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Urban Climate Imaginaries and Climate Urbanism
2020Urban climate imaginaries are narratives about cities of the present and future that define policy expectations in a political environment increasingly shaped by climate change. This chapter examines the urban climate imaginaries contained in the policy discourse of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
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Street lighting and the uneasy coexistence of socialist and capitalist urban imaginaries
, 2020This essay examines the partial privatization of street lamps in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, East Germany’s steel manufacturing hub and socialist utopia, today the city suffers from economic shrinkage and depopulation.
S. Fox
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Connecting the present to the future: The potential of urban adaptation imaginaries
Urban studiesLocal priorities shape the way urban adaptation to climate change is envisioned. Yet processes to capture these priorities often overlook the power dynamics behind structural vulnerabilities.
William Lewis +3 more
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Imaginaries of rural Japan, imaginaries of urban-rural migrants
2021Urban-rural migration and rural revitalization in ...
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Off-grid electricity imaginaries: Tracing urban citizenship in Cape Town’s informal settlements
Urban studiesLow-income households in South Africa’s rapidly urbanising cities often face significant challenges in accessing grid electricity. These challenges are illustrative of the limitations of conventional municipality-led grid expansion, and necessitate the ...
Thandeka Tshabalala +3 more
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Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
Urban greening is not a neutral intervention on the social fabric. Critical analyses of the green city often concentrate on greening's top-down, hegemonic, and large-scale manifestations while neglecting the role of social movements.
Austin Matheney +4 more
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Urban greening is not a neutral intervention on the social fabric. Critical analyses of the green city often concentrate on greening's top-down, hegemonic, and large-scale manifestations while neglecting the role of social movements.
Austin Matheney +4 more
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Urban studies, 2020
In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant ...
E. Potter
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In Australia, environmental degradation goes hand in hand with exclusionary and mono-vocal tactics of place-making. This article argues that dominant cultural imaginaries inform material and discursive practices of place-making with significant ...
E. Potter
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Rural–Urban Water Struggles, 2019
In Peru, payment for ecosystem services is an increasingly popular mechanism to secure the transfer of water from rural to urban areas. This article analyzes the process of setting up such a scheme in the watersheds of Lima.
S. Bleeker, J. Vos
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In Peru, payment for ecosystem services is an increasingly popular mechanism to secure the transfer of water from rural to urban areas. This article analyzes the process of setting up such a scheme in the watersheds of Lima.
S. Bleeker, J. Vos
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