Antonio Calleja-LopezEkaitz CancelaAitor Jimenez
28-51页查看更多>>摘要：Over the past decade and a half, Barcelona has been widely recognized as a 'smart city'. Since 2015, it has also gained attention as a 'rebel city', with an alternative imaginary to that of the corporate smart city and, more broadly, others launched from Silicon Valley. This article analyzes a decade of opposing imaginaries around digital politics in the Catalan capital. It illustrates how Barcelona moved from a narrative of smartness to one of technological sovereignty and, from there, to one of technological humanism. These shifts went hand in hand with institutional innovations that reinforced, successively, the centrality of public-private, public-common, and, finally, public-private-community partnerships (with this latter model representing a return of the centrality of the public-private axis). Drawing onfieldwork and desk research, the article systematically maps numerous visions and projects associated with these three imaginaries. Finally, the study uses the case of Barcelona to understand recent changes in digital capitalism.
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Sheikh Serajul HakimApurba K. Podder
121-149页查看更多>>摘要：In light of the substantial retrenchment of State involvement in pro-poor housing in the Global South, urban informal settlements have become home to half of its population. Conversely, post-independence Bangladesh has sustained a trajectory of providing subsidized housing for the marginalized demographics. In stark contrast to their predominantly informal habitation, the governmental approach in Bangladesh favors the provision of permanent housing/houses as its principal mode of delivery. Using a critical lens, we attempt to encounter this tendency within urban (neoliberal) discourses that view permanence as 'the answer' to marginal people's home-making. Taking Bastuhara and Guccha-gram—two formal sector resettlement projects from Khulna, Bangladesh, we seek to identify marginal people's alternative mode(s) of urban home-making, especially against the backdrop of the formal sector's fondness for permanence. We argue that the entire housing scenario is founded on various conditions of 'in-betweenness', deliberately constructed by the state (and its colonia-influenced bureaucratic apparatus) that it uses for political control and own legitimization. In response, the displaced's home-making practices instigate counter-acts in two different forms of in-betweenness— spatial and non-spatial temporalities and non-permanence. The grassroots politics and their alternative spatial practices resemble moments of counter-urbanism by working at the permanence-temporality intersection through their nuanced and silent acts of occupation/encroachment but without actually resisting the state's modus operandi.
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Bart PopkenEthemcan Turhan
150-178页查看更多>>摘要：Accumulation strategies over the urban space increasingly target the emergent creative social strata through place-branding and urban transformation. In this article, we examine the role of squatting and urban commoning in creating resilient alternatives to housing commodification in Groningen, Netherlands. The COVA factory area, a communal space for artists, was targeted for 'Stad aan het Water' redevelopment scheme amid a shift towards creative city policies. Concurrently, the area transformed into an urban commons called 'Betonbos' squatted by urban artists. Countering the hegemony of neoliberal interests in the housing realm, street art communities turned to squatting and counter-branding to reclaim urban spaces. Through eleven qualitative walking interviews with urban artists, our research reveals how these movements resist commodification and foster an alternative creative city ethos. The Betonbos commons and its ally, Groningen Undercurrent, exemplify how collective action can cultivate empowering social infrastructures. By prioritizing shared governance and use-value, the Betonbos experience demonstrates the potential for a reimagined urban landscape beyond commodification. We foreground how grassroots movements such as Groningen Undercurrent work together to generate alternative social infrastructures grounded in spaces of resistance and struggles for a creative city framework that embraces diversity, inclusion, and the transformative power of collective action.
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Hanna HilbrandtFritz-Julius GrafeEmma ColvenSarah Knuth...
179-187页查看更多>>摘要：Financial agendas centering on the global fight against climate change have increasingly turned to cities and urban re/development projects as ideal candidates for supposedly 'future proof investment. In the last decade, research has witnessed the development of policy programs, risk assessments, and project pipelines, amongst other efforts to materialize this agenda in the city. Drawing on critical urban geographies of what is loosely known as 'climate finance', this Special Feature, 'Decentering Urban Climate Finance', proposes to expand and provincialize these dominant agendas. The five contributions in this Special Feature employ the notion of decentering in four distinct ways: by putting a broader range of theoretical lenses to use and rereading the workings of climate finance through them; by highlighting the modes of omission through which dominant understandings of climate finance narrow its operations to a limited set of solutions, approaches, places, and imaginaries; by turning a view onto under-examined sites of finance and climate adaptation; and by imagining alternative transformative imaginaries of urban climate finance.
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Savannah CoxJohn MorrisEmma Colven
188-202页查看更多>>摘要：In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise 'solutions' to climate change. But what must happen for private finance to stand at the centre of urban climate solutionism, as these actors claim it does? This intervention suggests that placing private finance at the core of urban climate action requires a lot of work, which we refer to as centering work: the significant technical, political, and material efforts involved in making urban climate action—as a problem space, a set of technical competencies, or an emerging market—amenable to private finance intervention. Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of the Social Studies of Finance, we trace centering work through the case of the World Bank's City Creditworthiness Initiative, and its implications for how urban officials understand, and act on, resilience around the world. We also discuss the value of centering work for future scholarship on urban climate governance and urban studies more broadly. On the one hand, following centering work enables researchers to observe how and why some urban climate pathways emerge to the exclusion of others. On the other hand, tracing centering work helps researchers to develop accounts of the politics of urban climate finance that are attuned to change.
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