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Liveable, but for Whom? – Perceived Liveability and Citizen Participation in Amsterdam's Red‐Light District

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
AbstractPopularly known as Amsterdam's Red‐Light District, De Wallen is one of the Netherlands' most well‐known yet controversial areas. This politicised neighbourhood has witnessed years of gentrification and touristification. Many contemporary debates concerning De Wallen, and the municipality's policy interventions have been around the topic of ...
Oishika Basak, Ilse van Liempt
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Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions.
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
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Global City as an Emergent Category of Practice in Jakarta: Conjuncture, Capaciousness and Contentions

Area, Volume 58, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In April 2024, the Indonesian government officially declared Jakarta a global city. Although scholars have noted that Jakarta's connectedness to the global system and the aspiration to transform Jakarta into a global city are not new, the lexicon was not yet substantively marshalled in Jakarta's policies and plans.
Farhan Anshary
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Localizing Social Aspects and Liveability Criteria in Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools; Case Study: New Urban Expansions in Cairo, Egypt

Prostor
Successful urban regeneration accentuates the major purpose of the built environment in achieving urban renewal, in particular preserving local identity and sense of place, promoting mixed-use communal living, and optimizing resources on a long-term plan.
Nouran Naguib, Kristina Careva, Rene Lisac   +2 more
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Neighbour‐Based Organisations as Social Infrastructure: Gathering, Channelling and Remaining in the Midst of Mexico City's Water Crisis

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract This article examines how neighbour‐based organisations become social infrastructures in contexts of water scarcity. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the Water Defence Committee in Mexico City, it identifies three practices (gathering, channelling and remaining) through which organisations bring people together, shape resource ...
Andres Emiliano Sierra Martinez
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Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
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Water Imaginaries of Care, Collectivity and Contextuality in Migrant Households' Stories of Adaptation to Water Scarcity

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract Climate change is leading to changing water availability and is likely to impact systems of supply and associated practices in the Global North. As a way of contending with these possibilities, this paper shows how migrant households from water‐scarce countries offer insights into specific practices, such as water reuse, minimising water
Louise Turner, Claire Hoolohan, Sarah Mander   +2 more
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Between Steel and Skin: Corporeal Colonization of Women Workers and Gendered Organizations in Heavy Industry

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1658-1675, September 2026.
ABSTRACT “I felt as if my body was being occupied by the factory.” The words of one woman working in Turkey's heavy industry were repeated in many accounts, capturing how industrial infrastructures calibrated to male norms press directly into women's bodies.
Esra Kasap, Janset Özen‐Aytemur, Cihat Erbil   +2 more
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(Im)possibility of Redress: Mega‐Infrastructures and the Voided Politics of Contestation

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on critical geography's recent engagement with negativity, this article intervenes in dominant relational approaches to infrastructure by examining the (im)possibility of redress under mega‐infrastructure development through a case study of the Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor in coastal Kenya.
Gediminas Lesutis
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Land Use Transformation and Climate Resilience in Smart Cities: Role of ICT in Modern Urban Planning

Land Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 13, Page 9144-9154, 15 August 2026.
ABSTRACT Modern urban planning is experiencing a transition from traditional planning to the integration of information technology, which defines the concept of a “smart city”. The study analyses the evolution of urban planning practices with an emphasis on the role of engineering and architecture in the process of urbanization, the transition to the ...
Dariusz Cichoń
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