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COMPARING CITY GOVERNANCE MODELS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The Emergence of Shared, Visionary Leadership
This article provides a theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis of the local political leadership of economic development policy. It is a small-N comparative study examining two cities in England and two in Spain: Birmingham in the Midlands and Manchester in the north-west of England, and Seville and...
BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
Compassion in urban settings is manifested less as a definitive practice than as a panoply of spatial and temporal orientations that lend uncertainty to the dispositions of actions and events. This is an uncertainty that can be either generative or debilitating, and it is difficult to predict which in advance. Thus,...
EVERYDAY INFRASTRUCTURES OF URBAN LIFE
Infrastructure is commonly perceived through the interpretive monopoly of hegemonic frames of modernity, leading to the frequent oversight of everyday infrastructures. Extensive capital-intensive infrastructures that are fully integrated and have paled into the background of everyday life are commonly dismissed,...
MARCH ISSUE
A pedestrian crossing bridge over Avenida Governador Carlos Lacerda in the Jacarepaguá neighborhood, en route to a Slam Poetry competition (photo by Marcos L. Campos, April2019)
A poster on Broadway stating ‘We are human beings not numbers’, the Focus E15Slogan (photo by Toni Adscheid, July 2022)
A detail from Miltiadou Street, in Athens. The worn-out poster was part of ‘Athens Trigono’ project aiming to change the image of the historical centre of Athens (photo by Panagiota Koutrolikou, October 2024)
