Psychogeography as Social Activism in Katerina Cizek’s Digital Documentaries Highrise, The 1000th Tower and Out My Window by Siobhan O’Flynn

“…And although the use of digital technologies raises questions as to access and equity in the digital divide, her projects address this tension directly often working with government and community members to effect change in urban policy and planning. This essay examines how these works rewrite History within the context of the Social Web as an ongoing participatory narrative.…”
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Marché foncier et espace social à Mascate, Oman by Belgacem Mokhtar

“…Therefore, the practices of production and structuring of space seem to escape the spirit of the urban policy and to contradict the will of a regulation legislated by public authority.The new configuration of the urban space seems to be the product of a contradiction between the public will, the private sector and the interests of land speculators.The strategies and tactics of the urban end-product private producers are conducive to a new urban reality. …”
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BREVE PERCURSO SOBRE A POLÍTICA HABITACIONAL BRASILEIRA by Sibila Corral de Area Leao Honda

“…With 1988 Federal Constitution, these topics are in the spotlight, articulated by the city council as an equal federal entity and common jurisdiction in matters of urban policy. In this area, the question of housing policy becomes central and strategic for the city, as one of the main problems is the provision of adequate housing to the majority of the population. …”
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Crues éclair et inondations urbaines dans le sertão du Nordeste brésilien (Rio Grangeiro, Crato, Ceará) : perception et gestion d’un risque naturel méconnu by Alexsandra de Oliveira Magalhães

“…After a few recent flash-floods including one which occurred in Crato (Ceará) on January 28th 2011, the notion of natural risk remains poorly present in the mentalities and behaviors, as well among the inhabitants as the local actors, and it does not appear in the urban policy, except in the form of more or less isolated measures responding to successive crises. …”
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Overview of Laws for Urban Agriculture in Brazil: Association with Urban Planning by Eugenia Aumond Kuhn, Geisa Zanini Rorato, Bruno Cesar Euphrasio de Mello, Carolina Cristofoli Falcão

“…They only vaguely mention their interfaces with urban-policy legal frameworks, and they do not clearly address territorial challenges to UA implementation.…”
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People, Place, and Politics: Local Factors Shaping Middle‐Class Practices in Mixed‐Class German Neighbourhoods by Heike Hanhörster, Isabel Ramos Lobato, Sabine Weck

“…Our aim is to contribute to ongoing debates on urban policy options: In discussing the conditions encouraging cross‐boundary interactions of specific middle‐class fractions, we argue that the scope of local‐level action is not fully recognized in either policy or academic debates.…”
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The Neo-Institutional Framework of Large-Scale Retail Spatial Policy Formulation Processin Serbia by Milica MAKSIĆ

“…The basic objective of the research is to explore possible ways of im-provement of institutional framework of spatial and urban policy formulation in Serbia in order to make the decision-making process on large-scale retail building more effective and to ade-quately address the complex problems of this type of building. …”
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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT OF SINGLE-INDUSTRY TOWNS IN RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN by I. D. Turgel, L. L. Bozhko, Linshui Xu

“…The study reveals the stages in the development of support policy, analyzes the evolution of criteria used for selection of single-industry towns needed support, and considers factors that led to criteria refinement.The study provides a comparison of Russian and Kazakh single-industry towns in terms of their spatial localization, industry specialization, social and economic situation, population number.It is stressed that the key differences in the approaches to the development of single-industry towns in the countries are linked to the scale of support and degree of its selectivity, institutionalization characteristics, and coordination with national priorities.The authors describe key problems arising when implementing policy for support of single-industry towns in Russia and Kazakhstan and conclude that it is necessary to overcome the limitations of traditional approaches to urban policy implementation in conditions of negative economic dynamics.…”
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Platformization of Politics in Non-democracies: Spaces of Participatory Experiments In Belarus in 2020S by Siarhei Liubimau

“…The first part of the paper focuses on the role of digital platforms in the studied boom of participation in 2020, the second documents the urban policy developments in Belarus during the period of 2015–2020, and the third reflects on the compatibility of the Belarusian case with wider discussions on the political impact that the spread of digital platforms has on urbanism. …”
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La municipalisation de la gestion urbaine par la concertation. Le cas du Comité de Concertation de Tabriquet à Salé (Maroc) by Coline Mias

