Pub Date : 2025-11-30DOI: 10.1177/00420980251390305
Yoav Kapshuk, Hila Zaban
This article examines spatial memory making in Jaffa, a contested city shaped by both Palestinian and Jewish histories. Using the Yaffa Streets Project as a case study, it explores symbolic efforts by gentrifiers to address historical injustices through compensative memory making aimed at restoring erased Palestinian legacies. While the project resonated with ethically motivated Jewish residents grappling with their role in gentrification, it struggled to engage the local Palestinian community. Through a blend of ethnographic research and interviews, the findings reveal how memory initiatives in contested spaces often reproduce power asymmetries, fail to align with local epistemologies, and are perceived as external impositions. By situating Jaffa’s transformation within the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and ongoing gentrification, the study highlights the challenges of heritage and memory activism in contested spaces, where such efforts often compete with the immediate survival needs of affected communities.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-30DOI: 10.1177/00420980251387828
Carlos Delclós, Olatz Ribera-Almandoz, Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas
This article examines the emergence and contentious politics of urban sanctuary in Barcelona under a progressive ‘new municipalist’ government. Through document analysis, key informant interviews, participant observation, and media and archival research conducted between 2015 and 2023, it analyses the City of Refuge programme and other local migration policies as sites of multilevel migration governance and political struggle. The article conceptualises sanctuary not as a stable policy field but as a dynamic, contentious process shaped by the interplay between legality, discourse, identity formation, and scalar negotiation. It draws on theoretical insights from scholarship on urban citizenship and multilevel governance, tracing how municipal actors and civil society mobilised symbolic and material resources to include undocumented residents and contest exclusionary national and supranational frameworks. Empirically, it shows how local movements challenged the state’s distinctions between refugees and undocumented people, mobilising refugee crisis discourse to expand inclusion and prevent further marginalisation of precarious undocumented citizens. Attention is given to administrative inclusion practices, targeted social programmes, and confrontations over policy competence. The findings reveal both the transformative potential and structural limitations of municipal sanctuary initiatives, highlighting the tensions between symbolic commitments to inclusion and the constrained capacities of local governments within hierarchical systems of governance. Barcelona thus offers a revealing case for understanding how cities reconfigure (and are constrained by) the scalar politics of migration governance, with its progressive leadership rooted in local social movements making underlying tensions especially visible.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251387919
Shannon Rieger, Angela Li, Patrick Sharkey
For decades, the social isolation of disadvantaged groups has been a leading explanation for urban inequality. Yet, empirical studies of social isolation have historically been limited to residential contexts, and further, they have typically neglected to consider isolation among advantaged groups. Building on recent data advances, we use large-scale daily mobility data collected across the United States in 2019 to describe patterns of spatial isolation, defined as the extent to which individuals live their lives surrounded by ingroup members, for various segments of the population. The results show that spatial isolation is highest among advantaged ethnoracial and income groups, a finding that aligns with recent research and provides a challenge to the longstanding assumption that social isolation is most pronounced in areas of concentrated disadvantage. Further, the results underline the extent to which mobility contributes to differential exposure to environments of opportunity and risk for various groups, suggesting that mobility-based isolation may play an important role in the production of persistent urban inequality.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251381505
Lucia Cerrada Morato
Suburbanization is accelerating worldwide, with over 83% of Europe’s population projected to live in metropolitan peripheries by 2050. This transformation reshapes not only the physical form of metropolitan areas but also their socio-economic and demographic geographies. While climate change scholarship identifies suburban peripheries as particularly vulnerable, and urban studies have linked vulnerability to density and distance from city centers, the infra-municipal geography of vulnerability within Southern European fragmented peripheries remains largely unexplored. This study examines suburban vulnerability as a multidimensional phenomenon—encompassing socio-demographic, socio-economic, and residential factors—within a medium-sized Southern European metropolis. Moving beyond traditional models, it proposes a fragment-scale analytical framework, capturing the fine-grained spatial heterogeneity often overlooked by conventional municipal or radial approaches. The findings reveal that vulnerability does not align with simple density or distance gradients but follows distinct patterns correlated with specific suburban fragment types, shaped by their historical production logics and governance trajectories. Adopting a constructivist perspective, the study argues that these patterns are not merely contemporary effects but result from long-standing processes of neoliberal speculation and socio-spatial differentiation. By operationalizing the suburban fragment as both a conceptual and empirical tool, this research advances a more relational, context-sensitive understanding of suburban vulnerability in Southern Europe, challenging dominant Anglo-Saxon models and contributing to critical urban studies debates.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251388528
Nanke Verloo, Andres Mauricio Galeano Salgado
