Devin Madden
Biographic Data
| ID | 90511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin Madden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin |
| FAMILY NAME | Madden |
| SIGNATURE | MADDEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0669-7841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 450 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Integrating health equity into obstetrics and gynecology education
BACKGROUND: Equity content is increasingly included in medical education, yet learners report difficulty translating these concepts into clinical practice. Obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn) — given its legacy of reproductive inequity — offers a critical lens to examine current approaches to equity training. Thus, we ask how medical students and community advocates experience current efforts to teach equity and person-centered care in the Ob/Gyn …
Beyond the limits of rentability
How has the process of urban spatial valorization evolved since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008? In the late neoliberal city, flows of value are increasingly captured through new forms of privately-controlled rentable property. In order to explore this process, this article develops the notion of rentability. It argues that the post-crisis period of urbanization in the neoliberal core is characterized by an emphasis on the expansion and …
Introducing the Housing Squeeze zine
In cities across the globe, housing is being squeezed as families and individuals are relegated to increasingly smaller domestic spaces. The housing squeeze is far from new, but a variety of shrinking pressures have deepened in the wake of the 2008 global financial crash. In May 2025 a group of fifteen scholars researching shrinking domesticity in diverse contexts—from street shelters in India to micro-apartments in Hong Kong—came together to pro…
There is no alternative to creating an alternative
Social Reproduction and the Housing Question
There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt to clarify their connection. Housing, this paper argues, is not merely the location or container of the crisis of social reproduction. Rather, there are elements of the contemporary housing system which intensify and shape the crisis of social reproduc…
Emotional and Financial Stressors in New York City During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Power of Partnership
New York City experienced a high COVID-19 burden and striking disparities among racial and ethnic minoritized groups. The New York Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities (NYCEAL) collaborated with health agencies and clinical providers to increase and facilitate COVID-19 vaccinations across New York City. NYCEAL partners and their network of hundreds of community health workers delivered vaccine education, fostered community t…
Housing ideology and urban residential change
This article develops the concept of housing ideology in order to analyze the rise of co-living. Housing ideology refers to the dominant ideas and knowledge about housing that are used to justify and legitimize the housing system and its place within the broader political economy. Co-living is the term for privately operated, for-profit multiple occupancy rental housing. The article argues that the rise of co-living is supported by four key ideol…
Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Barriers to Vaccination
Soziale Bewegungen, die Wohnungsfrage und kritische Theorie – ein Gespräch in Erinnerung an Peter Marcuse
Peter Marcuse war ein wichtiger Autor in der internationalen kritischen Stadt- und Wohnforschung. Seine Arbeiten, u. a. zu Gentrifizierung und Wohnungspolitik, boten immer wieder Anknüpfungspunkte auch für soziale städtische Bewegungen in New York, Berlin und anderen Städten. Anlässlich seines Todes im März 2022 diskutieren vier renommierte Wissenschaftler:innen über sein Werk und dessen Bedeutung für ihr eigenes Schaffen und für aktuelle Kämpfe …
Polycritical city
Pluriversal urbanisms
ITY is opening up a platform for research and theory from and about places and topics that are, and researchers who are, under-and misrepresented in urban studies journals.For want of a satisfying and even joyful term that doesn't homogenise complexity or have an implied negative counterpart (e.g."Global South"; "majority world"), we are using the placeholder term of pluriversal urbanisms.Here we draw on recent works by Escobar (2018) and Blaser …
Child Disruptions, Remote Learning, and Parent Mental Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic
New York City (NYC) was an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in broad economic, social, and emotional consequences in the lives of individuals. The current study examined associations between pandemic-related stressors and adverse mental health symptoms among NYC parents/caregivers. Community-based participatory research was used to develop a survey, and logistic regression models were utilized to assess associations between fact…
Tired city
Covid Nights
It is within a context of crisis, work and scene culture that this text takes an entry point to address ongoing challenges EDM scenes face in Montreal, Quebec. Particular attention is paid to the city's politics of the night and some of its street-level institutions and venues including Never Apart (NVA), an EDM-focused LGBTQ+ non-profit organization. Giving attention to street-level institutions is especially pressing right now as many cities at…
