Jean-Paul D Addie
Biographic Data
| ID | 457420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Paul D Addie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Paul D |
| FAMILY NAME | Addie |
| SIGNATURE | ADDIE J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6091-4301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Rise of Vertical Urbanism: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Lived Realities
Vertical urbanization is reshaping cities across the Global North and South, driven by population growth, land scarcity, and speculative development. This shift includes the proliferation of high‐rise towers, underground networks, elevated infrastructures, multi‐level public spaces, and self‐built settlements. As urban futures are increasingly imagined in vertical terms, the challenges and opportunities presented by distinct vertical urbanisms ra…
Gateways to trade: Global value chains and governance in Canadian cities , by Dorval Brunelle, Claudia De Fuentes, Peter V. Hall, and Jean Michel Montsion
Gateways to Trade offers an extensive account of how major Canadian urban regions have positioned themselves within the global economy. By examining how local governments plan and deliver transport
To Infrastructure the Future
This commentary describes how geographers can consider the intersection between infrastructural systems and future‐making. The ability of different groups to envision the future varies significantly. The stakes are high as certain futures made available to some are denied to others. Questions regarding who has the capacity to imagine and materialise infrastructural futures—as well as who can see what futures over what spatial and temporal horizon…
Time, temporality, and the dialectic of infrastructure-led urbanization–urbanism
Vegliò et al.'s innovative intervention offers a valuable analytical reframing, illuminating the situated complexities and lived realities of global infrastructure. Building on their multifaceted argument, this response foregrounds the dialectic between urbanization and urbanism to develop a temporal reading of global ‘infrastructure-led urbanization’. I contend that examining the temporal co-constitution of infrastructure and the urban can deepe…
The right to the city: Prospects and provocations from the journals of the Urban Affairs Association
Author accepted manuscript version of an article published by Taylor and Francis at https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2539796. Embargoed until Feb. 15, 2027
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism
The potential of infrastructure ‘as a solution’ is currently at the forefront of American political consciousness. Historic levels of investment in infrastructure proffer seismic material, economic, and symbolic transformations at a near-continental scale. However, the present policy context for infrastructure planning in the US is confounded by a mosaic of decision-making authorities that hamper the development of cohesive approaches to sustaina…
A region runs through it: Representation, mediation and partnership in regional water infrastructure governance
This editorial introduction reflects on a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance that evaluates water infrastructure and processes of regionalisation through case studies drawing upon the 'infrastructural regionalism' framework.This regional approach to the infrastructure turn emphasises: (1) interdisciplinary research; (2) infrastructure and regional governance; (3) 'seeing like a region'; and (4) regional lives.We outline four dimensi…
The distant present (faraway, so close!)
Datta's concept of ‘distant time’ offers a multi-faceted lens to interrogate the construction of urban futures. In this commentary, I critically examine how the concept is framed and mobilized, drawing attention to issues of temporal extensiveness, topological temporality, and embodied time. While recognizing the analytic power of distant time to expose techniques of temporal distancing and document deep connections between social, ecological, an…
On Fetishes, Fragments and Futures: Regionalizing Infrastructural Lives
The state of urban research? The state of urban research
This paper takes Wolman et al.’s 2022 assessment of the “state of urban research” in the Journal of Urban Affairs as its point of departure. While acknowledging the insights produced out of these reviews of the “urban” elements of five disciplines, we question their framing and to what the collection as a whole ultimately amounts. Of course, stock taking intellectual exercises of this sort are, almost by design, partial and selective. Moreover, t…
The Times of Splintering Urbanism
The twentieth anniversary of Splintering Urbanism’s publication is an apropos moment to consider the significance of time in, and for, critical infrastructure studies. This commentary brings Splintering Urbanism into dialogue with Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to explore how time and temporality can (re)frame, extend, and challenge how we engage and analyze the networked metropolis. As an empirical concern, conceptual framework, and methodological ap…
