Series: Urban Futures

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet. The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease events...

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet. The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease events...

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide over the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions. Organised thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, environmental politics, and security politics at a global...

Urban Inequalities offers a masterful and critical introduction to key issues and processes shaping contemporary cities, drawing on a whole host of economic, social, spatial, legal, environmental, and planning and design perspectives. In addition to the continuing power of ‘older’ bases of urban inequality – racial and cultural discrimination, gender inequity, legal exclusions, informality and shelter deprivation – it examines...