Guest Editorial
Emotions and the City
Guest Editorial
Nina Margies
Emotions play a role in the way we see, inhabit and build cities. Whenever we avoid walking through dark parks at night, design uncomfortable bench…
Cities’ Affective Smells
Suzel Balez
Smells contribute to urban identities. They are memory activators and, as the neuroscientist André Holley points out, they have striking emotional power…
Emotions and Frustrations: An Analysis of the Failure of a Democratic Participative Process
Tanika Join and Lise Serra
The article examines how emotions influence the co-construction of an urban renewal project. The case study is located in Saint-Denis, Reunion…
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Smart Complaints? ‘Wild’ Things and the Promise of (Un)happiness in Urban Crowdsourcing Apps
Sabrina Stallone
The way we make sense of cities today is heavily codified by data. As media scholar Shannon Mattern argues, “this datafication of the city is also…
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(Unwanted) Emotions As Vital for the Collective Production of the City: The Case of Park Am Gleisdreieck in Berlin, Germany
Flavia Alice Mameli
The influence of emotions is often neglected in the firmly structured and institutionalised planning processes of urban development. Considered…
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Affective Infrastructures of Knowledge Co-Production
Catalina Ortiz, Yael Padan, Belen Desmaison, Vanesa Castan Broto, Teddy Kisembo, Judith Mbabazi, Paul Mukwaya, Hafisa Namuli, Shuaib Lwasa and Jane Rendell
The notion of affective infrastructures, in the context of knowledge co-production, refers to the unspoken relations that sustain trajectories of j…
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Back to the Future of Public Space: Postcards From 2020
Dorotea Ottaviani and Cecilia De Marinis
2020 has borne witness to an emotionally intense milestone in the life of cities all around the world. The pandemic has imposed restrictions both i…
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Francesca’s Place: A Topography of Affects, Cities, Mountains and Earthquakes
Federico De Matteis
Francesca’s Place is a phenomenographical account, performed through drawings and photographs, of five central Italian towns, struck by several ear…
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Spaces of Freedom
Bojana Rankovic
Standing on the threshold of the past and the future, spaces of freedom are existing in the liminal position of the present moment. They are a gap in…
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, by Olivia Laing
Francesca Cocchiara and Nicole de Groot
Is loneliness the price to pay for living in a global city? There is a commonplace about the easiness of feeling isolated in urban environments tha…
Call for Submissions
Empowering the City-Zen: Which Politics for Which Polis?
Call for Submissions
Closing 31 March 2023
For well over a decade most of us, in most of the world, live in cities. A relatively recent condition only forecast to intensify in the following …
Editorial
Righting the City
Editorial
Chris Barnes
What do rights mean in an urban context? Does righting the city require the (re)inscription of individual or collective rights within a legal frame…
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Mapping Democracy: A Tale of Two Capitals
Anavil Ahluwalia
Capital cities have been the seat of political power and a central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. The…
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The Fine Line Between Protection and Citizen Control in Beirut
Kamila Bak, Rita Berisha and Anna-Maria Grimm
During the speech addressing the Protests in Lebanon in October 20191, Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced, “I heard many voices calling for t…
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The Space of Appearance Revisited in the Occupied Squares Movement
Kallia Fysaraki and Phaedra Kotsifaki-Sarpaki
The square-movement of 2011 erupted as a protest and resistance to existing forms of governance globally. It gathered crowds from different backgro…
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The Spatiality of 2019 Protests in Beirut
Nadine Hindi
On the afternoon of October 17th 2019, a long overdue protest swept all of Lebanon at once1. It spontaneously erupted across different cities and l…
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Infrastructures for Voice
Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall
We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political?…
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The Pain of Others
Sasha Kurmaz
The Pain of Others is an intervention that consists of photos, collages, posters, and banners which at first sight resemble memorial sites spontane…
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Black at Home in the Bay Area
Wendy M. Thompson
Living in a black place mattered to me, the granddaughter of black southern migrants who had left homes in Louisiana to make new homes out west. Mo…
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Crowded but With Masks: On the Resilience of an Unfair Mobility, Reflections From Santiago, Chile
Fernando Campos-Medina, Iván Ojeda-Pereira and Josefa Mattei
The present photo essay seeks to visualize the resilience of a transport system and how it exposes deep social differences in Chile. On the 18th Oc…