Michele Acuto

Cities

Daniel Pejic, Michele Acuto

Book Chapter  |  2021

What We Learned from the Pandemic: Most of all, it taught us how to adapt under pressure

M Acuto, S Larcom, F Rauch, T Willems

Journal article  |  2021  |  IEEE Spectrum

LIFE IS A HARD SCHOOL: First it gives us the test and only then the lesson. Indeed, throughout history humanity has learned much f..

The gifted city: Setting a research agenda for philanthropy and urban governance

Pablo Fuentenebro, Michele Acuto

Journal article  |  2021  |  URBAN STUDIES

With billions worth of funding to city-based projects, urban dwellers and city leaders the world over, philanthropy is no small ma..

Defying transience? On giving cosmopolitanism a chance

Michele Acuto

Journal article  |  2021  |  City

City Diplomacy: Another Generational Shift?

Michele Acuto, Anna Kosovac, Kris Hartley

Journal article  |  2021  |  Diplomatica

Abstract City diplomacy has a long history and has witnessed a clear sprawl over the last century. Successive “generations” of cit..

Shaping a global comparative imagination? Assessing the role of city rankings in the "global city" discourse

Michele Acuto, Daniel Pejic

Journal article  |  2021  |  AREA

The last decade has seen “global” and “comparative” forms of urbanism flourish, and critiques thereof expand. While in theory the ..

Mobilising urban knowledge in an infodemic: Urban observatories, sustainable development and the COVID-19 crisis

Michele Acuto, Ariana Dickey, Stephanie Butcher, Carla-Leanne Washbourne

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Along with disastrous health and economic implications, COVID-19 has also been an epidemic of misinformation and rumours - an 'inf..

TAKING CITY RANKINGS SERIOUSLY: Engaging with Benchmarking Practices in Global Urbanism

Michele Acuto, Daniel Pejic, Jessie Briggs

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH

Who cares if our case study city has dropped a place in the so-and-so list of such-and-such cities? Whilst city rankings are soari..

WHOSE CITY BENCHMARKS? The Role of the Critical Urbanist in Comparative Urban Measuring

Michele Acuto, Daniel Pejic, Jessie Briggs

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH

By way of rejoinder to the commentaries on our intervention by a selection of urban scholars, we expand the discussion on the natu..

City Leaders Go Abroad: A Survey of City Diplomacy in 47 Cities

Anna Kosovac, Kris Hartley, Michele Acuto, Darcy Gunning

Journal article  |  2021  |  URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH

Cities are playing an increasingly prominent role on the global policy stage, and in the process have established moreformalised i..