New articles available on Urban Studies

Foreign in a domestic sense: Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and paradoxes in critical urban studies by Heather Whiteside

“Puerto Rico may not be legally ‘like Detroit’, but it faces similar circumstances: the pressures and contradictions of neoliberalization, financialization, fiscal crisis, and austerity. Yet how to explain and interpret this conjuncture?” 

Urban parks and urban problems: An historical perspective on green space development as a cultural fix by Kevin Loughran. This paper is part of a forthcoming Special issue entitled Why does everyone think cities can save the planet?

Using history to inform contemporary understandings of urban green space development