Public open space (POS) is often regarded as a necessity that is meant to be enjoyed by
everyone, especially as we move toward a post-pandemic society. It is considered one of the …

Following a recent growth of interest in questions of justice and the city, this paper considers
how the work of contemporary critical urbanists compares with earlier accounts of urban …

This introduction lays out some of the theoretical underpinnings of the notion of
'infrastructural violence'. We begin by considering infrastructure as an ethnographically …

Regional disparities and inequalities have been a key concern in the EU. This paper
develops a concept of spatial justice to examine the European Union policy of territorial …

Although the critical turn in place name study recognizes the central and contested place
that toponyms hold in people's lives and identity struggles, little work has explicitly analyzed …

In the fields of planning theory and human geography, there is a growing discussion of the
just city. The impression is that in order to continue the discussion of the crucial issue of the …

Il termine rigenerazione è oggi utilizzato per identificare processi urbani molto diversi tra
loro: progettualità dal basso e che agiscono in uno spazio innesco molto specifico, grandi …

Modern graffiti has become a universal urban phenomenon, an almost ubiquitous feature of
towns and cities across the world. This paper will situate the practice and production of …

There exist various indicators that measure land tenure security for urbanites. Most of those
indicators measure the degree to which land titling promotes the security of tenure. Based …

The proliferating numbers of a new population of urban poor in the Western world—who I
call here nouveau poor—is a phenomenon equally (if not more) significant as the …