Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1177/27541258241256972
J. Portugali
This paper explores the relations between the notions of order as developed by philosopher and quantum physicist David Bohm, and the study of cities and urbanism. The paper demonstrates that Bohm's notions of order have the potential to lay the foundations to a unified urban theory; a theory that, firstly, will close the century old gap, and dis-communication, between the two cultures of cities – the social theory oriented hermeneutic culture of urban studies versus the quantitative-analytical, exact sciences oriented, culture of urban science. Secondly, will respond to the need for integrative urban theory in face of disintegration tendencies in twenty-first century urban studies. Such a unified urban theory is a pre-condition for addressing humanity's current challenges, ranging from climate change and sustainability, through poverty alleviation to the crisis of democracy.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/27541258241259387
Jay Emery
Luger and Schwarze's critical unsettling of postindustrial is a presciently welcome one. For some years now, I—and others—have become increasingly uncomfortable with referring to and describing the locations of our research as “postindustrial.” The main focus of this commentary is on the facets of Luger and Schwarze's (2024) arguments as they relate to nonmetropolitan deindustrializing urbanisms in the North Atlantic in an attempt to develop how we better conceptualize, understand and do justice to and with such spaces. The main thrust of the contribution is for the affective intensities and traumas of deindustrialization to be brought into closer analytical dialog with the profusion of processes associated with, in particular, “organized abandonment” and “neoliberal urbanism.” If classed experiences and knowledge shape these dialogs, there remains hope for urban studies to contribute to an emergent multiethnic class politics around commonalities of contemporary as well as historical class violence.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/27541258241259389
Elvin Wyly
Cities are real, physical, material concentrations of human activities and built environments, but they are also portals that allow and require unique ways of perceiving relations across space and time. Photography, especially the genre of seductive urban landscape views so often deployed by airlines, realtors, and city boosters, distorts our perceptions of space-time. These distortions are particularly serious in the unique configuration of Indigeneity and transnationalization that constitutes the lands presently known as Canada and British Columbia. Drawing inspiration from Sontag's dark but essential Regarding the Pain of Others, and focusing on the Vancouver global city region, this article seeks to develop critical captions for urban landscape views as what Eugène Atget portrayed as crime-scene evidence.
城市是真实的、有形的、物质的人类活动和建筑环境的集中地，但同时也是门户，允许并要求以独特的方式感知跨越时空的关系。摄影，尤其是航空公司、房地产商和城市宣传者经常使用的极具诱惑力的城市景观摄影，扭曲了我们对时空的感知。这些扭曲在构成目前加拿大和不列颠哥伦比亚省这块土地的土著性和跨国化的独特结构中尤为严重。本文从桑塔格的《关于他人的痛苦》（Regarding the Pain of Others）一书中汲取灵感，以温哥华全球城市地区为重点，试图为尤金-阿特盖特（Eugène Atget）描绘的犯罪现场证据--城市景观视图--制定批判性的标题。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.1177/27541258241258766
Jason Hackworth
In this response to Luger and Schwarze I concur that the meaning and application of the “post-industrial” is imprecise. In particular, I argue that current manifestations of the concept background the role of racism at generating the landscapes often solely attributed to deindustrialization.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1177/27541258241245112
Z. Allam
This paper contrasts urban sustainability policies in France and the UK, revealing significant differences in their approaches to climate action and urban mobility. France's policies, such as tripling SUV parking fees and promoting the 15-min city concept, aim to reduce carbon emissions and improve livability by encouraging walking and cycling, reflecting a commitment to sustainable mobility and environmental equity. In contrast, the UK's extension of a 5p fuel duty cut benefits wealthier, multiple-vehicle owners, showing a different prioritization. With urban populations rising globally, the necessity for sustainable urban planning becomes increasingly critical. This analysis demonstrates how France and the UK's divergent strategies underscore the importance of integrating sustainability and equity into urban policy to mitigate environmental impact and enhance urban livability, advocating for a reevaluation of long-term urban development and sustainability impacts.
本文对比了法国和英国的城市可持续发展政策，揭示了两国在气候行动和城市交通方面的显著差异。法国的政策，如将 SUV 停车费提高两倍和推广 15 分钟城市概念，旨在通过鼓励步行和骑自行车来减少碳排放和提高宜居性，反映了对可持续交通和环境公平的承诺。与此相反，英国延长 5 便士燃油税减税政策的受益者是较富裕的多车主，这显示了不同的优先顺序。随着全球城市人口的增加，可持续城市规划的必要性变得越来越重要。本分析表明，法国和英国的不同战略凸显了将可持续性和公平性纳入城市政策以减轻环境影响和提高城市宜居性的重要性，并倡导重新评估长期城市发展和可持续性的影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/27541258241233498
G. S. Tanyildiz
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/27541258241233502
John Lauermann
This commentary builds on Loretta Lees’ concept of engaged dialogue in critical urban studies to argue for more engaged dialogue through data. This type of dialogue would entail building critical theory from a more diverse and nuanced base of information, using mixed or plural methodologies. It could mean communicating with, about and through data with public-facing tools that incorporate participatory elements through the user interface. It would also require ongoing critical interpretation of the politics and political economy of urban data.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1177/27541258231203999
Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch
Urbanisation is changing landscapes, social relations and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanisation is also changing the ways democracy is understood and practiced. Nevertheless, the relation between urbanisation and democracy remains conceptually and empirically underdeveloped. Our aim in this paper is to provide a novel way of thinking about this relationship that addresses two limitations in current debates. First, there is the dominant view that just as urbanisation dissolves the actual, material city it also dissolves the city as a democratic project. We challenge this understanding, arguing that across the globe claims for and forms of urban collective self-rule signal that the city retains democratic significance in a very specific sense: as an object of practice and thought the city is a source and stake of the urban demos. Second, there is a tendency to either restrict the question of democracy to state-centred forms of political action or to place democracy completely outside the realm of the state. We argue however that urbanisation unsettles seemingly fixed boundaries between the state and society and thus opens the possibility of weaving together a new democratic fabric encompassing both. In addressing these two strands of debate together, we outline a democratic politics of urbanisation that shifts perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of collective urban life. Seeing democracy like a city, we argue, foregrounds a way to reimagine and to re-locate democracy in the everyday lives of urbanites.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210859
Alana Osbourne
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