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Difference between Global South cities: Mexico City, ...

This work pursues a new explanatory framework for understanding some of the ...

Joshua Lew McDermott 12th May 2025
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Book Review

Book review: Build: Investing in America’s ...

In "Build: Investing in America’s Infrastructure", Sadek Wahba contributes a ...

Saira Hafeez 2nd April 2025
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Book Review

Book review: Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, ...

Philipp Demgenski, Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage ...

Hangli Zeng 10th January 2025
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Article

The Spectre of Growth in Doughnut Economics

New blog post on: The spectre of growth in urban transformations: Insights from ...

Benedikt Schmid 6th January 2025
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Article

Hello, stranger? How attraction trumps interaction in �...

New blog post by Sverre Bjerkeset discusses his new paper on strangers' ...

Sverre Bjerkeset 16th December 2024
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Book Review

Book review: The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven ...

Padraig R Carmody, James T Murphy, and Richard Grant, et al., The Urban ...

Patrick Brandful Cobbinah 25th November 2024
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Podcast

6. Walking the city with… Sergio Montero and urban ...

Solutions, mobility and getting on the road Caitlin and Michele walk the city ...

2nd September 2024
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Podcast

4. Walking the city with… Shenjing He and Chinese ...

Caitlin and Michele walk the city with Shenjing He, discussing the complexity ...

2nd September 2024
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Article

Migration across the urban hierarchy: Has China’s ...

What is the current stage of China's urbanisation process? Do demographic ...

Jun Wen, Sylvia JT Jansen, Harry van der Heijden ... 31st July 2024
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Book Review

Book review: Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: ...

Beibei Tang, Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State–Society ...

Chao Xie 27th May 2024
Book Review

Book review: Atlas of Informal Settlement: ...

Based on: Kim Dovey, Matthijs van Oostrum, and Tanzil Shafique, et al., ...

Faiza Moatasim 24th April 2024
Article

Unbundling tenure security and demand for property ...

Many developing countries invest in programmes of land registration where plots ...

Martina Manara and Tanner Regan 10th April 2024