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Central City Exploitation by Urban Sprawl? Evidence from Swiss Local Communities [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates spatial spillovers in local spending decisions between the center and the surrounding local communities by using panel data of the canton of Lucerne during the 1990s. Due to the geographical fragmentation with a major central city
Christoph A. Schaltegger   +2 more
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EMBODIED DATA/SUBALTERN DATAFICATION: Reimagining the Data‐Based City Through Quantified Lived Experience

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
wiley   +1 more source

Cliches of urban doom. The dystopian politics of metaphors for the unequal city: a view from Brussels

open access: yes, 2001
Drawing on evidence from the city of Brussels, it will be argued that much of today's urban governance discourses and practices contributes to anti-urban ‘clichés of urban doom’ and betrays middle-class, ethnocentric, sexist and racist prejudices about ...
Baeten, Guy
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GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
wiley   +1 more source

CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

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