The many shades of grey in urban governance
Most research on urban planning, policy and development only considers legal practices and actors, and treats illegal ones as insignificant …
Tag: urban policy
The Concept of Neo-Apartheid (Cities): In Defence of Its Restrictive Use
If apartheid is everything, maybe it is nothing Political concepts change meaning in time and space and often take on …
The multifaceted politics of informality in Jerusalem
The chapter investigates the multifaceted politics of housing informality in Jerusalem arising from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the city. It …
Discrete emergence of neoliberal policies on public space
This article investigates the birth and evolution of a Business Improvement District (BID) in Talimhane, Istanbul, which is the first …
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and …
Cities to Be Tamed?
Chiodelli F., De Carli B., Falletti M., Scavuzzo L., Eds. (2014) Cities to Be Tamed? Spatial Investigations Across the Urban South, …
International Housing Policy for the Urban Poor
This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the poor in the so-called Global …
Planning illegality in East Jerusalem
This paper investigates the role of Israeli residential policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over East Jerusalem. The focus is specifically …
The Next Jerusalem
The paper investigates a potential scenario for the urban development of Jerusalem in the coming decades. In particular, two elements …
The space of the conflict in Jerusalem
In the last few days, several newspaper articles have accounted in detail for the Sheikh Jarrah events (the risk of …