Problem statement: Most Arab countries currently experience urban population growth at high rates, whereby over half the population lives in towns and cities, a trend which, in some cases, reaches more than 90%. Urbanization in the Arab world has been fuelled by high fertility rates, substantial...

India has the world's second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in health related indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest...

The chapter first explores the rise of the ‘network orthodoxy’. It proceeds to develop a critique of the regime-theoretical conception of the ruling class, building on my earlier work (Davies, 2002) and arguing that the Marxist conception is both stronger and, in the context of a theory of...

The realization of urban transformations, especially if it is aimed at large-scale building heritage enhancement and refurbishment, or infrastructure transformations - as in the case of the Sustainable Smart City projects - can take place through complex projects starting from the identification...

Street networks may be planned according to clear organizing principles or they may evolve organically through accretion, but their configurations and orientations help define a city's spatial logic and order. Measures of entropy reveal a city's streets' order and disorder. Past studies have...

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...

Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research from Zambia. It argues that people living in...

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...