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18th Mar 2019
The April Issue of Urban Studies is now available online
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Contesting imaginaries in the Australian city: Urban planning, public storytelling and the implications for climate change by Emily Potter
This article is part of the forthcoming Special issue: Environmental governance for urban resilience in the Asia-Pacific
Potter focuses on the impact of neoliberal imaginaries on indigenous Australians, whose original dispossession connects through to current Indigenous urban experiences of exclusion which are set to intensify in the face of increasing climate change.
Megaprojects and the limits of ‘green resilience’ in the global South: Two cases from Malaysia and Qatar by Agatino Rizzo
This article is part of the forthcoming Special issue: Environmental governance for urban resilience in the Asia-Pacific
Rizzo explores two urban megaprojects, in Johor-Singapore, Malaysia and Doha, Qatar, to build a critique of green resilience and urbanism by leveraging research in the fields of political ecology and urban planning.
The dynamics of depoliticisation in urban governance: Introducing a directly elected mayor by David Sweeting and Robin Hambleton
For Sweeting and Hambleton introducing mayoral governance in Bristol eroded the influence of party politics and brought elements of a leadership style associated with depoliticisation while also providing significant new space for the city leader’s political agency.
Contesting brandscapes in Hong Kong: Exploring youth activist experiences of the contemporary consumerist landscape by Sonia Lam-Knott
Lam-Knott foregrounds youth activist voices in Hong Kong to examine the experiential dimensions of living in Hong Kong’s consumerist landscape, noting the feelings of alienation and exploitation circulating within the vernacular domains of society.
Neither friend nor enemy: Planning, ambivalence and the invalidation of urban informality in Zimbabwe by Amin Y Kamete
Drawing from research in urban Zimbabwe Kamete recasts hostility to informality as a symptom of antagonism towards strangerhood and the ambivalence it embodies as it cannot be pigeonholed in either of the two categories of ‘friend’ and ‘enemy’.
