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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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A distopia como caminho = Dystopia as a path = La distopía como camino
Letras de HojeNeste trabalho, proponho reflexões sobre os possíveis papéis que a distopia pode estar exercendo no mundo contemporâneo e potenciais alternativas para o futuro, que fujam de uma resignação ou resiliência coletiva.
Oliveira, Giovana Silva de
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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BRASIL NO SÉCULO XXI NA GEOPOLÍTICA DA CRISE: para onde apontam as utopias?
Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2016 Set In the historical span of time of capital, at its structural crisis phase, this article discusses the current Brazilian insertion, placing it at the center of a critical evaluation.
Alba Maria Pinho de Carvalho +1 more
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Utopia and Intellectual Humility: More, Bacon and Swift Appraising Law and Technology
Law, Technology and HumansLaw and frontier technologies have been variously perceived in Western literature’s early classic utopias. Utopias’ diverse narratives and commentaries have applauded law’s interplay with technology or admonished it – utopias have variously imagined ...
Karen Schultz
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
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Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations. [PDF]
Cult Stud Sci Educ, 2023 Jones N.
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