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

Urban studies today is marked by many active debates. In an earlier paper, we addressed
some of these debates by proposing a foundational concept of urbanisation and urban form …

In response to the growing interest in ways to take forward an agenda for a more global
urban studies, this essay advocates a comparative approach to theory building which can …

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of
networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as …

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This
book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close …

Rethinking the open city Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to
urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character …

Inspired by postcolonial critiques, urban studies today is characterized by conceptual and
methodological experimentation in pursuit of a more global approach to understanding …

As the world increasingly urbanizes, the imaginaries, conceptions and politics of urban
density will become increasingly urgent for research, policy, practice and activism. Density is …

Two of the most striking features of smart city discourses are the centrality of technology as a
driver of transformational change and the strange 'placelessness' of its visual narrative …

Karen Bickerstaff is senior lecturer in geography at Exeter University and leads the
department's Environment and Sustainability Research Group. Her research interests centre …