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Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective: critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels
Abstract This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of transformation and change. We demonstrate the value of using urban vitalism as a lens to conceptualize and critically discuss different notions on smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just cities. Urban vitalism offers a process-based lens which enables us to understand cities as places of transformation and change, with people and other living beings at its core. The aim of the article is to explore how the lens of vitalism can help us understand and connect ongoing interdisciplinary academic debates about urban development and vice versa, and how these ongoing debates inform our understanding of urban vitalism.
Highlights The interdisciplinary and process-based lens of urban vitalism assists in critically discussing and reframing urban city concepts, like smart cities, resilient cities, sustainable just and inclusive cities. The lens of urban vitalism empowers researchers and practitioners to view cities as organic entities, with humans, social activity, nature and its relationships at its core. Urban vitalism keeps a firm eye on power, politics and participation in urban systems, exploring if, how and when urban systems marginalise those who the administrative, political and commercial systems claim to serve.
Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective: critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels
Abstract This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of transformation and change. We demonstrate the value of using urban vitalism as a lens to conceptualize and critically discuss different notions on smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just cities. Urban vitalism offers a process-based lens which enables us to understand cities as places of transformation and change, with people and other living beings at its core. The aim of the article is to explore how the lens of vitalism can help us understand and connect ongoing interdisciplinary academic debates about urban development and vice versa, and how these ongoing debates inform our understanding of urban vitalism.
Highlights The interdisciplinary and process-based lens of urban vitalism assists in critically discussing and reframing urban city concepts, like smart cities, resilient cities, sustainable just and inclusive cities. The lens of urban vitalism empowers researchers and practitioners to view cities as organic entities, with humans, social activity, nature and its relationships at its core. Urban vitalism keeps a firm eye on power, politics and participation in urban systems, exploring if, how and when urban systems marginalise those who the administrative, political and commercial systems claim to serve.
Reclaiming the city from an urban vitalism perspective: critically reflecting smart, inclusive, resilient and sustainable just city labels
Nederhand, José (author) / Avelino, Flor (author) / Awad, Isabel (author) / De Jong, Petra (author) / Duijn, Michael (author) / Edelenbos, Jurian (author) / Engelbert, Jiska (author) / Fransen, Jan (author) / Schiller, Maria (author) / Van Stapele, Naomi (author)
Cities ; 137
2023-02-19
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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