Global urbanization and food production are in direct competition for land. This paper carries
out a critical review of how displacing crop production from urban and peri-urban land to …

New municipalism is a nascent global social movement aiming to democratically transform
the local state and economy–but what, precisely, is so new about it? I situate new …

Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening
polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At …

This introduction to the special issue on 'Advancing the understanding of social innovation in
sustainability transitions' is situated at the intersection of transition studies and social …

COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities
and urban life. Future visons have veered from the 'death of the city'to visual renderings and …

Advocated mostly by technology companies, the smart city concept promises participation,
democratization and innovative urbanism. Tracking these promises and ideas, this paper …

Drawing on a mix of policy learning and new institutionalist theory, the paper sets out the
empirical evidence regarding the unfolding of neighbourhood planning (NP) in England …

This article examines the emergence of 'open'urban economic projects that promote the
transformative potential of social innovation and civic enterprise. By putting the burgeoning …

Urban governance innovation is being framed as an imperative to address complex urban
and global challenges, triggering the adoption of novel institutional forms, approaches and …

Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical alternatives to
municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public …