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NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya
This collaborative essay provides a methodological reflection and a list of recommendations on the opportunities, uncertainties and limitations faced when researching state spaces in India, Mexico and Kenya. Drawing on recent fieldwork across these countries, we illuminate the complexities and challenges inherent in...
BLOOMBERG’S GLOBAL MAYORALTY: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government
Bloomberg Philanthropies—the philanthropic organization of multibillionaire, CEO and former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg—has become a palpably influential node in global networks of urban policy knowledge generation and mobility. This article examines the formative conditions, scope and operations of...
HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’
Data centers, the material backbone of smart cities, power the digital economy and advanced digital services. Metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ obscure the massive computing and storage infrastructures, the resource flows and the land uses they mediate. To date, smart city research and policies...
JANUARY ISSUE
A detail of the Centre Street Escalator Link at the Northeast corner of the intersection of High Street and Centre Street in Hong Kong (photo by Ben A. Gerlofs, July 2021)
A detail showing crowds in Quiapo, Manila (photo by Kim Dovey, 2022)
A detail from the “Magic City” sculpture in Miami’s Little Haiti, announcing the soon to commence construction of the Magic City Innovation District (photo taken by Richard Tardanico, November 2024)
