Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

The academic literature on urban policy and planning which explicitly links to neo-liberalism
is huge. The paper systematises much of this literature from the period 1990 to 2010, with an …

Major social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies
have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in S pain and L atin …

Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis
Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian …

While globalization is largely theorized in terms of trans‐border flows, this article suggests
an exploratory sociological framework for analyzing globalization as consisting of systemic …

Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of
exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies, arguing that local forms …

Social exclusion and inclusion are context-specific concepts in at least three senses. First, in
normative terms, the dominant image, framework, ideal or paradigm of an inclusive society …

Abstract E kers M., H amel P. and K eil R. Governing suburbia: modalities and mechanisms
of suburban governance, Regional Studies. This paper traces the major modalities of …

Prevailing perspectives on the impacts of globalization on urban form in large, globalizing
cities in Asia hold that these cities are experiencing an inexorable process of …

For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic
society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and …