... This essay extends and applies Sylvia Wynter’s meta-cartography of Man and les damnés de la terre/the wretched of the earth by looking towards contemporary debates over the urban. The research draws attention to debates in the fields of urban redevelopment and renewal in order to interrogate...

... temporality world-class city redevelopment ...

... slum redevelopment criminalization informal illegal ...

... West Coast blues San Francisco urban redevelopment housing activism ...

... (or attempt to make) water available to the rapidly changing space of the city despite the materialities of the pipes. temporality world-class city redevelopment ...

.... The chapter follows the material, ideological, and legal transformation of a municipal housing colony, Shivajinagar-Bainganwadi, into a slum that could be surveyed for redevelopment. The reimagining of Shivajinagar-Bainganwadi as a slum was itself the result of the politically mediated deterioration...

... This chapter focuses on grassroots urban redevelopment by residents of San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s, and their efforts to build permanent housing and community infrastructure for Black residents. It shows how Hunters Point housing activists worked to make...

... human-computer interaction This chapter focuses on grassroots urban redevelopment by residents of San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s, and their efforts to build permanent housing and community infrastructure for Black residents. It shows how Hunters Point housing...

... This chapter considers how the discursive and technical treatment of land as empty and private property as a civilizing mechanism on the frontier extends through technologies of property in ways that facilitate large-scale green redevelopment schemes. It analyzes how vacancy is categorically...