Local potential in a region tends to be neglected in resolving conflicts in the community. This
study aims to explain the importance the accommodation of local wisdom in conflict …

An interdisciplinary 'infrastructure turn'has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the
concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to …

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 …

Cities are sites of human, ecological and institutional stress. The elements that make up the
city–its people, landscapes and processes–are engaged in constant assemblage and …

Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …

Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical
geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers …

The impacts of population growth and agglomeration development on urbanization are
complex. They cannot be effectively disentangled by simple fixed-effect regression analyses …

In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a
reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from …

In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to
incorporate the city's traditional 'outsides' into urban research. Urban political ecology …

Advancing global urbanism depends upon making Africa's cities a more dominant part of the
global urban narrative. Constructing a more legitimate research agenda for African cities …