This paper examines recent theoretical exchanges around urban politics that have taken
place between US and UK academics and policy makers. Urban regime theory is outlined …

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

Even in formally open, liberal, democratic states, a series of barriers exist as obstacles to
critical criminologists who wish to conduct research that scrutinises the activities of powerful …

In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched,
catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or …

Throughout the last three decades efforts to regenerate British cities have been based
around the construction of new institutional alliances and policy networks supported by a …

In this paper I argue that a neo-Gramscian strategic relational approach (SRA) offers the
relational and constructivist perspectives necessary to enhance our concrete and theoretical …

In 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend
towards increasing urbanization shows no sign of slowing and the third millennium looks set …

This paper is a sympathetic critique of the current view of the state and state restructuring in
the literature on geographical political economy. We contend that although this literature has …

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban
Form, Peter J. Larkham and Michael P. Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the …

In the context of the desire of policy-makers to stimulate a fair, sustainable and
yetcompetitive economic development across the advanced urban and regional econo-mies …