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Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation
Buildings & CitiesHighlights Urban adaptation relates to how people imagine plausible and desirable urban futures. Adaptation imaginaries refer to collective representations of how society should act and towards which goal in the context of unprecedented climate change ...
Vanesa Castán Broto +2 more
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The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries [PDF]
, 2018 The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative
Miriam Meissner, C. Lindner
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Urban Imaginaries as Tacit Governing Devices: The Case of Smart City Vienna
Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2023 Many cities have formulated strategies, visions, and policies to deploy a local version of the “smart city.” While analysts have frequently focused on tech innovators as central players, this paper takes one step back investigating policy documents and ...
Pouya Sepehr, U. Felt
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‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign
Urban studies, 2023 This article examines the production, representations and reactions to the #LondonIsOpen campaign to ask how urban imaginaries are produced and what they entail for understanding the city.
Edanur Yazici +5 more
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A performing arts centre for whom? Rethinking the architect as negotiator of urban imaginaries
Urban studies, 2023 In this study, we interpret architecture not as a single imaginary stemming from architects and architectural patrons, but as the result of negotiating urban politics and urban imaginaries between different stakeholders, including policymakers, citizens,
Inge Goudsmit, M. Kaika, N. Verloo
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Quito’S Urban Imaginaries: Between Conserved and Intervened Green Spaces
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2021 This manuscript presents the results of field research aimed to identify the perceptions that condition the urban imaginaries addressing the green spaces in Quito, Ecuador. Two focus groups were carried out with experts in designing green spaces.
D. Montero +6 more
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, 2022 The book this chapter appears in is available on Open Access at: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463727037 Brunel Research Development Fund; University of ...
Degen, M, Ward, I
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Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, 2022 This paper investigates urban imaginaries conveyed in publications in ecology over the past century. We examine some urban ecologists’ view that urban areas have been disregarded by ecology due to negative views on cities and urbanisation.
Silvia Flaminio, J. S. Cavin, M. Moretti
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Urban Planning, 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic temporarily, yet significantly, reshuffled the position, functions and (mediated) constructions of cities and urban places. The national lockdown, implemented by Austria on 16 March 2020, turned cities overnight from centres of ...
Katja Kaufmann +2 more
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Urban Planning, 2022 Renderings are digital visualisations of urban development projects in the field of urban design that aim to create spatial knowledge about future-built urban environments, which we also refer to as imaginaries.
Sophie Mélix, Gabriela Christmann
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