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Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, H., McFarlane, C., & Tripathy, P. (2024). Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei. Urban Studies, 61(8), 1526-1544. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231211011

Density has been a key focus in research on the urban dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of this work has debated the role of density in infection rates. In contrast, we develop a comparison of the management of pandemic urbanism in two high d... Read More about Density and pandemic urbanism: Exposure and networked density in Manila and Taipei.

Density and precarious housing: Overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, H., & Mcfarlane, C. (2023). Density and precarious housing: Overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong. Housing Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2280033

This paper offers an approach to understanding high-density living in precarious housing. Developing a conception of housing density based on ‘density expressions’ and ‘density modalities’, we argue for a focus on how domestic density is experienced... Read More about Density and precarious housing: Overcrowding, sensorial urbanism, and intervention in Hong Kong.

DenCity: Stories of Crowds and Cities (2023)
Book
Mcfarlane, C., & Collver, J. (2023). DenCity: Stories of Crowds and Cities. Sussex, UK: Comic Printing UK

What can a comic book tell us about urban density? How might a comic represent the multiple relationship between density and the city? What can comics reveal about the life, experience, politics, and geographies of density? This edited comic book is... Read More about DenCity: Stories of Crowds and Cities.

Way-finding agendas through Transactions (2023)
Journal Article
Esson, J., Breines, M., Brickell, K., Hope, J., Yee Koh, S., Lawrence, A. M., …Sparke, M. (2023). Way-finding agendas through Transactions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12651

This is the first in a series of occasional editorials in which we guide our readers through groups of papers that we consider to be ‘way-finding’ contributions to geographical debates. Our emphasis on ‘way-finding’ and navigating through scholarly w... Read More about Way-finding agendas through Transactions.

Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife (2023)
Book
McFarlane, C. (2023). Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife. London: Verso

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid... Read More about Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife.

Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism (2023)
Journal Article
Habermehl, V., & McFarlane, C. (2023). Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231189824

Density is at the centre of urban change, and is often politicised. Building on Geographical and Urban scholarship, we set out a critical approach to understanding density through a focus on value. Following a review of key approaches to density, we... Read More about Density as a politics of value: regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism.

Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity (2023)
Journal Article
Lavell, A., McFarlane, C., Moore, H. L., Woodcraft, S., & Yap, C. (2023). Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 15(1), 215-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2023.2226099

There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do t... Read More about Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity.

Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations (2023)
Journal Article
Guma, P., Hodson, M., Lockhart, A., Marvin, S., McFarlane, C., McGuirk, P., …Wiig, A. (2023). Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(3), 452-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12607

COVID-19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with 15-minute neighbourhoods. Within this con... Read More about Post-Pandemic Cities: An Urban Lexicon of Accelerations/Decelerations.

Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems (2023)
Journal Article
Yap, C., McFarlane, C., Ndezi, T., & Makoba, F. D. (2023). Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems. Environment and Urbanization, 35(1), 12-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221146722

In the context of growing urbanization, sanitation in many cities is in acute crisis with severe social and environmental consequences. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of sanitation for all by 2030 is increasingly elusive. Municipalities have... Read More about Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems.