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openAccessArticle: False ; Page Range: 255-255 ; doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.05.009 ; Harvest Date: 2016-01-12 15:09:05 ; issueName: ; cover date: 2012-06-01 ; pubType: Guest editorial

What is a city? : Katrina's answer /Phil Steinberg --New Orleans' culture of resistance /Jordan Flaherty --On flexible urbanism /Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley --Delta city /Rob Shields --Mobility and the regional context of urban disaster /Hugh Bartling --Uneven mobilities and urban theory : the power of fast and slow /Matthew Tiessen --Remembering the forgetting of New Orleans /Daina Cheyenne Harvey --Repair and the scaffold of memory /Elizabeth V. Spelman --Repositioning the theorist in the Lower Ninth Ward /C. Tabor Fisher --Understanding New Orleans : Creole urbanism /Jacob A. Wagner --On street life and urban disasters : lessons from a "third world" city /Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria.

AbstractThis editorial explores how the concept of the frontier calls attention to the ocean as a space of both opening and closure. Whilst the new opportunities suggested by a frontier imply an opening, the realisation of these opportunities typically requires a degree of (en)closure. At the same time, however, because spaces like the ocean cannot easily be enclosed by existing political institutions, the frontier opens new spaces for regulatory and, ultimately, ethical innovations. In short, while there is much to be concerned about in the opening of the ocean as a "frontier", this opening also presents political opportunities.