This special issue features a new generation of urban analysts exploring and redefining the classic concept of “the City.” Looking at densities in places that are not cities, the authors examine avant-garde recombination on the frontlines of urban survival and minor public cultures just adjacent to major canonic forms. They study textured forms of solidarity emerging through informality in Miami, Cape Town, Mumbai, Oakland, Jerusalem, São Paolo, and beyond. The issue’s investigation of new methods for supporting majoritarian futures highlights lively interdependencies that take always-multiple, ever-morphing forms and expand our capacity to better inhabit the planet we share.
Contributors: Valentina Aduen, Solomon Benjamin, Jennifer Blanks, Schuyler Carter, Alicia Castronovo, Luci Cavallero, Cristina Cielo, Emma Shaw Crane, Keller Easterling, Véronica Gago, Kendall Girault, Prince Guma, Rupali Gupte, Kim Gurney, Victoria Habermehl, Prasad Khanolkar, Janette Kim, Neo Muyanga, M.C. Overholt, Laura Pappalardo, Irene Peano, Camila Pierobon, Edgar Pieterse, Vyjayanthi Rao, Andrea Roberts, Erica Robles-Anderson, Mahdi Sabbagh, Lana Salman, Mila Samdub, Prasad Shetty, AbdouMaliq Simone, Constance Smith, Huda Tayob, João Tonucci
