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COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES

Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies

Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies.

Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic problems facing twenty-first century cities. Covering historical issues, current challenges, and comparative perspectives in urban studies, this timely resource:

• Addresses intensely debated policy issues such as governance, housing, immigration and migration, segregation, social mix, and gentrification
• Describes the use of demographic methods, advanced spatial analysis, social networks, policy mobilities, and ethnographies in urban studies research
• Discusses critical urban theory, feminist urban research, urbanization and environmental change, and the legacy of the Chicago School
• Covers contemporary research topics such as urban and regional inequalities, social heterogeneity and diversity, financialization
• Includes representative case studies of each region, including Australasia, Latin America, East Asia and South Asia

Companion to Urban and Regional Studies is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, urban activists, and students, and it represents a must-have complement to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

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Contents

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Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century

PART I: CITIES ACROSS WORLD REGIONS

Chapter 1: Cities and Regions in South Asia

Chapter 2: Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia

Chapter 3: Latin American Cities and Regions

Chapter 4: Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 5: Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand

Chapter 6: European Cities Between Continuity and Change

Chapter 7: The North American City

PART II: LEADING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES

Chapter 8: New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory

Chapter 9: Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago

Chapter 10: Environmental Perspectives on Cities

Chapter 11: Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space

PART III: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES

Chapter 12: A Critical-Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies

Chapter 13: GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens’ Participation

Chapter 14: Urban Ethnography

Chapter 15: Cities and Networks

Chapter 16: Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge

PART IV: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIES

Chapter 17: Social Heterogeneity and Diversity

Chapter 18: Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class

Chapter 19: The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities

Chapter 20: Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries

Chapter 21: Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities

Chapter 22: Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase

Chapter 23: Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses

PART V: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIES

Chapter 24: Urban Citizenship and Governance

Chapter 25: Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities

Chapter 26: Financialisation and Real Estate

Chapter 27: Housing in the Global North and the Global South

PART VI: CLOSURE

Chapter 28: Conclusions

Index

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List of Tables

Chapter 4

Table 4.1 The United Nations definition of sub-Saharan African subregions (based...

Chapter 5

Table 5.1 Population characteristics for major cities in Australia and New Zeala...

Table 5.2 Socio-spatial divides in Australasian cities.

Chapter 6

Table 6.1 Demographic and economic profile of European capital regions, 2016.

Chapter 16

Table 16.1 Phases of policy mobilities.

Table 19.1 Scales of neighbourhood (Kearns and Parkinson 2001: 2104).

Chapter 20

Table 20.1 Net immigration (in thousands) by country.

Table 20.2 Number of Immigrants and Migration flows to European countries, 2014 ...

Table 20.3 Percentage foreign-born, percentage non-EU residents, percentage Musl...

Table 20.4 Percentage of domicile of immigrants (first and second generation) vs...

Table 20.5 Percentage of people living in an area (neighbourhood) where most are...

Table 20.6 MIPEX index (overall score and labour market score) by country, 2014....

Table 20.7 Percentage of respondents who are opposed to immigration of a group ...

Table 20.8 Percentage of respondents who support admission of immigrants to the ...

