Cities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary book series addressing the inter relations between
cities and the cultures they produce. The series takes a special interest in the impact of …

This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape
as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate …

As any academic book, this piece results from the convergence of multiple research
journeys, which led editors and authors to unpack temporary processes of transformation …

This article explores cultural cityism at a time when a more expansive,'planetary'urbanization
is argued to have superseded 'the city'as the dominant urban form. It takes an essentially …

The title of this book, From the Margins to the Centre, refers to three related themes that have
run closely together in the debates on the city in the 1980s and 1990s. Firstly a process of …

* What is distinctive about urban life?* What key trends have shaped the contemporary city?*
How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies …

In the decade between 2007 and 2017 London changed fundamentally. This article is about
how the actions of the transnational über-wealthy—the “have yachts”—impinged on the life …

Contemporary urban theory is marked by a division. Urban policy practitioners, planners,
architects and town hall administrators have over the past two decades rediscovered an …

This critical introduction to the special issue examines the place and significance of urban
modernity as a concept in contemporary urban studies. It draws on postcolonial theory to …

This article argues that the overwhelming critical and historical focus on the figure of the
flâneur in readings of literary modernism has led to the marginalization of key aspects of the …