To move forward, we must look back: White supremacy at the base of urban studies

MÁ Montalva Barba - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The concretisation of the Chicago School solidified and inscribed in the city their obsession
with the 'Negro Problem', race, race relations and (im) migration. Their fixation not only …

Sensing playgrounding: Playful design workshops to reimagine the city as playground

L Hjorth, S Lammes - Space and Culture, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Cities are complex spaces of contesting infrastructures, media, humans and more-than-
human interactions. They are places that house multiple visible and invisible cartographies …

Questioning the foundations: the embedded racism in urban sociology theorization

MM Barba - Research Handbook on Urban Sociology, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Handbooks like this one are essential because they direct the discipline for about 20 years,
and if they repeat the same patterns, then the discipline reinforces the mainstream (Slater …

A scenic walk through Brenner's New Urban Spaces in Toronto

C Wu, J Ong - International Sociology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews Brenner's most recent monograph, New Urban Spaces, in which he
demonstrates his systematic and decades-long effort into developing new epistemological …