This article proposes the methodology of Critical Moments (CMs) to study transport decision-making politics, contributing to debates on transport as a social construct. Critical Moments are defined as moments when change occurs in contentious processes through relational interactions, causing uncertainty, disrupting power relations, and shaping action repertoires. The methodology enables analysis of how formal and informal political actions by citizens and administrations shape transport outcomes, revealing how projects are developed both within and outside conventional planning processes. An ethnographic study of Seventh Avenue in Bogotá, Colombia, illustrates how the interplay between case actors during CMs led to a progressive agenda and participatory process but ultimately excluded citizens’ political action, jeopardizing transport justice. The analysis provides three key insights into transport politics and justice. First, it reveals the unintended consequences of excluding citizens’ political actions, suggesting that excluding “some” to improve transport justice for “others” may have the opposite effect, jeopardizing transport justice for all. Second, it demonstrates that in contested planning processes, both critical and non-critical moments are equally important for addressing conflict adequately. Third, it provides insights into procedural justice and participation, indicating that it involves managing both relational and substantive conflicts throughout the decision-making process and includes “contestation” in the understanding of participation. Critical Moment analysis enables a better understanding of the relational complexity and shifting power dynamics in transport planning by comparing contested meanings in stakeholder perspectives. It provides an empirical analysis of the temporality of conflict and power mismatches in urban transformation.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251386974
Jean-David Gerber, Deniz Ay, Josje Bouwmeester, Vera Götze, Thomas Hartmann, Mathias Jehling, Stéphane Nahrath, Jessica Verheij
The business of densification refers to more or less aggressive urban development practices that use the broad political consensus on the need for urban densification to promote profit-driven development, often dressed up in the rhetoric of eco-efficiency, and to the detriment of social policy objectives (e.g. affordable housing, cultural heritage, community cohesion). The implementation of urban densification requires deep changes in the practice of land-use planning because, as opposed to greenfield developments, it occurs in a complex web of established rights and interests. These more active forms of planning interventions are referred to as “land policy” in a growing body of literature (including in this special issue). In the context of densification, land policy tends to be appraised in planning debates as purely instrumental, that is, as a more effective and proactive administrative strategy for improved project implementation. In this commentary, relying on empirical data from the Netherlands and Switzerland, we argue that land policy is in fact a hybrid construct that merges both progressive and neoliberal elements. We discuss how the hybrid nature of land policy generates tensions in project implementation as different discourses and representations collide. Therefore, there is a real need to accurately assess the true ideological scope of urban changes implemented in the name of densification, as land policy is fundamentally value-loaded. If planners remain blind to the political dimension of land policy, the business of densification will flourish, and social sustainability objectives will be systematically relegated to the background.
{"title":"Why urban densification ignores the social dimension of sustainability","authors":"Jean-David Gerber, Deniz Ay, Josje Bouwmeester, Vera Götze, Thomas Hartmann, Mathias Jehling, Stéphane Nahrath, Jessica Verheij","doi":"10.1177/00420980251386974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251386974","url":null,"abstract":"The business of densification refers to more or less aggressive urban development practices that use the broad political consensus on the need for urban densification to promote profit-driven development, often dressed up in the rhetoric of eco-efficiency, and to the detriment of social policy objectives (e.g. affordable housing, cultural heritage, community cohesion). The implementation of urban densification requires deep changes in the practice of land-use planning because, as opposed to greenfield developments, it occurs in a complex web of established rights and interests. These more active forms of planning interventions are referred to as “land policy” in a growing body of literature (including in this special issue). In the context of densification, land policy tends to be appraised in planning debates as purely instrumental, that is, as a more effective and proactive administrative strategy for improved project implementation. In this commentary, relying on empirical data from the Netherlands and Switzerland, we argue that land policy is in fact a hybrid construct that merges both progressive and neoliberal elements. We discuss how the hybrid nature of land policy generates tensions in project implementation as different discourses and representations collide. Therefore, there is a real need to accurately assess the true ideological scope of urban changes implemented in the name of densification, as land policy is fundamentally value-loaded. If planners remain blind to the political dimension of land policy, the business of densification will flourish, and social sustainability objectives will be systematically relegated to the background.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145582936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00420980251387826
Louise Guibrunet, Emilio Bunge González, Moisés Hiram Martínez Ruiz, Clara P Orozco Pérez, Vania Alejandra Rodríguez Villalón, Daniela Torres Patiño
This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities, and that this economy can be enhanced through spatial planning. We use Mexico City as a case study, and analyse its popular circular economy, defined as the family micro-businesses which contribute to enhancing the circularity of everyday objects by enabling their reuse, repair, refurbishment or recycling. We first present a panorama of this economy using the Mexican economic census. We complement this analysis by presenting two ethnographic vignettes of practices that also form part of the popular circular economy, beyond what can be observed in the census: the first one illustrates practices of public market workers to avoid food waste, and the second pictures an e-waste informal street market. Taken together, these scales of analysis provide a rich account of the multiple activities that compose Mexico City’s popular circular economy. We then compare this phenomenon with the orientation and main strategies of the city’s circular economy programme, noting a discrepancy between the two with regards to the scope of action. We conclude that spatial planning tools can foster the already existing popular circular economy, by allocating space for family businesses in all neighbourhoods, and by enhancing social cohesion through the design of quality public spaces and infrastructures.
