de Lange, M., Ruijer, E. and Varró, K. (2025) ‘Doing Inclusion: Negotiation and Co-creation for People-centric Smart Cities’, in van Dijk, J., van Es, K., Helmond, A. and van der Vlist, F. (eds) Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 191-208.

De Lange, Ruijer and Varró shift smart city inclusion from an aspirational label to an agonistic practice of negotiation. The iconic idea is “doing inclusion”: inclusion is not achieved by providing access to technology or adding participatory language to policy, but through situated co-creation among citizens, governments and stakeholders around contested datafied urban issues. The theoretical contribution is to distinguish technological inclusion, digital social inclusion and doing inclusion, thereby exposing the inadequacy of people-centric smart city rhetoric when inequality is structurally reproduced by platforms, sensors, dashboards and administrative interfaces. Methodologically, the chapter uses research-by-design and empirical cases to explore how inclusion is enacted through conflict, representation, diversity and civic negotiation. Its bridge to the wider field is the integration of media studies, public governance, urban studies and STS, making smart urbanism answerable to public values rather than merely to innovation agendas.

CIVITAS MUSE (2025) Preparedness for Future Shocks and Disruptions with Climate-Resilient Systems. CIVITAS Inspiration on Public Transport. Brussels: CIVITAS Initiative.

CIVITAS MUSE frames public transport resilience as preparedness for future shocks rather than recovery after disruption. The iconic idea is that climate-related events such as flooding, heatwaves and extreme weather do not merely interrupt services; they produce hazardous mobility conditions that redistribute risk across passengers and territories. The contribution lies in connecting system reliability with anticipatory adaptation, recognising that resilient public transport must maintain essential access while modifying infrastructure, operations and planning assumptions under changing climatic conditions. Methodologically, the document functions as policy inspiration, synthesising climate risks, adaptation measures and governance considerations for European public transport authorities. Its bridge to the wider field is the link between urban mobility, climate resilience, infrastructure planning and public health. It positions transit not simply as a low-carbon alternative, but as a vulnerable civic infrastructure whose continuity determines whether urban populations retain access during environmental disturbance.

Behrendt, F. and Sheller, M. (2024) ‘Mobility Data Justice’, Mobilities, 19(1), pp. 151-169.

Behrendt and Sheller formulate mobility data justice as the critical framework required when movement becomes inseparable from data production, storage, circulation and ownership. The iconic idea is that being mobile increasingly means being datafied, whether through ticketing apps, navigation platforms, shared micromobility, sensors, vehicle diagnostics or environmental monitoring. The theoretical contribution is to join mobility justice and data justice, asking whose movements become visible, whose are excluded, who owns mobility data, and how access is enabled or constrained by digital infrastructures. Methodologically, the paper operates conceptually, mapping a research agenda around inclusion, exclusion, ownership, privacy, surveillance, algorithmic sorting and the mobility of data itself. Its bridge to the wider field is substantial: it connects mobilities research, STS, digital society, platform urbanism and social justice, making datafication a central terrain where transport inequality is transformed, amplified or contested.

Schnelzer, J. (2025) ‘Becoming Displaceable, Feeling Displacing, Un/Doing Displacement: Conceptualizing Urban Residential Displacements as Dissimilar Experiences Amidst the Global Housing Affordability Crisis’, Urban Geography, 46(4), pp. 794-816.

Schnelzer develops a processual theory of urban residential displacement capable of registering the subtle, everyday and anticipatory forms intensified by the global housing affordability crisis. The iconic idea is a triad: becoming displaceable, feeling displacing and un/doing displacement. Together, these concepts distinguish political-economic vulnerability, cognitive-affective experience and socio-spatial practice. The theoretical contribution is to move beyond eviction or forced relocation as the privileged image of displacement, showing how housing economies produce classed, racialised and gendered conditions in which people may inhabit displacement before physically moving. Methodologically, the article offers a praxeological and Deleuze-inspired conceptual framework, attentive to non-linear temporalities, relational power and everyday manoeuvre. Its bridge to the wider field is the articulation of urban geography, housing studies, affect theory and political economy: displacement becomes a distributed process through which urban life is reorganised before, during and after the loss of place.

CDRI (2025) Community of Practice for Extreme Heat Management in Public Transport Systems: Guidance Document. New Delhi: Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure.

