Posts tagged: urbanism

Just Another Number

Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi reports on a deportation in London in this excerpt from The Right to the City.
The Gay Right to the City

"It’s impossible to imagine gays — our cultures, habits, presence — without cities" - Huw Lemmey
Disaster Communism

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
Sinking Feelings: Of Glaciers, Zombies, and Catastrophic Affect

Official assessments radically underestimate the magnitude of warming experienced by city dwellers today. To live in a large city today is to be on the edge of the most rapidly changing environmental conditions ever experienced by humans.
Five Book Plan: Cities and Climate Change — Five Years After Hurricane Sandy

On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ashley Dawson provides a select list of books and resources for assessing the history and future of cities facing climate change.
Detroit’s Rebellion and the Rise of the Neoliberal State

The unprecedented prison expansion over the last four decades is inconceivable outside the context of mass antiracist and class struggle and the state’s crushing of the urban insurrections of the 1960s.
The savvy amateur urbanist Jane Jacobs on ‘the intricate sidewalk ballet' of the city

In this excerpt from The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love, author Andy Merrifield explores how he likes to live in a city through the poetry of the Beats and the joys of what amateur urbanist Jane Jacobs called ‘the intricate sidewalk ballet’.
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[Video:] David Harvey and Evgeny Morozov on Trump, neoliberalism, infrastructure, and "the sharing economy"
Rebel Cities, Urban Resistance and Capitalism: a Conversation with David Harvey
Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance
“The complete subjugation of urban policy”: An interview with Raquel Rolnik

The housing market has in recent years become one of the central pillars of global financial capitalism. That has happened over the entire world — in a variety of ways. By abolishing all prospects of social housing, countries have propelled these processes. Thus the purchase of property on credit has prevailed as the only means of gaining access to housing.