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STRUGGLING FOR URBAN SPACE: Examining Social Distinctions between Long-Term Residents and Newcomers in Warsaw’s Districts
This article examines the perspectives of long-term residents in response to the influx of newcomers in two neighbourhoods in Warsaw, Poland. It addresses the crucial, yet understudied, impact of spatial changes on the local population and the diverse ways in which residents negotiate this changing urban context....
HERITAGIZATION AS AN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN PRACTICE IN CHINA: Insights from Lijiang
Heritage preservation practices continue to be adopted as a tool to promote the regeneration of historic areas in China. Taking the experience of the Old Town of Lijiang (Dayan) as its starting point, this essay considers heritagization both as a process of gentrification and as an authoritarian urban practice that...
DILUTED POST-SOCIALISM: Urban Policymaking in East Germany, Poland and Ukraine
More than three decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the post-socialist framework prevalent in the academic world is raising more and more questions. The three most serious doubts have to do with: (1) the time that has elapsed since the collapse of the state-socialist system, which means that local...
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Glovo Rider stands outside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, waiting for more orders from one of the several fast-food chain restaurants in that corner (detail from a photo by Nicolás Palacios, March 2024)
Stop EACOP (African Crude Oil Pipeline) (detail from a poster photographed by Maren Larsen, June 2023)
A Taiwanese Public-Private Partnership Original Equipment Manufacturing factory where defective iPhone backs are being methodically destroyed under the watchful eye of local customs officials, offering a revealing look at the underside of China’s rapid urban and industrial expansion (detail from a photo by Yong Zhang, April 2019)
