Showing papers in "Urban Studies in 2021"
TL;DR: It is argued that contemporary processes of extended urbanisation, which include suburbanisation, post-suburbanisation and peri-urbanisation, may result in increased vulnerability to infectious disease spread and it is called for future research on the spatialities of health and disease to pay attention to how variegated patterns of extendedurbanisation may influence possible outbreaks and the mechanisms through which such risks can be alleviated.
Abstract: This paper argues that contemporary processes of extended urbanisation, which include suburbanisation, post-suburbanisation and peri-urbanisation, may result in increased vulnerability to infectiou...
197 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout on cities and metropolitan regions in the US.
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout on cities and metropolitan regions. We assess the effect of the pandemic on ur...
188 citations
TL;DR: The extent to which the degree of green branding – that is, urban green boosterism – predicts the variation in city affordability is examined, as well as what the results mean for the urban greening agenda in the context of an ongoing green growth imperative going forward.
Abstract: Increasingly, greening in cities across the Global North is enmeshed in strategies for attracting capital investment, raising the question: for whom is the future green city? Through exploring the ...
63 citations
TL;DR: A city network is a wide ecosystem of global partnerships between local authorities that is often underestimate as mentioned in this paper, which is often referred to as a global ecosystem of local authorities' collaborations across borders at an unprecedented rate.
Abstract: Cities are formalising collaborations across borders at an unprecedented rate: ‘city networks’ now form a wide ecosystem of global partnerships between local authorities that is often underestimate...
61 citations
TL;DR: In the late 20th century, homeownership became entrenched in a wider societal project that sought to transform the economy and increase social inclusion as discussed by the authors. This project focused on mortgaged owner-occ...
Abstract: In the late 20th century, homeownership became entrenched in a wider societal project that sought to transform the economy and increase social inclusion. This project focused on mortgaged owner-occ...
59 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines the evolution of the Barcelona Model of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. But their focus is on the city itself, rather than the urban environment as a whole.
Abstract: This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic...
46 citations
TL;DR: While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and politica... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and politica...
42 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how urban resilience governance is structured and coordinated in 20 North American cities (19 US and one Canadian) based on interviews with city officials, and present a co-produced resiliency report.
Abstract: This paper describes how urban resilience governance is structured and coordinated in 20 North American cities (19 US and one Canadian) based on interviews with city officials. This co-produced res...
41 citations
TL;DR: The question of urbanisation beyond the city has generated a lively debate in the fields of urban studies and geography in recent years as discussed by the authors, and this paper brings a key concept from this discussion -ext...
Abstract: The question of urbanisation ‘beyond the city’ has generated a lively debate in the fields of urban studies and geography in recent years. This paper brings a key concept from this discussion –‘ext...
37 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the effect of transport infrastructure on property prices vary widely and this high variability demonstrates a deficit in our understanding of these relationships, limiting the ability of us to understand the relationship between transport infrastructure and property prices.
Abstract: Hedonic estimations of the effect of transport infrastructure on property prices vary widely. This high variability demonstrates a deficit in our understanding of these relationships, limits the ut...
35 citations
TL;DR: The electoral success of new "movement parties" in particular has dramatically challenged the political establishment in Spain this article, and has triggered iconic shifts over the last few years, and the success of these new parties has led to a dramatic shift in local politics in Spain.
Abstract: Local politics in Spain has triggered iconic shifts over the last few years, and the electoral success of new ‘movement parties’ in particular has dramatically challenged the political establishmen
TL;DR: In this paper, local governments face pressure to understand how housing's rising cost is changing neighbourhoods and to ensure the consequences of such changes in local government policies in North America and Europe.
Abstract: As housing costs continue to increase across many cities in North America and Europe, local governments face pressure to understand how housing’s rising cost is changing neighbourhoods and to ensur...
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical commentary aims to outline a new framing of smart urbanism, which has become a major research area within the social science of cities and digital technology, focusing on the social sciences of cities.
Abstract: Smart urbanism has, over the last decade or so, grown to become a major research area within the social science of cities and digital technology. This critical commentary aims to outline a new fram...
TL;DR: The article provides a conceptual framework for mapping and understanding the highly contingent, spatially uneven and socially selective processes of robotic urban experimentation and challenges and outcomes of creating meaningful urban spaces for robotic experimentation.
Abstract: Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and automation have the potential to transform cities and urban social life. However, robotic restructuring of the city is complicated and contested. T...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used big data from images captured by Google Street View (GSV) to analyse the extent to which the built environment impacts the survival rate of neighbourhood-based social organisation.
Abstract: This article uses big data from images captured by Google Street View (GSV) to analyse the extent to which the built environment impacts the survival rate of neighbourhood-based social organisation...
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital platforms and software for operating remotely and encouraged employers to reshape the workplace for social distancing as discussed by the authors. But it is not at all...
