In recent years resilience has emerged as a key concept in public policy. After September 11
in particular, resilience has become an increasingly central organizing metaphor within the …

The latter part of the twentieth century witnessed the resurgence of strategic spatial planning
at various scales from pan-European to the local level. In the UK, this 'spatial turn'in planning …

Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this
book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing …

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of
transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring …

This article presents findings from a two-year study of fear of crime and victimization in a
high-crime, inner-city neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Face-to-face interviews were …

Studies of race, class, and educational risk often proceed in an established but misleading
order: First, race is defined as a trait given at birth and turned into trouble by prejudice and …

This thesis uses a transdisciplinary, sustainability-science approach to investigate the
potential for the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia to make a transition to …

By the turn of the twenty-first century a shakeup of ideas around race and racism seemed
inevitable. Fifty years of activism and reflection on diversity, equality and civil rights …

Las Vegas is one of the least understood famous places in the world. Outsiders seldom
recognize that hundreds of thousands of people make their home there. In the minds of …

This dissertation traces an'alternative topography'of San Francisco, in which the roles of past
and current judicial status, locations of key resources, economic strategies, the locations of …