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: From people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again
Grounded in the writings of AbdouMaliq Simone and the theoretical project of Southern urbanism, the concept of “people as infrastructure” has radically reframed how we understand and study urban infrastructure as a modality of social practice. This paper begins by appraising the impact that people as infrastructure has had on urban geography and critical infrastructure studies before moving to consider how notions of infrastructural violence can …
Stuck inside the urban with the dialectical blues again: Abstraction and generality in urban theory
This article discusses how critical urban theory understands generalisation and particularity by unpacking the process of abstraction. It develops an urban interpretation of dialectics through the philosophy of internal relations to: (i) heuristically examine conceptual and political fissures within contemporary urban studies and (ii) critically recalibrate neo-Marxist planetary urban theorising. Examining the conceptual extension, levels of gene…
Anchoring (in) the region: The dynamics of university-engaged urban development in Newark, NJ, USA
While academic and policy analyses have explored universities’ roles in urban regeneration and regional development, issues arising from intraurban collaboration and competition in multi-university city-regions have received scant attention. In response, this paper examines how higher education institutions (HEIs) connect and splinter urban space at multiple scales through a case study of Newark, NJ, USA. Newark’s attempts to reposition itself as…
Rent Gap
The rent gap refers to the difference between the capitalized rent realized from a plot of land and the potential rent possible if it were developed to its “highest and best” use. Introduced by Neil Smith in 1979, the rent gap provides a systematic production‐side theory of urban rent and inner‐city transformation. The concept has been critiqued for dismissing the role of individual agents and consumption preferences in explanatory accounts of ge…
The limits of university regionalism
As producers of urban knowledge and urbanizing actors in their own right, universities play a vital role in identifying the projects, processes, and agents involved in constructing the “region in itself”. While academic and urban leaders in cities with one or two universities can open dialogues about citywide collaborations, such strategies are significantly more complex when scaled to extended global metropolises where provosts and presidents mu…
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
After Gentrification: Social Mix, Settler Colonialism, and Cruel Optimism in the Transformation of Neighbourhood Space
Social mix policies have emerged as a prominent mechanism to legitimate neighbourhood redevelopment efforts across the US. Despite integrationist rhetoric, results often disabuse marginalised communities of their claims to the city. This paper employs a hybrid spatio‐temporal analysis at the intersection of political‐economic theories of gentrification and post‐colonial and Black geographies literatures to examine underlying cultural logics and a…
Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism
An ‘infrastructure turn’ across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is shaping urban and regional space. This editorial introduces a virtual special issue that charts the evolution of infrastructure as an empirical and conceptual concern within Regional Studies. The issue demonstrates that analysing regions through infrastructure – whether large, capital-intensive projects o…
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A Research Agenda
An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a region…
Urban(izing) University Strategic Planning: An Analysis of London and New York City
While there is a growing recognition of the mutually beneficial relationships universities and cities can forge around local and regional development, urban and academic leaders have often struggled to harness the diverse capacities of universities as producers and analysts of urban space. This article addresses this challenge by examining the institutional and spatial strategies being prioritized by universities in the context of global urbaniza…
University-led innovation in and for peripheral urban areas: New approaches in Naples, Italy and Newark, NJ, US
This paper focuses on the spatial development problem of university-led innovation in peripheral urban areas. Highlighting issues of proximity, uneven geographic development, and multi-scalar urban governance as weaknesses of the regional innovation systems literature, we provide a novel synthesis of regional economics, innovation policy, and critical urban studies to assess the development roles of universities in concrete contexts. A comparativ…
From the “smart city” to the “smart metropolis”? Building resilience in the urban periphery
The “smart city” has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the “smart city” is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of “urban intelligence” to enhance the resiliency of…
Rent Gap
