Since 1997 the UK New Labour government has put cities at the core of its agenda,
launching new initiatives in neighbourhood renewal to address social exclusion as well as …

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

Many different frameworks can be used to describe and understand the set of relationships
involved in the production, consumption and distribution of housing. This paper is an attempt …

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention'in
Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring …

This paper questions the application of the entrepreneurship discourse to social
entrepreneurship in the UK and looks at how people 'doing'social enterprise appropriate or …

In recent years, discourse analysis has been deployed by academics as a methodology to
understand the urban policy implementation process, in particular, the ways in which key …

This paper offers a critical appraisal of the methodological capacity of Discourse Studies
(DS) in conducting urban research. Based on an extensive literature search, 125 …

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and
allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy …

It is a truism that politicians from countries around the world claim to be in the midst of a
'housing crisis'. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? This paper …

Increasingly, planning for housing development involves political conflict between local
government planning practices, based on urban sustainability and housing intensification …