Since 1997 the UK New Labour government has put cities at the core of its agenda,
launching new initiatives in neighbourhood renewal to address social exclusion as well as …

This article reviews the emerging literature which uses discourse analysis to explore
questions for housing research. It considers the extent to which housing researchers have …

Industrialized nations rely heavily on fossil fuels as an economic factor. Energy systems
therefore play a special part in realizing visions of future sustainable societies. In Germany …

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory
policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than …

Discourse analysis is becoming an increasingly common approach in planning and
environmental policy research. This paper asserts that the generic treatment of discourse …

The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories--of poor immigrants who flocked there in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of beatniks, hippies, and artists who …

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention'in
Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring …

Recent urban scholarship on the rise of the tourism industry, place marketing and the
transformation of cities into entertainment destinations has been dominated by four major …

In efforts to become “smart cities,” local governments are adopting various technologies that
promise opportunities for increasing participation by expanding access to public comment …

Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The
book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as …