How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three
dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights …

Urban economic development is one of the primary engines of hazard exposure and
differential social vulnerability, nevertheless, the drivers of urban development are rarely …

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

This article defines the key parameters of 'state entrepreneurialism'as a governance form
that combines planning centrality and market instruments, and interprets how these two …

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 …

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is
impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on …

This essay reflects on recent debates around planetary urbanization, many of which have
been articulated through dismissive caricatures of the core epistemological orientations …

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of
networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as …

American cities today are simultaneously the same and different from Wilson's classic
portrayal in The Truly Disadvantaged ([1987] 2012), first published over 30 years ago …

The global health crisis due to the pandemic of the SARS‐CoV‐2 is associated with
processes of urbanisation and globalisation. Globally well‐connected areas with high …