Drawing upon the discussions and insights provided by researchers and policy-makers
during a seminar series, this paper explores the rationales for, and the practices and …

This paper examines the sustainability of urban development through the livelihood
conditions of slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The empirical data were collected through …

This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which
it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as' world cities'(New York …

This paper serves two purposes. First, taking up themes in the Editorial Introduction, it
analyses the concept of the city region in the academic and professional literature since its …

Cities occupy only about 3% of the Earth's surface area, but half of the global population
lives in them. The high population density in urban areas requires special actions to make …

This paper introduces some new theoretical ideas to a literature that is just beginning to
conceptualize globalization and cities as networks. The idea of networks is a fashionable …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate ways to attract and retain knowledge
workers in a globally successful knowledge city or a city aspiring to become one …

How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while
others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop …

This book has been with me for some time. Its inspiration is twofold. The first is a desire to
consolidate the theoretical gains of the Left Realist criminology of the last two decades …

The focus of this article is the Swedish experience of local governance and climate change,
including mitigation and adaptation. The municipal response to these two challenges is set …