The urban process under covid capitalism
The covid-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, but it also fits into a broader pattern of capitalist crises and bears their tell-tale sign: a widening, painful divergence between that which is so
For the City yet to come
The names of urban dispossession
This concluding commentary discusses some of the ways in which branded renaming reflects conflicts over ownership, authority, property and power. Practices of sponsored renaming and place branding are not monolithic, but this special issue shows that they are deeply rooted within neoliberal urbanism. It should therefore not be surprising that place branding is almost always contested, and often a flashpoint in struggles over urban space
Pushed off the map
This article examines conflicts over neighbourhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighbourhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy. But despite its prevalence, the role of neighbourhood toponymic conflict in processes of urban restructuring has not been given sustained engagement from urban scholars. This article uses archival and ethnographic data fr…
On Marshall Berman (1940–2013)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid Madden is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Cities at the London School of Economics and Editor of City
There is a politics of urban knowledge because urban knowledge is political
Cities Full of Symbols
Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster
Neighborhood as Spatial Project
This article argues for a reconceptualization of one of the most basic concepts in urban studies: the neighborhood. Traditionally neighborhoods have been understood as clearly bounded, quasi-Westphalian containers or as 'natural areas' of urban community. But this approach is widely acknowledged to be under-theorized. And it fails to account for the ways in which the production of neighborhood is inherently political and often conflictual. After …
The potential impact on obesity of a 10% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Ireland, an effect assessment modelling study
This study suggests that a tax on SSBs in Ireland would have a small but meaningful effect on obesity. While such a tax would be perceived as affecting the whole population, from a health prospective the tax will predominantly affect younger adults who are the main consumers of SSBs
Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory
Against the background of contemporary worldwide transformations of urbanizing spaces, this paper evaluates recent efforts to mobilize the concept of 'assemblage' as the foundation for contemporary critical urban theory, with particular attention to a recent paper by McFarlane (2011a McFarlane, C. 2011a. 'Assemblage and critical urbanism'. City, 15(2): 204-224. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) in this journal. We argue that there is …
Revisiting the End of Public Space
A case study of the renovation of New York City's Bryant Park, this article revisits the end of public space thesis. the renovated park signifies not the end of public space but the new ends to which public space is oriented. in Bryant Park, a new logic of urban publicity was assembled and built into the landscape. the social and technical means by which this transformation was achieved are analyzed. New public spaces of this sort promulgate a co…
City Becoming World
It is part of the self-conception of the contemporary era that the world is becoming increasingly global and urban. This paper explores the global-urban imagination in works by Jean-Luc Nancy and Henri Lefebvre. Both Nancy and Lefebvre understand globalization as a fundamentally violent and unequal process that unfolds through the uneven expansion of a particular sort of urban space. They both strive to articulate a critical stance towards this p…
Between abstraction and complexity
Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations. In engaging with the limits and possibilities of recent assemblage-based work in urban studies, our concern has been to help forge new analytical tools for deciphering emerging patterns of planetary urbanization, which have unsettled the coherence and viability of earlier intellectual framew…
The urban process under covid capitalism
The covid-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, but it also fits into a broader pattern of capitalist crises and bears their tell-tale sign: a widening, painful divergence between that which is so
Neighborhood as Spatial Project
This article argues for a reconceptualization of one of the most basic concepts in urban studies: the neighborhood. Traditionally neighborhoods have been understood as clearly bounded, quasi-Westphalian containers or as 'natural areas' of urban community. But this approach is widely acknowledged to be under-theorized. And it fails to account for the ways in which the production of neighborhood is inherently political and often conflictual. After …
Pluriversal urbanisms
ITY is opening up a platform for research and theory from and about places and topics that are, and researchers who are, under-and misrepresented in urban studies journals.For want of a satisfying and even joyful term that doesn't homogenise complexity or have an implied negative counterpart (e.g."Global South"; "majority world"), we are using the placeholder term of pluriversal urbanisms.Here we draw on recent works by Escobar (2018) and Blaser …
