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Interweaving the Fabric of Urban Infrastructure: Senegalese City‐making in Rio de Janeiro
This article reveals how newcomers weave their own threads into the fabric of urban infrastructure. Entangling their own with other urban assemblages, newcomers generate multi‐layered dynamics situationally in order to render possible the lives to which they aspire. They forge openings where there seemed none before...
Remaking Shanghai: New Divisions in an Expanding Metropolis
This study of Shanghai analyzes the city's emerging patterns of residential settlement in 2010. Most previous research on China focused on central city patterns, but by 2010 urban development in major metropolitan areas was taking place predominantly in the suburbs. The analysis re‐examines and extends previous...
Land Trafficking and the Fertile Spaces of Legality
Land trafficking, responsible for the unprecedented rate of urbanization in many Latin American cities, is often conceptualized through corruption as ‘abuses of public office for private gain’. While those involved in the practice rely at times on violence and illegality, their repertoire is sophisticated,...
JANUARY ISSUE
The Journée Khassida, a key event that shines light on the growing, proud presence of Senegalese in Brazil, showing the Niemeyer Popular Theatre in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro and groups of Senegalese and passers-by (details from a photo © Tilmann Heil, 11 August 2018)
Detail from a map showing housing composition in Changning district of Shanghai (map © Honghuan Gu, John R. Logan and Ruijun Wu)
Human settlements established through land trafficking on the peripheral slopes of Lima (detail from a photo © Rita Lambert, 2016)