The rent gap refers to the difference between the capitalized rent realized from a plot of land and the potential rent possible if it were developed to its “highest and best” use. Introduced by Neil Smith in 1979, the rent gap provides a systematic production‐side theory of urban rent and inner‐city transformation. The concept has been critiqued, however, for dismissing the role of individual agents and consumption preferences in explanatory acco…
Infrastructure
Infrastructure materially connects more or less distant places by facilitating various social processes and relations across space. Usually understood in physical terms as the material elements shaping resource flows, infrastructure also refers to the institutions and rules conditioning social practice. Recent geographic research has stressed the social, political, and economic dimensions of infrastructure. As an object of empirical analysis, inf…
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A Research Agenda
An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a region…
From the urban university to universities in urban society
From the urban university to universities in urban society. Regional Studies. The impacts of neoliberalization and the global extension of urbanization processes demand a reappraisal of the urban university for the 21st century. The history of the modern urban university, and current calls for universities to assume proactive roles as economic drivers and civic leaders, disclose problematic tendencies, including: normalizing local/global binaries…
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: From people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again
Grounded in the writings of AbdouMaliq Simone and the theoretical project of Southern urbanism, the concept of “people as infrastructure” has radically reframed how we understand and study urban infrastructure as a modality of social practice. This paper begins by appraising the impact that people as infrastructure has had on urban geography and critical infrastructure studies before moving to consider how notions of infrastructural violence can …
After Gentrification: Social Mix, Settler Colonialism, and Cruel Optimism in the Transformation of Neighbourhood Space
Social mix policies have emerged as a prominent mechanism to legitimate neighbourhood redevelopment efforts across the US. Despite integrationist rhetoric, results often disabuse marginalised communities of their claims to the city. This paper employs a hybrid spatio‐temporal analysis at the intersection of political‐economic theories of gentrification and post‐colonial and Black geographies literatures to examine underlying cultural logics and a…
Beyond Town and Gown: Universities, Territoriality and the Mobilization of New Urban Structures in Canada
Cities and universities have been active participants in the creation of new economic structures, but the sociospatial relationships between ‘town’ and ‘gown’, and the potential impact of deepening and diversifying the relationship on either side, are neither fully understood nor simple. In this paper, we focus on universities in Canada to provide an integrative review of the changing sociospatial relations of cities and universities in an era of…
Theorising suburban infrastructure: A framework for critical and comparative analysis
Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanising world. However, the analytical significance of ‘suburban infrastructure’ risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amid the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of subur…
Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism
An ‘infrastructure turn’ across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is shaping urban and regional space. This editorial introduces a virtual special issue that charts the evolution of infrastructure as an empirical and conceptual concern within Regional Studies. The issue demonstrates that analysing regions through infrastructure – whether large, capital-intensive projects o…
Metropolitics in Motion: The Dynamics of Transportation and State Reterritorialization in the Chicago and Toronto City-Regions
The global economic crisis exposed the instability of financialized urban governance at precisely the moment when governing coalitions have launched ambitious, expensive plans to reimagine urban transportation infrastructure, driven by the imperatives of restoring accumulation amid intensifying economic and regional competition. In Chicago and Toronto, processes of urban restructuring and state reterritorialization disclose contradictory tendenci…
Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”
It's Not Going to be Suburban, It's Going to be All Urban: Assembling Post-suburbia in the Toronto and Chicago Regions
Urban and suburban politics are increasingly intertwined in regions that aspire to be global. Powerful actors in the Chicago and Toronto regions have mobilized regional space to brand rescaled images of the urban experience, but questions remain as to who constructs and who can access the benefits of these revised spatial identities. Local political interests have tended to be obfuscated in the regional milieu, most problematically in the spaces …
