The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in
the Occupy Movement-new media public spheres have without doubt radically altered social …

Issues of urban equity have long been linked to urban planning. Yet in practice the quest for
the 'just city', defined in terms of democracy, diversity, difference and sustainability, has …

The renewed interest in Marxism that occurred in social sciences and humanities after the
2008 economic crisis has not yet found its counterpart in spatial planning. This paper …

Today we often hear academics, commentators, pundits, and politicians telling us that new
media has transformed activism, providing an array of networks for ordinary people to …

This chapter focuses on the notion of'feral capitalism'and the implications of this for the
urban planning project at the development/property interface. Issues of land and property …

The imperative of climate change adds urgency to the longstanding equity agenda in cities
and urban areas. Justice and equity issues arise in the climate change context because of …

During colonial times, cities in Asia Pacifi c simply functioned as primary commodity
production and resource extraction centers for Western imperialism (Murphey 1969) …

Few social scientists can justifiably claim to have been one of a small group of prime movers
in the establishment of a sub-discipline, authoring a seminal paper which set the agenda for …

Leftwing local initiatives often develop out of a capitalist crisis–Germany in the 1920s, Italy in
the 1970s, Britain in the 1980s, the US in the 1990s, Latin America in recent decades. 1 …

California continues to endure the detrimental effects of climate change, such as poor air
quality, flooding, and heatwaves. Concurrently, the state has seen an increase in the …