RECENTLY IN IJURR
THE PATTERNS OF PROTECTION FOR HOUSING COMMONS: Building Occupations in São Paulo
This article discusses the reproduction of housing as a commons in São Paulo. It analyzes the occupation of vacant real estate properties and their subsequent transformation into low-income housing in central São Paulo as instances of commoning. It examines the mechanisms through which housing commons are protected,...
NONPROFIT-LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side
We analyze the development of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago as the product of a new kind of urban growth machine—a nonprofit-led neoliberal growth machine. Building on studies of nonprofit-led urban development as well as research on CBA-driven opposition, we reconstruct how an Obama Foundation-led growth...
COMMUNICATIVE AND AGONISTIC PLANNING THEORIES IN THE FACE OF POPULIST RHETORIC: Reflections on Minneapolis 2040 Process
This article discusses populist rhetoric in the context of participatory urban planning. Populist rhetoric builds on emotionally charged expression and juxtapositions between ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’ including planners. In so doing, it poses a challenge to planners who have learned to follow the ideals of...
JULY ISSUE
Young boys purchase produce at a small neighbourhood kiosk that is not connected to the grid despite an electric pole being only a few feet away, in Nakulabye informal settlement, Kampala, Uganda (photo by Penlope Yaguma, October 2023)
A detail of ‘communitarian pots in times of crisis’ as part of project No. 0160, ‘Community Practices, Local Policies and Governance for the Management of the Covid-19 Crisis in Intermediate Cities’ (image by Paz Ahumada, 2021)
A detail showing empty apartments in Gränby 2012 (photo by resident ‘Ciwan’, June 2012)