The CDRI guidance document treats extreme heat as an operational threat to public transport systems rather than as a peripheral environmental condition. Its iconic idea is that heat management must be integrated into transit planning, asset design, passenger protection and institutional preparedness before extreme events become service crises. The contribution is practical and conceptual at once: public transport resilience is defined through the capacity to protect vulnerable passengers, maintain essential mobility and adapt stations, vehicles, stops and operations to rising thermal stress. Methodologically, the document works as a community-of-practice guide, assembling case studies, design recommendations, operational protocols and institutional roles for heat preparedness. Its bridge to the wider field is the intersection of climate adaptation, infrastructure resilience, public health and transport equity. Heat becomes a mobility variable: it changes waiting, ridership, exposure, accessibility and safety, particularly for elderly people, children, outdoor workers and those with limited alternatives.

Knieriem, M., Lagendijk, A. and van Leeuwen, B.R. (2025) ‘Beyond Displacement: Gentrification, Misrecognition and Resistance in Rotterdam’s Tweebosbuurt’, Cities, 167, 106329.

Knieriem, Lagendijk and van Leeuwen reconceptualise gentrification through the moral experience of misrecognition rather than through displacement alone. The iconic idea is that being forced to leave, witnessing neighbourhood transformation or resisting demolition are not merely spatial-economic events, but experiences of intersubjective disregard. The theoretical contribution lies in applying an expanded recognition framework, drawing on Honneth, to show that gentrification produces multiple moral wrongs: loss of home, disrespect, invisibilisation, humiliation and denial of civic standing. Methodologically, the paper grounds this argument in interviews with residents of Rotterdam’s Tweebosbuurt, attending to how injustice is narrated by people living through urban redevelopment. Its bridge to the wider field is the connection between critical geography, political theory, housing studies and urban resistance. Gentrification becomes legible not only as capital-led displacement, but as a conflict over recognition, voice and the moral status of inhabitants within the city.

Bozkurt, Y., Rossmann, A., Pervez, Z. and Ramzan, N. (2025) ‘Assessing Data Governance Models for Smart Cities: Benchmarking Data Governance Models on the Basis of European Urban Requirements’, Sustainable Cities and Society, 130, 106528.

Bozkurt, Rossmann, Pervez and Ramzan address smart cities from the standpoint of governance rather than technological capability. The iconic idea is that urban data potential remains structurally underused when municipalities lack clear roles, standards, access rules and cross-departmental coordination. The theoretical contribution is to treat smart city data governance as a specifically urban problem, irreducible to enterprise data management because cities operate through polycentric authority, public accountability, heterogeneous systems and contested values. Methodologically, the study derives actionable requirements from expert interviews with representatives of twenty-seven European cities and benchmarks existing governance models against those requirements. Its bridge to the wider field is the movement from smart urbanism to institutional design: data becomes not simply a resource, but a governed public infrastructure whose reliability, interoperability, security and legitimacy depend on organisational culture, regulatory clarity and civic purpose.

Ferrer Forés, J.J. (n.d.) 'Tradition in Nordic Architecture', Arquitectonics, 63, pp. 1-10.

Ferrer Forés reads Nordic tradition through Alvar Aalto and Jørn Utzon as an active technical and sensory resource rather than a repertory of historical motifs. The iconic idea is the architecture of the ground: a mode of making in which building anchors itself to territory, memory, daylight, timber culture and the tactile intelligence of inherited forms. The paper's theoretical contribution is to treat tradition as continuity under transformation, not as preservation against modernity. Karelian wooden architecture, the Kalevala, landscape and craft appear as operative substrates through which modern architecture gains corporeal specificity. Methodologically, the essay uses comparative architectural genealogy, linking local materials, climatic conditions and archaic tactility to modern design technique. Its bridge to regional modernism is exact: the local is not an antimodern residue but a critical medium through which universal abstraction becomes inhabitable, textured and historically grounded.

Huxtable, A.L. (1997) 'The Paradox of Sverre Fehn', Pritzker Architecture Prize Essay. Los Angeles: The Hyatt Foundation.

Huxtable's essay on Sverre Fehn identifies the paradox at the centre of his architecture: a work that belongs profoundly to landscape while understanding building as an unavoidable act of interruption. The iconic idea is that Fehn's horizon is not scenery but an existential line, a limit that architecture both violates and renders perceptible. The essay's theoretical contribution lies in presenting Fehn as neither regionalist craftsman nor international modernist, but as a builder-philosopher whose concrete, brick, timber and light convert landscape into controlled spatial consciousness. Methodologically, Huxtable reads through contradiction: wood and anti-wood, nature and destruction, modernism and myth, rationality and lyricism. The bridge to architectural thought is strong because Fehn becomes a figure for phenomenological tectonics, where construction is not the expression of structure alone, but the dramatization of humanity's fragile position between earth, sky, memory and intervention.