Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210203
Ash Amin, Michele Lancione
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/27541258231204001
Eleanor Jupp
As DeVerteuil asserts, urban studies should engage anew with matters of inequality and social justice. In this commentary piece, additional perspectives on this task are offered, drawing on research on community action and austerity. These include the importance of paying attention to the importance of ‘small’ practices, feelings and affects as constitutive of urban politics, which can be accessed via ethnography; attending to the digital as it remakes city fabrics and communities; and new explorations of state processes drawing on feminist and psycho-social approaches.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210199
Stefano Bloch
Within DeVerteuil's lopsided city are spaces in which creative and combative place-making persist. Guma most recently and within the pages of this very issue of Dialogues in Urban Research identifies such spaces as those produced by “urban populations, in situ,” noting their “forms of hustling in fringe positions” as they fight against displacement by gentrification in the global South, as well as against the dizzying effect of the lopsided city wrought by neoliberal exploits. However, such spaces get obscured within the metaphorical imbalance of the lopsided city, where the nooks, crannies, cuts, and fringes that house everyday life can otherwise be revealed through up-close and personal urban analysis.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1177/27541258231203996
Samuel Zipp
Recognizing the unequal distribution of urban studies research should also spur us to think in more depth about the way we understand and communicate about our shared subjects: cities and urbanization.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1177/27541258231204004
Ben A. Gerlofs, Ernesto López-Morales
In this article, we outline the central tenets of an endogenous theory of neighborhood change in Mexico City known as blanqueamiento (‘whitening'). Drawing on longstanding research and intellectual exchange with local scholars and activists, we illustrate the promise this concept holds for transcending the many limitations of ‘gentrification', and its metaphrase translation, gentrificació n, in this and other contexts. We argue that while blanqueamiento and similar theories from outside the Global North often face extreme difficulties in emergence, their value to both critical scholarship and urban politics can be profound, and should be more fully explored and recognized. We demonstrate this value in Mexico City through an exploration of this concept’s core meanings and expressions, specifically in the areas of: 1) belonging, displacement, and racialized aesthetics; 2) architecture, design, and globalizing aesthetics; and 3) finance, money laundering, and the insidious complicity of aestheticized consumption. In support of our overall argument about the need for more productive urban exchanges and the critical co-production of knowledge on the topic of urban change through translation, we bring together insights from ongoing debates on the nature and uses of gentrification in contemporary cities and the politics of theory-making and conceptualization in geography and urban studies across the globe.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1177/27541258231204347
Elvin Wyly, David Wilson
Cities are physical, material concentrations of people and structures, but they are also ongoing conversations of intergenerational negotiation, communication, competition, conflict, and cooperation. Recently, Emma Colven, Renee Tapp, Delik Hudalah, Dallas Rogers, and Christopher Silver have offered valuable critical contributions to this dialogue in urban research, evaluating the utility and limitations of a new metaphor, Dracula Urbanism, for understanding the inequalities of today's transnational real-estate growth machines. In this essay, we pursue an extended meditation inspired by some of the most valuable insights offered by Colven, Tapp, Hudalah, Rogers, and Silver. Dracula Urbanism is a fascinating yet fearful story of technologically accelerated reproduction of inequality and urban competition. Uneven yet insistently transnationalizing real estate states rely on, and reproduce, recombinant legitimations of diaspora and nativism, capital and consciousness, property and personhood, ancestry and amortization.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/27541258231203998
Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
This short contribution comments on Bas van Heur's article ‘What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world’, a highly original analysis of the state of the art in urban studies complemented by provocative propositions to challenge existing global hierarchies of knowledge production. While I am enthusiastic about this work, I also propose considering in greater detail the interpretational risks associated with van Heur's operationalisation of urban studies as the publication production of multidisciplinary research centres. Specifically, I underline the observation that the article already implicitly contends that the organisational form of multidisciplinary and cross-university urban studies centres may be less likely to emerge in some contexts than in others. Thus, mapping various organisational forms that urban studies take across the world, as well as their history, might usefully complement the project. Yet, the critical question remains – how to do this?
这篇短文是对Bas van Heur的文章“城市研究是什么，在哪里，谁是城市研究?”《在一个不平等的世界中的研究中心》，对城市研究的艺术现状进行了高度原创的分析，并辅以挑战现有全球知识生产等级的挑衅性命题。虽然我对这项工作充满热情，但我也建议更详细地考虑范赫尔将城市研究作为多学科研究中心的出版物进行运作所带来的解释风险。具体地说，我强调这篇文章已经含蓄地认为，多学科和跨大学城市研究中心的组织形式在某些情况下可能比在其他情况下更不可能出现。因此，绘制世界各地城市研究的各种组织形式，以及它们的历史，可能会有效地补充该项目。然而，关键的问题仍然存在——如何做到这一点?
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/27541258231203995
Brandi T. Summers
Reflecting on Bloch and Meyer's exploration of displacement-by-gentrification and their use of “aversive racism” to address a lack of serious engagement with race and racism in gentrification studies, I offer a conceptual tour of both gentrification and displacement, specifically how some scholars have defined both terms and used them to explore various dimensions of socio-spatial shifts. Then, I clarify the incompatibility of aversive racism and a Black geographic framework, since Black geographies place Black agency at the center of spatial production and emphasizes Black spatial experiences in the expression of Black spatial imaginaries and geographic visions of society.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/27541258231204007
Richard Kirk
In response to DeVerteuil's recent article in this forum, “Urban Inequality Revisited: From the Corrugated City to the Lopsided City,” I offer a generally positive appraisal—considering his call to re-focus class in urban studies and providing further context to his arguments about uneven spatial development and inter-city relationality. I also offer something of a critique, or what might be read as a clarification, which serves to further complicate the notion of class inequality and its representation in “lopsided” city fabrics. Perhaps we should pay mind not only to powerful, extreme architectural verticality as a manifestation of growing class inequality, but also to powerful, less spectacular, horizontal built environments that nevertheless prove to be likewise significant reflections of this expanding divide.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1177/27541258231204006
Kevin Ward
This commentary takes as its point of departure van Heur’s (2023) What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world. The paper's four concluding propositions, resting on an empirical dataset generated through the Scopus-registered 2011 to 2021 publications of the more than 1000 researchers affiliated to 30 university-housed urban studies centres, constitute an important contribution to thinking through one potential version of the future of urban studies. Such is the richness of this paper that a commentary might highlight all manner of points. I will contain myself here to two, which likely say as much about me as about the initial paper, such is the nature of these sorts of commentaries. My points relate to definitional indifferences and formal/functional equivalences.
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