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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
wiley   +1 more source

MAKING AN ACCESSIBLE CITY: A Critique of Cartographic Reason through Emphasis on Corpography

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Gunnar Olsson, this article critiques the use of cartographic reason in the process of creating an accessible city for people with disabilities. It also borrows Gregory's ontological conceptual pair of cartography and corpography, showing the ontological transformations that occur within this pair during the practical removal of ...
Pavel Doboš, Robert Osman
wiley   +1 more source

Arguments for Socialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Cockshott, W.P., Zachriah, D.
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The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China Compared [PDF]

open access: yes
In the former socialist redistributive economies, the transition to market economy and the conversion to private ownership followed different trajectories.
Szelenyi, Ivan
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LIBERTOPIA: An Intellectual Stroll in Berlin's Tempelhof Park

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, an old airport turned into a public park, stands as a unique urban space. What it is about this simple and massive open space in the heart of a large city that makes it a near‐utopian formation? This essay attempts to explore the meaning of this sociospatial entity, framing it in terms of a ‘libertopia’, to serve as ...
Asef Bayat
wiley   +1 more source

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