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Chapter 2

2.1 Cluster of key words in Urban China Research (1997-2017).

Chapter 6

6.1 Share of population at risk of poverty or social exclusion, by degree of urb...

6.2 Share of population, aged 0-59, living in household with low work intensity...

6.3 Severe housing deprivation rate, by degree of urbanisation.

Chapter 12

12.1 Omission of population censuses in Chile

12.2 Difference of communal population projected and real to 2017.

12.3 Redling map of Baltimore, 1930s.

12.4 Population displacement under the eradication programme 1979-1985. The map...

Chapter 13

13.1 Spatial concentration of secondary students’ mobilisation in Greater ...

13.2 Level of secondary students’ mobilisation in Greater Santiago by aver...

13.2 Level of secondary students’ mobilisation in Greater Santiago by scho...

13.4 Level of secondary students’ mobilisation in Greater Santiago by aver...

13.5 Percentage of parents with tertiary education expectations per school (2010...

13.6 Greater Santiago top 100 schools by foundation year.

Chapter 15

15.1 A network definition of community.

Chapter 16

16.1 Academic references to ‘policy mobilities’.

Chapter 20

20.1 Net total immigration (in thousands) by coountry. Source: Migration Policy...

20.2 GDP nominal 2017 (International Monetary Fund) vs Percentage of foreign-bor...

20.3 GDP nominal 2017 (International Monetary Fund) vs Percentage of non-EU, 201...

20.4 GDP nominal 2017 (International Monetary Fund) vs Percentage of Muslim 2010...

20.5 Unemployment rate (ratio) of foreign -born as compared to native-born, aged...

20.6 Employment rate of working-age refugees by years of residence and for all r...

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Notes on Contributors

Byeongsun Ahn MSc. is a project staff member at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. He is currently involved in a four-year research project that examines the institutional transformation of urban governance in post-industrial Vienna. Additionally, his doctoral thesis examines the role of institutional contexts in everyday encounter with urban diversity in Vienna’s multi-ethnic neighbourhoods. He received his BA in political science from the same university in 2014 and his MA in sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 2015.

Kathryn Freeman Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Houston. Her research lies at the intersection of urban sociology, the sociology of health and illness, race/ethnicity, and organisations. Specifically, she is focused on understanding neighbourhood disparities in health, particularly for racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Her recent work has been published in Social Problems, City & Community, and the Journal of Urban Affairs.

Sandra Annunziata passed away suddenly on 4 January 2019, she had just started a permanent position as a lecturer in critical urbanism at Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy. She was awarded an MA in architecture and urbanism from IUAV Venice in 2004 and a PhD titled “A Neighbourhood Called Desire: Neighbourhood Transition in Two Case Studies in Rome and Brooklyn” from Roma Tre University in 2008. She won the Giovanni Ferraro National Award in 2010 for her PhD dissertation. The award is a nationally recognised prize in Italy for urban and planning research that reaches beyond the frontiers of current planning knowledge and transcends established disciplinary boundaries. She also received the Clarence Stein Award from Cornell University College of Art, Architecture, and Planning in 2011. She was awarded an EU Marie Curie Fellowship 2014–2016 for “AGAPE: Exploring Anti-gentrification Practices and Policies in Southern European Cities” at the University of Leicester. The major outcome of this project was/is Staying Put! An anti-gentrification toolkit for Southern Europe which will be launched in Rome in October 2020. Sandra was a scholar and an activist par excellence, a campaigner to anti-eviction and anti-gentrification movements in Rome and beyond. She is sadly missed. RIP Sandra.

Alonso Ayala, PhD, is an architect and spatial planner specialising in the fields of affordable housing and human settlement planning in the Global South. He is part of the senior academic staff at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) and assistant professor at the Erasmus University School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. With more than 25 years of work experience in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, he has conducted training, research, and advisory work for (local) governments and has provided higher education to professionals on housing policies, slum upgrading, social housing, sustainable housing, and human settlement planning in the Global South.

Joshua Babcock is a PhD candidate in sociocultural and linguistic anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research examines the contemporary and historical co-construction of race, language, and identity in urban Singapore. He was a visiting researcher at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (2018–2020) and a member of the interdisciplinary, Chicago-based 2016–2017 Arts, Science + Culture Graduate Consortium Fellows programme organised around the theme Contested Spaces. Together with Pranathi Diwakar, he was also the 2016–2017 coordinator of the University of Chicago Urban Workshop.

Tom Baker is a senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. His research centres on understanding processes and practices of policy innovation, with a particular focus on the roles of local and global knowledges in policymaking. Empirically, his work examines social and urban policy domains, including homelessness, social security, and urban planning. He is co-editor of Public Policy Circulation: Arenas, Agents and Actions (Edward Elgar, 2019) and has been published in journals such as Antipode, Progress in Human Geography, and Urban Studies.

