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...Brian T. Edwards; Driss Ksikes Abstract This essay describes a project launched by the authors in 2020 in multiple port cities. Part manifesto, part interim report, the essay advances three claims about the distinctiveness and potentialities of port cities. First, they share both positive...

...Anthony Townsend Since the very origins of urban planning in the late nineteenth century, the field has aspired to establish a firm scientific footing for the nature of cities, their cycles of growth and decline, and ways that we can better plan and predict the outcomes of interventions through...

...: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City , Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling, eds. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 191 -219. Anzaldúa , Gloria . 1987. Borderlands: La Frontera the New Mestiza . San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Foundation. Appadurai , Arjun . 1990. “Disjuncture...

... drawn from digital media. While his notion of the generic city is modeled on the film studio set, with its utterly flexible and ephemeral structures expanded to the scale of the city, and his more recent structures embody the promises of a network society, Koolhaas fails to consider other image-making...

...Dorien Zandbergen This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US...

.... The Suffering Body of the City Frédéric Le Marcis Translated by Judith Inggs S ince 1990, parallel to the period of transition to a democratic society, the S AIDS epidemic in South Africa has increased dramatically...

...-Lines Instant City John Matshikiza There must have been something here, where Johannesburg stands, before the Tgold rush, but it was never recorded in history. So Johannesburg became and remained, by default, an instant city, periodically...

...Sabine I. Gölz Duke University Press 2006 Moscow for Flaneurs: Pedestrian Bridges, Europe Square, and Moskva-City Sabine I. Gölz On a sunny afternoon in early September 2001, having...

...Néstor García Canclini © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Néstor García Canclini teaches anthropology and urban culture at the Universidad Autonomia Metropolitana in Mexico City. Among his many works is the recent Ciudad de los viajeros (1996). Borja, Jordi, and Manuel...

... City Centers/Peripheral Transmissions: A Conversation with Lincoln Tobier Interviewed by Lisa Cohen L incoln Tobier’s work expresses what he calls “place in concentrated...

... Zhang Dali’s Dialogue: Conversation with a City Wu Hung Apublic controversy surfaced in Beijing’s newspapers in early 1998. At A its center was an image that had become familiar...

...: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City Claudio Lomnitz Idioms of Sacrifice in Mexico The cultural history of sacrifice in secular societies did not begin to be written...

...Keller Easterling [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 planetary commons pluriverse urban whiteness This issue of Public Culture invites contributors and readers to consider space that is “other than ‘the city.’ ” This peculiar locution...

... and migrant justice. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 environmental racism hazard suburbs peripheries US empire I study US empire and the afterlives of counterinsurgent warfare in a place alternately called a suburb, a city, a periphery, an exurb...

...Vyjayanthi Rao; Erica Robles-Anderson [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The concept of the city...

... the history of colonial and racial capitalism of the City of Gold. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 China South Africa racial capitalism globalization In the South African megacity Johannesburg, the China Mall shimmers with the afterlives of gold. Since 2000, China Malls, bustling...

... through construction and demolition and by being in circulation. By looking more closely at the history of the machine globally and in India, its deployment at sites of demolitions, and its end point in Delhi’s scrap markets, this article uncovers the diverse relationship the machine has with the city...

... incapacitation of authoritative traditions such as religion, science, and law. ADVANCE PUBLICATION The Bewitched City: Psychopolitics in the Wake of the Social MILAD ODABAEI The end of a tradition does not necessarily mean that traditional concepts have lost their power over the minds of men. On the contrary...

...Ackbar Abbas Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and the City Ackbar Abbas “Space” and “Place” Another luxury...