In Schafran's (2014, 321) paper for City's re-inaugurated Debates section, he writes that
'gentrification has never been more relevant as a global urban force'. Noting that 'Mumbai is …

This book studies the recent legacy of basti" evictions" in Delhi--mass clearings of some of
the city's poorest neighborhoods--as a way to understand how the urban poor are …

This intervention contributes to recent work in urban geography that integrates the
conceptual frameworks of assemblages and actor-network theory by highlighting two …

The idea of the city-region has been present in the literature on urban studies at least since
the publication of Patrick Geddes's Cities in Evolution in 1915. However, it was only after the …

In our engagement with Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid's thesis on planetary
urbanization we argue that, while they have successfully marked some important limits of …

This article aims to assess the impacts of urban spatial structure on economic productivity.
Drawing upon detailed gridded population data of 306 Chinese cities at the prefecture level …

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human
geography. While most of the world's population now lives in cities, the definition and …

Despite widespread practices worldwide and increasing research centred on smart
urbanism, there is no universal definition for 'smart cities'. More importantly, a growing line of …

Advocating a provincialization of critical urban theory, we seek to move beyond current
polarizations and disputes over the basis of urban theory, creating space to take seriously …

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary
approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and …