Pushed off the map
This article examines conflicts over neighbourhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighbourhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy. But despite its prevalence, the role of neighbourhood toponymic conflict in processes of urban restructuring has not been given sustained engagement from urban scholars. This article uses archival and ethnographic data fr…
There is a politics of urban knowledge because urban knowledge is political
Housing ideology and urban residential change
This article develops the concept of housing ideology in order to analyze the rise of co-living. Housing ideology refers to the dominant ideas and knowledge about housing that are used to justify and legitimize the housing system and its place within the broader political economy. Co-living is the term for privately operated, for-profit multiple occupancy rental housing. The article argues that the rise of co-living is supported by four key ideol…
Tired city
The names of urban dispossession
This concluding commentary discusses some of the ways in which branded renaming reflects conflicts over ownership, authority, property and power. Practices of sponsored renaming and place branding are not monolithic, but this special issue shows that they are deeply rooted within neoliberal urbanism. It should therefore not be surprising that place branding is almost always contested, and often a flashpoint in struggles over urban space
Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster
Gender Differences in Mental Well-Being
From Athens to Occupy and back
Independence Square in Kyiv. Tahrir Square in Cairo. The steps of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin. We live in an era when merely mentioning these place names can serve as an argument about
Social Reproduction and the Housing Question
There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt to clarify their connection. Housing, this paper argues, is not merely the location or container of the crisis of social reproduction. Rather, there are elements of the contemporary housing system which intensify and shape the crisis of social reproduc…
For the City yet to come
The Power of Partnership
New York City experienced a high COVID-19 burden and striking disparities among racial and ethnic minoritized groups. The New York Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities (NYCEAL) collaborated with health agencies and clinical providers to increase and facilitate COVID-19 vaccinations across New York City. NYCEAL partners and their network of hundreds of community health workers delivered vaccine education, fostered community t…
Flags
Is it possible to write about the Confederate battle flag controversy objectively? I will make an attempt. The United States Civil War Center maintains subject folders of articles and clippings for every conceivable aspect of the war. Why is the thickest folder about the most visible of the Confederate battle flags? The answer to that simple question is extremely complex
Revisiting the End of Public Space
A case study of the renovation of New York City's Bryant Park, this article revisits the end of public space thesis. the renovated park signifies not the end of public space but the new ends to which public space is oriented. in Bryant Park, a new logic of urban publicity was assembled and built into the landscape. the social and technical means by which this transformation was achieved are analyzed. New public spaces of this sort promulgate a co…
Gender Differences in Mental Well-Being
Between abstraction and complexity
Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations. In engaging with the limits and possibilities of recent assemblage-based work in urban studies, our concern has been to help forge new analytical tools for deciphering emerging patterns of planetary urbanization, which have unsettled the coherence and viability of earlier intellectual framew…
Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory
Against the background of contemporary worldwide transformations of urbanizing spaces, this paper evaluates recent efforts to mobilize the concept of 'assemblage' as the foundation for contemporary critical urban theory, with particular attention to a recent paper by McFarlane (2011a McFarlane, C. 2011a. 'Assemblage and critical urbanism'. City, 15(2): 204-224. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) in this journal. We argue that there is …
From Athens to Occupy and back
Independence Square in Kyiv. Tahrir Square in Cairo. The steps of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin. We live in an era when merely mentioning these place names can serve as an argument about
City Becoming World
It is part of the self-conception of the contemporary era that the world is becoming increasingly global and urban. This paper explores the global-urban imagination in works by Jean-Luc Nancy and Henri Lefebvre. Both Nancy and Lefebvre understand globalization as a fundamentally violent and unequal process that unfolds through the uneven expansion of a particular sort of urban space. They both strive to articulate a critical stance towards this p…
The potential impact on obesity of a 10% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Ireland, an effect assessment modelling study
