From the foreclosure crisis of 2008, to the tech boom-provoked housing crisis currently
engulfing the San Francisco Bay Area, low-income residents of Oakland, California have …

The global financial and more widely economic crisis which began in 2007–2008 has been
a crisis indelibly of political economy. This fact has led scholars of finance 'back'to political …

In the context of great economic turmoil and uncertainty, the emergent conflict between
continued globalisation and growing economic nationalism means that a geographical …

This article argues that the turn toward smart cities, emphasizing solutions, services, and
infrastructures driven by digital technologies, has reinforced a dominant ideology shaping …

Bicycling for transportation in American cities has grown dramatically in the past twenty
years, symbolizing the return of capital investment and commercial vitality to formerly …

A long history of overt discrimination left an enduring racialized imprint upon the geography
of the East Bay. While the benefits of a metropolitan decentralization of jobs, housing, and …

In the years since the financial crisis, low-income housing markets are increasingly
dominated by speculative bulk ownership and eviction. These intertwined trends reflect both …

Innovative, high-technology industries are commonly described as drivers of regional
development.'Tech'workers earn high wages, but they are also said to generate knock-on …

We explore the participation levels of NIMBY ('Not In My Backyard') proponents versus other
voices at public hearings San Francisco, a city with an exceptionally dire housing crisis …

In the Fall of 2014, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States and the San
Francisco Bay Area became the site of nightly demonstrations that deployed a range of …