Urban Theory

Heterotopia and the City offers new explorations of Foucault's concept of ‘heterotopia’. The book brings together a new translation of Foucault's seminal essay with case studies from academics across the globe, investigating how heterotopia has influenced our contemporary urban spaces...

Insurgencies and Revolutions focuses on five broad themes where John Friedmann’s contributions have risen to challenge established paradigms and generated the space for revolutionary thinking and action in urban and regional planning – Theorising hope; Economic development and regionalism; World cit..

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook embraces the complex ways in which cities of the global south and the global north are rapidly shifting and..

The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook embraces the complex ways in which cities of the global south and the global north are rapidly shifting and..

This book proposes – and its various chapters offer demonstrations – importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT)...

Since the late eighteenth century academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural, and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities in the ‘Global North’. This volume seeks to redress that balance an..