Elgar International Handbooks on Gender Series Editor Sylvia Chant The Handbook on Gender in World Politics This Handbook serves as a compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on gender in world politics across a number of academic […]
Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto Lopez-Morales Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay […]
Planetary Gentrification Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto Lopez-Morales At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by ‘gentrification’ today? How can we […]
Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá Austin Zeiderman Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin […]
Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a Feminised Urban Future Sylvia Chant, Cathy McIllwaine Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and […]
Planning in a Global Era Andy Thornley and Yvonne Rydin (Editors) Globalization was the buzzword of the 1990s. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel have all contributed to the establishment of what has […]
Planning in the UK: agendas for the new millennium Yvonne Rydin and Andy Thornley A study of planning in the UK, exploring agendas for the 21st century. The main body of the text addresses the […]
Working Capital: life and labour in contemporary London Nick Buck, Ian Gordon, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe, Mark Kleinman For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low […]