It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre
has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the
American Association of Geographers annual meeting*** Two decades after the fall of the …

Because redistributive policies are usually at odds with the economic interests of the city,
proponents will find difficulty in gathering support for them.. To contribute to a cause so …

Good land policy provides a diversity of land uses with plural property relations. No single
kind of property rules fits the purposes of all types of land uses. Neither is a de-tached single …

This paper will investigate the emergence of a digitalising state in the global south through a
focus on new techniques of governance initiated by the information age. It will discuss the …

In August 2014, a white police officer shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in
Ferguson, Missouri, USA, fueling the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. The following …

This paper explores the co-production of urban entrepreneurialism by examining the work of
civil society groups in producing mobile models of slum entrepreneurialism. While slums …

The extent to which certain kinds of people are inundated with toxins, pollutants, bacteria,
viruses, violence, and disaster is well documented. The various ways in which the extension …

This book attempts to conceptualize the contemporary urban condition. I wanted to stress the
importance of conceptualization, because it is a very hard thing to do, but it is the most …