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URBAN AGRICULTURE IN NEO-AUSTERITY TIMES: Reflections on a Contested Policy Domain
Urban agriculture (UA) initiatives have become a key area of research, policymaking and activism in reaction to the dominance of global for-profit supply chains that have introduced significant food-related vulnerabilities in urban areas. However, empirical evidence shows that UA initiatives encounter powerful...
DETROIT’S FIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS: Exploring the Challenges and Strategies of Securing Community Benefits Agreements in a Legacy City
Community benefits agreements (CBAs) have emerged from the accountable development movement as a widespread, most often community-initiated practice for extracting benefits from development projects at the cost of developers. Scholarship chronicling the strategies for negotiating benefits has largely concluded that a...
CAPTURING DISPLACEMENT: A Dialectical Mixed-Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden
In this article, we seek to contribute to the understanding and measurement of displacement through a dialectical mixed-methods study grounded in a dialogue between quantitative and qualitative approaches throughout the entire research process. Guided by a desire for social justice for the populations at stake, this...
MARCH ISSUE
A pedestrian crossing bridge over Avenida Governador Carlos Lacerda in the Jacarepaguá neighborhood, en route to a Slam Poetry competition (photo by Marcos L. Campos, April2019)
A poster on Broadway stating ‘We are human beings not numbers’, the Focus E15Slogan (photo by Toni Adscheid, July 2022)
A detail from Miltiadou Street, in Athens. The worn-out poster was part of ‘Athens Trigono’ project aiming to change the image of the historical centre of Athens (photo by Panagiota Koutrolikou, October 2024)
