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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…
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…
Call for Submissions
Housing for a Fairer and Greener World
Call for Submissions
Closing 30 November 2022
There is no denying the fundamental role of housing as a guarantor of human development. Yet, we are nowhere near guaranteeing humanity’s fundament…
Editorial
Futures
Editorial
Profit-oriented and speculation-driven development is not the inevitability of planning; it is time to revisit those past futures that worked for communities and for the planet before and beyond the late experiences of the Global North.
Call for Submissions
Money
Call for Submissions
closing 17.10.2021
The journal is calling for submissions that critically review the relationship between the city and money and creatively reimagine how we live, measure, and value our places.
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Regenerative Cultures – Regenerative Cities
Editorial
Annual CO2 emissions are now 45% higher than they were at the dawn of the millennium and 500% higher than the 1950s1. Carbon emissions from the richest 1% more than double…
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A few words from our guest editor
Maria Tzika
A forest feeds itself, a perfect example of a circular economy. Life itself maintains the conditions for life. In gratitude, I tiptoe so as not to disturb it too much.
Call for Submissions
Emotions and the City
Call for Submissions
closing 15.06.2021
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…
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What a year
Preface
Who would have thought back at the end of 2019 that only a few months later retreating from the social interactions that so fundamentally define ou…
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Land
Editorial
In an extreme sense, land must be understood here exclusively as a legal phenomenon, rather than a geographical one.
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Towards a reader-funded journal
Letter from the Editors
Help us keep the journal an independent and accessible platform publishing the work of researchers, professionals, creatives and activists across the world.
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Righting the City
Call for Submissions
closing 28.02.2021
From the insurrections of the Arab Spring against oppressive regimes in North Africa and the Middle East to the rallying cry of Black Lives Matter …
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Visualising the City
Editorial
Visualising the city discloses the fundamental relation to the city as a possible object of study. In order to know the city, to understand it, and…
Call for Submissions
Futures
Call for Submissions
closing 30.09.2020
Cities have been continuously (re)produced by overlapping transitions. Palimpsests on which future visions are written over their scriptio inferior…
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The Space of the (Re)Public
Editorial
In October 2011 a group of around 2000–3000 protesters gathered around Paternoster Square in London, shrouded in the shadow cast by St Paul’s Cathe…
Call for Submissions
Regenerative Cultures – Regenerative Cities
Call for Submissions
closing 31.05.2020
The evidence that human activity is the cause of climate change is overwhelming. An ever-increasing number of institutions, from the UN to local go…
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Let us read your stories
Preface
In a bid to explore novel and unconventional ways of narrating the city and relating to its lived experiences, we are launching an ongoing call for our Letters from the City section.
Call for Submissions
Land
Call for Submissions
closing 28.02.2020
Underlying and at times undermining urban development are the less obvious dynamics of land: ownership distribution, tenure structures, institution…
Call for Submissions
Letters from the City
Call for Submissions
ongoing
Things I wanted to tell you. Questions I haven’t asked. Experiences for which I have no words. I see you; I feel you; I live in you. You touch my existence, you make me feel alive and inspired…