Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature

Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature

Cities and towns are critical geographies of refuge for a globally unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people. Yet urban processes also expose these groups and the local urban poor to recurrent displacements. While such experiences are shared, studies often treat these populations as distinct...

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Published in:Environment and urbanization Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 358 - 376
Main Authors: te Lintelo, Dolf J H, Ip, Morgan Alexander, Lappi, Tiina Riitta, Lakshman, Rajith Weligamage Don, Hemmersam, Peter, Dar, Anandini, Tervonen, Miika
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-10-2024
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Displaced persons
Literature reviews
Public spaces
Regulation
Urban areas
Urban poverty
Well being
cities
urban
public space
migrants
wellbeing
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Summary:Cities and towns are critical geographies of refuge for a globally unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people. Yet urban processes also expose these groups and the local urban poor to recurrent displacements. While such experiences are shared, studies often treat these populations as distinct. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of displaceability, this paper systematically reviews and synthesizes a global literature on diversely displaced people’s placemaking in urban public space. Observing a significant analytical gap regarding cities of the so-called global South, the paper identifies a heuristic, and key analytical dimensions shaping divergent access and uses of public space by variously displaced populations. These concern: temporal patterns; powerful meta-narratives of people and place; and complex multi-scalar and multi-actor configurations of regulatory regimes governing public space. Simultaneously, acquisition and deployment of urban knowledge and a practice of (in)visibility enable differentially displaced populations’ everyday claims to public space for wellbeing.
ISSN:0956-2478
1746-0301
DOI:10.1177/09562478241277085