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...
Comparative Urbanism
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...
Rio de Janeiro and Rome in pursuit of tourism
Tourism is a vital part of Rio de Janeiro and Rome's urban economies. In this blogpost, both cities’ recent city-marketing...
Edinburgh and Kuala Lumpur: 6,603 miles apart and still driven by the same forces
In this article, two cities will be compared that are separated by 6,603 miles: Edinburgh and Kuala Lumpur. It is...
Comparative Urbanism: San Francisco and Dar es Salaam
Comparative urbanism is concerned with understanding the similarities and differences between cities and urban processes. It combines together generalizations of...
Tehran and Amsterdam: A Comparison of two opposites?
At first sight, the two metropoles compared in this essay possess contrasting, almost opposite, genius loci (‘spirit of place’). Amsterdam,...