The Spaces and Flows: Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies is pleased to announce Melissa Butcher as a 2018 Plenary Speaker

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The Spaces & Flows Research Network is pleased to announce the selection of “Bangkok — A Place of Struggle and Spatial Restructuring,” Annette Jacoby, as the winner of the International Award for Excellence for Spaces and Flows: An International...More

CityLab | Article Link | by Richard Florida

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During her tenure as New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan oversaw the addition of 400 miles of new bike lanes, helped implement the nation’s larg...More

The Guardian | Article Link | by Saskia Sassen

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Does the massive foreign and national corporate buying of urban buildings and land that took off after the 2008 crisis signal an emergent new phase in major cities? From...More

Places Journal | Article Link | by Hillary Mushkin

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Mexico City’s C4I4 is a fantastically overdetermined work of architecture: a concrete bunker, three stories high, that resembles a row of giant surveillance...More

The New School | Article Link | by Clara Hemphiill and Nicole Mader

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In multi-ethnic New York City, why are so many elementary schools segregated by race and class? For years, school officials and researchers have a...More

The Guardian | Article Link | by Adam Greenfield

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At present we share our planet with some 7.5 billion other human beings, and as swollen as that number may already sound, it is projected to hit 10 billion before leve...More

CityLab | Article Link | by Linda Poon

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When it comes to maps, China isn’t messing around

Starting next year, you don’t want to be caught with the “wrong” maps—that is, maps containing content “that endangers the co...More

The Guardian | Article Link | by Richard Sennett

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Recently I tried to buy an iPhone in Nehru Place, an open-air electronics market in Delhi where goods that “happen to fall off a truck” are sold for 30%, 40%.....More

New Republic | Article Link | by Monica Potts

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Sometime in July 2012, Suzan Russaw and her husband, James, received a letter from their landlord asking them to vacate their $800-a-month one-bedroom apartment in Palo...More