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HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’
Data centers, the material backbone of smart cities, power the digital economy and advanced digital services. Metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ obscure the massive computing and storage infrastructures, the resource flows and the land uses they mediate. To date, smart city research and policies...
THE DENSITY DIALECTIC: Between Hard and Gentle Densification in London
Density is critical to cities, but how might we conceive and research its role in urban development? We argue that a conceptualization of the ‘density dialectic’ offers a productive response. Drawing on research on urban development in Tower Hamlets (London's densest borough), we identify the tensions and...
PRODUCING THE GHATS OF BANARAS AS WORLD-CLASS SPACES: The Mobilization of Nishad Boatmen
The mobilization of boatmen of the Nishad community on the riverfront of Varanasi, also known as Banaras, against the introduction of a cruise service between September 2018 and the initial months of 2019 reveals the confluence of forces such as Hindu nationalism and the neoliberal pursuit of a world-class aesthetic,...
JANUARY ISSUE

A detail of the Centre Street Escalator Link at the Northeast corner of the intersection of High Street and Centre Street in Hong Kong (photo by Ben A. Gerlofs, July 2021)

A detail showing crowds in Quiapo, Manila (photo by Kim Dovey, 2022)

A detail from the “Magic City” sculpture in Miami’s Little Haiti, announcing the soon to commence construction of the Magic City Innovation District (photo taken by Richard Tardanico, November 2024)