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Defensive for whom: The valuation of users and uses in public space design in Gothenburg, Sweden

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241305055

Stefan Molnar, Karl de Fine Licht

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Infrastructure segments evolving through transient governance: Nairobi metropolitan services and active mobility infrastructures 通过临时管理不断发展的基础设施部分：内罗毕大都市服务和主动式移动基础设施

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251317140

Dorcas Nthoki Nyamai, Sophie Schramm

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Book Review: Transport in Capitalism: Transport Policy as Social Policy

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251320343

Martha Elisa Kurniaty Gon

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Book Review: The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1177/00420980251320563

Agustina Martire

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Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241293032

Solène Le Borgne

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Autoethnography of disability and active travel in Greater Manchester: Encountering (non)citizenship through access controls on traffic-free walking, wheeling and cycling paths

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241311728

Harriet Larrington-Spencer

{"title":"Autoethnography of disability and active travel in Greater Manchester: Encountering (non)citizenship through access controls on traffic-free walking, wheeling and cycling paths","authors":"Harriet Larrington-Spencer","doi":"10.1177/00420980241311728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241311728","url":null,"abstract":"Enlivening is an increasingly common response to urban challenges and seeks to make urban space ‘liveable’ and ‘healthy’. A central tenet in achieving the enlivened city, is an active citizen who travels by sustainable modes, namely active travel. Whilst there is an increasing impetus upon producing an inclusive template of the active citizen within policy, it is our encounters with the materiality of active travel infrastructures within our everyday lives as disabled people that impact upon our ability to exercise citizenship rights and upon our sense of belonging within enlivening. Using an autoethnographic approach to my own experiences as a disabled tricyclist in Greater Manchester, UK, this paper demonstrates how through both encounters and non-encounters with access control barriers on traffic-free routes, the city is rendered less liveable, rather than enlivened, for many disabled people. I also attend to practices of care and repair related to infrastructures of active travel, and how these further consolidate embodied experiences of (non)citizenship. Recognising that such every day, small-scale interactions are the foundations of larger social forms, I demonstrate how autoethnography can contribute to informing inclusive policy and practice, in this case by demonstrating how practice needs to match rhetoric of inclusive, enlivened futures within Greater Manchester, as well as more broadly, if disabled people are to enact our citizenship through active mobility and be part of enlivened urban futures.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071447","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}

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Harassment or neglect? How market dynamics and rent control shape landlord behaviour in Los Angeles

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241311502

Sean Angst, Jovanna Rosen, Gary Painter, Soledad De Gregorio

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Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241310375

Fredrik Carlsen, Stefan Leknes

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Authoritarian urbanism beyond the city: Infrastructure-led extended urbanisation and India’s more-than-neoliberal configurations

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241309737

Nitin Bathla

{"title":"Authoritarian urbanism beyond the city: Infrastructure-led extended urbanisation and India’s more-than-neoliberal configurations","authors":"Nitin Bathla","doi":"10.1177/00420980241309737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241309737","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of the prevailing global rightward and populist shift, there exists a largely unexplored yet profound nexus between authoritarian neoliberalism and infrastructure-led extended urbanisation beyond the city. Drawing on insights from extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted along India’s highway corridors, this paper examines the authoritarianism and social fragmentation inherent in the state’s attempts to extend infrastructure-led urbanisation into economically bypassed regions. By exploring the intersections between the construction of recent highway corridors through previously bypassed regions inhabited by marginalised religious and caste groups and the outbreak of state-backed violence, this paper analyses authoritarian urbanism emerging amidst social struggles over enclosure and urbanisation of agrarian land. Specifically, the paper delves in depth into the planning of two recent highway corridors – the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway and the India–Myanmar–Thailand highway – and the escalation of state-sponsored religious conflicts and polarisation in the regions these corridors traverse. This research demonstrates how national-scale infrastructure projects, such as the Bharatmala highway programme, allow for the framing of a national-popular project that selectively incorporates hegemonic socio-religious groups such as certain Hindu caste groups who have reaped the primary benefits of economic liberalisation while disenfranchising marginalised communities. The paper defines authoritarian urbanism as a more-than-neoliberal configuration emerging from a toxic amalgamation of state power, bellicose militarism, infrastructure-led urbanisation and religious nationalism. It concludes that this emerging authoritarian urbanism obscures the neoliberal crises of jobless growth and fails to address the uneven development and social inequalities resulting from infrastructure-led urbanisation.","PeriodicalId":51350,"journal":{"name":"Urban Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143056541","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}

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The micro-geography of knowledge exchanges in Montreal: Questioning the importance of the neighbourhood scale in an age of virtual communications

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Urban Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1177/00420980241301669

Richard Shearmur, David Doloreux

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