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Making the ‘Invisible’ Visible: Redevelopment‐induced Displacement of Migrants in Shenzhen, China
Gentrification in China is intertwined with urban redevelopment, which causes the large‐scale displacement of rural–urban migrants from ‘villages in the city’ (ViCs). Because of the informality of ViCs, migrant renters have very insecure tenancy and during redevelopment they are treated as a negligible...
Seeing Like a City‐State: Behavioural Planning and Governance in Egypt’s First Affordable Gated Community
Haram City is Egypt's first ‘affordable’ gated community, hosting both aspirational middle‐class homeowners and resettled poor urban residents. Amidst legal ambiguity during Egypt's 2011–2013 revolutionary period, the management team of this public–private partnership was tasked with creating a ‘fully...
Urban Vigilantism: A Study of Anti‐Terror Law, Politics and Policing in Istanbul
Focusing on the case of young socialist vigilantes who were arrested and imprisoned as ‘terrorists’ in 2007, this article illustrates how vigilantism in working‐class neighbourhoods of Istanbul with a high Alevi population evolved from an unarmed, public and participatory form of vigilantism to an armed one, and...
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The demolition and redevelopment of Daweifang village in Shenzhen City, China (photo © Ying Liu, 2015)
A street with vacant homes in Haram City, a housing development by Orascom Housing Communities located in the 6th of October satellite city of Cairo, Egypt (photo © Nicholas Simcik Arese, 2013)
Detail from a photo of youths running away from the police panzer in the Gazi neighbourhood of Istanbul (photo © Sinan Targay, 2012)