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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a...
MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market
Institutional investors have asserted significant power over rental markets across the transatlantic. However, their stronghold has been contested after rising interest rates in 2022. In this article I address the situated dimensions of the assetization of the built environment by examining the establishment of...
KNOWING LIKE A MOVEMENT: The Role of Local Expertise in Informal Housing Policies
How can informal settlements become regularized? Informal settlements constructed by their own residents beyond the reach of formal state planning often exist in legal uncertainty. In 2016, Argentina’s right-wing government partnered with a left-leaning social movement and two NGOs to recognize informal...
NOVEMBER ISSUE
A view of the East Village from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (photo by Piero Corcillo, April 2023)
The location of Ankara station in Hermann Jansen’s Ankara Urban Plan, 1932 (source: Competition files, reproduced with permission of Türk Mühendis Mimar Odaları Birliği, site highlighted by Deniz Kimyon Tuna)
The neer satyagraham organized by Ennore fishers and the Save Ennore Creek Campaign on 3 January 2018 underscored that the land designated by the Government of Tamil Nadu for the expansion of Kamarajar Port was, in fact, four feet of standing water (photo by P. Jawar, New India Express. Used with permission)
