While sustainability and green urbanism have become buzzwords in urban policy circles,
too little analysis has focused on who gets to decide what green looks like. Many visions of …

This paper reviews the literature on craft production to explore the ways in which the
normative landscape of craft is affecting the contemporary geographies of craft‐based …

Making material things remains central to human economies and subsistence, and to how
earthly resources are transformed. Yet experiences and knowledges of those who make …

Creative city policy has been in circulation for two decades. Far from a fad, the creative city
concept has been taken up in a diverse range of cities despite seemingly fatal academic …

Urban policy-makers have largely treated the cultural economy as either an appendage of a
larger creative or knowledge-based economy or as a means of enhancing consumption. The …

The arts have long played a role in debates around gentrification and displacement, yet their
roles and impacts as change agents are not clear-cut. According to the standard account …

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial
constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy …

This paper discusses the problems of local industrial displacement by new apartment
buildings in a high-density mixed residential and factory zone. Conceptually, we develop a …

Urban activities such as housing, productive space, green space, offices, etc., compete for
scarce urban land, especially in cities with population growth, such as London and Brussels …

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often
underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of …