Alan Wiig (Temple University) and I want to thank all of the participants who contributed to our sessions on at the 2014 Critical Geography Conference (hosted by Temple University). The session on Politicizing the Fabric of the City: Rethinking Material Politics in Urban Studies benefited from contributions ranging from my work on the materialities of event-led development to Alan’s on the infrastructural politics of smart cities, from the vital materialities of urban trash (Rosalind Fredericks) to the politics of preserving/demolishing modernist architecture (Renee Tapp). Thanks are due as well for the insightful comments by our discussant, Kristine Unsworth of Drexel University.

Program – Politicizing the fabric of the city