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Urban Redevelopment in Shenzhen, China : Neoliberal Urbanism, Gentrification, and Everyday Life in Baishizhou Urban Village

open access: yes, 2019
Urban redevelopment is increasingly used as a policy tool for economic growth by local governments in Chinese cities, which is taking place amid rapid urbanization and in an expanding globalized economy. Along with the spatial transformation, urban redevelopment often entails socioeconomic change in the form of processes of gentrification, which is ...
openaire   +1 more source

Spatial justice in urban planning : redevelopment of urban villages and housing for migrant workers in Guangzhou, China

open access: yes, 2015
A just city is what urban planning should be fighting for. In Chinese cities, however, spatial justice has been seriously overlooked in many aspects of urban development. Using the theoretical framework devised with spatial justice theories, urban power structure, and the theories and practices of urban renewal and housing for migrants in developed ...
openaire   +2 more sources

How the Butler Did It: Investigating Individual City Influence on National Policy

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In most political systems, cities are not formally part of national policymaking. However, since they are often responsible for the implementation of national policies, they are likely to seek influence on these policies. Existing literature deals mostly with institutionalized policy cooperation and collective municipal organizations. As such,
Anders Leth Nielsen
wiley   +1 more source

Research on brownfield redevelopment based on Wuli-Shili-Renli system theory and catastrophe progression method. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2022
Jian H   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Environmental volatility can inflate property values even as it destroys them. To show how, this article pairs a postcolonial micro‐state in the Caribbean (Sint Maarten after Hurricane Irma) with a Nordic welfare town (Grindavík in Iceland following volcanic eruptions) because they occupy the opposite ends of the governance capacity spectrum ...
Thor Björnsson
wiley   +1 more source

Networked Migrants and De‐Networked Policies—Examining the Nexus of Migration Regimes and Experiences Through a Relational Lens

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on theory and practice of social network research, this article examines the nexus between networked migration experiences and de‐networked migration policies in countries of arrival. Building upon classical network scholarship and our own contributions to qualitative network research, we show how migration policies in Europe tend to ...
Alessio D'Angelo, Louise Ryan
wiley   +1 more source

Redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in China: Motivation, history, policies and improved management. [PDF]

open access: yesEco Environ Health, 2022
Sun Y   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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