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital platforms and software for operating remotely and encouraged employers to reshape the workplace for social distancing. But it is not at all ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors selectively review the copious literature that now exists on the long-term impact of natural disasters, and suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic will only significantly alter urban fortunes if it is accompanied by a major economic shift, such as widespread adoption of remote work, or political shifts that could lead businesses and the wealthy to leave urban areas.
Abstract: Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious literature that now exists on the long-term impact of natural disasters. At this point, the long-run resilience of cities to many forms of physical destruction, including bombing, earthquakes and fires, has been well-documented. The destruction of human capital may leave a longer imprint, but cities have persisted through many plagues over the past millennia. By contrast, economic and political shocks, including deindustrialisation or the loss of capital city status, can enormously harm an urban area. These facts suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic will only significantly alter urban fortunes if it is accompanied by a major economic shift, such as widespread adoption of remote work, or political shifts that could lead businesses and the wealthy to leave urban areas. The combination of an increased ability to relocate with increased local redistribution or deterioration of local amenity levels, or both, could recreate some of the key attributes of the urban crisis of the 1970s.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors contribute to the politicisation of smart urbanism and data-driven governance by making visible some of the potential inequalities emerging from these transitions through a provisiona...
Abstract: This article contributes to the politicisation of smart urbanism and data-driven governance by making visible some of the potential inequalities emerging from these transitions through a provisiona...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on large cities but not small, rural and remote communities, and have a limited understanding of the incentive structures for smaller communities, as compared to large cities.
Abstract: Studies of ‘smart cities’ in Canada primarily focus on large cities but not small, rural and remote communities. As a result, we have a limited understanding of the incentive structures for smaller...
TL;DR: The urban night has traditionally been a regimented space characterised by strict policing and surveillance as mentioned in this paper, and early research on the night-time economy documented the expansion of nightlife from a ce...
Abstract: The urban night has traditionally been a regimented space characterised by strict policing and surveillance. Early research on the night-time economy documented the expansion of nightlife from a ce...
TL;DR: The Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) as mentioned in this paper was established during the Great Depression to provide relief to a failing housing market, which had a lasting effect through institutionalizing the segreg...
Abstract: The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), established in the US during the Great Depression to provide relief to a failing housing market, had a lasting effect through institutionalising the segreg...
TL;DR: In this article, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a public debate on density in the city and the concepts of value and population illuminate the present and future of urban density.
Abstract: How might concepts of ‘value’ and ‘population’ illuminate the present and future of urban density? The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a public debate on density in the city. While some initially blamed...
TL;DR: In this article, urban planning systems, processes and regulations are often blamed for constraining the supply of housing by interfering with the efficient allocation of land by urban planning processes, processes, and regulations.
Abstract: Urban planning systems, processes and regulations are often blamed – by many mainstream economists – for constraining the supply of housing by interfering with the efficient allocation of land by t...
TL;DR: In Australia, there is a chronic shortage of affordable rental housing, as do many other nations in the Global North as discussed by the authors, unable to access the formal rental sector, lower-income earners are increasingly resor...
Abstract: Australia faces a chronic shortage of affordable rental housing, as do many other nations in the Global North. Unable to access the formal rental sector, lower-income earners are increasingly resor...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the smart city project, Smart Dubai, is a response to the following priorities: (i) the furtherance of the city's scale-making project and worlding strategies, through the propag...
Abstract: I argue that Dubai’s smart city project, ‘Smart Dubai’, is a response to the following priorities: (i) the furtherance of the city’s scale-making project and worlding strategies, through the propag...
TL;DR: The centrality of technology as a driver of transformational change and the "placelessness" of the visual narrative of smart cities have been highlighted in smart city discourses as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Two of the most striking features of smart city discourses are the centrality of technology as a driver of transformational change and the strange ‘placelessness’ of its visual narrative. Whether e...
TL;DR: The appeal of revolutionising urban governance through information technologies has prompted cities across the globe to pursue smart city initiatives as discussed by the authors. But the mainstream scholarship on these initiative has focused on these initiatives.
Abstract: The appeal of revolutionising urban governance through information technologies has prompted cities across the globe to pursue smart city initiatives. The mainstream scholarship on these initiative...
TL;DR: In this article, a compact city strategy has become central to the development of urban sustainability politics and cities across the globe are pursuing high-density, mixed-use developments and energy-efficient trans...
Abstract: Compact city strategies have become central to the development of urban sustainability politics. Cities across the globe are pursuing high-density, mixed-use developments and energy-efficient trans...
TL;DR: The concept of polycentricity on a regional scale is a key concept in both urban and regional research and planning as discussed by the authors. But the term is used in many different ways, maki...
Abstract: ‘Polycentricity on a regional scale’, or in short the ‘polycentric region’ (PR), is a key concept in both urban and regional research and planning. But the term is used in many different ways, maki...
TL;DR: The implementation of the SC model in Santiago, Chile has not heralded any significant interventions in terms of scale, urban impact, amount invested, technological innovation or archi... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The implementation of the Smart City (SC) model in Santiago, Chile has not heralded any significant interventions in terms of scale, urban impact, amount invested, technological innovation or archi...