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NONPROFIT-LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side
We analyze the development of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago as the product of a new kind of urban growth machine—a nonprofit-led neoliberal growth machine. Building on studies of nonprofit-led urban development as well as research on CBA-driven opposition, we reconstruct how an Obama Foundation-led growth...
EMBODYING AND RESISTING URBAN HEAT INJUSTICE: Migrant Vulnerabilities and Radical Adaptations in El Raval, Barcelona
Heat is a central concern for many cities whose efforts for adaptation tend to reproduce inequities. While community-led adaptation has been considered key for enhancing just outcomes, how migrants from majority world countries are in- or excluded from local visions and practices of adaptation has rarely been asked....
PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty-first-century Berlin
In this article I examine a participatory planning initiative in contemporary Berlin to propose a theoretical reflection on the entanglements between race and urban futures in the German capital. The promoters of the planning initiative aimed to solve the problem of drug dealing in an inner-city park. Motivated by no...
JULY ISSUE
Young boys purchase produce at a small neighbourhood kiosk that is not connected to the grid despite an electric pole being only a few feet away, in Nakulabye informal settlement, Kampala, Uganda (photo by Penlope Yaguma, October 2023)
A detail of ‘communitarian pots in times of crisis’ as part of project No. 0160, ‘Community Practices, Local Policies and Governance for the Management of the Covid-19 Crisis in Intermediate Cities’ (image by Paz Ahumada, 2021)
A detail showing empty apartments in Gränby 2012 (photo by resident ‘Ciwan’, June 2012)
