chapter 1 The reassertion of production in the inner city -- chapter 2 Process: Geographies of production in the central city -- chapter 3 Place: The revival of inner city industrial districts -- chapter 4 Restructuring narratives in the global metropolis: From postindustrial to ‘new...

Not all Chinese cities are alike, and these differences are reflected in the challenges posed by urbanisation and the corresponding responses cities undertake, including the formulation of mandated five-year plans. These plans emerge from and contribute to a larger discursive process by which...

Planning and local policies, informed recurrently by theories of transformative urban development, have represented influential (and at times decisive) agencies of change in Vancouver's metropolitan core. A commitment to principles of post-industrialism in the 1970s, realised through the...