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RELATIONAL POLITICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: The Solidarity of City and Non-City Inhabitants in Java, Indonesia
This article explores the political dimensions of urban metabolism as a relational urbanization process. We employ a qualitative approach to investigate a case study of material flows between Jakarta and Central Java, Indonesia. That extended space reflects the interconnectedness of city and non-city spaces through...
PLOTTING NEW MIDDLE-CLASS ASPIRATIONS: ‘Outlaw’ Builders of Market-rate Affordable Homes in Chennai’s Agrarian Urban Frontier
Shifting scholarly gaze from India's National Capital Region to Chennai's newly expanded metropolitan peripheries, this article examines how the staggered production of relatively affordable single-family homes upon rural layouts both sustains and rearranges caste-land-based dominion in familiar yet crucially...
THE CONSTRUCTION STATE UNBOUND? Struggles over the Seoul Metropolitan Region’s Greenbelt in an Era of Planetary Urbanization
This article builds on recent interventions into the study of planetary urbanization that call for greater interaction with the multiple social struggles and standpoints that embed this process. To do so, we advocate for academic engagement between planetary urbanization and the concept of the ‘construction...
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
A woman walking in Lahraouine, an informal community in the peripheries of Casablanca,Morocco (photo by Max Rousseau, 2018)
A detail from a map showing examples of the evidence base for tracking demolition of informal settlements using high resolution satellite imagery, available in Google Earth (source: Google Earth)
Detail of a ‘Surviors StillLive Here’ banner at the closed-down Boyle Street Community Services building (photo by William Mawer, October 2023. Banner by Desiree Marcotte)
