This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK,
incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central …

Over the past three decades, research in urban politics or increasingly urban governance
reveals a landscape powerfully reflecting what might now be defined as a post-political …

Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local
states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on …

An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to
contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in …

The purpose of this paper is to advance the research agenda on British tourism policy by
unravelling the critical issues for the tourism sector in Liverpool associated with its …

How urban infrastructure is funded, financed and governed is a central issue for states at the
national, city-regional and city scales. Urban infrastructure is being financialised by financial …

This paper begins from the premise that a number of now fashionable institutionally focused
accounts of urban and regional political economy often begin at a point that is analytically …

Urban scholarship has begun to trouble the neat alignment of smart city governance with
urban entrepreneurialism. Starting from the proposition that states remain central in smart …

In China, economic reforms over the last three decades, have transformed its urban
governments so that economic growth takes priority over other policy goals. The purpose of …

Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to
contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban …