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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

GOVERNING OR MANIPULATING LEVERAGE TO BUILD MORE CITIES? Borrowing in the Shadows by Local Governments and Real Estate Developers in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid growing interest in how states manage urban development through public finance, this article examines the institutional logics of leverage manipulation as a mode of contemporary urban governance. Focusing on China's evolving political economy, it investigates how local governments and real estate developers co‐produce a shadow financial ...
Ang Liu
wiley   +1 more source

PUTTING SOCIAL FINANCE IN PLACE: Geographies and Strategies of Philanthropic Impact Investment in Housing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
wiley   +1 more source

‘PARTICIPATION IS WHAT WE DO EVERY DAY’: Unpacking the Meanings and Practices of Participation Addressing Mobility Justice in Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, Brazil

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Participation is a topic that has been widely debated in urban studies. Despite this, we argue in this paper that policies and academic work on mobility planning have paid little attention to the meanings attached to participation and its role in mobility justice.
Aline Fernandes Barata, Sue Brownill
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

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