Pilar is a city located in the third ring of the Buenos Aires metropolitan region (Argentina). Over the past 30 years, the widespread development of gated residential communities has seemingly gone hand-in-hand with an urbanisation of this outer suburb signalled by the arrival of new...

Over the past 10 years or so, the UK has witnessed intense interregional competition for a small number of large inward investment projects. These projects, examples of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Far East Asia, have been relied upon by nation-states as panaceas to the economic problems...

Settlements variously termed ‘ex-urbs', ‘edge cities', ‘technoburbs’ are taken to signal something different from suburbia and as a consequence might be considered post-suburban. Existing literature has focused on defining post-suburbia as a new era and as a new form of settlement space....