Globalization and the spread of neo-liberal models of urban restructuring have resulted in
the rise in gated communities worldwide, including in Africa. The on-going scholarly debate …

This article analyzes the evolution and spatial dynamics of condominium development in
Toronto, the largest housing market in Canada and the site of a rapid take-up of …

An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse,
topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the …

Urban planning, like any other public policy, is inseparable from the political, economic, and
social climate. This study periodizes urban renewal policies on the basis of changes over …

This paper takes issue with the dystopian views that have come to dominate research on
privatized urban forms such as gated communities. Urban scholarship on gating is often …

Through a critical comparison of the spatial management of street vending in Ciudad del
Este, Paraguay and New York City, USA, we show how uncertainty enables the …

Housing commodification has led to the development of gated neighbourhoods in China.
However, the types of gated neighbourhoods are very different from each other, and include …

The claim that the settlements in the West Bank are gated communities might seem trivial.
Those settlements are an explicit example of a community featuring, on the one hand, social …

This article develops the concept of shoestring democracy as a way to characterize the
resulting social relations of private governance structures embedded in two types of …

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society is the first edited
book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use …