Essays about: "Post-political city"

Found 5 essays containing the words Post-political city.

  1. 1. “This is not a drill” - but is this a climate emergency? : On co-opted activist discourses, municipalism and institutionalized double realities in the city of Barcelona

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Clàudia Custodio; [2020]
    Keywords : municipalism; right to the city; climate emergency; social inertia; double reality; techno-fetishism; climate justice; post-political; repoliticization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The worsening climatic condition, together with a renewed wave of climate movements have spurred declarations of climate emergency by governmental institutions worldwide. In the city of Barcelona, unique for its social movement history and activist city council, such a declaration was issued on January 15th, 2020. READ MORE

  3. 2. Taking back the city : Citizen participation in urban planning in Dublin, Ireland

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Yutaka Kumagai; [2019]
    Keywords : Citizen participation; urban planning; post-politics; revanchism; urban political ecology; gentrification;

    Abstract : As we find ourselves in the midst of a planetary trend towards urbanisation, we must acknowledge that urban spaces are linked in a network of metabolic consumption and production that impact not only those recognised as ‘urban dwellers’, but are incorporated into a global structure. Ireland is no exception, with development centred around Dublin, a ‘primate city’ with a vastly larger population than others in the region. READ MORE

  4. 3. Wrong Side of the Ridge: Charting the Urban Fabric of the Countryside

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Oscar Damerham; [2017]
    Keywords : countryside; flâneur; Planetary Urbanisation; extended urbanisation; methodological cityism; phenomenology; rural-futurism; villages;

    Abstract : Echoing through the lecture theatres, conference halls and pages of the contemporary Urban Studies discourse is the oft-repeated refrain that today over half the world?s population live in urban areas, and that by 2050 this proportion is expected to be upwards of 70%. The place of the leftover 50% of people inhabiting a vast and seemingly forgotten 98% of the planet?s rural territory is externalised, apparently lying outside the purview of marching urbanisation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Neoliberal Urbanization in the case of Istanbul : Spatial Manifestations and Ways of Contesting It

    University essay from KTH/Stadsbyggnad

    Author : Onur Ekmekci; [2012]
    Keywords : Neoliberal city; Global cities; Worldly City; Turkey; Urban Design; Gentrification; Social Housing; Post-political city; TOKI; Urban Movements; Public space; Istanbul; Urban planning; Neoliberalism; Taksim Square;

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  6. 5. Study of the Interactions between Political Changes and Energy-Climate Policies Case of the District Heating System in Stockholm

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : CAMILLE GILLET; [2010]
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    Abstract : Most urban regions of the worlds are involved in energy transition processes towards a lowcarbon society and set climate strategies in order to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. This master’s thesis looks at these processes through a political perspective and in particular aims at analysing the ways in which political changes interact with energy-climate policies, in the case of city of Stockholm. READ MORE