Europe and North America.

scholarly journals Consumption and Retail in Urban Spaces: Studies on Italy and Catalonia

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Rosario Sommella
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The article, based on the scientific results of the last phase of the project “Retail, Consumption, and the City: Practices, Planning and Governance for Urban Inclusion, Resilience and Sustainability”, proposes further reflections on the changing urban landscapes of retail and consumption through studies on Italy and Catalonia. This stage of the research project has been aimed at investigating – through specific in-depth studies (thematic or related to case studies) – aspects not adequately dealt with in the published volumes of the seven research units, or even to take inspiration from themes and cases already dealt with to advance in a reflection that could contribute to build a further piece of a new research agenda on retail, consumption, and the city. By cross-referencing descriptive evidence and theoretical reflections, the article traces the main themes of this special issue, with regard to the evolutionary and, in some cases, analytical trajectories starting as from the different case studies analyzed, all aimed at reflecting on the relationship between consumption, retail and urban spaces in Italy and Catalonia at different scales.

scholarly journals Tropical Imaginaries in Living Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Virtual Presence ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Tropics

This is the second part of the eTropic special issue theme on Tropical Imaginaries and Living Cities. While the first part of this series concentrated predominately on concrete cities and the material imagination, this second issue explores notions of the tropics and cities through literary and artistic works. Thus in this collection of papers the tropical imaginary comes to the forefront while the metropolis provides the space or canvas for the imagination.Many of the cities called up in this collection have physical presence, places such as Darwin, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Havana, and Kuching. Other cities conjured here may morph into various otherworldly forms such as haunted spaces or spaceships; or dissolve into a hazy backdrop as memory and imagination take the stage. Yet these urban spaces are nevertheless always alive, their virtual presence becomes the matrix that holds the imagination. The literary and creative works examined here flow from martial arts, through literary works including novels, short stories, poetry, and speculative fiction, and then transition into visual art through science-fiction magazine covers, art on walls and heritage arts spaces, to come to a close with film.

scholarly journals Sensing Urban Values: Reassessing Urban Cultures and Histories Amidst Redevelopment Agendas

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122110006
Author(s):  
Carolyn Birdsall ◽  
Anastasiya Halauniova ◽  
Linda van de Kamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Contexts

Introduction to Sensing Urban Values. This special issue assembles a set of papers that respond to a neglected, undertheorized yet crucial question relating to spatial politics and urban renewal: How do economic and non-economic values depend on and co-constitute each other in different urban contexts? In response, the contributors to this special issue build on recent critical reassessments of value; they explore how the spatial and cultural politics of value unfolds in contemporary urban environments globally. They examine cases that traverse Poland, South Africa, Malaysia, Germany, and The Netherlands. The papers demonstrate a theoretical and empirically engaged concern with themes such as the cultural dimensions of place-making processes in contemporary cities; how identity, memory, heritage, and value-making processes may matter for the production of urban spaces today through sensing; aesthetic reorganizations of places, movements, and interactions with urban matters; and through storytelling. Taking up the theme of urban valuation with a multisensory approach has prompted the contributors to explore the multiple and translocal ways through which urban valuations unfold, are performed, and are experienced. This approach reveals the multiple valuations of spaces—not only economic but also symbolic—that inform the struggles for social and spatial justice in cities across the world as well as their scholarly examinations.

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