Cities and universities have been active participants in the creation of new economic structures, but the sociospatial relationships between "town" and "gown", and the potential impact of deepening and diversifying the relationship on either side, are neither fully understood nor simple. In this paper, we focus on universities in Canada to provide an integrative review of the changing sociospatial relations of cities and universities in an era of increasing neoliberal and globalized development agendas. We treat these relationships in spatial and institutional terms, recognizing that actors and decision-makers in government and academic bodies understand their links as a combination of both. Our analysis destabilizes established normative understandings regarding the sociospatial structure and governance of the university and the interrelations between universities and urban space. Numerous spatial strategies demonstrate that universities' relations are multi-layered, multi-scaled and multiply topological. Yet while they may be well positioned to adopt a proactive role in shaping economic development and civic agendas, universities have no privileged position in their communities. Despite acting as deliberate placemaking agents in rapidly changing metropolitan environments, universities remain located in, yet apart from, their urban and regional context.

Social mix policies have emerged as a prominent mechanism to legitimate neighbourhood redevelopment efforts across the US. Despite integrationist rhetoric, results often disabuse marginalised communities of their claims to the city. This paper employs a hybrid spatio-temporal analysis at the intersection of political-economic theories of gentrification and post-colonial and Black geographies literatures to examine underlying cultural logics and affective experiences animating such processes of neighbourhood transformation, contestation, and succession. Reflecting on 15 years of experience researching Over-the-Rhine (OTR), Cincinnati, we contribute a stylised distinction between the foundational, mature, and ongoing legacies of urban settler colonial relations. Our account discloses the power geometries shaping neighbourhood space by illustrating the impact of the discourses, tactics, and strategies employed by pro-development actors and neighbourhood activists as OTR's socio-political landscape shifted over time. In conclusion, we engage the thorny questions these dynamics raise surrounding how inner-city neighbourhoods are theorised and struggled over after gentrification.Resumen: Pol ıticas de mezcla social han emergido como un mecanismo prominente para legitimar los esfuerzos de redesarrollo vecinal a lo largo de los Estados Unidos. A pesar de la ret orica integracionista, los resultados frecuentemente reniegan a las comunidades marginalizadas de sus derechos a la ciudad. Este art ıculo usa un an alisis h ıbrido espaciotemporal en la intersecci on de teor ıas pol ıtico-econ omicos y las literaturas poscoloniales y de las Afro-geograf ıas para examinar las l ogicas culturales subyacentes y las experiencias afectivas que animan tales procesos de transformaci on, contestaci on, y sucesi on vecinal. Bas andonos en 15 años de experiencia investigativa en Over-the-Rhine (OTR), Cincinnati, contribuimos con una distinci on estilizada entre los legados del "colonialismo de colonos" urbano, que pueden distinguirse entre legados fundacionales, maduros, o en proceso. Ilustrando el efecto de los discursos, t acticas y estrategias que han empleado los actores pro-desarrollo y las activistas vecinales a trav es de los cambios hist oricos en el paisaje sociopol ıtico en OTR, nuestra cr onica revela las geometr ıas del poder que dan forma al espacio vecinal. En conclusi on, abordamos las arduas preguntas planteadas por estas din amicas, preguntas acerca de c omo teorizar y c omo luchan por los barrios marginales despu es de la gentrificaci on.

The 'smart city' has risen to global prominence as an urban planning and development strategy over the past two decades. As a broad but contested toolkit of technological services and policy interventions aimed at improving the efficacy and efficiency of urban systems, the 'smart city' is subject to several pressing critiques. This paper acknowledges these concerns, but recognizes the potential of 'urban intelligence' to enhance the resiliency of metropolitan areas. As such, we focus on an under-researched dimension of smart city urbanism; its application in peripheral urban areas. The paper, first, introduces a threefold typology of: (1) geographic; (2) hard (material); and (3) soft (social) urban peripherality. Second, it reviews the concept of urban resilience and considers how its central characteristics can inform the objectives and implementation of the hard and soft infrastructures of 'smart city' planning. Six European smart city plans are assessed via a qualitative content analysis, to identify the target of smart city actions; the characteristics of urban resilience mobilized; and the spatial focus of planned interventions. The comparative analysis reveals a variegated set of smart city approaches. Notably, 'smart' actions aimed at enhancing social innovation are the most common type of intervention, while overall there remains a strong tendency for smart urbanism to focus on the urban core. We conclude by calling for a research agenda addressing smartness in, of, and for, peripheral urban spaces and communities.

The impacts of neoliberalization and the global extension of urbanization processes demand a reappraisal of the urban university for the 21 st century. The history of the modern urban university, and current calls for universities to assume proactive roles as economic drivers and civic leaders, disclose problematic tendencies, including: normalizing local/global binaries; focusing on a narrow set of university-city connections; and constructing the university and the city as monolithic rational agents. In response, this paper draws on Lefebvre's theory of urban society to mobilize mediation, centrality, and difference as a mode of critique and strategic orientation for a 'new urban university'.

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