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Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow (2023)
Journal Article
Karimnia, E., & Kostourou, F. (2023). Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764231186745

Amid growing interest in the creative industries and their influence on urban planning and regeneration strategies, this article revisits cultural backstages and their underlying infrastructural conditions. By cultural backstages, we mean those urban... Read More about Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow.

Reframing Kiruna’s relocation-spatial production or a sustainable transformation? (2021)
Journal Article
Tepecik Diş, A., & Karimnia, E. (2021). Reframing Kiruna’s relocation-spatial production or a sustainable transformation?. Sustainability, 13(7), Article 3811. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073811

Due to the expansion of nearby mining operations, the city of Kiruna, an arctic city in Sweden, has been undergoing a massive urban transformation, led by the mining company, Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB), which is the largest iron ore p... Read More about Reframing Kiruna’s relocation-spatial production or a sustainable transformation?.

Benign Neglect (2020)
Journal Article
Kostourou, F., Chua, C., & Karimnia, E. (2020). Benign Neglect. MONU,

In September 2018, Network Rail sells 5,261 UK railway arches to Telereal Trillium and Blackstone Property Partners for 1.46bn. Eight months later, the National Audit Office estimates that rents for these properties will increase by 54% over the nex... Read More about Benign Neglect.

Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms (2020)
Journal Article
Haas, T., Littke, H., & Karimnia, E. (2020). Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms. Scholarly Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 3(4), https://doi.org/10.32474/sjpbs.2020.03.000167

In what ways are cities things that happen to us, and in what ways are cities things we do together, with more or less art and purpose? How do we understand both the geometries of cities and the ways that form might be connected-or not-to their socia... Read More about Urban form and human behavior in context of livable cities and their public realms.