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‘Post-Third-World City’ or Neoliberal ‘City of Exception’? Rio de Janeiro in the Olympic Era
This article considers processes of urban development within the context of mega-event preparations in Rio de Janeiro. We begin with a brief overview of these development processes, highlighting their connections to political and economic change in recent years. Proponents of these mega-event-led initiatives argue...
Economic Rationality Meets Celebrity Urbanology: Exploring Edward Glaeser’s City
This article presents a critique of the popular and public-policy work of Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, which has been constructed at the nexus of neoclassical economic rationality and celebrity urbanology. Widely recognized as one of the world's leading urbanists, Glaeser has combined a...
Financializing Desalination: Rethinking the Returns of Big Infrastructure
Against the trend prevalent during the 1990s and 2000s, large-scale infrastructural projects have made a comeback in the water sector. Although sometimes framed as part of a broader sustainable transition, the return of big infrastructure is a much more complicated story in which finance has played a crucial role. In...
JANUARY ISSUE
World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization: Unveiling Stratification and Hierarchy in the World City Archipelago by Michiel Van Meeteren and David Bassens (featured image shows a detail from photo by Guilhem Vellut, (CC-BY, http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/) of the view from the 124th floor at the top of Burj Khalifa, Downtown Dubai)
Animating the Urban Vortex: New Sociological Urgencies by Suzanne Hall and Mike Savage (featured image shows a calling cards collage by Nicolas Palominos as part of the ‘Ordinary Streets’ research project led by Suzanne Hall, supported by LSE Cities)
Spaces of Extraction, Metropolitan Explosions: Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Boom in Latin America by Martín Arboleda (featured image shows an iron ore smelting facility in Huasco, northern Chile; the rusting sign reads: RECINTO INDUSTRIAL / NO INGRESAR EXTRAÑOS / GUIDE LA FLORA Y FAUNA. Photo © Martín Arboleda)