This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding
space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield …

“Diversity” is the focus of a wide-ranging corpus of normative discourses, institutional
structures, policies and practices in business, public sector agencies, the military …

In this paper, we investigate the ethnic politics of commercial gentrification. We discuss how
ethnicity is conceived of, managed by, and integrated into urban policy; and how the …

A powerful and challenging look at what “success” and belonging mean in America through
the eyes of Latino high schoolers. This book challenges dominant representations of the so …

The" livable city," the" creative city," and more recently the" pop-up city" have become
pervasive monikers that identify a new type of urbanism that has sprung up globally …

Business improvement districts represent a privatising urban governance instrument that
visibly transforms urban landscapes. In the United States, the racialised impacts of business …

This paper brings together urban planning and linguistic perspectives to examine the
semiotic landscape of a Washington, DC 'streatery'in the context of the intersecting public …

Gay men have been implicated in neoliberal urban development strategies (eg the creative
city) as a 'canary'population that forecasts growth. Paradoxically, both neoliberal re …

Although there are thousands of cities on the planet, only a few have emerged as centers for
globalizing tendencies. By most definitions, New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris …

Why, after years of restrictive regulation of street vending, and food vending in particular,
have cities across North America welcomed new food carts and trucks? In this article I draw …