Climate Urbanism and Austerity in Structurally Disadvantaged Cities

Jonas, Andrew; Wurzel, Rudi

Abstract

If the governance challenges of climate change have been well researched for medium-sized, affluent and larger entrepreneurial cities, relatively little is known about climate urbanism in small-to-medium-sized cities experiencing long-term industrial decline, social deprivation and austerity. Such structurally disadvantaged cities often struggle to build inclusive new climate alliances, attract green jobs, and forge new images. This intervention argues that research on climate urbanism needs to consider two emerging trends in structurally disadvantaged cities: (1) how austerity is producing uneven geographies of climate urbanism; (2) the local social and economic conditions underpinning the construction of new climate alliances around alternative trajectories of urban development.

Citation

Jonas, A., & Wurzel, R. (2020). Climate Urbanism and Austerity in Structurally Disadvantaged Cities. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1840207

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Nov 13, 2020
• Publication Date: Nov 13, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 23, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 14, 2021
• Print ISSN: 0272-3638
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1840207
• Keywords: Climate urbanism; structurally disadvantaged cities; austerity; Europe
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3681806