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African Urbanism: the Geography of Urban Greenery
Urban Forum, 2016Whilst the issue of urban greenery has received considerable research attention in many individual African countries in recent years, little has been done to explore and document the influence and the management implications of urbanisation on urban greenery across Africa.
Patrick Brandful Cobbinah +1 more
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Elite capture and urban geography: Analyzing geographies of privilege
Progress in Human Geography, 2023Many cities have a two-tiered system for governing land: one set of rules for most people, and a different set for elite investors, large developers, and others who can bend, circumvent, or lobby against the rules.
John Lauermann, Khouloud Mallak
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Dignity in urban geography: Starting a conversation
Dialogues in Human Geography, 2022Studies in critical urban geography actively deal with injustices and humiliation, employing concepts like equity, justice, sustainability and the like, but strikingly, dignity is not among such current normative concepts.
Katrin Grossmann, Elena G. Trubina
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Urban geography 1: ‘Big tech’ and the reshaping of urban space
Progress in Human Geography, 2021This report draws on the burgeoning geography literature on ‘big tech’ and how scholars have responded to its spatial impacts. First, it traces the revival in locational geographies and the role of global platform firms in shaping urban market ...
D. McNeill
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Beyond southern urbanism? Imagining an urban geography of a world of cities
, 2020Urban geography has increasingly considered southern cities as important locations from which to develop urban theory. We build this wider movement and recent scholarship to continue opening urban geography to southern cities, scholars and ideas ...
M. Lawhon +5 more
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Health & Place, 2009
This paper uses the phenomenon of dignity as a lens through which to explore the relationship between cities and the health of people living in them. We describe a "taxonomy of dignity," developed using grounded theory, that explicates the social processes and contexts of dignity violation and dignity promotion.
Nora Jacobson +2 more
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This paper uses the phenomenon of dignity as a lens through which to explore the relationship between cities and the health of people living in them. We describe a "taxonomy of dignity," developed using grounded theory, that explicates the social processes and contexts of dignity violation and dignity promotion.
Nora Jacobson +2 more
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the urban political economy tradition in geography
Progress in Human Geography, 2021William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’s considerable contributions were actively diminished during his life and remain marginal in geography. This is unfortunate for urban geography, particularly its political economy wing, because his empirical and ...
J. Hackworth
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Urban Geography, 2019
Despite growing attentiveness to cities in the global south, questions remain as to how to enact a more global urban studies. We analyze five contemporary textbooks as a lens into how southern cities ought to be incorporated in teaching as well as the ...
M. Lawhon, L. Le Roux
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Despite growing attentiveness to cities in the global south, questions remain as to how to enact a more global urban studies. We analyze five contemporary textbooks as a lens into how southern cities ought to be incorporated in teaching as well as the ...
M. Lawhon, L. Le Roux
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2020
As a Ph.D student of cultural anthropology with a burgeoning interest in urban geography, I found this edited collection of articles useful, particularly as an overview of trends in urban geography since the middle of the twentieth century. Perhaps seasoned urban geographers who are intimately familiar with the developments and debates within their sub-
Nicholas R. Fyfe, Judith T. Kenny
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As a Ph.D student of cultural anthropology with a burgeoning interest in urban geography, I found this edited collection of articles useful, particularly as an overview of trends in urban geography since the middle of the twentieth century. Perhaps seasoned urban geographers who are intimately familiar with the developments and debates within their sub-
Nicholas R. Fyfe, Judith T. Kenny
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Urban geography: city structures [PDF]
Progress in Human Geography, 1977 Three types of work characterize the study of city structures, according to my earlier paper on this topic (Johnston, 1977). Two of them (neoclassical-functional description and the behavioural approach) are well-established and work continues to be produced along conventional lines (Herbert and Johnston, 1976a; 1976b); the third (institutional ...
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