Series: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

HOUSING BOOMS IN GATEWAY CITIES “David Ley examines the development of housing booms, and policies intended to stimulate or limit them. Utilising a comparative approach in five gateway cities, he provides a superb understanding of the politics of booms, lifting the debate beyond narrow housing and real estate studies. This book is required reading for anyone interested in global cities,...

Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West Africa. From post-independence high modernist ambitions to building the opportunities to make a living, the emerging transnational corridor along the West African coast provides a starting point for insights which will expand and inform understanding of both...

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanisation. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Worlding Cities describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’ and substantially expands and updates the themes of capital...

Classify, Exclude, Police ‘Laurent Fourchard’s deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and at the same time how political linkages are forged between state and society, elites and subalterns, bureaucratic structures and personal relations.’Frederick Cooper,...

Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil. Organised around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economies. Provides an original theoretical framework for a...

Tim Bunnell's book, featured in the movie Pulang, has recently been discussed by the author in several interviews and programmes. Bunnell shares how his fascination with the tales of Malay seamen in the UK inspired him to write this volume. From World City to the World in One City examines the changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives...