Poststructuralist and postcolonial critiques have led to a necessary corrective in the social
sciences, but arguments about difference and incommensurability are also mobilised to put …

In the past 2 decades, over 150 new cities built from scratch have been launched in more
than 40 countries. As this trend has intensified in recent years, scholarship on new city …

Cet ouvrage est le résultat d'une recherche menée grâce à l'Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement qui m'a accueillie comme chercheuse entre 2016 et 2018. Je remercie …

A growing body of scholarship examines new cities being built from scratch that are
developed and governed by the private sector. While this scholarship explores discourse …

In the past few years (2020-2024), Cambodia has experienced heavy flood damage. For
example, in 2020, floods killed at least 43, affected more than 800,000 people, and …

Malaysia is estimated to be one of the four largest recipients of Chinese Belt and Road
Initiative investment worldwide, with China surpassing Singapore to become the largest …

CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis
of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West …

Sand is the world's most used construction material forming the physical backbone of the
built environment, while its extraction is causing severe socioecological damages and …

There has not been a lot of focus on housing financialization literature in Indonesia, except
for Lee (1996). This article focuses on the financialization of housing in Indonesia in the past …

Recent studies have focused attention on the proliferation of plans in the Global South for
massive infrastructure investment to accelerate peri-urbanization and link together networks …