David Benassi is an associate professor of economic sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy), where he is director of the master programme in management of social policies. His main research interests concern the study of inequality and poverty, the welfare state and social policies, and the social foundations of health inequalities. He favours an approach based on microdata, both qualitative and quantitative, and constantly refers to the spatial foundations of social phenomena. He was involved in several European and Italian research projects on those issues. Among his last publications are Western Capitalism in Transition: Global Challenges, Local Processes (co-edited with A. Andreotti and Y. Kazepov) (Manchester University Press, 2018); and Poverty in Italy: Features and Drivers in a European Perspective (with C. Saraceno and E. Morlicchio) (Policy Press, 2020).

Tanvi Bhatikar is a research manager at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru. She has previously been associated with organisations working in areas of urban governance, anti-corruption, electoral and political reforms, and public policy. She was part of a team that studied fiscal decentralisation at the local government level in Kolar district in Karnataka. The focus of her research was on understanding the fund flow at the local level and the political processes and institutions associated with it. She is currently part of the PEAK-Urban international project where her research focuses on the governance arrangements of mega infrastructure projects in and around Bengaluru.

Japonica Brown-Saracino is Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies at Boston University. She is the author of two monographs that draw on comparative ethnographies: A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation and the Search for Authenticity (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities (University of Chicago Press, 2018). She is the editor of The Gentrification Debates (Routledge, 2010) and the author of numerous articles on gentrification, qualitative methods, place, culture, and sexualities, including recent pieces in the Annual Review of Sociology, City & Community, Sexualities, and the American Journal of Sociology. She directs the Urban Inequalities Workshop at Boston University.

Tino Buchholz holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Dortmund (Germany) and a PhD from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Focused on the sociology of urban conflict and urban movements, he looks at forms of life as forms of housing: with respect to property-led urbanisation, normative justice, community formation, and migration. His publications target the legitimacy of legal housing standards in western and eastern Europe, squatting, property guardianship, and critical urban theory. Expanding the scope of urban sociology, he works as producer and director at TUNi productions, producing documentary film.

Andrea Ciarini is an associate professor at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome where he teaches economic sociology and sociology of welfare. He is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory SemPer and member of the research unit Lavoro e Organizzazioni. He was visiting researcher at London School of Economics and Political Sciences (United Kingdom) and KU Leuven University (Belgium). He was a member of the high-level task force for social infrastructures promoted by the European Commission and the European Long-Term Investors Association (ELTI). As an economic sociologist, his main research interests are in the fields of comparative welfare studies, both at national and regional level, labour market policies, and industrial relations. He is currently researching the relationships between welfare state and social finance in a comparative perspective. Andrea is author of numerous publications. These include books and articles such as: ‘Trajectories of Welfare Financialisation in Europe: A Comparison Between France, Italy and the United Kingdom’ (2019) and ‘Policies to Boost Services and Regular Employment in the Long-term Care Sector: More and worse Jobs?’ (2016).

Roberta Cucca is an associate professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where she leads (with Jin Xue) the Urban Sustainability Research Group. Her main research interests are: environmental policies and social vulnerability; social inequalities in contemporary cities; and participation in local policy decision making. Among her recent publications are ‘Quality of urban environment and spatial segregation in contemporary cities’, in S. Musterd (ed.), Handbook of Urban Segregation (Edward Elgar, 2020); with Y. Kazepov ‘European Cities’, in A. Orum (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Wiley Blackwell, 2019); and with C. Ranci (eds), Unequal Cities: The Challenge of Post-industrial Transition in Times of Austerity (Routledge, 2017).

