I argue that Dubai's smart city project,'Smart Dubai', is a response to the following
priorities:(i) the furtherance of the city's scale-making project and worlding strategies …

Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal for decades. This article
attends to the makeshift natures made by black migrants from Portugal's former colonies …

The phenomenon of the construction on or use of land without legal permission is a
prevalent reality for most inhabitants of the globe. This is especially true for developing …

The chapter advances some critical reflections around commons and commoning in the
smart city. It suggests that so-called smart commons–that is, forms of ownership of data and …

After many struggles from disability rights and independent-living advocates, urban
accessibility has gradually become a concern for many urban planners across post …

In this chapter I define 'slum gentrification'(Lees 2014a) as the process of capital or material
investment in poor and informal built environments, which can be associated with a new (or …

In many societies, informality has been a relevant part of the construction of the urban fabric.
This is valid along a city's history and in recent urbanization processes. In the past …

Cova da Moura was established in the municipality of Amadora in the mid-1970s as a bairro
clandestino ('informal'or 'illegal neighbourhood'). Since then, it has grown into a community …

This article draws on an ethnographic approach to concrete institutional practices and
machine learning algorithms to analyse emergent proactive state geographies in London's …

The case discusses the ongoing debate in the Greater Lisbon Area concerning the
recognition of settlements that have been established during the previous decades by …