Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

Has the post-war managerial approach to urban governance in the Netherlands and
Flanders been replaced by more entrepreneurial and financialized forms? In this paper, we …

When I started my PhD and would tell people outside academia I was doing research on
gentrification, the term generally didn't ring any bells. It was a rather obscure academic term …

The transition to sustainable resource efficient cities calls for new governance
arrangements. The awareness that the doubling of the global urban population will result in …

The pro-urban literature reverses the famous proposition made by C. Tilly and W. Blockmans
about'voracious states' and'obstructing cities'. However, the theoretical stream that provided …

This chapter considers the recent history, and likely future, of manufacturing in Northern
England, with reference to the potential impact of initiatives related to the Northern …

Andrew Wallace is a University Academic Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social
Policy at the University of Leeds and researches class, community and the governing of …

This chapter situates the book's analyses of the Northern Powerhouse, devolution and
Northern economic development more generally within an emerging 'politics of place'. It …

The chapter considers efforts in Europe to connect affordable rental housing projects to
emerging forms of social impact investment. In describing the'carrot'of tax incentives and …

England has a highly centralised system of government. Devolution to Combined Authorities
could provide the opportunity for local citizens to have much more power over the policies …