Darinka Czischke, PhD, is an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. In 2014 she was awarded the Delft Technology Fellowship to develop her research on collaborative housing. She is the founder of the Co-Lab Research Group at the TU Delft and co-founder of the working group ‘Collaborative Housing’ at the European Network for Housing Research (ENHR). Previously, she worked as the director of World Habitat (formerly Building and Social Housing Foundation, BSHF); research director of the European Social Housing Observatory at CECODHAS Housing Europe; and as research associate at the LSE Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on social, affordable, and collaborative housing in comparative international perspective.

Jack DeWaard is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Graduate Faculty of Population Studies in the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, where he is also a faculty affiliate in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the Institute on the Environment, and the Life Course Center. A highly interdisciplinary and collaborative scholar, his research is broadly focused on the causes, characteristics, and consequences of international and internal migration. He is particularly interested in the spatial patterning of migration flows among places, and he has spent the past several years connecting his work on migration to climate and environmental change.

María Mercedes Di Virgilio is a full associate professor in research methodology and a CONICET (Argentinean National Research Council) researcher affiliated at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her research focuses on the residential mobility processes of lower- and middle-class households, in particular, their housing strategies and residential careers. She is also interested in public policies and social policies in the city and their relations with urban mobility. The study of urban mobilities allowed her to move forward in other directions of research such as social mobility processes and relations between inequalities and space. She is author/co-author/co-editor of numerous publications. This includes books such as Disputas por el espacio urbano: Desigualdades persistentes y territorialidades emergentes (Editorial Biblos, 2018) and Housing Policy in Latin American Cities: A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III (Routledge, 2014). Major papers include ‘Gentrification Processes in the City of Buenos Aires: New Features and Old Tendencies’ (2020), ‘Housing Policy in Argentina: Reflections on a Decade of Progressive Social Policy’ (2017), and ‘A City for All? Public Policy and Resistance to Gentrification in the Southern Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires’ (2016).

Pranathi Diwakar is a PhD candidate in sociology with a specialisation in sociology of inequality and urban and cultural sociology. Her research investigates the processes of caste-boundary maintenance, assertion, and resistance through musical and spatial practices in contemporary urban India. In 2019, she was awarded SSRC’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship and the Susanne and Lloyd Field Research Grant from the University of Chicago’s CISSR. She held the Urban Doctoral Fellowship as part of the University of Chicago’s Urban Network (2017–2018) and, together with Josh Babcock, she was also the 2016–2017 coordinator of the University of Chicago Urban Workshop.

Ayda Eraydin is professor emeritus of urban and regional planning at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University at Ankara. Her research interests are local economic development, socio-spatial dynamics of cities, resilience thinking in urban planning, and governing urban diversity. She has been involved and coordinated several national and international research projects and published on various urban and regional issues, such as Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning (Routledge, 2019) and Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning (Springer, 2013). Recent papers include ‘Governing Urban Diversity in Istanbul: Pragmatic and Non-discriminatory Solutions of Governance Initiatives in Response to Politicisation of Diversity’ (2019) and ‘Fragmentation in Urban Movements: The Role of Urban Planning Processes’ (2017).

Monica Flores is an urban planner specialising in data analytics for public policy and urban development. She is based in Santiago de Chile and co-leads her research team as deputy director at Observatorio de Ciudades UC. Her research interests focus on housing policy, urban economics, land use law, and real estate development as factors that have historically shaped cities. Before joining the Observatorio, she worked as a research assistant at the NYU Furman Center focusing on urban policy, housing studies, and real estate market analysis. She previously worked as an instructor professor in history and theory of architecture courses at the School of Architecture of Universidad Catolica de Chile. She holds a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University and a bachelor’s and professional degree in architecture from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Maria Christina Fragkou is Associate Professor at the Geography Department at the University of Chile. She is one of the professors in charge of the political ecology and socio-environmental conflicts laboratory of her department, and one of the founding members of the Latin American Conference on Political Ecology. Her research focuses on the construction of water scarcity through a multiscale analysis of national water policies, local and regional development dynamics, and domestic water uses and habits. She studies cities and urban phenomena through an urban metabolic perspective, combining quantitative and qualitative takes on urban socio-environmental problems. She is interested in issues of urban sustainability, water management, energy policies, and water and environmental justice.

