Latest Urban Studies news 22/04/24

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Automatic for the people? Problematising the potential of digital planning by Ruth Potts, Alex Lord and John Sturzaker

Study by Ruth Potts et al addresses the need to problematise digital planning and presents a conceptual framework examining different levels in planning systems at which specific risks of digital planning may occur.

Read the accompanying blog post here.

Urban motorways as spaces of possibility: Urban interstices and everyday practices around a motorway in Sardinia by Martina Loi

New study by Martina Loi explores the hypothesis that urban interstices around urban motorways could be intended as spaces of creative, political, and performative possibilities not responding to planning and market logic.

Re-learning culture in cities beyond the West by Violante Torre

Drawing on an ethnography of the street “Avenida 26” in Bogotá, Colombia, Violante Torre shows that informal cultural practices in the middle of segregation and urban violence can hardly be grasped through the current framing of culture in cities in this open access paper.

The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy by Clémentine Cottineau, Michael Batty, Itzhak Benenson, Justin Delloye, Erez Hatna, Denise Pumain, Somwrita Sarkar, Cécile Tannier and Rūta Ubarevičienė

In this open access article, Cottineau et al show that despite their analytical nature, highly mobile models share characteristics relating to creators' and intermediaries' biographies, institutional context and the traditional markers of power relations.

Read the accompanying blog post here.

Moving through Toronto’s PATH: Assembling private urban governance by Debra Mackinnon, Stefan Treffers and Randy K Lippert

This open access article is part of the forthcoming Special Issue: The New Private Urban Governance: Vestiges, Ventures, and Visibility.

Mackinnon et al explore Toronto’s urban PATH, a 30km network of underground pedestrian tunnels and elevated walkways that connect shopping areas, residential towers, mass transit and downtown destinations.