Urban(izing) University Strategic Planning: An Analysis of London and New York City
While there is a growing recognition of the mutually beneficial relationships universities and cities can forge around local and regional development, urban and academic leaders have often struggled to harness the diverse capacities of universities as producers and analysts of urban space. This article addresses this challenge by examining the institutional and spatial strategies being prioritized by universities in the context of global urbaniza…
From the “smart city” to the “smart metropolis”? Building resilience in the urban periphery
The “smart city” has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the “smart city” is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of “urban intelligence” to enhance the resiliency of…
Real Existing Regionalism: The Region between Talk, Territory and Technology
In this essay, we propose the notion of real existing 'lived' regionalism as a rejoinder to the normative and ideological debates around new regionalism. Regional forms have shown little convergence in this age of globalized regionalization. Instead of an ideational construct or set of predictable practices, we argue that regionalism is a contested product of discourses (talk), territorial relationships (territory) and technologies (material and …
Anchoring (in) the region: The dynamics of university-engaged urban development in Newark, NJ, USA
While academic and policy analyses have explored universities’ roles in urban regeneration and regional development, issues arising from intraurban collaboration and competition in multi-university city-regions have received scant attention. In response, this paper examines how higher education institutions (HEIs) connect and splinter urban space at multiple scales through a case study of Newark, NJ, USA. Newark’s attempts to reposition itself as…
The limits of university regionalism
As producers of urban knowledge and urbanizing actors in their own right, universities play a vital role in identifying the projects, processes, and agents involved in constructing the “region in itself”. While academic and urban leaders in cities with one or two universities can open dialogues about citywide collaborations, such strategies are significantly more complex when scaled to extended global metropolises where provosts and presidents mu…
Stuck inside the urban with the dialectical blues again: Abstraction and generality in urban theory
This article discusses how critical urban theory understands generalisation and particularity by unpacking the process of abstraction. It develops an urban interpretation of dialectics through the philosophy of internal relations to: (i) heuristically examine conceptual and political fissures within contemporary urban studies and (ii) critically recalibrate neo-Marxist planetary urban theorising. Examining the conceptual extension, levels of gene…
On the road to the in-between city: Excavating peripheral urbanisation in Chicago's 'Crosstown Corridor
This paper critically engages the uneven distribution of infrastructure provision, connectivity and mobility in contemporary neoliberal urban landscapes by uncovering the path-dependent trajectories and politics of transportation in post-suburbia. Departing from contemporary debates on the evolving geography of urban peripheries, I utilise a relational theorisation of the 'in-between city' to empirically unpack the urbanisation processes internal…
Claiming the university for critical urbanism
Questions regarding the production and politics of urban knowledge are back on the agenda in critical urban studies.Alex Schafran (2014Schafran ( , 2015) ) and David Madden's (2015) recent debate in these pages, in particular, has elevated a concern with the capacity of critical urban theory -and the wider urban academy -to catalyze emancipatory and democratic social change.Both of their interventions seek to leverage the latent potential of crit…
Time, temporality, and the dialectic of infrastructure-led urbanization–urbanism
Vegliò et al.'s innovative intervention offers a valuable analytical reframing, illuminating the situated complexities and lived realities of global infrastructure. Building on their multifaceted argument, this response foregrounds the dialectic between urbanization and urbanism to develop a temporal reading of global ‘infrastructure-led urbanization’. I contend that examining the temporal co-constitution of infrastructure and the urban can deepe…
Bridging ‘infrastructural solutions’ and ‘infrastructures as solution’: Regional promises and urban pragmatism
The potential of infrastructure ‘as a solution’ is currently at the forefront of American political consciousness. Historic levels of investment in infrastructure proffer seismic material, economic, and symbolic transformations at a near-continental scale. However, the present policy context for infrastructure planning in the US is confounded by a mosaic of decision-making authorities that hamper the development of cohesive approaches to sustaina…
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
The distant present (faraway, so close!)
