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Who Cares When the Ground Shakes? “Standing By” Uncertain Urban Futures Through Configurations of Care
In this article, I elaborate on how different urban actors strive to create certainty while living in anticipation of a major destructive earthquake. Turning to the category of standby mode, I study attempts to stabilize uncertain futures beyond professionalized practices of preparedness. Instead…
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Reclaiming Disruption: Pathways to Hopeful Urban Futures
Disruptions increasingly constitute urban futures by interrupting established trajectories and influencing how cities are imagined, planned, and realised. This article challenges the prevailing assumption that urban disruption merely produces social fragmentation and catastrophic futures…
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Co‐Producing Urban Futures in Berlin: Temporary Urban Practices in Refugees’ Space Production
The challenge of refugee settlement in urban areas is a pressing issue globally. While Germany hosts the third‐largest refugee population worldwide, around 33,530 refugees live in state‐owned accommodation in Berlin. In this context, various institutional bodies have emerged to address the…
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Refugees as Urban Stakeholders: Lessons From Reception of Ukrainians in German Cities
This article examines how reception and participation practices shape urban futures in Berlin and Leipzig, highlighting Ukrainian refugees as agents of urban change. We adopt a comparative approach to summarise and re‐analyse research carried out in several projects on the two cities. Through the…
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Navigating Urban Futures: Canal Istanbul and Contested Visions of Governance in Turkey
This article examines struggles over urban governance in contemporary Turkey through the intertwined dynamics of authoritarian neoliberalism and democratic contestation. Drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory and recent debates on market‐driven urbanism and state‐led centralization, it…
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Communicative Solidarity: Networked Resistance to Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Urban Spaces
Today, in many parts of the world, local urban communities are forced to self‐organise in response to the neoliberal restructuring of the state with its emphasis on privatisation, deregulation, and austerity that has hollowed out welfare provisions, leading to urban fragmentation. This article…
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Co‐Designing Futuring Capacities in Municipalities: Futures Bazaar Goes National
In an era marked by overlapping crises, including climate change, democratic erosion, digital disruption, and socioeconomic inequality, municipalities increasingly serve as frontline actors in shaping adaptive and inclusive urban futures. This article examines how Futures Bazaar, a participatory…
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Reframing the Nexus Between Forced Migration and Urban Resilience: Discussing Impacts on Urban Futures
The relationship between forced migration and urban resilience is an under‐researched topic within both the local resilience and migration discourses. While discussions tend to focus on institutional and psychological resilience, we argue that forced migration should be considered a systemic…
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Resilience as Community Capacity in a City Under Existential Threat: The Case of Slavutych, Ukraine
Community resilience helps cities recover from disasters. We understand community resilience as the capacity of residents to practice community in flexible ways that preserve identities, while adapting to post‐disaster realities. This capacity can depend on many factors. Our article explores how…
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Negotiating Possibilities in Shrinking Cities: Potentials, Challenges, and Policy Implications
Dominant narratives of urban success continue to privilege growth and acceleration. Within this framework, shrinking cities are frequently labelled as left‐behind, lagging, or peripheralized places. Such stigmatizing interpretations not only obscure the structural conditions of urban shrinkage but…
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Planning Culture and Local Agents of Change: Shaping Urban Transition in a Shrinking Polish City
The article analyses regeneration processes in a medium‐sized city in Central and Eastern Europe, using Leszno (Poland) as an example. Particular emphasis is placed on investment conflicts, policy learning, and the challenges associated with urban decline. The case study is based on a triangulation…
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Shrinkage and Marginalisation in Large Housing Estates: Impacts on Atmospheres in Public Spaces
The article focuses on the interplay of built and lived spaces and its impacts on atmospheres in public spaces using the example of large housing estates in East Germany. These neighbourhoods were affected by the demolition of vacant residential buildings and infrastructure due to shrinkage, but…
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Does Compactness Matter? Comparative Study of Medium‐Sized Shrinking Cities’ Compactness in Germany and Poland
Urban shrinkage is an increasingly pressing phenomenon in Europe, affecting medium‐sized cities that are vital to regional stability. However, large‐scale, longitudinal research on the relationship between urban form characteristics and shrinkage remains limited. This study examines whether urban…
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Planning Approaches Liaised With Justification and Relation to Growth: Missing Link in the Shrinkage Context?
This article seeks a framework applicable to analysing planning in the context of shrinkage. Our preliminary observation is that shrinking cities tend to lean toward pro‐growth planning instead of actively planning for shrinkage. This seems to apply even in cities where shrinking is a politically…
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Negotiating “Left‐Behindness” and Migration‐Related Diversity in (New) Arrival Spaces
Places “left behind” often face socio‐economic downturn, demographic decline, and marginalisation resulting from uneven development. Yet these places are no longer only points of departure; they increasingly function as arrival areas for international migrants. Building on growing work on migrant…
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Shrinkage as an Opportunity? Local Cultures, Power Structures, and Spaces of Possibility in Two Communities in Lusatia
Building on the diagnosis of urban shrinkage, we examine how two cities in Lusatia are dealing with the challenges of structural change. Adopting the concept of “spaces of possibility” (SoP), we view shrinkage as a dynamic phenomenon that holds both risks and opportunities for urban development and…
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The Reurbanization That Never Was: Governance Challenges in Poland’s Suburbanizing Cities
The article examines the paradox of urban governance in Poland’s five largest cities (excluding Warsaw)—Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, and Gdańsk—where municipal authorities articulate policies aimed at population retention and growth while simultaneously experiencing persistent suburbanization and…
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Who Matters in Residential Building Reuse? Navigating Conflicts and Collaborations Through Stakeholder–Issue Mapping
The reuse of vacant residential buildings offers a strategy for revitalizing “shrinking cities” and advancing urban sustainability by transforming underutilized spaces into community assets. However, the decision‐making process involves stakeholders from diverse disciplines with conflicting…
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Not Just Shrinkage: Left‐Behind Places, the Polycrisis, and Populist Politics
While the existence of marginalized or left‐behind places is not a new phenomenon, both marginalization and socio‐economic, spatial, and political polarization have accelerated over the past decades as a central effect of neoliberal globalization, and in the case of eastern Germany, the process of…
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Declining Opportunities? Perceptions of Housing Market Risk in Shrinking Cities
Housing in shrinking cities may be evaluated ambiguously: While it is often affordable and available, which encourages real estate investment, it may also be associated with specific financial and personal risks. A central determinant of who invests in housing and where may be perceptions and…