Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai / by Pineda, Victor Santiago, author 635821

“…By bridging theory and practice, this book provides new insights on inclusive city planning and comparative urban theory. This book should be read as part of a larger struggle to define and assert access; it's a story of how equity and justice are central themes in building the cities of the future and of today.…”

The Impact of Varying of Structural & Formal Urban Types on the Coherence of Elements of Dense Urban Fabric by Areej Kareem Majeed, Khansaa' Ghazi Al Nuaymi

“… Planning for a city with human identity considers the needs of human being that exist in the traditional cities where it was so easy creating place there, on the other hand, modern cities refuse these values and reduce the human characters of urban fabric elements , and the searching for the concept of " Urban Coherence " considers the knowledge about urban theory, especially Morphological attitudes finding three sides of making the coherence of dense urban fabric which are " Functional Complementarily , Formal Complementarily , Contextual complementarily “and the differentiation of these sides within the variety of spatial structural patterns between the organic type of traditional city and the gridiron type of modern city. …”
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La Ciudad, Espacio de Construcción de ciudadanía by Patricia Ramírez Kuri

“…This text refl ects on the city as a citizenship construction space and introduces the discussion around the meaning of the concept, regaining some contributions of the social and urban theory. Finally, it studies the meaning of public space as a social construction and as a place of sociability and confl ict which expresses diverse and uneven forms of citizenship, and condenses some of the contradictory tendencies that distinguish contemporary citizenship.…”
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„SZARA PRZESTRZEŃ”. CHARAKTERYSTYKA POSTKOLONIALNEGO I URBANISTYCZNEGO DYSKURSU KRYTYCZNEGO ORENA YIFTACHELA by Martyna Wielewska-Baka

“…This article provides the crucial tools and methods of critical urban theory introduced by Oren Yiftachel, Israeli lecturer and activist in Department of Geography at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva. …”
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The travels of critiques of neoliberalism: urban experiences from the "Borderlands" by Baptista, I

“…The article suggests that current efforts at epistemological renewal within urban studies benefit from taking up cities in the "borderlands" of urban theory as relevant cases in their own right. The article offers further considerations on the purchase of neoliberalism in contemporary urban literature. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.…”

El lenguaje orgánico de Arturo Soria: antecedente de una ecología de la ciudad = The organic language of Arturo Soria: the antecedent of ecological urban planning by José Manuel de Andrés Moncayo

“…The purpose of studying and advocating it is to reconcile contemporary urban challenges and aspirations with an underrated chapter of the foundations of modern urban theory.…”
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Understanding the impact of economic migrants and landless farmers on mass-produced housing and community space in China, using the case of Zhangjing, Suzhou by Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi, Alan Reeve

“…The paper will use both historical and contemporary urban theory, together with a case study of Zhangjiing in Suzhou Industrial Park, China as means of critiquing and learning from these consequences and the planning and policy instruments in place. …”
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Between appropriation and occupation: the spatial politics of ‘squatting’ in East Berlin by Vasudevan, A

“…At stake here, is an approach to housing insecurity that challenges our understanding of the socialist city and its (largely) peripheral place within urban theory.…”

EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations by Emanuele Leonardi, Michelangelo Secchi

“…Starting from the critical urban theory premise that neoliberalization is necessarily a spatial project, the features of urban space production set in motion by the World Fair are analyzed by paying particular attention to the ways in which social movements framed such transformations and eventually mobilized in reaction to them. …”
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Property and Thomas Piketty: Casting the Lens of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century on Inequality in the Urban Built Environment by Patrice Derrington

“…Seeking to address this complex problem, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that uniquely addresses both the capitalist economic structure that drives the development process and the Marxist-based urban theory by which the socio-economic outcomes are currently evaluated. …”
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Resilience and the neoliberal city: A genealogy about Latin America by Andrea Lampis

“…Second, in concordance with critical urban theory and through a genealogical analysis of Foucauldian inspiration applied to the instrumental use of resilience, it is shown how this concept has been converted into a notion that facilitates the neoliberal project, which has dominated processes of change in urban Latin America in the 21st century.…”
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Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part I: Context by Daniel Silver, Patrick Adler, Mark S. Fox

“…First, we review prior adumbrations of an evolutionary model in urban theory, noting their potential and their limitations. …”
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Data-driven Urban Design by Jeroen van Ameijde

“…By breaking down these processes into separate components of gathering, analysing, translating and implementing data, and conceptualizing them in relation to urban theory, it is shown how data-driven urban design processes can be conceived as an open-ended toolkit to achieve various types of user-driven outcomes. …”
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Data-driven Urban Design by Jeroen van Ameijde

“…By breaking down these processes into separate components of gathering, analysing, translating and implementing data, and conceptualizing them in relation to urban theory, it is shown how data-driven urban design processes can be conceived as an open-ended toolkit to achieve various types of user-driven outcomes. …”
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Krisendiagnostik einer kritischen Stadtforschung by Markus Kip

“…Er baut auf Kernideen aus „What is Critical about Critical Urban Theory?“ von Neil Brenner (2009) auf.…”
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Industrial forever? Narratives, place identity, and the development path of the city of Zeitz, Germany by Görmar Franziska, Kinossian Nadir

“…There is a growing interest in understanding development processes and opportunities in small and medium-sized towns that so far did not attract much attention in mainstream urban theory. Conventional growth-oriented approaches fail to capture the complexity of local development and policy-making processes because they prioritise production factors and underrate the role of discourse and place-based identity. …”
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Reimaging Earth. Architecture and the critical and speculative uses of geovisualization by Roi Salgueiro Barrio

“…The first one is the work of Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab (UTL), which uses cartography as an analytical and critical tool aimed at unpacking the sociospatial dimensions of planetary urbanization. …”
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How Portugal became an 'unplanned country': a critique of scholarship on Portuguese urban development and planning by Baptista, I

“…I suggest that such efforts could enhance the relevance and contribution of the Portuguese urban experience to recent calls for epistemological renewal in urban theory production. © 2011 Urban Research Publications Limited.…”

Subaltern Politics at Urban Borderlands by Harshavardhan Jatkar

“…In effect, this article argues that urban borderlands make visible subaltern agencies that have the potential to dislodge urban theory and practice from their colonial modernist legacy.…”
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Recognition of digital twin city from the perspective of complex system theory: Lessons from Chinese practice by Chuncheng Liu, Ying Tian

“…To solve these problems, we need to draw on basic urban theory. On the basis of complex system theory, in this study, we comprehensively analyzed the characteristics and mechanisms of digital twin cities and constructed a system framework for digital twin cities. …”
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