City, Volume 19, Issue 2-3 (2015)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial: ‘You're surrounded … ’
Bob Catterall
Pages: 145-150
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Original Articles

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Towards a new epistemology of the urban?
Neil Brenner & Christian Schmid
Pages: 151-182
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Response

Building a better theory of the urban: A response to ‘Towards a new epistemology of the urban?’
Richard Walker
Pages: 183-191
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Original Articles

Article
Life support: The political ecology of urban air
Stephen Graham
Pages: 192-215
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Uncertain times, contested resources: Discursive practices and lived realities in African urban environments
David Simon
Pages: 216-238
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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The changing occupational class composition of London
Chris Hamnett
Pages: 239-246
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Same, but different: Within London's ‘static’ class structure and the missing antagonism
Mark Davidson & Elvin Wyly
Pages: 247-257
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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IBM's smart city as techno-utopian policy mobility
Alan Wiig
Pages: 258-273
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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The transformative power of cooperation between social movements: Squatting and tenants’ movements in Poland
Dominika V. Polanska & Grzegorz Piotrowski
Pages: 274-296
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Open Access

Debates

Discussion
There is a politics of urban knowledge because urban knowledge is political: A rejoinder to ‘Debating urban studies in 23 steps’
David Madden
Pages: 297-302
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Discussion
The future of the urban academy
Alex Schafran
Pages: 303-305
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Special Feature: Interactions with Infrastructure as Windows into Social Worlds: A Method for Critical Urban Studies

Introduction
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
Hillary Angelo & Christine Hentschel
Pages: 306-312
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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The birth of the urban passenger: Infrastructural subjectivity and the opening of the New York City subway
Stefan Höhne
Pages: 313-321
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Hierarchies of happiness: Railway infrastructure and suburban subject formation in Berlin and Cairo around 1900
Joseph Ben Prestel
Pages: 322-331
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Open Access
Article
Infrastructure as a divination tool: Whispers from the grids in a Nigerian city
Eric Trovalla & Ulrika Trovalla
Pages: 332-343
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Open Access
Article
Networked infrastructures and the ‘local': Flows and connectivity in a postsocialist city
Liviu Chelcea & Gergő Pulay
Pages: 344-355
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Toward an infrastructural critique of urban change: Obsolescence and changing perceptions of New York City's waterfront
Boris Vormann
Pages: 356-364
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Article
Rent gap, fluid infrastructure and population excess in a gentrifying neighbourhood
Anant Maringanti & Indivar Jonnalagadda
Pages: 365-374
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Afterword: Come on out, you're surrounded: The betweens of infrastructure
AbdouMaliq Simone
Pages: 375-383
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Afterword: Economies of infrastructure
Fran Tonkiss
Pages: 384-391
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Reviews

Book Review
Today and tomorrow gangs: Youth and violence at the margins of the global city
Katherine Saunders-Hastings
Pages: 392-395
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Book Review
Accessing public spaces
Tara Saharan
Pages: 396-399
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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