Marisol García Cabeza is a full professor of sociology at the University of Barcelona and coordinator of the Research Group on Creativity, Innovation and Urban Transformation. She was president of the Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Urban and Regional Development of the ISA from 1998 to 2002. For many years she has been involved in European comparative research. She has over 100 publications: books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Antipode, and Citizenship Studies. Her publications range from urban sociology to questions of social justice, social innovation, and citizenship. She is one of the four associate editors of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (2019).

Inga Gryl is a professor at the Institute of Geography at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and head of the Institute for Social and Science Education. Her research focuses on geography/sustainability education, participation, digitalisation and space, and innovativeness. In addition to other projects, she also runs the major project DIGEO on the empirical analysis of the production of Open Educational Resources for geography education. One of her most-cited papers is ‘Re-centering Geoinformation in Secondary Education: Toward a Spatial Citizenship Approach’ in Cartographica (2012). Recently, she contributed ‘Educational Resources: Geographical Information, Geomedia and Learning’ to the Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies () (Springer, 2019; both with T. Jekel).

Anne Haila (1953–2019) was the first professor of urban studies in Finland, appointed in 1998 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. From 1994 to 1996 she was a senior fellow at the Faculty of Architecture and Building, National University of Singapore. An internationally esteemed scholar and a highly respected teacher and colleague, her work concentrated on real estate and property rights. Her major papers include ‘The Market as the New Emperor’ (2007), ‘Real Estate in Global Cities: Singapore and Hong Kong as Property States’ (2000), and ‘Four Types of Investment in Land and Property’ (1991). Over multiple decades she developed a theory of urban land rent, culminating in her magnum opus ‘Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State’ (2016). In her final project, she was focusing on non-private forms of urban land tenure in China, Finland, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Thailand.

Shenjing He is professor of urban studies in the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and director of the Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing (SIEW) Lab at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on urban redevelopment/gentrification, urban governance, low-income housing, rural–urban interface, and health geography. She has published more than 110 journal articles and book chapters in both Chinese and English and is the co-author/co-editor of five books. Shenjing has been the editor for Urban Studies since 2012. She has been ranked by Clarivate Analytics in the top 1% worldwide by citations from 2016 to 2019.

Annika Marlen Hinze is associate professor of political science and the director of the Urban Studies Programme at Fordham University. Her research focuses on immigrant minorities in cities, citizenship policy, nationalism, immigrant and minority identity, race and ethnicity, the politics of gender, and urban development in the United States, Germany, Canada, and Turkey, where she has conducted extensive fieldwork in a number of her research areas. Hinze has authored various publications, among them Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and the 10th edition of City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America (Routledge, 2018; with Dennis Judd).

Guillermo Jajamovich is an adjunct researcher at the CONICET and the Latin American and the Caribbean Studies Institute – University of Buenos Aires. He coordinates a CLACSO working group and a project of the Union Iberoamericana de Universidades. His research focuses on urban policy circulation, large urban projects and just cities. He is the author of the book Puerto Madero en movimiento: Un abordaje a partir de la circulación de la Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero (1989–2017) (IEALC, 2018) and co-authored ‘The Role of Mobile Policies in Coalition Building: The Barcelona Model as Coalition Magnet in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro (1989-1996)’, published in Urban Studies.

