Reclaiming the City Through Care: Public Urban Cultures of Care

Anke Strüver and Yvonne Franz
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Anke Strüver: Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz, Austria / RCE—Centre for Sustainable Social Transformation, University of Graz, Austria
Yvonne Franz: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria

Urban Planning, 2025, vol. 10

Abstract: Practices of care are key elements of urbanity and thus of sociospatial relations, including everyday experiences in and of urban places and spaces. However, practices of care become even more important in times of multiple societal crises in which the quality of life of individuals and communities is significantly under stress. This thematic issue presents state‐of‐the‐art research from urban contexts including Barcelona, Berlin, Bern, Bogotá, Brussels, Cologne, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Florence, Hamburg, Helsinki, Graz, Ljubljana, Madrid, Munich, and Rotterdam, as well as critical reflections on the British context and comparative approaches between Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands. The editorial introduces urban cultures of care and how they take place in space, how cultures of care produce urban space, and how cultures of care empower people and places.

Keywords: caring communities; declining welfare; European cities; social infrastructures; sociospatial relations; urban everyday life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.17645/up.11108

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