Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/27541258231186420
Emma Colven
In this commentary, I respond to and extend Wilson and Wyly's ‘Dracula urbanism’ by drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and urban political ecology critiques of global urbanism. To do so, I firstly provincialize Dracula urbanism to reframe this notion as a situated form of knowledge. I then examine how vampires specific to Indonesian and Malay cultures might reveal different insights into the nature of capitalist urbanization. I close with a call for urban scholars to engage more closely with critical perspectives from urban studies that continue to occupy the margins of the field. I also invite careful consideration and reflexivity as to the work we achieve by coining new urbanisms.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1177/27541258231185310
Steffen Wetzstein
until prices rise again. There is nothing in Phillips’ impressive toolkit of interventions that addresses corporate power and financialisation. While he calls for more public subsidy to build or acquire affordable homes, especially as a form of countercyclical state intervention, he refuses to countenance the most obvious and historically-proven measure of addressing market failure in housing: direct state intervention to break up corporate monopolies, buy land, build homes and rent direct to tenants as public housing on a not-for-profit basis. Such a solution may be politically unconscionable in a US context, but given how much of a proactive marketshaping and market-regulating role Phillips envisages for the state in his strategy, surely they are worth a proper consideration in the next edition.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1177/27541258231183691
S. Phillips
(Stephens, 2020); at a historical moment when this is most needed. The reviewed monograph, in conclusion, invites the reader to buy into an original narrative that reconciles ‘more new houses’ with ‘more power to rental tenancy and renter’ in the quest for cities everyone can afford. I am confident that everyone will learn something new. The author’s intention for less contentious debates in the constant search for ‘win-win’ may inspire many. I therefore recommend this book for purchase. Phillips’ problematic mixing of (relatively) low-hanging fruit for change with some supercontentious macro-propositions, and the omission of critical ‘beyond-agency’-literatures means argumentative coherence and necessary intellectual footing are compromised. But this ‘critical intellectualisation’ of his rich collection of practice-earned wisdom snippets could, and indeed should, be undertaken by others.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1177/27541258231183696
Margherita Grazioli
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1177/27541258231183694
Anna Granath Hansson
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/27541258231180198
Christopher Silver
The “Dracula urbanism” conception seeks to identify destructive transformation underway in cities under the guise of the “smart city” movement. According to the Wilson and Wyly assessment of trends in Flint, Michigan and Jakarta, Indonesia (but by implication occurring on a global scale), an exploitative “real estate state” is systematically rooting out all traces of decay (and by implication the poor) not only to purify the environment but also to reap enormous profits. The two cases assessed show, at different urban scales, that large scale developments are underway in concert with key political leaders. At the same, however, there are public plans and community advocacy groups representing alternative visions with the smart city movement, ensuring that parasitic practices do not go unchallenged. The Dracula urbanism metaphor fails to capture this side. Smart city governance in Jakarta (and other Indonesian cities) actually engenders greater governmental capacity to address general citizen needs. In Flint, some new development addresses previously unmet community needs. While useful to underscore the transformative role of real estate developers in shaping a new brand of urbanism, the Dracula urbanism model fails to capture the complexities of the modern city's response to the enduring challenges of serving all its citizens.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/27541258231179201
Renee Tapp
In response to Wilson and Wyly's paper, I argue that urban planners, policymakers, and theorists need an alternative understanding of “the real estate state.” This approach involves recovering the productive capabilities of publicly owned property. Starting with the fact that governments often are the largest property owners in a city, I argue that urban planning has shied away from its mandate to manage real estate for the public's benefit. Urban theory, education, and practice that shun real estate finance furthers inequality. To combat this, scholars and practitioners need to place the state and its vast real estate portfolio at the center of critical analysis and bold civic policies.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/27541258231179162
Geoff DeVerteuil
In this forum paper, I revisit the rich and coherent literature on inequality from the 1990s, immersed in radical urban studies and Marxist political economy, and apply it to recent transitions in city fabrics, that is the built environment and the social worlds around it. Some city fabrics reflect powerful interests, while others are more everyday and mundane. Recently, there has been the sense that powerful fabrics have increasingly encroached upon or erased everyday ones. I use urban vignettes to visualize the shift from the corrugated city, where there was a rough balance between powerful and everyday fabrics, and the lopsided city, where powerful fabrics seek to displace and dominate. This transition requires a more robustly class-driven analysis than what is currently used in urban studies, itself fragmented. In response, I articulate a focused yet balanced analysis of the lopsided city in conversation with certain key legacies of the 1990s literature on inequality: studying the extremes, building theory on empirical richness, paying attention to the city fabric, a concern for social justice, the importance of formal mechanisms in the city (e.g. the state and developers), and balancing fragmented and totalizing views of the city. However, certain aspects of the 1990s literature have aged less well, such as the obsession with the dystopic, the narrow focus on global cities of the Global North, and the ‘all-or-nothing’ (universalistic) notions that class should dominate urban analysis.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1177/27541258231179214
Bas van Heur
This paper poses the question of what the proliferation of urban research centres across the world means for urban studies as a field of research, what this tells us about the (uneven) geographies of urban knowledge production and circulation, and who are the key institutions and researchers involved. In other words: what, where and who is urban studies? Building on a minor tradition of bibliometric research in urban studies and related disciplines, the paper assesses the Scopus-registered 2011–2021 publication output of the more than 1000 researchers affiliated to 30 urban studies centres across the world. The analysis points to four main observations. First, urban studies output is published in an extraordinarily wide range of journals, representing work from research communities across the social sciences and humanities, engineering, natural sciences and medical sciences. Second, clear global hierarchies exist in knowledge production, but co-authorship relations are also shaped by geographical proximity and the multidisciplinary profile of each individual research centre. Third, English is the dominant language of academic publications, but other languages play important roles for individual centres at the level of co-authorship relations and journals. Fourth, the article provides evidence of a diverse and globally distributed landscape of mid-sized urban studies centres that contribute substantially to the top urban studies journals. Each observation is linked to a reflection on the potential role for research centres in creating a more equal playing field for urban studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/27541258231179188
Stefano Bloch, D. Meyer
In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes a more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the mapping and counting of dislocated bodies. As part of our argument, we introduce the concept of aversive racism to the geographical literature on displacement, pointing to this insidious mode of spatial practice that we argue is widely constitutive of place-making and place-taking processes in gentrifying areas. We do this by first providing a review and analysis of how displacement has been conceptualized and measured in existing geographical scholarship on gentrification, followed by a critical examination of the gentrification literature's engagement with race and racism, and a final argument for an affective approach within a Black geographies framing that encourages more analyses based on experiential encounters with more-than-physical displacement-by-gentrification.
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