Thomas Jekel studied geography and communication science at the University of Salzburg specialising in GIS and social geography. He did his MSc in regional management and regional marketing and a PhD on conceptualisations of space in geography education. He later worked as an assistant professor of geography and economics education at the University of Salzburg. He is currently doing teaching and research in co-operation with the Centre for Geography and Economics Education at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Yuri Kazepov is professor of urban sociology and comparative social policies and the head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. His research examines social inequalities, social policies, and the territorial dimension of social phenomena predominantly through a multilevel governance lens. He is involved in several national and international (EU H2020) projects. He is author/co-author/co-editor of numerous publications. This includes books such as Cities of Europe (Blackwell, 2005), Rescaling Social Policies Towards Multilevel Governance in Europe (Routledge, 2010), and more recently The Future of Western Capitalism: Global Forces and Local Challenges (Manchester University Press, 2018; with A. Andreotti and D. Benassi) and Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty: A Critical Appraisal (Policy Press, 2020; with S. Oosterlynck and A. Novy). He is currently editing The Handbook on Urban Social Policy for Edward Elgar.

Margarethe Kusenbach is associate professor and associate chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Her research interests include cities and communities, space and place, social psychology (identity and emotions), disasters and environment, and qualitative research methods. She has published widely in the United States and internationally, including Home: International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging (Peter Lang, 2013; co-edited with Krista Paulsen). For the past several years, her work has focused on issues of home and belonging in marginalised communities, while her new research comparatively investigates the intersection of street art and urban development.

Loretta Lees is professor of human geography at the University of Leicester, UK. She is an urban geographer who is internationally known for her research on gentrification/urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture, and urban social theory. She has been identified as the 17th most referenced author in urban geography worldwide and the only woman in the top 20 (Urban Studies, 2017). Since 2009 she has co-organised The Urban Salon, a London forum for architecture, cities and international urbanism (see http://www.theurbansalon.org) and since 2016 the Leicester Urban Observatory. She is author/coauthor/co-editor of 14 books, some examples include: Handbook of Gentrification Studies (Edward Elgar, 2018); Planetary Gentrification (Polity Press, 2016); Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement (Policy Press, 2015); Sustainable London? The Future of a Global City (Policy Press, 2014); Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth? (Policy Press, 2011); Gentrification (Routledge, 2008); and The Emancipatory City: Paradoxes and Possibilities? (Sage, 2004). She is a scholar-activist who has been involved in numerous anti-gentrification campaigns in London, where she lives, and beyond.

Christopher Levesque is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include US immigration court, demography, and the impact of immigration policy on non-citizens’ well-being. He is currently an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow at the UMN Law School’s Binger Center for New Americans, and is affiliated with the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) as a graduate trainee.

Zhigang Li is a professor of urban studies and planning at the School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China. As an urban scholar, geographer, and planner, Professor Li works on the urban transformation of China, with a focus on such topics as neighbourhoods, migration, health, and related planning issues. His recent work concentrates on the migrant communities, emotional attachment, and related community planning.

Jia Ling is a research assistant in the Department of Building and Real Estate at The Hong Kong Polycentric University. She obtained her MA in urban management from City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include China’s urban politics, political economy of space, and state–society relations. She has done research on politics of urban aesthetics and urban village redevelopment in Shenzhen, China, and is currently focusing on the liveability governance at Guang Dong-Hong Kong-Macau Grater Bay Area and land politics in Qianhai Pilot Development Zone in Shenzhen, China.

Da Liu is a PhD candidate at the School of Urban Design, Wuhan University. She works on the urban transformation of China, with a focus on such topics as neighbourhoods, migration, urbanisation, and related planning issues. She is involved in several NFC projects, including Return Migrants in China in the Earlier 21st Century and Socio-spatial Transformation in Chinese Cities.

Enzo Mingione is professor emeritus at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has also been professor of sociology until November 2017 and dean of the Faculty of Sociology (2004–2010). He has been president of the Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development, one of the founders of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a trustee of the Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies. Fields of interest are urban sociology, poverty, welfare, labour markets, and economic sociology. Among his books are Social Conflict and the City (Blackwell, 1981); Beyond Employment, with Nanneke Redclift (Blackwell, 1985); Fragmented Societies (Blackwell, 1991); and Urban Poverty and the Underclass (Blackwell, 1996).

