Informal workers produce economic, social, and environmental value for cities. Too often,
policy elites, including those promoting sustainable cities, overlook this value, proposing …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and
“Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and …

A vigorous debate has emerged in recent years over how to understand cities of the Global
South. A pivotal issue in this debate is whether urbanisation processes in the South are so …

Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of 'cities' as
ontological entities separate from 'nature'and on how the production of settlements is …

This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent
conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy …

The marginalization, sidelining, erasure and dismissal of 'othered'people and
epistemologies persist within the discipline of geography today. In the present article, I …

Recent studies have reconceptualized infrastructure as comprising both material and social
processes, thus offering insights into lived experiences, governance, and socio-spatial …

Urban displacement has become a central topic in the social sciences. This welcome
development, however, appears to focus on the act of displacement rather than the condition …

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the
interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban …