I have a new short, accessible summary piece on my current project just out in The Conversation, “Planning smart and sustainable cities should not result in exclusive garden utopias for the rich.”
It covers some of the basic starting points for my current research, and mentions a few key examples of the weird overlap between utopian urban projects –failed, current and imagined– neoliberalism and authoritarianism, expressed in what I call “platform cities.” These include Próspera in Honduras, Telosa in the USA, and NEOM in Saudi Arabia.
I had a previous piece on the troubles of NEOM also in The Conversation, earlier this year.
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