“…Through a local study case, a Concertation Committee located in one of the electoral bastions of the PJD, Tabriquet’s district in the city of Salé, we intend to analyse the politization displays of this participatory arrangement, depicted as favoring technicians and urban policy experts over local elected representatives. …”
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Potentialités et projet d’attractivité du territoire de la ville de Jijel (Algérie) by Yasmine Bouhelouf, Ali Hadjiedj, Jocelyne Dubois-Maury

“…In addition, ambitious new projects have been launched in recent years in the various sectors, but the more structured ones have not been successful due to the lack of an attractive urban policy in this city. The latter suffers from other weaknesses in governance and urban management that require more rational and ordinary urgent interventions, but this can only be achieved through a strategy conceived within the framework of a comprehensive and integrated development policy, which should take into account all the dimensions of attractiveness (economic, social and urban). …”
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Universal resilience patterns in labor markets by Moro, Esteban, Frank, Morgan R., Pentland, Alex, Rutherford, Alex, Cebrian, Manuel, Rahwan, Iyad

“…Cities are the innovation centers of the US economy, but technological disruptions can exclude workers and inhibit a middle class. Therefore, urban policy must promote the jobs and skills that increase worker pay, create employment, and foster economic resilience. …”
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High and Dry: Rental Markets After Flooding Disasters by Brennan, Mark, Srini, Tanaya, Steil, Justin

“…The effects of these disasters on access to housing and housing stability are pressing issues of social equity and urban policy. How, if at all, do disasters affect rents? …”
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The impact of Iskandar Malaysia development on urban amenities by Razak, Muhammad Rafeq, Johar, Foziah, Abd. Khalil, Rabiatul Adawiyah

“…For major cities in Malaysia, globalized urban images are enthusiastically pursued by urban policy and explicitly depicted as a blueprint for a civilized city life. …”

Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway's Zero Growth Objective by Håvard Haarstad, Siddharth Sareen, Tarje Iversen Wanvik

“…We examine a particular target, and its associated governance instruments, which has arguably had a transformative effect on urban policy. Our empirical focus is Norway's Zero Growth Objective in urban transport policy. …”
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Toward greener and pandemic-proof cities? Policy response to Covid-19 outbreak in four global cities by Gennaro Angiello

“…A cross-city analysis is used to derive a taxonomy of urban policy measures. The contribution discusses the effectiveness of each measures in providing answers to epidemic threats in urban areas while, at the same time, improving the sustainability and resilience of urban communities.…”
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Analysis of Resource and Emission Impacts: An Emergy-Based Multiple Spatial Scale Framework for Urban Ecological and Economic Evaluation by Lixiao Zhang, Zhifeng Yang, Bin Chen, Gengyuan Liu

“…The results of our study should enable urban policy planners to better understand the multi-scale policy planning and development design of an urban ecological economic system.…”
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Data-driven Urban Design by Jeroen van Ameijde

“…Today’s ‘smart city’ technologies, using the monitoring of people’s movement and activity patterns to offer more effective and responsive services, might seem like contemporary interpretations of Negroponte’s vision, yet many of the collectors of user information are disconnected from urban policy making. This article presents a series of theoretical and procedural experiments conducted through academic research and teaching, developing user-driven generative design processes in the spirit of ‘The Architecture Machine’. …”
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Globalization of Cities: Towards Conceptualizing a New Politics of Place-Making in a Transnational Era by Şerife Geniş

“…“World city/global city” approach also became the main framework in shaping the urban policy agendas of many powerful public and private institutions and actors around the world. …”
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A survey of the mutual effects of mobile phone usage on the citizenship culture in developing countries by Seyed Maziar Alavi, Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Ali Hosseini, Mohamad Samaei

“…Running a survey-type research, a sample of people in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, have been asked to fill a questionnaire; then, after gathering and cleansing and analysing the data, some recommendations are added that could be used in urban policy making in the various developing countries…”
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