The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

In the midst of what has been termed the 'urban age', two divergent approaches to
understanding life in cities have emerged. In this first of three urban geography progress …

The world development institutions commonly present'urban governance'as an antidote to
the so-called'urbanisation of poverty'and'parasitic urbanism'in Africa. Governance for Pro …

Recent work in analyses of infrastructure and affect theory has mobilized a concept of
'affective infrastructure'in two related but somewhat different ways. On the one hand, some …

In this article I examine grassroots responses to state-directed urban renewal in two poor
neighborhoods in Istanbul. Through detailed analysis of resident perspectives and urban …

This study aims to critically analyze the transformation of the Turkish state's role in urban
redevelopment and housing finance by focusing on 3 mass housing projects from Ankara in …

Design or integrated thinking increasingly features in discussion of the future of business
education that seeks to innovate new models different from the functionalist, modernist silos …

Sustainable development has been embraced by neoliberalism in the form of marketising
the environment in a 'green way'. While political economists have considered this movement …

This paper offers a critical analysis of how urban placemaking as a top-down or bottom-up
action, involving organizational intervention or facilitation, is typified by problematic angles …

On a listening walk in Edinburgh, Scotland, Michael Gallagher and Jonathan Prior introduce
us to a mode of walking in which listening to the sounds of spaces is the focus. While …