Current Issue (Volume 17 Issue 3, March 2024)

Special Issue: Contesting VIP Urbanism

Guest Editor: John Lauermann


Editorial

John Lauermann, Zoe Alexander and Khouloud Mallak - Contesting VIP Urbanism


Substantive Articles:

Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, Marion Magnan, Juliette Maulat and Mathilde Pedro - “Airport city” or “VIP” urbanism? Questioning the market-led land development strategies of airports

Paola Briata and Stefano Di Vita - Alpha territorialisation in Milan: Framing a research agenda

Carla Tedesco, Matteo Basso, Chiara Mazzoleni and Valeria Morea - Luxury Venice: The spread of touristification processes as alpha territorialization

K.C Smitha - The Politics of Entrepreneurial Embedded ‘VIP Urbanism’ in Bengaluru: Elite Practices and Agency Problem

Rodrigo Caimanque and Ernesto López-Morales - Social movements’ struggles under new municipalism: Confronting the neoliberal Parque Pümpin megaproject in Valparaíso city


Contentions:

Hang Kei Ho - Illegal luxuritecture: How the super-rich in Hong Kong land grab and unlawfully expand their luxury living spaces

Richard Kirk and Derrick Behm Josa - Contesting elite capture: Repositioning insurgent planning for mass movements


Review:

Ilia Farahani - Capitalist urbanization in the post-neoliberal and de-globalizing world economy: A minor critical engagement with VIP-Urbanism literature


Visual Intervention:

Andi Schmied - Financial capitalism going to heaven the ultrathin ultraluxury supertalls of Manhattan


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