Socioeconomic inequality is on the rise in major European cities, as are concerns over it,
since it is seen as a threat to social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is …

The history of this edited volume goes back to February 2013 when the idea for this book
first emerged during a coffee break at Umeå University in Sweden when we realised that …

The Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West project
investigates changing levels of socio-economic segregation in 13 major European cities …

Socioeconomic disparities have been rising on both sides of the Atlantic for the last forty
years. This study illuminates the relationship among economic inequality, other contextual …

Following the case of 100 Roma people evicted from their home in the centre of Bucharest in
September 2014, the article looks at evictions and practices of resistance from the ground …

Compared with North America and Western Europe, Chinese cities used to feature a low
extent of socioeconomic segregation. However, systematic analysis of the changes in …

The article explores the politics of life underground in Bucharest, Romania. It focuses on a
tunnel passing under Bucharest's central train station, where a community of drug users and …

By connecting the literature on urban development processes in post-socialist cities with
debates from the area of place branding, this paper critically examines recent narratives of …

Bucharest is one of the most exposed capital cities to the risk of earthquakes. Memories
about the massive damages which occurred during the past century and of the seismic …

The exceptional dynamics of urban change in the Central and Eastern European (CEE)
countries sparked an almost immediate revitalization of urban studies during the 1990s. In …