The Rise of the Creative Class

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Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance (review)

Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988

As the hubs of economic activity, cities drive the vast majority of the world’s energy use and are major contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions. Because they are home to major infrastructure and highly concentrated populations, cities are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels, warmer temperatures and fiercer storms. At the same time, better urban planning and policies can reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resilience of urban infrastructure to climate change, thus shaping future trends.

都市與氣候變遷（Cities and Climate Change）特刊序

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on travel behavior in Istanbul: A panel data analysis.

The need for physical distancing in the midst of COVID-19 has laid bare the absurdities of transport in our public realm. With people confined to their homes the roads, which have dominated urban p...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23748834.2020.1788769

Is COVID-19 a turning point for active travel in cities?

War Stories': morality, curiosity, enthusiasm and commitment as facilitators of SME owners' engagement in low carbon transitions

National, regional and city leaders have been calling for a rapid expansion of cycling and walking infrastructure as a response to transport issues arising from COVID-19 Here, Dunning and Nurse explore how the expansion and introduction of active-travel networks can be rapidly facilitated as a by-product of the automobile obsession of twentieth-century planning

The surprising availability of cycling and walking infrastructure through COVID-19

While the urban is identified as a productive site for addressing climate change, the ‘post-political’ critique dismisses climate policy as a vacuous discourse that obscures power relations and exclusion, defends the established neoliberal order, and silences challenges. This paper argues that rather than consensus, there is a conflict between urban climate policy and the need to reignite economic growth in the context of austerity urbanism, but also that we should not assume that challenges to neoliberal understandings of the ‘sensible’ will always be disregarded. Rather, urban climate policy can be progressed through partnership processes utilising ‘co-production’ techniques which entail significant agonistic, if not antagonistic, contestation. The argument is illustrated with a case study of climate policy making in the context of austerity urbanism in Liverpool, UK. While ‘low carbon’ is conceptualised by elite actors in Liverpool in neoliberal terms as a source of new low carbon jobs and businesses, with an emphasis on energy security and fuel poverty, this view is not unchallenged. The paper recounts how an ad hoc group of actors in the city came together to form a partnership advocating for more strategic decarbonisation, which should be progressed through a bid for the city to be European Green Capital. The disputes that emerged around this agenda suggest that in the context of austerity urbanism the need for cities to act to mitigate against dangerous climate change is not as uncontested as conceptions of the post-political suggest.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0308518X16686353

The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism

In late 2014, Chancellor George Osborne announced ambitious plans for the creation of a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ which would see cities taking control over a greater number of functions in exchange for installing new democratic arrangements. This paper explores those plans and in doing so outlines a number of questions that will be of interest to researchers. This focuses on a number of issues including the ability to develop coherent regional success by fostering city region level development, the governance model of a directly elected executive mayor and how this will work on a practical basis, and the city-level democratisation of key services including health provision.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0269094215600654

Alexander Nurse

Papers

Is COVID-19 a turning point for active travel in cities?

War Stories': morality, curiosity, enthusiasm and commitment as facilitators of SME owners' engagement in low carbon transitions

The surprising availability of cycling and walking infrastructure through COVID-19

The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism

Creating the north from the sum of its parts? Research questions to assess the Northern Powerhouse