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Regulating and resisting queer creativity: community-engaged arts practice in the neoliberal city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article draws from and advances urban studies literature on ‘creative city’ policies by exploring the contradictory role of queer arts practice in contemporary placemarketing strategies.
McLean, Heather
core   +1 more source

INTEGRATING URBAN LAND USE PLANNING WITH FOOD SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIA: Policy Integration Challenges and Opportunities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating urban land use policies with food systems is becoming a widespread global strategy to build resilient socio‐ecological systems and address the challenges of climate change and rapid urbanization. Yet varying degrees of integration have raised questions about its efficacy and hindered broader adoption.
Lijun Summerhayes, Douglas Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Inner-suburban neighbourhoods, activist research and the social space of the commercial street [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper tracks the transition of “creative city” planning from the gentrified downtown to the disinvested inner-suburbs. It attends particularly to contradictory notions of community mobilized by proponents of inner-suburban revitalization and by ...
Kamizaki, Kuni   +2 more
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Owning memories: a tale of two cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In 1894 Queen Victoria opened the Salford Docks, now known as Salford Quays, home of MediaCityUK. At the time, Salford Docks were considered a masterpiece of engineering, allowing Manchester to circumvent the route through Liverpool and have access to ...
Catalani, Anna, Panas, Pam
core   +1 more source

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Urban gentrification and infectious diseases: an interdisciplinary narrative review

open access: yesGeospatial Health
Urban gentrification, the transformation of neighbourhoods by influx of new residential groups, leading to displacement of lowerincome communities, is a complex, multifaceted process with significant but generally unexplored public health implications ...
Behzad Kiani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Les dynamiques spatiales de la gentrification à Paris

open access: yesCybergeo, 2010
This paper presents a synthesis map that shows the spatial dynamics of gentrification in Paris since the 1960s. The notion of gentrification has been extensively studied since the 1970s, especially in England and Northern America, but the researchers ...
Anne Clerval
doaj   +1 more source

There Goes the Neighborhood: Exposing the Relationship Between Gentrification and Incarceration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper seeks to demonstrate that there is a deliberate and intentional link between residential housing patterns and crime and mass incarceration, and that government plays a strong role in allowing and formalizing this link.
Kellogg, Casey
core   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking Gentrification Attributes in Diverse Geographies: A Systematic Literature Review from Indonesia

open access: yesForum Geografi
Gentrification is identified as a transformative process, which involves major social and spatial transformations that take place either rapidly or gradually in various geographical contexts.
Edi Setiawan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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