{"title":"Spatial planning for a popular circular economy","authors":"Louise Guibrunet, Emilio Bunge González, Moisés Hiram Martínez Ruiz, Clara P Orozco Pérez, Vania Alejandra Rodríguez Villalón, Daniela Torres Patiño","doi":"10.1177/00420980251387826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251387826","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that a popular circular economy already exists in many world cities, and that this economy can be enhanced through spatial planning. We use Mexico City as a case study, and analyse its popular circular economy, defined as the family micro-businesses which contribute to enhancing the circularity of everyday objects by enabling their reuse, repair, refurbishment or recycling. We first present a panorama of this economy using the Mexican economic census. We complement this analysis by presenting two ethnographic vignettes of practices that also form part of the popular circular economy, beyond what can be observed in the census: the first one illustrates practices of public market workers to avoid food waste, and the second pictures an e-waste informal street market. Taken together, these scales of analysis provide a rich account of the multiple activities that compose Mexico City’s popular circular economy. We then compare this phenomenon with the orientation and main strategies of the city’s circular economy programme, noting a discrepancy between the two with regards to the scope of action. We conclude that spatial planning tools can foster the already existing popular circular economy, by allocating space for family businesses in all neighbourhoods, and by enhancing social cohesion through the design of quality public spaces and infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145582987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1177/00420980251378028
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Leandro Basílio Junior, Māris Bērziņš, Kevin Credit, Diogo Gaspar Silva, Richard Harris, Kadi Kalm, Timo Kauppinen, Zaiga Krišjāne, Jorge Malheiros, Thomas Maloutas, David Manley, Sako Musterd, Oriol Nel·lo, Milena Nevanto, Ladislav Novotný, Martin Ouředníček, Sergio Porcel, Antonine Ribardière, Martin Šimon, Maciej Smętkowski, Stavros Spyrellis, Magnus Strömgren, Wouter van Gent, Terje Wessel
Previous research based on 2001 and 2011 census data indicated rising levels of residential segregation between socio-economic groups in many large city-regions in Europe as well as globally. Rising segregation is an important societal concern, as place of residence plays a crucial role in shaping access to urban opportunities. Residential isolation can be especially harmful for the most vulnerable groups. Income inequality was identified as the primary driver of this segregation. The current paper extends comparative research on residential segregation in Europe by incorporating the latest 2021 census and register-based data to determine whether segregation levels have continued to rise or have peaked, or whether there are signs of desegregation. It also examines how changes in segregation align with shifts in income inequality and occupational structures. A comparative analysis of 16 European capital city-regions shows a slowdown in the rise of segregation, with some city-regions transitioning from segregation to desegregation. These changes coincide with both a slowdown in the growth of income inequality and increased professionalisation of the workforce. The study suggests that future research should focus on the mechanisms driving residential desegregation in different urban contexts, with particular attention to the diversification of residential patterns among the expanding professional class.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00420980251381149
Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes, Danielle Reynald, Christopher Browning, Ying Lu, Jonathan Corcoran
An individual’s activity space reflects their physical movement through and exposure to environments, including potentially risky settings. Historically, women’s and men’s activity spaces differed as a function of gendered household responsibilities. There are also gendered dynamics of place including experiences of victimisation, women’s heightened perceptions of victimisation risk, and perceived gendered threat for women that influence gendered spatial mobility patterns. Victimisation, risk and threat are known to have distinct spatial and temporal rhythms, which may lead women to withdraw from public spaces. This paper considers the intersection of all these factors and their relationship to women’s and men’s neighbourhood activity spaces. Drawing on individual global positioning system data for 365 participants living in Brisbane Australia over a seven-day period and using structural equation modelling, we seek to understand the predictors of activity space characteristics for women and men across day and night. We operationalise activity spaces through potential neighbourhood street networks (potential entropy), users’ actual movement (user entropy), and duration of time spent in the neighbourhood. Our findings reveal that women’s victimisation experiences and perceptions of community action are important predictors of time spent in the neighbourhood. Furthermore, street network configuration (potential entropy) is associated with actual user movement (user entropy). The findings have implications for gender-sensitive design in urban neighbourhood settings, in highlighting the interaction between social environments and physical environments in women’s and men’s daily mobility.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/00420980251379204
Rengin Aslanoğlu
Given that over 50% of the global population resides in urban environments, more rigorous methods are essential to address social and health inequities that urban environments maintain, despite their potential to offer both economic and social possibilities. Thus, it is critical to adopt innovative approaches to address the inequalities while considering the complex relationship between the built environment and human well-being. For achieving spatial justice, an interdisciplinary field that integrates neuroscientific knowledge within design principles is needed. This study, particularly integrating the WHO’s dementia-inclusive cities model into neuroarchitecture, seeks to develop guidelines on how to improve the overall quality of life by enhancing the safety and accessibility for older adults, especially those with dementia. This paper presents a case study conducted in Wrocław, Poland, where the photoproduction methodology has been used to analyse urban ageing with attention to both the visible elements captured in the photographs and the underlying reasons. One of the key themes that emerged from the analysis was spatial justice coupled with cognitive accessibility, suggesting that urban design can alleviate the daily challenges of older adults. Results put emphasis on practical ways to apply neuroarchitectural approaches in urban design and provide insight into how the challenges linked to a sense of safety and security can be overcome in the ageing urban population.
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