Zachary P. Neal is an associate professor of psychology and global urban studies at Michigan State University. His research examines the role of networks at multiple scales of urban processes, ranging for the formation of social relationships among neighbours at the local scale, to the formation of economic exchanges between cities at the global scale. He is the author of over 75 peer-reviewed articles and four books, including The Connected City (Routledge, 2013). More details about his past and current research is available at https://www.zacharyneal.com.

Anthony Orum is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Illinois – Chicago from which he retired a decade ago. His early research was focused on topics in the area of political sociology, including research on Black politics in the United States. He published the leading textbook on political sociology which is now in its fifth edition and has been translated into multiple Chinese versions. Much of his writing and research in recent decades explores various topics in urban studies, including urban history and urban sociology. He is currently completing a new book entitled Essays on Cities: Power, Space andEthnic Habitats.

Brenda Parker is an associate professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on gender, race, class, disability and other inequalities in cities and governance, as well as social movements and policies that address these inequalities. She is the author of Masculinities and Markets: Gender, Race, and Urban Politics in Milwaukee (University of Georgia Press, 2017) and research articles in journals such as Urban Geography, Antipode, and Gender Place and Culture. She serves on boards of several academic and community organisations, including Cabrini Green Legal Aid in Chicago.

Ana Parraguez Sanchez teaches and researches urban youth, social movements, formation of critical consciousness, space/micro politics, and geography education. Her postdoctoral research explored the socio-spatial production of the 2011 student movement in Santiago. She also led an interdisciplinary team to develop a digital educational platform to promote critical spatial consciousness among secondary students in Santiago. She worked as subdirector of the Observatory of Cities-UC. She also worked as a visiting scholar in the Department of Geography/Didactics of General Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She currently works as professor in the Social Work School at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Marc Pradel-Miquel is professor of urban sociology in the department of sociology of Universitat de Barcelona and founding member of the research group Creativity, Innovation and Urban Transformation (CRIT). His research analyses urban governance, citizenship rights, and social inequalities, focusing on the role of citizens and civil society actors in governance. He has been involved in European and national research projects in these fields. He has a large number of publications. The latest is Social Innovation and Urban Governance: Citizenship, Civil Society and Social Movements (Edward Elgar, 2020) together with Ana Cano-Hila and Marisol García.

Junxi Qian is an assistant professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. He is a social and cultural geographer who works at the intersection of geography, urban studies, and cultural studies. His research interests include place politics, urban public space, religion, China’s ethnic minorities and frontiers, and China’s recent urban transformation. Most of his published works partake in one or several of these themes. His recent projects investigate entrepreneurial religion in urban China and technological innovation from a cultural economy perspective.

Rebeca Raijman is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel. She has published extensively on the topic of ethnic entrepreneurship, socioeconomic integration of Jewish immigrants to Israel, non-Jewish and non-Palestinian labour migration in Israel, and public attitudes to migrants and minorities in Israel and Europe. She has published a book (co-authored with Adriana Kemp) entitled ‘Workers’ and ‘Foreigners’: The Political Economy of Labor Migration in Israel (Van Leer Institute and Kibbutz Hamehuhad, 2008; in Hebrew). Her book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation in a Multigenerational Perspective has been published in 2016 by the University of Nebraska Press. Personal website: https://sites.hevra.haifa.ac.il/raijman/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeca-raijman-680b8332.

Clara Rivas Alonso is a PhD candidate in human geography at the University of Leicester. She holds a master’s degree from Goldsmith’s College London, where she specialised in post-colonial theory and the urban. Her PhD is an investigation into the everyday practices and perceptions of resistance to the threat of state-led gentrification in Okmeydani, Istanbul, Turkey. She is interested in the invisible solidarities that escape institutional attempts at rent extraction and argues that the current global urban condition calls for more innovative forms of resistance.

