This article aims to contribute to current discussions about “making cities inclusive, safe,
resilient, and sustainable”(SDG 11) by linking debates that are currently taking place in …

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 …

This report discusses the financialization of urban governance and the built environment as
an explicit state strategy, focusing on municipal finance and the use of financial products by …

In the movement towards building greener and more sustainable cities, real estate
developers are increasingly embracing not only green building construction but broader …

We are living through a global urban transition, but the timing of this transition has varied
significantly across countries and regions. This geographic variation in timing matters, both …

Mineral aggregates (sand and gravel) have been the fastest growing and the most
volumetrically extracted material group extracted over the 21st century. This growth has …

This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and
“Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and …

In a bid to actualise the vision of transforming Lagos into Africa's model megacity and global
economic and financial hub, the state government has embarked on and/or supported …

In this article, a framework is developed to empirically analyse conflicts over land in the
context of global crises. This framework aims to overcome the trap of a dichotomous and …

Incremental housing drives urbanization worldwide, and is recognized as the basis for
socially relevant solutions to housing shortages in the global South. However, scholarship …