This book examines the nature and dynamics of gated communities within the specificities of reform Shanghai, a city that arguably has been at the forefront of China’s new urban/consumer revolution.
Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspec..
This book examines the role of urbanization and urban growth in the emerging economies, taking the ‘BRICS’ countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and..
In the five years since the first edition of Cities and Development was published, awareness of the challenges associated with urban growth in the dev..
With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use t..
This reissue, first published in 1969, is a study of contemporary social policy in developing countries, which places the emphasis upon the human need..
First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geograp..
A path-breaking collection of essays on city texts and cultures, this anthology merges the concerns of urban, cultural and literary studies and engage..
Initially published in 1981, this book examines the problems of housing provision for the urban poor in developing countries, within the context of th..
The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Ci..
The Transnational Studies Reader is a new approach to understanding global social dynamics that doesn’t take for granted that these dynamics take plac..
Safer Cities in the Global South asks what happens when social theory, largely developed and tested in the Global North, meets the realities of life i..
This book illustrates and discusses the broad range of methods available for counterfactual analysis of infrastructure programmes such as establishmen..