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Grabbed Urban Landscapes: Socio‐spatial Tensions in Green Infrastructure Planning in Medellín
Cities confronted with unsustainable development and climatic changes are increasingly turning to green infrastructure as an approach for growth and climate risk management. In this context, recent scholarly attention has been paid to gentrification, real‐estate speculation and resident displacement in the context...
Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism
The concept of planetary urbanization has emerged in recent years amongst neo‐Lefebvrian urban scholars who see urbanization as a process taking place at all spatial scales. This article analyses recent critiques of the urban political ecology (UPE) literature which argue that much of the work in the field has...
Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London’s Super‐Rich
This article problematizes the relationship between the global super‐rich and processes of property development that have generated large volumes of underused residential space. Evidence is presented to show that much of London's new skyline is underused or lies entirely empty, so that one interpretation of this new...
JANUARY ISSUE
A section of the Jardin Circunvalar in Comuna 8, Medellín, Colombia (photo © Isabelle Anguelovski, 2016)
A view of Singapore’s Gardens By the Bay, an urban ‘nature park’ built on reclaimed land in Central Singapore (photo © Creighton Connolly, 2018)
A luxury apartment along the Thames under construction, London, detail (photo © Rowland Atkinson, 2017)