Geographical information system ; Land use ; United States of America ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban environment ; Urban geography ; Urban planning
In the United States, the work of the planning profession goes on within a changing environment of intellectual and practical understanding, continually reshaped by political and social forces within and beyond planning.
Biogeography ; Cultural landscape ; Fauna ; Town ; Urban ecology ; Urban environment ; Zoogeography
Geographers have begun to consider animals and the urban moral landscape, and assess competing rubrics of planning practice as they relate to animals in the city. Together, these efforts suggest a research agenda for urban geographers interested
in human-animal relations, that may help bridge gaps between human and physical geography, and propel the study of nature-society relations to the fore in urban geography.
Germany ; Inter-community cooperation ; Regional policy ; Urban construction ; Urban development ; Urban network ; Urbanism
) needs to be examined in practice. This explanation is based on the regional policy objective of extending and developing urban networks. It is exemplary description of current urban interdependences and inter-urban co-operation. - (MT)
The paper explains why and in which way urban networks are examined: they are able to improve locational advantages in Germany (poly-central structures), and the instrument for developing spatial and functional networks (inter-urban co-operation
Beijing ; Centrality ; China ; Perception of the urban environment ; Policy ; Political geography ; Power ; Semiotics of space ; Social practice ; Urban area ; Urban landscape ; Urban morphology
The paper reviews the relevant geographical literature on space, place and politics, then sketches the morphological evolution of the Square and the multiplicity of political meanings concretized in it. It examines the spatial practice of 20th
Special Issue: Urban geography and cultural studies
Consumption ; Cultural studies ; Post-modernism ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban landscape ; Urban park
expression of the postmodern city, Disneyland, demonstrates that contemporary urban landscapes are complicated and contradictory sites that embed dominant cultural relations and creative resistance to them.
Undertaking recreational trespass : urban exploration and infiltration
Community ; England ; Exploration ; Infiltration ; Infrastructure ; London ; Motivation ; Social geography ; Social practice ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urbanpractice
This article analyses recreational trespass through urban exploration and infiltration in London. It explains that urban explorers are one of many groups reacting to increased surveillance and control over urban space, playfully probing boundaries
and weaknesses in urban security in a search for bizarre, beautiful and unregulated areas where they can build personal relationships to places. The results both complement and complicate recent work within geography around issues of surveillance, subversion
, urban community building and critical engagement with cities.
Digitizing the dragon head, geo-coding the urban landscape. GIS and the transformation of China’s urban governance
China ; Geographical information system ; Governance ; Guangdong ; Knowledge ; Shenzhen ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban landscape
Through an in-depth case study of Shenzhen, this article analyzes how urban GIS has been transformed from a practice involving internal organizational workflow automation, into a more active dimension of the governance of urban spaces-reflected
in the expanding practice of “geo-coding” the urban landscape. It demonstrates that GIS practices constitute a particular form of geographic rationality that seeks to govern at a distance while simultaneously regulating the urban environment, intersecting
with the broader transformations of China’s urban governance. It concludes that these developments have been largely government-centric rather than citizencentric, yet they provide possibilities for new forms of spatial knowledge production for citizen
Who's Participation? Who's Sustainability ? A Critical Analysis of Initiatives for Urban Sustainability inIndia
Environment ; Environmental justice ; India ; Madras ; Participation ; Political ecology ; Stream ; Sustainable development ; Tamil Nadu ; Town planning ; Urban landscape ; Urban park ; Urbanization
and economic development compatible. Second, conflicts surrounding urban environments are ostensibly ‘depoliticized’ through highly selective practices of ‘participation’. Generalized in this way, the discourse and practice of participation gloss over the power
asymmetries that characterize the civic sphere in urban India. As environmental best practice is being actively formulated and replicated through projects like the Adyar Poonga, it becomes ever more urgent, to interrogate the mechanisms of political inclusions
This paper considers urban environmental sustainability in cities of the global South. Drawing on the insights of urban political ecology and a critique of participatory development, the author argues that environmental sustainability initiatives
mask the political economy of environmental injustice and uneven urban development. This argument is fleshed out through a case study of the Adyar Poonga river restoration project in Chennai, India. The case study highlights two key dimensions of what
is termed the ‘depoliticisation’ of the production of urban nature. First, the political conflicts that surround urban environmental projects are neutralized through a definition of sustainability that is primarily concerned with making environmentalism
/exclusion and to question who benefits from urban environmental change.
On the role of affect and practice in the production of place
Pedestrians ; Perception ; Place ; Production of space ; Sense of belonging ; Urban life ; Vancouver ; Young people
might be identified. The paper takes up this challenge in an attempt to clarify the role of affect and practice in the production of place. It is then turning to an ethnographic account of young people, place, and urban life in Vancouver. The study
explores the ways young people negotiate and transform place and the impact these practices have on the characteristic orientations of self and belonging.
Since Megalopolis : the urban writtings of Jean Gottmann
Geographic school ; Practice of geography ; Town ; Urban geography
Seventeen essays by Gottmann on cities past and present of which 15 have been previously published, 11 of them in the Journal Ekistics. A list of his urban publications between 1949 and 1987 is included. - (DWG)
Coordination of urban economic development policies in the Netherlands in The urban agglomeration as a political arena.
This article examines whether a province can achieve consensus among municipalities that usually practice conflict avoidance. This occurs in exceptional circumstances, related to the fact that municipalities acquire resources for economic
Development of private sports facilities as a side business of urban farmers
The response of farmers to urbanization under the influence of the opening of the shin-Ome highway, west of Tokyo. The A. focuses attention on the operation of such sports facilities as golf practice on urban farms located in the former shinden land
Cultivated plants ; Family ; Garden ; Gardening ; Informality ; Minnesota ; Neighbourhood ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Urban area
Building on research that considers commons through the practices which produce and maintain them—commoning—this article analyzes how privately owned front and backyards participate in urban commons. Through ethnographic research in three
and the everyday practices which take place in and through them constitute one nodal point in the making of urban commons. In so doing, logics of private property come to be interwoven with logics of commoning. By finding a diverse range of common lives of yards
neighborhoods of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the article shows how these commons are made in two key registers: through yards as shared territories and through everyday practices of sharing plants across individual yards. The article’s central claim is that yards
, this article adds to emerging conversations about the nature of urban commons.