Designing justice? Race and the limits of recognition in greater Miami resilience planning

Grove, Kevin; Barnett, Allain J.; Cox, Savannah

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.09.014

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“…Documenting this new urbicidal vision is important and novel in its own right. While there is a growing literature on urban resilience in Miami (Grove et al, 2020; Wakefield, 2019), little to no critical work has examined designs for after resilience has been exhausted. But, for the purposes of this article, my exploration of ISF is primarily intended to raise challenges and questions for critical urban theorists working on climate change, urban resilience and planetary urbanisation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Not a homogeneous ‘thing’ (Anderson, 2015; Beilin and Wilkinson, 2015), urban resilience assembles heterogeneous tactics and place-specific designs (Tozzi, 2021; Wakefield and Braun, 2014) and draws selectively on diverse understandings of resilience in fields like psychology and ecology (Neocleous, 2013). Municipal resilience projects have been extensively criticised by scholars for failing to include marginalised communities (Grove et al, 2020) or issues like mental health (Camponeschi, 2020). But in urban contexts and beyond, resilience has proven extremely resilient itself due to planners’ and governments’ ability to incorporate critiques and reinvent resilience as the most appropriate management approach for the Anthropocene (Wakefield et al, 2021).…”

Section: Urban Resilience Forever?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Circulation of capital, tourism and investment will be secured, by buffering the catastrophic effects these structures create. Through a bricolage of modular, integrated green and grey and ‘social’ infrastructures able to absorb and field the end and even gain from extreme events – for example, improving urban residents’ subjective well-being (Adger et al, 2020) or incorporating marginalised communities (Grove et al, 2020) – the global ‘city on the edge’ (Portes and Stepick, 1993) will ward off the end and even thrive while seas rise up through its foundations and waves crash against its shores.…”

Section: Urban Resilience Forever?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But such engagement is needed if urban theory is to be truly contemporary, for, as Goh (2020b: 3) asks, ‘if climate change is the defining challenge of the moment, how is it not indelibly transforming our core thinking of the urban?’ This is not to say that critical studies of urban climate adaptation are lacking. On the contrary, critical interrogation of urban resilience, for example, abounds, with much attention on how it extends and is intertwined with socio-economic inequality (Adger et al, 2020; Long and Rice, 2019; Meerow and Newell, 2019), racialised exclusion (Bonds, 2018; Grove et al, 2020), neoliberalism (While and Whitehead, 2013) and governmentality (Braun, 2014; Derickson, 2018b; Wakefield and Braun, 2014). Yet what remains unquestioned across diverse critical analyses of urban resilience is that the basic spatial form of cities and urban processes will remain (more or less resiliently) as the Anthropocene progresses.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene

Wakefield

2021

Urban Studies

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Critical urban thinkers often imagine urbanisation and the Anthropocene as inevitably being companion processes. But is planetary urbanisation the necessary telos and spatial limit of life in the Anthropocene? Is urban resilience the final form of urban responses to climate change? Will (or should) the urban (as either spatial form or process) survive the upending impacts of climate change or adaptation? Or, if the Anthropocene is a time of deep environmental and epistemological upheaval without historical precedent, might even more recently created spatial concepts of the planetary urban condition themselves soon be out of date? This article raises these questions for urban scholars via critical engagement with a proposal to retire Miami – considered climate change ‘ground zero’ in the US and doomed by rising seas – and repurpose it as fill for ‘The Islands of South Florida’: a self-sufficient territory of artificial high-rises delinked from global infrastructural networks. This vision of an ‘urbicidal Anthropocene’, the article argues, suggests that the injunction subtending planetary urbanisation work – to relentlessly question inherited spatial frameworks – has not been taken far enough. Still needed is Anthropocene critical urban theory, to consider urban forms and processes emerging via climate change and adaptation, but also how such mutations may point beyond the theoretical and spatial bounds of the contemporary urban condition itself.

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Critical urban theory in the Anthropocene

Wakefield

2021

Urban Studies

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“…Evidencing the political resonance with which the term is now loaded, community has proven pivotal for engendering the spatial redistribution of governmental responsibilities promoted across resilience discourses. An emphasis on community, for example, has figured as crucial in attempts to enhance resilience by affording an array of dispersed local and national actors more agency in making decisions about how emergencies should and could be governed ( Collier and Lakoff, 2008a , 2015, Grove et al, 2020 , Lentzos and Rose, 2009 , Smirnova et al, 2021 ). The prominence of community in these debates, furthermore, has accompanied a new operational dynamic for emergency governance when conceived through resilience.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%