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...Ricky Burdett Much of the discourse on the future of cities is trapped in a professional paradigm that focuses on the role of urban planners and policy makers, while everyday urban realities are being shaped by a very different set of informal processes and actors that are largely immune...

...Jennifer Mack Outlining a theory of “urban design from below,” this essay considers how so-called users have reshaped space at the urban scale, as I trace the history of immigrants’ transformations of a Swedish modernist new town neighborhood. Here a peripheral green strip that government planners...

... Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai Arjun Appadurai C A Brief History...

.... Public Culture 12 : 1 -19. ———. 2001 . Spectral housing and urban cleansing: Notes on millennial Mumbai. Public Culture 12 : 627 -51. Appadurai, Arjun, and Holston, James. 1999 . Introduction: Cities and citizenship. In Cities and citizenship , edited by Holston. Durham, N.C.: Duke...

.... In Unofficial China II , edited by Perry Link, Richard Madsen, and Paul Pickowicz. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. Davis, Deborah S., Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds. 1995 . Urban spaces in contemporary China:The potential for autonomy and community in post-Mao China...

...Ash Amin This short intervention outlines the challenges for social theory posed by a thoroughly urbanized world, one run out of a small number of cities and shaped in all its aspects by the distinctiveness of urban being. 2013 urban challenges: M ANIFESTO...

...Cassim Shepard This essay traces the outlines of the incremental tradition in architecture and urban planning in order to argue for its resonance with an interpretive — as opposed to strictly interventionist — mode of urbanism that benefits from a revaluation of concepts including fragment, essence...

... of “the urban” and “the rural” when instead of being known for their use of electricity and “smokelessness” cities come to be defined by charcoal and smokiness? How did it happen that the cities of a country that produces a huge surplus of hydroelectricity still rely so extensively on firewood in the twenty...

...Orit Halpern; Jesse LeCavalier; Nerea Calvillo; Wolfgang Pietsch This essay interrogates the new forms of experimentation with urban territory emerging as a result of ubiquitous computing infrastructures. We label these protocols “test-bed urbanism.” Smart, sentient, stupid, and speculative all...

...Lisa Richaud; Ash Amin While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on migrant mental health. Exploring the affective and subjective dimensions of life lived...

...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...

...Austin Zeiderman; Sobia Ahmad Kaker; Jonathan Silver; Astrid Wood This essay examines the influence of uncertainty on how contemporary cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited. This influence is demonstrated through the analysis of various domains of urban planning and governance...

...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...

..., Shadowplay,Bricolage: Laborer's Love and the Question of Early Chinese Cinema” (in Yingjin Zhang, ed., Cinema and Urban Culture in China,1922–1943 [1999]). Her current project is a cultural history of early film experience in China. Mediating Time: The “Rice...

...Virág Molnár The essay examines street art as a lens on the workings of the contemporary public sphere to capture changing uses of urban public spaces and shifting conceptions of social order in the city. It explores the explosion in the popularity of street art at a time when urban public space...

... in South Africa (1998). Castells, Manuel. 1977 . The urban question: A Marxist approach . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Castoriadis, Cornelius. 1987 . The imaginary institution of society . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Coakley, Jerry, and Laurence Harris. 1983 . The city of capital...

... of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa Thomas Blom Hansen At first sight, the major cities in South Africa do not appear to have changed much over the last decade. Their physical layouts...

...Shiloh R. Krupar Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 photo-essay Shanghaiing the Future: A De-tour of the Shanghai Urban...

.... Is There a Difference between Public Culture 1789 and 1989? A Reply to Greg Urban Michael M. J. Fischer 1 found it helpful in reading Greg Urban’s dense and abstract essay to pose three questions: (1...

...Marilyn Ivy Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago 1993 (Eqfacing Culture: A Reply to Greg Urban Marilyn Ivy Greg Urban’s CuZtureS Public Face interrogates the cultural configuration...