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Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro‐periurbanisation in Brazil
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper examines how peri‐urban spaces are governed through concealment and obfuscation. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense near Rio de Janeiro, it connects land fraud (‘grilagem’) to the obfuscation of violence, proposing the concept of ‘accumulation by disappearance’.
Jan Simon Hutta
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Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Urban Policies. A Review of the Cases of Lima, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile [PDF]
, 2019 In recent decades, urban processes have experienced deep transformations. One of them has been the growing importance of urban sprawl. This article reviews its main features and the policies related to the paradigm of sustainability in three Latin ...
Asián-Chaves, Rosario +1 more
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Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson +5 more
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Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Abstract This intervention responds to the ‘Geography in the World’ series, addressing the question from two angles. Firstly, it shifts the focus from geography in the world to worlding geographies. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming‐minority’, it encourages reflection on the current geography of knowledge production as a historical,
Anne‐Laure Amilhat Szary +9 more
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How to reverse urban sprawl: The smart blue-green city
Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka RegionalnaThe phenomenon of urban sprawl is relatively widespread. At its root are a number of factors that have caused people to leave cities and settle relatively close to them.
Dorota Michalak, Paulina Szyja
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Are we growing smart?: new vision for urban development in Asia and the Pacific [PDF]
The present paper explores the implications of smart growth principles for Asia-Pacific urbanization, and discusses how to use such principles for development in this region over the coming decades.
Hyunsun Choi
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Property Tax and Urban Sprawl: Theory and Implications for U.S. Cities [PDF]
This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between property tax and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We develop a theoretical model that includes households (who are also landlords) and land developers in a regional land market.
Song, Yan, Zenou, Yves
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Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World's Scientific Elites
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast, the Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise.
Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose +2 more
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Urban sprawl costs the American economy more than $1 trillionannually: smart growth policies may be the answer. [PDF]
, 2015 The rapid urbanization of populations across the world has led to the growth of urban sprawl, which has in turn had many negative social and economic impacts. In new research in partnership with LSE Cities, Todd Litman, investigates the problems of urban
Litman, Todd
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