This paper grapples with the state's response to contemporary urban movements. In light of
recent debates on the changing nature of urban movements, it presents an overview of the …

Redevelopment in Hong Kong must be accelerated in response to urban decay and land
shortages. However, due to a lack of incentives and effective policy tools under Hong Kong's …

Across cities of the global South, major initiatives are underway to assemble land from
informal settlements in order to make it available for large-scale infrastructure and …

Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Processes Compressed in Time and Space presents the
global phenomenon of tourism and urban regeneration through the contemporary frames of …

This paper explores the effects of large-scale land deals for a private city development
project in Ghana–the Appolonia City of Light. From the conceptual lens of accumulation by …

As policy and theory travel, comparative urbanism becomes important to address questions
concerning if and how gentrification and revanchist urbanism have 'gone South', or 'gone …

This article deals with the path-dependent features of financialization of housing in Taiwan,
an East Asian developmental state. The levels of foreign capital and securitization in …

Democracy on Trial is an attempt to begin to negotiate the problem of writing about and
understanding democracy and social movements in Taiwan, and what they can tell us about …

This article aims to develop a comparative framework of analysis to study urban crises,
arguing that there is a need to establish the analytical links between 'everyday life and …

This article, by using empirical evidence from Tehran, looks beyond the West to explore the
implications of the reliance of the entrepreneurial local government on private capital for the …