Background Up to now, research has focused on the effects of urban renewal programs and
their impacts on health. While some of this research points to potential negative health …

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

This theme issue of Environment and Planning A builds on the analytic framework
elaborated by Wacquant in Urban Outcasts (Polity Press, 2008) and on the activities of the …

In this paper I recapitulate the origins, structure, and purpose of Neil Smith's rent gap theory,
and assess the frequently discussed but rarely dissected empirical studies of rent gaps, in …

This article explores the history and traces the realisation of a category that was invented by
journalists, amplified by free market think tanks and converted into policy doxa (common …

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human
geography. While most of the world's population now lives in cities, the definition and …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration,
while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book …

Territorial stigmatisation emerged over the past decade as the prevailing concept for
understanding the phenomenon of disreputable places and the processes by which they are …

This paper makes the case that a lack of political and institutional recognition underpins the
(re) production of domestic energy poverty. Previous research into the drivers of energy …