Mexico City and Washington DC – two capitals in comparison
Capital cities generally have a prominent role within their countries as they assemble the representative and political functions of a...
Year: 2020
Global processes through a local lens, comparing urban inequality in Toronto and Bangkok.
Many of the issues facing cities today are influenced by processes on a global level, but how they are experienced...
Chicago and Kuala Lumpur: Through the Lens of Comparative Urbanism
Nine thousand two hundred and sixty six miles apart, separated by land and sea, inhabited by people who speak different...
Copenhagen and Montevideo: bonded by progression
Responding the recent call within the academic urban studies literature to carry out more empirical comparative research, this article comparatively...
At what costs? (Un)controlled urban expansions and socio-ethnic segregation in Luanda and Paris.
Increasing urban population causes many frictions and problems which are not easy to deal with. Through the course of history...
Comparing Moscow and Lagos: Similarities and differences in the pursuit of neoliberalization
Despite the wide gap of the historical-institutional contexts of Moscow and Lagos, a neoliberal urban planning logic derived from the...
Finding a place to thrive: the case of the Argentine Ludar Roma
While much has been written about the substandard housing situation and marginalised socioeconomic position of Roma, fewer accounts exist of...
Postsocialist racialised governance in Bucharest
In an earlier contribution I described the housing situation of Ferentari, a neighbourhood in southern Bucharest. The hardships described in...