Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …

Large‐scale demolition has been ubiquitous in fast urbanising China. The politics of
redevelopment is often seen as secondary, derived from and defined by local …

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex
interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and …

Place‐making–the set of social, political and material processes by which people iteratively
create and recreate the experienced geographies in which they live–is an important but oft …

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural
residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance–for the distribution …

The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging
writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography …

Recent years have witnessed the beginnings of a renaissance in the field of comparative
urban studies. The paper discusses this body of work's history, drawing on contributions …

This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work
initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 …

ABSTRACT A coalition of leftist political groups, civic movements, and grassroots
organizations led by social activist Ada Colau won the Barcelona municipal elections of …

As the first installment of a two-part article exploring contemporary transformations in
metropolitan governance in the wake of the entrepreneurial turns of the 1980s and …