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SPORT‐RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession.
Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
wiley   +1 more source

NONPROFIT‐LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze the development of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago as the product of a new kind of urban growth machine—a nonprofit‐led neoliberal growth machine. Building on studies of nonprofit‐led urban development as well as research on CBA‐driven opposition, we reconstruct how an Obama Foundation‐led growth machine was able to ...
Virginia Parks   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE: Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community‐led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in‐ or excluded from local visions and practices of adaptation has rarely been asked.
Panagiota Kotsila   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
wiley   +1 more source

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