An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield. The Infrastructural South represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure's role in the third wave of...

Recent work has argued that zoning is responsible for racial segregation, disparities in public goods provision, growing regional inequality, and exploding housing costs in productive areas. However, the slow-moving nature of land regulation’s effects suggests a crucial need for historical...

The increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and...

"Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgotten, or refurbished.Monsoon Marketplace uncovers the entangled vernacular cultures of capitalist modernity, mass consumption, and media spectatorship...

This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have threatening racial encounters with insiders. We use unique data for a sample of active-duty Army personnel...

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...

Der Beitrag stellt fünf gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Fachkomplexe vor, die Stadt und deren Entwicklung als eigenen Reflexions- und Forschungsgegenstand in ihr wissenschaftliches Handlungsfeld aufgenommen haben. Die Soziologie dient dabei als Referenzrahmen. Für die zur Diskussion stehenden...

Der Beitrag untersucht, wie es in einer Mittelstadt Normalität wird, Geflüchtete auszugrenzen. Dazu wird das analytische Modell feindseliger Orte formuliert, welches die Ausgrenzung der als fremd markierten Gruppe erklärt. Voraussetzung ist eine Normalitätsverschiebung, wodurch sich die...

Der Beitrag untersucht, wie es in einer Mittelstadt Normalität wird, Geflüchtete auszugrenzen. Dazu wird das analytische Modell feindseliger Orte formuliert, welches die Ausgrenzung der als fremd markierten Gruppe erklärt. Voraussetzung ist eine Normalitätsverschiebung, wodurch sich die...

Hay un amplio debate sobre las transformaciones sociodemográficas y territoriales en curso en las metrópolis del mundo, que incluye a las de América Latina. Hay consenso en que la forma metropolitana está cambiando hacia configuraciones más difusas y extendidas territorialmente y más...

Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has faced enormous economic growth and rapid urban transformation over the last few decades. More recently, this has been accentuated by the construction of major urban public transit systems in the State and a desire to implement the Transit-Oriented...

From the rural to the urban and the production of space / Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton -- Notes on translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to From the rural to the urban (1969) -- Problems of rural sociology: the peasant community and its historical-sociological problems (1949) --...

1. Why another book on inequality? <STRONG>Part I: The Rise and Fall of Inequality in Latin America and Argentin</STRONG>a 2. From Neoliberalism to the Pink Tide and back 3. Old and New Forms of Intra-Urban Inequality 4. How the privatization of water spurred inequality in metropolitan Buenos Aires <STRONG>Part II: Why...</strong></strong>

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die räumlich ungleiche Verteilung der Wohnstandorte verschiedener Bevölkerungsgruppen in deutschen Städten. Wir beleuchten alle drei Dimensionen der residenziellen Segregation: die soziale, die ethnische und die demografische. Hierzu verwenden wir Daten für...

Shenzhen: Die Metropole der Zukunft zwischen Kreativität und Überwachung. Wer wissen möchte, wie wir und vor allem unsere Kinder bald schon leben, welche Technologien sie und die Welt prägen werden, muss durch Shenzhen streifen. Die 20-Millionen-Metropole in Südchina gehört zu den...

Introduction -- Urban decline and informality -- Regulations and enforcement -- From illicit to informal -- Informality beyond politics or poverty -- Necessity appropriators -- Lifestyle appropriators -- Routine appropriators -- Surviving the city or settling the city? -- Regulating informality,...

The city besieged -- Will globalization lead to permanent pandemic? -- Can Indian sewers make Indiana healthier? -- Can our bodies be more pandemic proof? -- Why did so much healthcare spending produce so little health? -- Do robots spread disease? -- What is the future of downtown? -- The...

Homeoffice, Undertourism, Onlineshopping: Die Auswirkungen der Covid-19-Pandemie haben den Blick auf die Stadt verändert. Ist die dichte Stadt ein Sehnsuchtsort von gestern? Wie kann sie kommenden Ausnahmezuständen infolge des Klimawandels gewachsen sein? Die Prognosen schwanken zwischen...

Despite the urban resurgence of the last few decades, American cities are still remarkably weak in relation to both markets and the centralizing state. Two features of the U.S. political economy account for this weakness. The first is the practice of treating cities as competitors in a global...

Statistical information is an important tool for analysing changing patterns of urban development and the impact that policy decisions have on life in our cities, towns and suburbs. Urban Europe - statistics on cities, towns and suburbs provides detailed information for a number of territorial...

Statistical information is an important tool for analysing changing patterns of urban development and the impact that policy decisions have on life in our cities, towns and suburbs. Urban Europe - statistics on cities, towns and suburbs provides detailed information for a number of territorial...

Residential segregation by race and income are enduring features of urban America. Understanding the effects of residential segregation on educational attainment, labor market outcomes, criminal activity and other outcomes has been a leading project of the social sciences for over half a...

Residential segregation by race and income are enduring features of urban America. Understanding the effects of residential segregation on educational attainment, labor market outcomes, criminal activity and other outcomes has been a leading project of the social sciences for over half a...

Introduction: global finance and the inequality of hegemony -- Life in the city: space, place and inequality -- Inside the boys' club of global finance -- Gender, space and family -- Exclusive communities -- A community in crisis redundancy and the game of elite finance -- Conclusion: the city...

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...

"Individuality and collectivity are at the heart of sociological inquiry. Through a tour de force of cultural history, social theory, urban sociology and economic sociology, Christian Borch offers an innovative rethinking of these terms and their interconnections via the concept of the social...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Politics of recuperation. An introduction / Francisco Martínez -- Recuperative modes of action: Reciprocity, dependence and resistance to austerity policies in rural Portugal / Ema Pires -- Beautiful people eat ugly fruit: Ugliness and the cracks of the system / André...