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Fragment Urbanism: Politics on the Margins of the City (2018)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2018). Fragment Urbanism: Politics on the Margins of the City. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(6), 1007-1025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818777496

Fragmentation is a keyword in the history of critical urban thought. Yet the products of fragmentation – the fragments themselves – tend to receive less attention. In this paper, I develop a politics of urban fragments as a contribution to debates bo... Read More about Fragment Urbanism: Politics on the Margins of the City.

On alternative smart cities: from a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism (2017)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Söderström, O. (2017). On alternative smart cities: from a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 21(3-4), 312-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1327166

Smart urbanism seems to be everywhere you turn. But in practice the agenda is an uncertain one, usually only partially developed, and often more about corporate-led urban development than about urban social justice. Rather than leave smart urbanism t... Read More about On alternative smart cities: from a technology-intensive to a knowledge-intensive smart urbanism.

Navigating the city: dialectics of everyday urbanism (2017)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Silver, J. (2017). Navigating the city: dialectics of everyday urbanism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(3), 458-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12175

How might we conceptualise and research everyday urbanism? By examining the making of everyday life in a low-income neighbourhood in Uganda, we argue that a dialectics of everyday urbanism is a useful approach for understanding urban poverty. This di... Read More about Navigating the city: dialectics of everyday urbanism.

Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Silver, J., & Truelove, Y. (2017). Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography, 38(9), 1393-1417. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1243386

Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential and challen... Read More about Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town.

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison (2016)
Journal Article
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (2016). Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison. Environment and Planning A, 48(12), 2402-2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16659772

How is life at the urban margins made and remade? In this paper, we examine this question in relation to ‘sanitation urbanism’, and through attention to what we call ‘infra-making’, defined as the interstitial labour of human and non-human agencies a... Read More about Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison.

The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Silver, J. (2017). The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 49(1), 125-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12264

In an urbanizing world, the inequalities of infrastructure are increasingly politicized in ways that reconstitute the urban political. A key site here is the politicization of human waste. The centrality of sanitation to urban life means that its pol... Read More about The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town.

Encountering was it (not) there (2016)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (in press). Encountering was it (not) there. In J. Darling, & H. Wilson (Eds.), Encountering the City. Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (229-232). Ashgate Publishing

Becoming Infrastructure: Body, Waste and the City. (2016)
Book Chapter
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (in press). Becoming Infrastructure: Body, Waste and the City. In A. Blok, & I. Farias (Eds.), Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (45-62). Routledge

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn? (2015)
Book
Marvin, S., Luque-Ayala, A., & McFarlane, C. (Eds.). (2016). Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315730554

Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems fac... Read More about Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?.

The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City (2015)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2016). The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City. Progress in Human Geography, 40(5), 629-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515608694

As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is a keyword in the history of how the city has been conceived and un... Read More about The Geographies of Urban Density: Topology, Politics and the City.

Sites of entitlement : claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai (2015)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Desai, R. (2015). Sites of entitlement : claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai. Environment and Urbanization, 27(2), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247815583635

This paper develops a conception of “sites of entitlement” as a basis for better understanding how infrastructure and services are perceived and experienced in informal settlements. While legal and policy frameworks are often viewed as the source of... Read More about Sites of entitlement : claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai.

Learning cities (2015)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (in press). Learning cities. In M. Jayne, & K. Ward (Eds.), Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives. Routledge

Studies in Comparative Urbanism (2014)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (2014). Studies in Comparative Urbanism. In V. Desai, & R. Potter (Eds.), Companion to Development Studies (296-298). (3rd ed.). Hodder Education