Rethinking the RECAP: Mapping the relational geographies of concentrated poverty and affluence in Lexington, Kentucky

T Shelton - Urban Geography, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The idea of concentrated poverty has long held a prominent place in understandings of
racial and class inequality in American cities. While the spatial concentration of the poor is …

" It's that kind of place here": solidarity, place-making and civil society response to the 2015 refugee crisis in Wales, UK

T Guma, M Woods, S Yarker, J Anderson - Social Inclusion, 2019 - ssoar.info
This article examines the different ways in which local civil society has responded to
refugees and asylum seekers in different parts of Wales in the wake of the recent" refugee …

Arts, place, and sacrifice zones: restoration of damaged relational values in a Chilean sacrifice zone

T Sanz, B Rodríguez-Labajos - Sustainability science, 2023 - Springer
This paper aims to unpack the relational dimension of place and placemaking by analysing
how creative actions underpin relational values towards socio-spatial restoration in the …

Reprint of “The production of urban vacant land: Relational placemaking in Boston, MA neighborhoods”

K Foo, D Martin, C Wool, C Polsky - Cities, 2014 - Elsevier
The persistence of vacant land in urban areas exhibits geographic unevenness. While
central cities have experienced waves of reinvestment over the past decades, vacant lands …

From matters of fact to places of concern? Energy, environmental movements and place-making in Chile and Thailand

C Schaeffer, M Smits - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
As demand for energy is growing and resources become scarcer, energy increasingly
becomes the site of heated controversies. In Latour's terms, energy turns from a “matter of …

Politics of social value in the built environment

M Selçuk Çıdık - Buildings & Cities, 2023 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The built environment can have a major impact on people's economic prospects, health and
wellbeing, and affect their everyday lived experiences. Additionally, due to their high costs …

The making of “world‐class” Delhi: Relations between street hawkers and the new middle class

S Schindler - Antipode, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Urban India is undergoing transformation as formal electoral politics increasingly favors the
new middle class. Scholarship tends to compartmentalize the politics of the new middle …

Distribution centers as distributed places: Mobility, infrastructure and truck traffic

J Cidell - Cargomobilities, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter explores spatial consequence of the mobility of goods: the distribution centre.
As part of the logistics chain, the distribution centre is a short-term dwelling place for goods …

The social embeddedness of brownfield regeneration actors: Insights from social network analysis

FM Alexandrescu, E Rizzo, L Pizzol, A Critto… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2016 - Elsevier
Stakeholder involvement in land management has been considered in both normative and
analytical terms, but often in an undifferentiated way. The article aims to compare these two …

Beyond “place” translocal placemaking of the hmong diaspora

M Rios, J Watkins - Journal of Planning Education and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
For many migrants and refugees, place provides a common sense of territorial identity
despite these groups having roots elsewhere. Using the case of the Hmong diaspora, the …