Land-use changes and urban sprawl have transformed European cities, with a direct impact
on both metropolitan structures and socioeconomic functions. However, these processes …

This book arose from a course, Comparative Local Government and Urban Politics, which I
taught with Keith Dowding at the London School of Economics between 1997 and 2000 …

Urban planning is undergoing a period of transformation across Europe, with a major trend
towards increased urban competition, national deregulation and greater private sector …

Urban development in southern Europe differs from urbanization patterns observed in other
affluent countries. Urbanization processes in the Mediterranean region reflect …

Illegal immigrants constitute a major issue in southern European countries. This book is the
first piece of published research in this area and gives a comparative analysis of southern …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …

After sequential cycles of urbanization and suburbanization, European cities underwent a
(more or less intense) re-urbanization wave. The present study analyzes short-term …

Recent urbanization trends in the Mediterranean region have stimulated a debate on the
relationship between the form and the functions of cities, in turn revealing a relatively high …

The prefix post denotes after, but this evolutionist dimension is the very dimension
postmodernism wants to distance itself from. What the celebrated deconstructionist …

This paper deals with clusters of post-industrial urban economies and their impacts on the
spatial restructuring and the relandscaping of the contemporary inner city. It investigates …