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This thesis explores the ways in which neoliberal governance takes place in Hartford, CT, particularly as the city struggles to make ends meet. It looks at the Hartford's dependence on corporations, and its growing political and economic alignment with universities. This research examines the effects of urban renewal on the city, and how post-war policies and development shape the inequalities that exist in Hartford today. Lastly, this thesis examines the inequalities and spatial dynamics in Hartford's Southside neighborhood, Frog Hollow, and between Trinity College and Frog Hollow in particular.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Governing urban low carbon transitions -- Materialities, intermediation and subjectivities in the low carbon city -- Part I: Technologies, materialities, infrastructures -- Part II: Intermediation and governance -- Part III: Communities and subjectivities -- References -- 2. Rethinking urban transitions: an analytical framework -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Designing low carbon urbanism -- 3 Practising low carbon urbanism -- 4 Mobilizing low carbon urbanism -- 5 Conclusion: multiple junctions towards the low carbon city -- References -- PART I: Technologies, materialities, infrastructures -- 3. Seeking effective infrastructures of decarbonization in Paris: material politics of socio-technical change -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materiality, politics, transition -- 3 Negotiating transition matter(s): active infrastructures and contested change -- 4 Effective materiality -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Legacies of energy autarky for low carbon urban transitions: a comparison of Berlin and Hong Kong -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Urban energy transitions: discourses of autarky and security -- 3 Urban energy autarky as a response to geopolitical isolation -- 4 Reintegrating infrastructure in response to reunification -- 5 Legacies of local autarky and regional realignment for energy transitions today -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- 5. The amenable city-region: the symbolic rise and the relative decline of Greater Manchester's low carbon commitments, 2006-17 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Place-based low carbon transitions and the role of visions -- 3 National low carbon policy priorities and the role of place.

The analysis conducted focuses on the taxation framework for platforms in European law and the Member States laws within which the empirical analysis of the PLUS project is conducted, within the international setting. The materials used for the theoretical basis and the economic and financial data were divided into two files. All materials are collected in a ODS format. In the sources document, the first sheet of the dataset reports the national, European and international sources with the corresponding links. The second sheet aims to framing the different policies of taxation of platform economy at urban level. It includes data related to at municipal budget for each of the 7 cities involved in PLUS project (Berlin, Bologna, Barcelona, Lisbon, London, Paris, Tallin). The dataset is composed exclusively by document on institutional websites of the municipal authorities involved in each city. The third sheet refer to the Airbnb case study for specific municipal initiatives. In addiction we include a second document with the list of the essays and institutional researches that constitute the literature references used, and include: • Eurostat and OECD open data. • Existing scientific articles and grey literature (e.g., reports from other research projects). These materials are collected in a ODS file.

Chapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery) -- Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies -- Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua) -- Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee) -- Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón) -- Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina -- (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe) -- Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck) -- Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern -- Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia) -- Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda) -- Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha) -- Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson) -- Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado) -- Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu) -- Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery).

Front cover -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of acronyms -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction: co-producing knowledge on climate change and urban development -- The structure of the book -- References -- Chapter 2: Climate change challenges in African cities: four perspectives on progress and opportunities -- Responding to climate change at city and national scales -- Responding to climate change at the local level -- The challenges of integrating physical climate information into city‑level decision‑making -- Understanding governance of urban climate adaptation -- The importance of linking the climate change and development agendas in urban Africa -- References -- Chapter 3: An overview of climate change and urban development in Cape Town -- The development context of Cape Town -- The climate context of Cape Town -- Intersections between Cape Town's climate and development -- Governing climate and development in Cape Town -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Responding to climate change and urban development through the co‑production of knowledge -- The concepts of co‑production and third space -- The history of co‑production -- Evaluating the third space -- Bringing values to the surface through co‑writing -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Building energy efficiency in City of Cape Town operations: the role of the energy intermediary -- Understanding energy use and governance in CCT operations -- Innovation in bureaucratised institutions: the role of an intermediary -- An overview of energy efficiency initiatives and their results to date -- The role of the ERMD as energy intermediary -- Challenges and issues going forward -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Water demand management in Cape Town: managing water security in a changing climate.

Urban nature is typically managed through top-down, bureaucratic, and expert-driven approaches that tend to rationalize and simplify the interactions between humans and their surroundings. In the last few decades, there has been a significant push in cultural geography and the design disciplines to develop a relational ontology of urban nature, a perspective that emphasizes the hybrid connections between humans and nonhumans, built and unbuilt, social and natural. This perspective offers new and exciting ways of conceptualizing urban nature but it has not produced alternatives to conventional governance. In other words, thinking differently about urban nature has yet to produce different ways of interacting with it. In this paper we argue that civic environmentalism can enact a relational ontology by engaging urban residents in processes of democratic deliberation and action in the reworking of urban nature. We illustrate this approach with a case study of a community-led project to construct a pedestrian trail along an urban creek in Seattle, Washington. The example demonstrates how the concept of civic environmentalism embraces a relational perspective of urban nature, while also producing generative forms of political action. ; QC 20220204

This paper considers farmland conversion for the purpose of urban development as a series of transactions and discusses the determinants of appropriate governance structures for governing farmland conversion in terms of process efficiency. Towards this end, the paper develops a theoretical framework for analysing the process of farmland conversion based on transaction cost economics. The framework covers transactions, transaction attributes, governance structures and performance with the aim of minimising transaction costs. The paper also demonstrates the usability of the framework by creating a corresponding quantitative model for a case study in China. Furthermore, it identifies factors that influence the transaction costs associated with farmland conversion in China and explains why the related governance structures are chosen.

"With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy analysis of low-income rental housing and social dislocations, combining both theoretical advancements and detailed empirical studies, centering on Berlin, Dublin and Vienna. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low rental housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labour power whilst being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance, including landlords, employers, and inter-scalar state practices, have served to reproduce urban displacements and silence its gendered, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side, and capital accumulation on the other. Building on Soederberg's previous book Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be useful to academics and students in political science, sociology, geography, urban studies, labour studies, European studies, and gender studies"--

"With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy analysis of low-income rental housing and social dislocations, combining both theoretical advancements and detailed empirical studies, centering on Berlin, Dublin and Vienna. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low rental housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labour power whilst being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance, including landlords, employers, and inter-scalar state practices, have served to reproduce urban displacements and silence its gendered, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side, and capital accumulation on the other. Building on Soederberg's previous book Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be useful to academics and students in political science, sociology, geography, urban studies, labour studies, European studies, and gender studies"--