This article provides a historical-theoretical review of perspectives on neighborhood and
community as a social unit, an exploration of the neighborhood as a spatial unit and the …

Agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
the United Nations and the World Bank continue to privilege national over municipal …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

Contrary to the globalist contention that interdependence is on the increase, Waltz argues
that" interdependence is low and, if anything, is on the decrease." Drawing on the history of …

This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case
study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil …

Situational Analysis creates analytic maps of social processes and relationships identified
using grounded theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke …

Millions of families across the United States are evicted each year. Yet, we know next to
nothing about the impact eviction has on their lives. Focusing on low-income urban mothers …

In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—
many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue …

This chapter presents an overview of situational analysis, an extension of grounded theory.
Here I engage the question:“What's new in situational analysis and how does it differ from …

Combining statistical and ethnographic analyses, this article explores the prevalence and
ramifications of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of …