A call to ephemeral urbanism.

A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism

A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...

a call for a backward design to knowledge translation

despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. this editorial brings together and builds on previous knowledge translation (kt) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. the proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...

Urbanism as Computation

Successful urban configurations are the result of a complex sequence of implicit computations that transform unorganized input into organized output. Although that is exactly what they do, few urbanists discuss their work in these terms. I propose a fundamental distinction between the principal methods of urban computation. One algorithmic process for urbanism leads to formal planning, which la...

Slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism.

This article is an intervention in the epistemologies and methodologies of urban studies. It seeks to understand and transform the ways in which the cities of the global South are studied and represented in urban research, and to some extent in popular discourse. As such, the article is primarily concerned with a formation of ideas - "subaltern urbanism" - which undertakes the theorization of t...