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,...
Complexities of Comparative Urbanism: A Critical Study of Sydney and Lima
Sydney and Lima present an interesting comparative case study. They have multiple outwardly similar characteristics including the presence of a...
Comparative urbanism, and how to compare the incomparable
Due to continuing globalization, many cities across the globe are becoming increasingly inter-exchangeable in terms of architecture, facilities, employment and...
Car or Careless in Italy?
There are increasingly good arguments to devote less money, time and space in our cities to the privately owned fossil...
From Kahvehane to Coffee Bar: Urban Life in Istanbul
The story goes that the Western world discovered coffee after the Turks abandoned the siege of Vienna in 1683, retiring...
From Hippies to Hipsters and Homelessness in Haight-Ashbury
The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco is known as the heart of the 1960s hippie movement. The “Summer of Love”...
The Cities of Central China: Urban Development Case Studies in Wuhan
China has urbanized incredibly fast. In 1979, the beginning of China’s economic reforms, only about 18% of the country’s population...