Datta's concept of ‘distant time’ offers a multi-faceted lens to interrogate the construction of urban futures. In this commentary, I critically examine how the concept is framed and mobilized, drawing attention to issues of temporal extensiveness, topological temporality, and embodied time. While recognizing the analytic power of distant time to expose techniques of temporal distancing and document deep connections between social, ecological, an…
Recapturing Democracy: Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures.Mark Purcell
(2009). Recapturing Democracy: Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures. Mark Purcell. Urban Geography: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 569-570
The new economy of the inner city: Restructuring, regeneration, and dislocation in the twenty‐first‐century metropolis by Thomas A. Hutton
Metropolitics in Motion: The Dynamics of Transportation and State Reterritorialization in the Chicago and Toronto City-Regions
The global economic crisis exposed the instability of financialized urban governance at precisely the moment when governing coalitions have launched ambitious, expensive plans to reimagine urban transportation infrastructure, driven by the imperatives of restoring accumulation amid intensifying economic and regional competition. In Chicago and Toronto, processes of urban restructuring and state reterritorialization disclose contradictory tendenci…
Beyond Town and Gown: Universities, Territoriality and the Mobilization of New Urban Structures in Canada
Cities and universities have been active participants in the creation of new economic structures, but the sociospatial relationships between ‘town’ and ‘gown’, and the potential impact of deepening and diversifying the relationship on either side, are neither fully understood nor simple. In this paper, we focus on universities in Canada to provide an integrative review of the changing sociospatial relations of cities and universities in an era of…
Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”
Real Existing Regionalism: The Region between Talk, Territory and Technology
In this essay, we propose the notion of real existing 'lived' regionalism as a rejoinder to the normative and ideological debates around new regionalism. Regional forms have shown little convergence in this age of globalized regionalization. Instead of an ideational construct or set of predictable practices, we argue that regionalism is a contested product of discourses (talk), territorial relationships (territory) and technologies (material and …
It's Not Going to be Suburban, It's Going to be All Urban: Assembling Post-suburbia in the Toronto and Chicago Regions
Urban and suburban politics are increasingly intertwined in regions that aspire to be global. Powerful actors in the Chicago and Toronto regions have mobilized regional space to brand rescaled images of the urban experience, but questions remain as to who constructs and who can access the benefits of these revised spatial identities. Local political interests have tended to be obfuscated in the regional milieu, most problematically in the spaces …
From the urban university to universities in urban society
From the urban university to universities in urban society. Regional Studies. The impacts of neoliberalization and the global extension of urbanization processes demand a reappraisal of the urban university for the 21st century. The history of the modern urban university, and current calls for universities to assume proactive roles as economic drivers and civic leaders, disclose problematic tendencies, including: normalizing local/global binaries…
Theorising suburban infrastructure: A framework for critical and comparative analysis
Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanising world. However, the analytical significance of ‘suburban infrastructure’ risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amid the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of subur…
On the road to the in-between city: Excavating peripheral urbanisation in Chicago's 'Crosstown Corridor
This paper critically engages the uneven distribution of infrastructure provision, connectivity and mobility in contemporary neoliberal urban landscapes by uncovering the path-dependent trajectories and politics of transportation in post-suburbia. Departing from contemporary debates on the evolving geography of urban peripheries, I utilise a relational theorisation of the 'in-between city' to empirically unpack the urbanisation processes internal…
Rent Gap
The rent gap refers to the difference between the capitalized rent realized from a plot of land and the potential rent possible if it were developed to its “highest and best” use. Introduced by Neil Smith in 1979, the rent gap provides a systematic production‐side theory of urban rent and inner‐city transformation. The concept has been critiqued, however, for dismissing the role of individual agents and consumption preferences in explanatory acco…
Infrastructure
Infrastructure materially connects more or less distant places by facilitating various social processes and relations across space. Usually understood in physical terms as the material elements shaping resource flows, infrastructure also refers to the institutions and rules conditioning social practice. Recent geographic research has stressed the social, political, and economic dimensions of infrastructure. As an object of empirical analysis, inf…
Claiming the university for critical urbanism
Questions regarding the production and politics of urban knowledge are back on the agenda in critical urban studies.Alex Schafran (2014Schafran ( , 2015) ) and David Madden's (2015) recent debate in these pages, in particular, has elevated a concern with the capacity of critical urban theory -and the wider urban academy -to catalyze emancipatory and democratic social change.Both of their interventions seek to leverage the latent potential of crit…
