Laurence Côté‐roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3064374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Côté‐roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Côté‐roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7190-5945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflections on researching new cities underway in the Global South
Over the past decade, new master-planned cities have been increasingly adopted worldwide as a strategy for economic growth.This paper reflects on new cities built from scratch as a field of study, and the particular methodological considerations associated with conducting research in and on new cities, structured around four key themes.First, we discuss the inherently global and transnational character of new cities as a specific challenge that s…
Fast urban model-making”
This paper explores Morocco’s ambitions to become a city-building “expert” in Africa through Zenata Eco-City, a project being built near Casablanca as part of Morocco’s national new city-building strategy. Despite being in early stages of construction, Zenata’s builders enthusiastically promote the future city as an urban model for Africa and have begun to export it long before the project’s completion. Building on urban policy mobilities literat…
A kingdom of new cities
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building
Over a dozen countries in Africa are currently constructing more than 70 new cities from scratch. There has been a recent surge of scholarship on the role of Chinese investors in urban projects in Africa, particularly as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. However, there are other powerful foreign actors from emerging economies engaged in new city building, including state-owned companies, that have received little scholarly attention to da…
New cities
In the past 2 decades, over 150 new cities built from scratch have been launched in more than 40 countries. As this trend has intensified in recent years, scholarship on new city projects has expanded significantly in exciting new directions. There is now a conceptually robust and empirically vibrant body of scholarship that critically examines new city projects around the world. This article provides an overview of an emerging subfield and intro…
Unicorn planning
Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?’ The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa
This paper explores the emerging new master-planned city-building trend on the African continent. Situating our research within urban policy mobilities literature, we investigate the ‘Africa rising’ narrative and representation of Africa as a ‘last development frontier’ and ‘last piece of cake’, an imaginary that provides fertile ground for the construction of new cities. Building upon research on the practices of ‘seduction’ that facilitate urba…
Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?’ The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa
This paper explores the emerging new master-planned city-building trend on the African continent. Situating our research within urban policy mobilities literature, we investigate the ‘Africa rising’ narrative and representation of Africa as a ‘last development frontier’ and ‘last piece of cake’, an imaginary that provides fertile ground for the construction of new cities. Building upon research on the practices of ‘seduction’ that facilitate urba…
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building
Over a dozen countries in Africa are currently constructing more than 70 new cities from scratch. There has been a recent surge of scholarship on the role of Chinese investors in urban projects in Africa, particularly as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. However, there are other powerful foreign actors from emerging economies engaged in new city building, including state-owned companies, that have received little scholarly attention to da…
Fast urban model-making”
This paper explores Morocco’s ambitions to become a city-building “expert” in Africa through Zenata Eco-City, a project being built near Casablanca as part of Morocco’s national new city-building strategy. Despite being in early stages of construction, Zenata’s builders enthusiastically promote the future city as an urban model for Africa and have begun to export it long before the project’s completion. Building on urban policy mobilities literat…
A kingdom of new cities
New cities
In the past 2 decades, over 150 new cities built from scratch have been launched in more than 40 countries. As this trend has intensified in recent years, scholarship on new city projects has expanded significantly in exciting new directions. There is now a conceptually robust and empirically vibrant body of scholarship that critically examines new city projects around the world. This article provides an overview of an emerging subfield and intro…
Unicorn planning
Reflections on researching new cities underway in the Global South
Over the past decade, new master-planned cities have been increasingly adopted worldwide as a strategy for economic growth.This paper reflects on new cities built from scratch as a field of study, and the particular methodological considerations associated with conducting research in and on new cities, structured around four key themes.First, we discuss the inherently global and transnational character of new cities as a specific challenge that s…
Does Africa not deserve shiny new cities?’ The power of seductive rhetoric around new cities in Africa
This paper explores the emerging new master-planned city-building trend on the African continent. Situating our research within urban policy mobilities literature, we investigate the ‘Africa rising’ narrative and representation of Africa as a ‘last development frontier’ and ‘last piece of cake’, an imaginary that provides fertile ground for the construction of new cities. Building upon research on the practices of ‘seduction’ that facilitate urba…
Unicorn planning
The uncharted foreign actors, investments, and urban models in African new city building
Over a dozen countries in Africa are currently constructing more than 70 new cities from scratch. There has been a recent surge of scholarship on the role of Chinese investors in urban projects in Africa, particularly as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. However, there are other powerful foreign actors from emerging economies engaged in new city building, including state-owned companies, that have received little scholarly attention to da…
New cities
In the past 2 decades, over 150 new cities built from scratch have been launched in more than 40 countries. As this trend has intensified in recent years, scholarship on new city projects has expanded significantly in exciting new directions. There is now a conceptually robust and empirically vibrant body of scholarship that critically examines new city projects around the world. This article provides an overview of an emerging subfield and intro…
Reflections on researching new cities underway in the Global South
Over the past decade, new master-planned cities have been increasingly adopted worldwide as a strategy for economic growth.This paper reflects on new cities built from scratch as a field of study, and the particular methodological considerations associated with conducting research in and on new cities, structured around four key themes.First, we discuss the inherently global and transnational character of new cities as a specific challenge that s…
Fast urban model-making”
This paper explores Morocco’s ambitions to become a city-building “expert” in Africa through Zenata Eco-City, a project being built near Casablanca as part of Morocco’s national new city-building strategy. Despite being in early stages of construction, Zenata’s builders enthusiastically promote the future city as an urban model for Africa and have begun to export it long before the project’s completion. Building on urban policy mobilities literat…
A kingdom of new cities
Political science (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Regional science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)