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Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies either drawn from long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London, or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney.

Climate change is a highly contested policy issue in Australia, generating fierce debate at every level of governance. In this paper we explore a crucial tension in both the policy and the public debate: a seeming lack of attention to social inclusion and broader equity implications. We pay special attention to the municipal scale, where concerns about social difference and democratic participation are often foregrounded in political discourse, using South East Queensland—a recognised climate change 'hotspot'—as a case study. Mobilising critical discourse analysis techniques, we interrogate three local government climate change response strategies, and place these in the context of transscalar discourse networks which appear to sustain a technocratic, 'ecological modernisation' approach to the issue. Finally, we suggest a broad strategy for reimagining this approach to embed a notion of climate justice in our policy thinking about climate change.

This special issue on housing and socio-spatial inclusion had its genesis in the 5th Housing Theory Symposium (HTS) on the theme of housing and space, held in Brisbane, Australia in 2013. In late 2013 we put out a call for papers in an attempt to collect an initial suite of theoretical and empirical scholarship on this theme. This collection of articles progresses our initial discussions about the theoretical implications of adding the "social" to the conceptual project of thinking through housing and space. We hope that this special issue will act as a springboard for a critical review of housing theory, which could locate housing at the centre of a much broader network of social and cultural practices across different temporal trajectories and spatial scales. This editorial presents an overview of the theoretical discussions at the HTS and summarises the six articles in this themed issue, which are: (1) The meaning of home in home birth experiences; (2) Reconceptualizing the "publicness" of public housing; (3) The provision of visitable housing in Australia; (4) The self-production of dwellings made by the Brazilian new middle class; (5) Innovative housing models and the struggle against social exclusion in cities; and (6) A theoretical and an empirical analysis of "poverty suburbanization".

Much planning theory has been undergirded by an ontological exceptionalism of humans. Yet, city planning does not sit outside of the eco-social realities co-producing the Anthropocene. Urban planners and scholars, therefore, need to think carefully and critically about who speaks for (and with) the nonhuman in place making. In this article, we identify two fruitful directions for planning theory to better engage with the imbricated nature of humans and nonhumans is recognised as characteristic of the Anthropocene – multispecies entanglements and becoming-world. Drawing on the more-than-human literature in urban and cultural geography and the environmental humanities, we consider how these terms offer new possibilities for productively rethinking the ontological exceptionalism of humans in planning theory. We critically explore how planning theory might develop inclusive, ethical relationships that can nurture possibilities for multispecies flourishing in diverse urban futures, the futures that are increasingly recognised as co-produced by nonhuman agents in the context of climate variability and change. This, we argue, is critical for developing climate-adaptive planning tools and narratives for the creation of socially and environmentally just multispecies cities.

Shifting borders in a climate of change / Wendy Steele -- Rethinking borders / Michael Neuman -- Troubling the place of the border : on territory, community, space and place / Jean Hillier -- The border/planning nexus / Enrico Gualini and Carola Fricke -- Beyond urban-rural boundaries : encouraging inter-municipal collaboration for climate change adaptation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Hayley Leck and Florence Crick -- Crossing borders : two contrasting approaches to interactions between natural and human ecosystems / Leila Eslami-Andargoli and Pat Dale -- Inter-sectoral and inner-sectoral borders across critical infrastructure : lessons from the United States and Australia / Tooran Alizadeh and Neil Sipe -- Governance by re-bordering : comparing the rescaling of territorial boundaries as a spatial governance strategy in Auckland, Brisban/South East Queensland, Vancouver, London and Manchester / Clare Mouat and Jago Dodson -- Questions or borders and mobility : de- and re-territorialising approaches to urban and regional planning policy and governance / Felicity Wray and Rae Dufty-Jones -- Planning across multiple borders / Kristian Ruming and Donna Houston -- Beyond the boundares of strategic interest / Crystal Legacy, Simon Pinnegar, Andrew Tice and Ilan Wiesel -- Competing processes of border-making : compact city planning and residents' everyday territorialisation of home / Nicole Cook, Elizabeth Taylor and Joe Hurley -- Emerging planetary boundaries and the sustainability perspective / Silvia Serrao-Neumann -- Transgressing borders : imagining environmental justice in spatial planning / Jason Byrne and Diana MacCallum -- Virtual borders in the online world : how e-planning helps and hinders communicative planning practice / Marco Amati.