University-led innovation in and for peripheral urban areas: New approaches in Naples, Italy and Newark, NJ, US
This paper focuses on the spatial development problem of university-led innovation in peripheral urban areas. Highlighting issues of proximity, uneven geographic development, and multi-scalar urban governance as weaknesses of the regional innovation systems literature, we provide a novel synthesis of regional economics, innovation policy, and critical urban studies to assess the development roles of universities in concrete contexts. A comparativ…
From the “smart city” to the “smart metropolis”? Building resilience in the urban periphery
The “smart city” has risen to global prominence over the past two decades as an urban planning and development strategy. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the “smart city” is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of “urban intelligence” to enhance the resiliency of…
Rent Gap
The rent gap refers to the difference between the capitalized rent realized from a plot of land and the potential rent possible if it were developed to its “highest and best” use. Introduced by Neil Smith in 1979, the rent gap provides a systematic production‐side theory of urban rent and inner‐city transformation. The concept has been critiqued for dismissing the role of individual agents and consumption preferences in explanatory accounts of ge…
The limits of university regionalism
As producers of urban knowledge and urbanizing actors in their own right, universities play a vital role in identifying the projects, processes, and agents involved in constructing the “region in itself”. While academic and urban leaders in cities with one or two universities can open dialogues about citywide collaborations, such strategies are significantly more complex when scaled to extended global metropolises where provosts and presidents mu…
Perspectives on the 21st Century Urban University from Singapore – A viewpoint forum
After Gentrification: Social Mix, Settler Colonialism, and Cruel Optimism in the Transformation of Neighbourhood Space
Social mix policies have emerged as a prominent mechanism to legitimate neighbourhood redevelopment efforts across the US. Despite integrationist rhetoric, results often disabuse marginalised communities of their claims to the city. This paper employs a hybrid spatio‐temporal analysis at the intersection of political‐economic theories of gentrification and post‐colonial and Black geographies literatures to examine underlying cultural logics and a…
Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism
An ‘infrastructure turn’ across the social and policy sciences is generating a new wave of interdisciplinary enquiry into how infrastructure is shaping urban and regional space. This editorial introduces a virtual special issue that charts the evolution of infrastructure as an empirical and conceptual concern within Regional Studies. The issue demonstrates that analysing regions through infrastructure – whether large, capital-intensive projects o…
Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A Research Agenda
An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a region…
Urban(izing) University Strategic Planning: An Analysis of London and New York City
While there is a growing recognition of the mutually beneficial relationships universities and cities can forge around local and regional development, urban and academic leaders have often struggled to harness the diverse capacities of universities as producers and analysts of urban space. This article addresses this challenge by examining the institutional and spatial strategies being prioritized by universities in the context of global urbaniza…
Stuck inside the urban with the dialectical blues again: Abstraction and generality in urban theory
This article discusses how critical urban theory understands generalisation and particularity by unpacking the process of abstraction. It develops an urban interpretation of dialectics through the philosophy of internal relations to: (i) heuristically examine conceptual and political fissures within contemporary urban studies and (ii) critically recalibrate neo-Marxist planetary urban theorising. Examining the conceptual extension, levels of gene…
Anchoring (in) the region: The dynamics of university-engaged urban development in Newark, NJ, USA
While academic and policy analyses have explored universities’ roles in urban regeneration and regional development, issues arising from intraurban collaboration and competition in multi-university city-regions have received scant attention. In response, this paper examines how higher education institutions (HEIs) connect and splinter urban space at multiple scales through a case study of Newark, NJ, USA. Newark’s attempts to reposition itself as…
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: From people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again
Grounded in the writings of AbdouMaliq Simone and the theoretical project of Southern urbanism, the concept of “people as infrastructure” has radically reframed how we understand and study urban infrastructure as a modality of social practice. This paper begins by appraising the impact that people as infrastructure has had on urban geography and critical infrastructure studies before moving to consider how notions of infrastructural violence can …
Sociology (31 works) · Political science (27 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (25 works) · Politics (21 works) · Geography (20 works) · Economics (19 works) · Economic geography (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Regional science (16 works) · Economic growth (13 works)