This study suggests that a tax on SSBs in Ireland would have a small but meaningful effect on obesity. While such a tax would be perceived as affecting the whole population, from a health prospective the tax will predominantly affect younger adults who are the main consumers of SSBs
Neighborhood as Spatial Project
This article argues for a reconceptualization of one of the most basic concepts in urban studies: the neighborhood. Traditionally neighborhoods have been understood as clearly bounded, quasi-Westphalian containers or as 'natural areas' of urban community. But this approach is widely acknowledged to be under-theorized. And it fails to account for the ways in which the production of neighborhood is inherently political and often conflictual. After …
On Marshall Berman (1940–2013)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid Madden is Assistant Professor in Sociology and Cities at the London School of Economics and Editor of City
There is a politics of urban knowledge because urban knowledge is political
Cities Full of Symbols
Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster
Pushed off the map
This article examines conflicts over neighbourhood renaming and the politics of place. Toponymy, or the practice of place naming, is central to the constitution of place, and neighbourhood renaming is a pervasive urban strategy. But despite its prevalence, the role of neighbourhood toponymic conflict in processes of urban restructuring has not been given sustained engagement from urban scholars. This article uses archival and ethnographic data fr…
The names of urban dispossession
This concluding commentary discusses some of the ways in which branded renaming reflects conflicts over ownership, authority, property and power. Practices of sponsored renaming and place branding are not monolithic, but this special issue shows that they are deeply rooted within neoliberal urbanism. It should therefore not be surprising that place branding is almost always contested, and often a flashpoint in struggles over urban space
The urban process under covid capitalism
The covid-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, but it also fits into a broader pattern of capitalist crises and bears their tell-tale sign: a widening, painful divergence between that which is so
For the City yet to come
Covid Nights
It is within a context of crisis, work and scene culture that this text takes an entry point to address ongoing challenges EDM scenes face in Montreal, Quebec. Particular attention is paid to the city's politics of the night and some of its street-level institutions and venues including Never Apart (NVA), an EDM-focused LGBTQ+ non-profit organization. Giving attention to street-level institutions is especially pressing right now as many cities at…
Child Disruptions, Remote Learning, and Parent Mental Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic
New York City (NYC) was an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in broad economic, social, and emotional consequences in the lives of individuals. The current study examined associations between pandemic-related stressors and adverse mental health symptoms among NYC parents/caregivers. Community-based participatory research was used to develop a survey, and logistic regression models were utilized to assess associations between fact…
Tired city
Soziale Bewegungen, die Wohnungsfrage und kritische Theorie – ein Gespräch in Erinnerung an Peter Marcuse
Peter Marcuse war ein wichtiger Autor in der internationalen kritischen Stadt- und Wohnforschung. Seine Arbeiten, u. a. zu Gentrifizierung und Wohnungspolitik, boten immer wieder Anknüpfungspunkte auch für soziale städtische Bewegungen in New York, Berlin und anderen Städten. Anlässlich seines Todes im März 2022 diskutieren vier renommierte Wissenschaftler:innen über sein Werk und dessen Bedeutung für ihr eigenes Schaffen und für aktuelle Kämpfe …
Polycritical city
Pluriversal urbanisms
ITY is opening up a platform for research and theory from and about places and topics that are, and researchers who are, under-and misrepresented in urban studies journals.For want of a satisfying and even joyful term that doesn't homogenise complexity or have an implied negative counterpart (e.g."Global South"; "majority world"), we are using the placeholder term of pluriversal urbanisms.Here we draw on recent works by Escobar (2018) and Blaser …
The Power of Partnership
New York City experienced a high COVID-19 burden and striking disparities among racial and ethnic minoritized groups. The New York Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Disparities (NYCEAL) collaborated with health agencies and clinical providers to increase and facilitate COVID-19 vaccinations across New York City. NYCEAL partners and their network of hundreds of community health workers delivered vaccine education, fostered community t…
Housing ideology and urban residential change
This article develops the concept of housing ideology in order to analyze the rise of co-living. Housing ideology refers to the dominant ideas and knowledge about housing that are used to justify and legitimize the housing system and its place within the broader political economy. Co-living is the term for privately operated, for-profit multiple occupancy rental housing. The article argues that the rise of co-living is supported by four key ideol…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works)