Environment & Urbanization

World leading environmental and urban studies journal
EAU October 2024 cover


Current issue: Forced displacement and the city

This latest special issue emphasizes the need for a rights-based approach in urban displacement response, one that recognizes cities as productive places for refugees and internally displaced people to live in and stresses their need for progressive social and economic inclusion. 

Its eleven papers explore how displaced people face urban protracted displacement, responding with agency and enterprise to transform local economies and seek a dignified life in exile. 

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Book notes

The definition of infrastructure itself has to be expanded beyond cement and pipes to include infrastructure as process, infrastructure as knowledge and information, infrastructure as institutions, infrastructure as people, infrastructure as nature, and infrastructure as intention. Without each of these definitions there is no hope for improving human well-being.

This is a very fine, very detailed and beautifully presented comparative study of six cities – London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Delhi, Mumbai – each of them among the world’s largest cities, each part of a functioning democracy, each with successes and failures. Each with long and complex histories including histories of planning and land use management.

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