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{"title":"Gendering grassrootscapes: The sociospatial relations of lower working-class women dwelling in the socialist Workers’ New Villages in post-reform Shanghai","authors":"Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Tsung-yi Michelle Huang, Jing Wang","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2247502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2247502","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWomen of the lower working-class in Shanghai are seemingly invisible in Chinese urban scholarship. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 in Shanghai, this article sheds light on the social lives of lower working-class women dwelling in the Workers’ New Villages in the wake of rapid urbanization. Mounting a threefold conceptual exploration of grassroots urbanism, genderscapes, and guanxi (social connectivity), the article develops and coins the term grassrootscapes to explicate grassroots women’s sociospatial relations with housing units, the community, and the city. Probing these multi-layered horizons to trace women’s life trajectories and gendered experiences, the article discerns how sociospatial dynamics of grassrootscapes are produced under a socialist system, in which women’s day-to-day suffering is a by-product of market reforms. Socialist workers’ housing is employed as a case study to show how the conceptualization of grassrootscapes can be a useful tool to examine the social transformation brought about by the drastic changes in urban policies in globalizing cities.KEYWORDS: Chinagenderurbanization AcknowledgmentsThe authors sincerely thank our research participants and local officials for their time and support, making this research possible. The authors also wish to express their gratefulness to the editors and reviewers for their insightful comments. Last, we must thank Professor Linda Peake for her enormous support of this work.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. This research is part of a transnational research project, “Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network” (GenUrb) (Principal Investigator: Linda Peake), which focuses on grassroots women living in six selected cities in the Global South including Cochabamba, Delhi, Georgetown (Guyana), Ibadan, Ramallah, and Shanghai (https://genurb.apps01.yorku.ca).2. This article purposely uses the term housing unit instead of apartment (gongyu), as an apartment is a housing type commonly known as commodity housing (shangpinfang) and thus is discursively attached to the new urban middle-class.3. To protect the confidentiality of the women and their families, we decided to use pseudonyms, and the community is renamed Community X to ensure their anonymity.4. Since the post-reform period began, people with life-threatening illnesses have also had to endure heavy medical costs due to the marketization of medical and health care, hence the common phrase, “falling into poverty due to illness” (yinbing zhipin).5. The inductive coding process yielded 30 parent-codes and over 200 child-codes.Additional informationFundingThis research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant, “Urbanization, gender and the global south: A transformative knowledge network” [File number 895-2017-1011; PI: Linda Peake].Notes on contributorsPenn Tsz T","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not gentrification, not touristification: Short-term rentals as a housing assetisation strategy","authors":"Javier Gil","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2242532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242532","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid growth of short-term rentals (STRs) is leading researchers to frame these urban transformations indifferently as gentrification, touristification or tourism gentrification. This paper proposes that these concepts, though closely related, are not best suited to explain the urban transformations created by STRs. Using a theoretical and empirical approach, it attempts to delve into this theoretical debate. Since housing assetization is what ultimately drives the process, STRs should be framed as a specific form of housing assetization. It is suggested that the term that best captures this urban accumulation strategy and has greater explanatory power is that of STR housing assetization. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to theoretically justify the suitability of the STR housing assetization concept and specify its particularities as an urban accumulation strategy. Secondly, this accumulation strategy can be empirically observed by analyzing how STR markets develop in particular cities. For this purpose, the Spanish city of Valencia has been chosen.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Comparative urbanism: Tactics for global urban studies</i>, by Jennifer Robinson","authors":"Richardson Dilworth","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Handbook of megacities and megacity-regions</i>, edited by Danielle Labbé and André Sorensen","authors":"Russell J. Fricano","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2243767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2243767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Touristification and urban extractivism in Latin American destinations: Heritage and conflicts in Antigua Guatemala (Guatemala) and Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)","authors":"Nicolás Alberto Trivi, Florencia Viviana Moscoso, Ninfa Mariela Morales Blanco","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2242535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Low value and hard to stack: Opportunity zones and the low-income housing tax credit","authors":"Michael Snidal, Tyler Haupert, Guanglai Li","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245076","url":null,"abstract":"Established in 2017, Opportunity Zones (OZs) promised to spur investment in undercapitalized communities. Early evaluations find that OZs have had nominal effects on employment and real estate outcomes. Distressed community development, however, has historically been driven by affordable housing production. Conceptually, developers can stack OZs with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the nation’s largest program for affordable housing. Therefore, this study seeks to estimate whether OZs have increased affordable housing production. First, we scan press announcements and OZ-tracking websites through July 2022 to document evidence of OZ-financed affordable housing. Second, we use a difference-in-differences approach to compare LIHTC outcomes through 2018 in OZs with areas that were OZ-eligible but not designated. We find only 60 examples of OZs supporting affordable housing projects across the country. We also find that OZs do not have statistically significant effects on LIHTC outcomes. We document findings from 16 interviews conducted in 2019 and 2020 to contextualize why OZs are failing to stimulate affordable housing production. In conclusion, we discuss how OZs could be modified to better encourage affordable housing, but we also reflect on whether such modifications would be desirable for goals of efficiency and distressed community development.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135979602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Over 40 years of shaping global urban research: The <i>Journal of Urban Affairs</i>, 1979–2021","authors":"Igor Vojnovic, Laurie A. Schintler","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2235036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2235036","url":null,"abstract":"After 5 decades of the Urban Affairs Association, more than 4 decades of the Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA), and with the departure of an editorial team, this seems an opportune moment to assess the contribution made by the journal to the field of urban affairs. This paper takes both an historical and analytical approach to this evaluation, detailing the institutional challenges associated with the journal’s production, coupled with identification of key themes in its catalog of papers. The historical exploration of defining articles and notable authors provides a retrospective of the key urban issues that have defined the JUA over the last 4 decades. We also undertake a content analysis of the JUA, utilizing Web of Science data, which dates back to 1993. This bibliometric analysis sheds further light on influential JUA authors, articles and topics, as well as key conceptual, intellectual, and social patterns and trends in the journal over the last four decades.","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135979609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cooperating and competing for land-based interests in the growth coalition of market-oriented urban redevelopment: The case of Longsheng village, Shenzhen","authors":"Yani Lai, Yang Chen, Yidan Gui, Shifu Wang, Lingman Chen, Xuan Liu","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2245075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2245075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45144431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The financialization of “the urban” in the post-socialist Serbia: Evidence from the Belgrade Waterfront megaproject","authors":"Slavka Zeković, Ana Perić, M. Hadžić","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2239962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2239962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48138195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coexisting or coworking? The reconfigured office spaces in two emerging global cities","authors":"Yumeng Fu, Yunjing Li, Xin Li","doi":"10.1080/07352166.2023.2242531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Affairs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48313254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}