For long-time residents of Washington, DC's Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become
almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market …

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has' gone
global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major …

The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to
tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual …

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes,
leading sociologist Gran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the …

The paper selectively explores American suburbia, real and imagined, with a particular
emphasis on the evolution of neoliberal thought and practice. It develops the argument that …

When Jacob Coxey's army marched into Washington, DC, in 1894, observers didn't know
what to make of this concerted effort by citizens to use the capital for national public protest …

The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges
conventions of urban planning. Around the globe, most new urban development has …

ABSTRACT The United States experienced the Great Recession between 2007 and 2009
and many American cities and communities are still suffering from its legacy. During the prior …

We propose a tentative theory linking economic and innovation dynamics with the ways
capital cities try to develop and position themselves through the formulation of locational …

The Anacostia River severs Washington, DC Military waste, urban runoff, and former
farmland dirty the water, but people who live along its shores cherish the river and fight to …