There has been growing interest in the expansion of global investment in urban areas, and
the financialisation of urban development, both of which bring new business logics into the …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

" The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our" compartmentalised world".
The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of …

From innovations in mobile money to bookkeeping devices, the burgeoning of financial-
technologies (fintech) in the Global South has been critiqued by scholars concerned with …

This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how
these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of …

The current global development agendas provide relatively little guidance on how the
incredible challenge of sustainable urban development in Africa can and should be …

CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis
of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West …

At the messy interfaces between partial networks, regular failures, and everyday 'gap filling',
a rich body of scholarship has emerged. Straddling anthropology, geography, and …

Expertise and experts have been at the heart of the last few years of pandemic crisis. Yet,
their role in urban governance is still a broadly uncharted territory. This special issue …

While state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their
relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often …