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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"neoliberal urbanism"”.
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It's My Right to Fix the City: Women, Class, and the Postcolonial, Politics of Neoliberal Urbanism in Ibadan, Nigeria
… develop. I use an African feminist postcolonial urbanism theoretical framing to suggest that understanding the lived reality and politics of urban space from the viewpoint of women living in Ibadan provides a more nuanced and multidimensional understanding of Ibadan that eschews a …
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“A Capital Experience:” National Urban Renewal, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance on LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
This thesis investigates both Keynesian and neoliberal urbanism on LeBreton Flats, a mixed working-class district deemed a “blighted” slum unfit for a national capital. By studying the time-delayed embourgeoisement of the Flats, this study considers the production of the modern capital as an …
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The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died: The Politics of Crisis and Homelessness in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… national political-economic context of “neoliberal urbanism”. Because of dire short-term circumstances, Homeless Pride articulated a message of homelessness as a “crisis” even though they had larger structural goals and vision. In light of recent “Occupy” movements, this case study …
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Understanding the Contemporary Character of Braamfontein Johannesburg: Towards a renewed understanding of urban renewal in cities in the South
… of poverty, rent-seeking behaviour, and neoliberal urbanism. These arguments tend to centre the interests and actions of certain actors, prioritize certain forces (such as economic ones), and thus tend to predict a particular set of outcomes. In adopting a southern urbanist epistemology, …
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Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Place and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China
… explanations of place-making including neoliberal urbanism, market transition, new institutional economics, urban entrepreneurialism, and various discourses surrounding the "world" or "global" city. The resulting strands of China-based urban studies reveal, at best, a partial …
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Inner‐city regeneration and the politics of resistance in Istanbul: a comparative analysis of Sulukule and Tarlabaşi
Territories of neoliberal urbanization have expanded as local and central governments around the world have increasingly approached and utilized urban land as a rent-‐generating tool that can as well reproduce the workings of advanced capitalism in full effect. It has thus been inevitable to see …
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The Ghost of Olmsted: Nature, History & Urban Park Restoration in Boston's Emerald Necklace
… to translate the entrepreneurial dimensions of neoliberal urbanism into the urban fabric. These conservancies, along with city and state officials, have relied upon the ghost of Olmsted to guide the restoration process. As part of an "urban sustainability fix," the restoration of this park …
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Problematising the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning
… problematises the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning. As a tool of planning, the public interest has always remained relevant for planners and the planning profession. Since the emergence of land-use or spatial planning as a distinct discipline and profession it has acted as …
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Navigating the neoliberal settler city: Palestinian mobility in Jerusalem between exclusion and incorporation
… a tension between the settler colonial and the neoliberal logics concurrently at work in the city. On the one hand, the restriction of movement gradually renders the Palestinians as external to their city. On the other, the facilitation and regulation of mobility in East Jerusalem also serves to …