The desire of governments for a'renaissance'of their cities is a defining feature of
contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul …

Territorial stigmatization is one of the most powerful concepts for understanding how social,
spatial and symbolic processes are intertwined in producing contemporary urban inequality …

The politics of urban development is one of the most enduring, central themes of urban
politics. In Resisting Redevelopment, Eleonora Pasotti explores the forces that enable …

Although the period of highest activity for anarchist movements peaked in the early 1990s,
such movement continues in the present. Contemporary antiauthoritarian movements are a …

Over the past few years, a condominium boom has transformed the City of Toronto:
developers have bought up land in industrial and residential areas and built high-rise …

This study uses participant observation to examine how an all–female collective in Los
Angeles uses urban cycling culture as a way to contest inequalities and advocate for social …

This is an ethnography of waste, cities, and social movements. Primarily one social
movement in particular, Food Not Bombs, which recovers and freely redistributes wasted …

Over the past decade, Toronto's inner city witnessed an extraordinary amount of capital
reinvestment, mainly in the shape of high-rise condominium towers. Developers realized …

The visibility and invisibility of vulnerable individuals or groups in public space have been
extensively used as a conceptual tool to assess the “public” character of space. This article …

Urban redevelopment projects increasingly draw on culture as a tool for rejuvenating city
spaces but, in doing so, can overemphasize the economic or exchange-value potential of a …