This article brings together work from across the fields of queer geographies, geographies of sexualities, and trans* geographies to consider the ways in which these fields offer important insights ...into the question of liminality. Queer and trans* approaches question presumptions about norms and being upon which many geographical understandings of liminality currently rely. I highlight queer and trans* approaches to the topic that unsettle existing binary constructs, and foreground an everyday lived, experiential realm of in-betweenness that brings new stakes into the currently conceptualized political dimensions of liminality. I seek to bring attention to queer and trans* work on liminality and propose that it is relevant to spatial theory and human geography more broadly.
Cities have been sites of some of the most visible manifestations of the evolution of processes of globalization and population expansion, and global cities are at the cutting edge of such changes. ...Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism examines changes in governance, property development, urban politics and community activism, in two key global cities: London and Toronto. The analysis is inherently comparative, but not in the traditional sense – the volume does not seek to deliver a like-for-like comparison. Instead, taking these two cities as empirical cases, the chapters engage in constructive dialogues about the contested and variegated built forms, formal and informal governmental mechanisms and practices, and policy and community-based responses to contemporary urban concerns. The authors position a critical dialogue on three central issues in contemporary urban studies: governance, real estate and housing, and community activism and engagement. Their less traditional approach to comparative framing seeks to understand London and Toronto from a nuanced perspective, promoting critical reflection on the experiences and evaluative critiques of each urban context, providing insight into each city’s urban trajectory and engaging critically with wider phenomena and influences on the urban governance challenges beyond these two cities.
This article explores forms of public space that have been rendered palpable during the Covid-19 pandemic: public spaces in high-rise buildings. We consider both physical and social public space in ...this context, thinking about the safety of both common areas and amenities in buildings and the emergence of new publics around the conditions of tower living during the pandemic (particularly focusing on tenant struggles). We determine that the planning, use, maintenance, and social production of public space in high-rise buildings are topics of increasing concern and urgency and that the presence of public space in the vertical built forms and lifestyles proliferating in urban regions complicates common understandings of public space. We argue that the questions raised by the pandemic call upon us to reconsider the meanings of public space.
This paper considers the more‐than‐human implications of environmental gentrification in cities. Through a synthesis of existing environmental gentrification literature, we highlight gentrification ...scholarship that has emphasised natural ecologies, animals, or other non‐human actors in its processes. We propose the concept of (un)commons as a conceptual basis that offers generative pathways forward for centring a more‐than‐human politics in environmental gentrification scholarship as well as ways to interpret the everyday impacts of environmental gentrification on more‐than‐human beings and spaces in cities.
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This paper considers the more‐than‐human implications of environmental gentrification in cities. Through a synthesis of existing environmental gentrification literature, we highlight gentrification scholarship that has emphasised natural ecologies, animals, or other non‐human actors in its processes. We propose the concept of (un)commons as a conceptual basis that offers generative pathways forward for centring a more‐than‐human politics in environmental gentrification scholarship.
This dissertation examines environmental gentrification through the lens of queer affect, looking at two parks-led redevelopment projects in downtown Toronto, Canada: Reimagine Galleria and the Green ...Line. In it I argue that place-specific affective dynamics and politics shape and drive environmental gentrification processes. I also argue that environmental gentrification shapes people's emotional relationships with the places they live, while altering the more-than-human relations that constitute those places. Using queer affect as a prism through which to examine environmental gentrification as a process, I detail life-altering changes and losses that are happening on the ground as Reimagine Galleria and the Green Line proceed as redevelopment initiatives, as well as how these projects are experienced by people who feel both worried about their survival and place in the world and attached to a world that is slipping away as another one takes shape. A queer approach to examining the feeling of environmental gentrification renders visible a range of complex emotional dynamics and more-than-human relations that shape belonging, exclusion, life, and death in gentrifying space. At the center of this dissertation is an exploration of how feelings are political, of what kinds of communities they bring together, and of what kinds of solidarities they make possible in the face of gentrification.
In this paper, we look at the role that public space may take on in the redevelopment of suburban high-rise buildings in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). We are interested in what role ...public space plays in the imaginary and how different forms of public participation in planning processes are beneficial to the outcome of the redesign of high-rise buildings who are in need of repair and retrofitting due to their age and their social stigmatization. These suburban high-rises offer insight into newly proliferating forms of public space, and speak to the need for more diverse and specific physical, social and political articulations of public space. We find that by examining public space through the lens of verticality we are able to see how different planning interventions, urban development processes, spatial contexts and competing imaginaries produce very different and often hybrid forms. We base our findings upon selected planning and policy documents, media reports and discourse, and input from interviews with several locals involved in planning processes.
Dans ce papier, nous examinons des changements dans le forme de l'espace public dans les tours d'habitation de grande hauteur qui sont en procès de renouvellement dans la region du Grand Toronto et de Hamilton. Nous nous intéressons au rôle que joue l'espace public dans l'imaginaire et aux avantages des différentes formes de participation du public aux processus de planification pour la restructuration des immeubles de grande hauteur qui ont besoin de réparations et de réaménagements en raison de leur âge et de leur stigmatisation sociale. Nous soutenons que ces tours d'habitation nous donnent de la perspicacité aux formes d'espace public de plus en plus répandues, et expriment un besoin pour plus de diversité et specificité dans nos articulations théoriques. Nous trouvons qu'en utilisant une perspective de verticalité, nous pouvons observer comment les diverses interventions de planification, les processus de développement urbaine, les contextes spatiaux et les imaginaires divergentes peuvent produire des formes diverses et fréquemment hybrides. Nous fondons nos conclusions sur les documents de politiques et planification sélectionnés, les rapports et discours de médias, et des entretiens avec des residents locaux engagés dans le processus de planification.
Background
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that the effectiveness of intensive treatment for locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer (LAHNC) depends on the proportion of patients' ...overall event risk attributable to cancer.
Methods
This study analyzed 22,339 patients with LAHNC treated in 81 randomized trials testing altered fractionation (AFX; Meta‐Analysis of Radiotherapy in Squamous Cell Carcinomas of Head and Neck MARCH data set) or chemotherapy (Meta‐Analysis of Chemotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer MACH‐NC data set). Generalized competing event regression was applied to the control arms in MARCH, and patients were stratified by tertile according to the ω score, which quantified the relative hazard for cancer versus competing events. The classifier was externally validated on the MACH‐NC data set. The study tested for interactions between the ω score and treatment effects on overall survival (OS).
Results
Factors associated with a higher ω score were a younger age, a better performance status, an oral cavity site, higher T and N categories, and a p16‐negative/unknown status. The effect of AFX on OS was greater in patients with high ω scores (hazard ratio HR, 0.92; 95% confidence interval CI, 0.85‐0.99) and medium ω scores (HR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.84‐0.98) versus low ω scores (HR, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.90‐1.05; P for interaction = .086). The effect of chemotherapy on OS was significantly greater in patients with high ω scores (HR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.75‐0.88) and medium ω scores (HR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.78‐0.93) versus low ω scores (HR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.86‐1.08; P for interaction = .011).
Conclusions
LAHNC patients with a higher risk of cancer progression relative to competing mortality, as reflected by a higher ω score, selectively benefit from more intensive treatment.
The ω score measures the proportion of patients' overall event risk attributable to cancer. Based on 2 large meta‐analyses of head and neck cancer, an ω score has been created and externally validated to predict the benefit of intensive treatment.
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