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The Neoliberalization of Municipal Land Policy in Sweden
In Sweden, local governments’ practice of the ‘municipal land instrument’—that is, the use of public land ownership as a tool for facilitating urban development—has a long tradition. In the post‐war era, public land ownership constituted an important component of state‐led housing production, which had...
‘Problem Spaces’ and Struggles Over the Right to the City: Challenges of Living Differentially in a Gentrifying Istanbul Neighborhood
Focusing on everyday life and the dynamics of contestations between very different groups thrown together in dangerous proximity in a neighborhood of Istanbul called Tophane, this article contributes to debates on urban transformation, political aspects of gentrification and the right to the city, with a focus on how...
Urban Waterscapes: The Hydro‐Politics of Flooding in a Sinking City
The threat of flooding in cities is often compounded by political and economic decisions made on watershed management, land development and water infrastructure and provisioning. It has also become a point of conflict between cities’ objectives for development and modernization, and the struggles of marginalized...
MARCH ISSUE
Detail from a view of one of the many impromptu tent cities set up by residents of Port-au-Prince following the 2010 Haiti earthquake (‘Haiti Earthquake’ © United Nations Development Programme, reproduced under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0)
A communal water pump in Agra, India (photo © Angela Oberg, 2012)
New sea wall under construction, Jakarta Bay (photo © Kian Goh, 2017)