Fernanda Rojas Marchini is a PhD candidate in human geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her current research focuses on the Chilean state’s turn towards market-based biodiversity conservation. Fernanda is also a researcher in the SSHRC project Tracing Biodiversity Capital alongside researches at UBC, Duke University, and Lancaster. She is also a teacher assistant in the course ‘Urbanization in the Global South’, led by Dr. Priti Narayan at UBC. Before commencing her PhD, Fernanda conducted research in projects led by the Chilean Forestry Institute and worked as sessional lecturer in the School of Geography of Universidad Austral de Chile, where she taught a course on the geography of population.

Javier Ruiz-Tagle is assistant professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies (IEUT), associate researcher at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), adjunct researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), and principal investigator at the Research Group in Urban Marginality (NIMU), all at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He has specialised in topics of residential segregation, housing policies, neighbourhood effects, urban marginality, self-organised housing, urban sociology, and comparative studies. He has published, presented, and won honours and awards with his work in Chile, the United States, and in Europe. He was section editor for the Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies (Wiley Blackwell, 2019), and is currently editing Marginalidad urbana y efectos institucionales: Sociedad, estado y territorio en Latinoamérica a comienzos del siglo XXI (RIL, 2020).

Kristian Ruming is associate professor and discipline chair for geography and planning in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University. His research explores urban governance and regeneration, social and affordable housing, strategic planning and planning system reform in Australia. He is editor of Urban Regeneration in Australia (Routledge, 2018).

Neha Sami studies infrastructure and environmental planning and governance in post-liberalisation urban India. She is currently on the faculty at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore, India where she teaches on questions of governance and sustainability and anchors the research programme. She serves on the editorial collective of Urbanization and is a corresponding editor for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. She holds a PhD in urban planning from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in economics from the University of Mumbai.

Moshe Semyonov is professor emeritus of sociology and labor studies at Tel Aviv University and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Semyonov’s research interests lie in the areas of comparative stratification and inequality and causes and consequences of global migration. His research was published in the form of books, journal articles, and book chapters. Most recent publications deal with inequality in a comparative perspective, integration of immigrants in the labour market of the host society, and attitudes towards immigrants across space and time.

Gabriel Silvestre is an urban scholar having received his PhD in planning studies from University College London. He is currently a lecturer based at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, where he is the director of the MSc Cities and Global Development. His research interests include the themes of urban governance and policy knowledge with an empirical focus on Latin American cities, especially in Brazil. Recent published work examined the role of circulating global ideas in local policy making. He is a member of the working group Circulating Knowledge and Urban Policies of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.

Warren Smit is senior researcher and manager of research at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has a PhD in urban planning and has been a researcher on urban issues for more than 25 years. His main areas of research are urban governance, urban planning, housing policy, and urban health, with a particular focus on cities in Africa. Key papers include “Decentralisation and Institutional Reconfiguration in Urban Africa” (2014), “Urban Governance and Urban Food Systems in Africa” (2016), “Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview” (2018) and “The Challenge of COVID-19 in African Cities” (2020).

Oscar Sosa López is visiting faculty at The New School’s Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment. His work examines the politics of urban and regional governance and asks how planning can contribute more sustainable and democratic cities and regions. His research extends across sites and scales, including climate change governance in Mexico City, immigrant social movements in California suburbs, and regional governance and economic development in Latin America, and the US-Mexico Border. His current book project examines how sustainable transportation planning reforms impact existing regimes of infrastructure inequality and democratic exclusion in Mexico City. His most recent publication is “Bicycle Policy in Mexico City: Urban Experiments and Differentiated Citizenship”, forthcoming in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Jon C. Teaford is professor emeritus of history at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is past president of the Urban History Association. His research and teaching have focused on the history of cities in the United States with a special interest in governance. He is the author of numerous books, including The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016; 3rd rev. edn), The American Suburb: The Basics (Routledge, 2008), and The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America (Columbia University Press, 2006).

Ricardo Truffello is geographer and has an MSc in geography and geomatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile PUC, and PhD in complex systems engineering from Universidad Adolfo Ibanez. He currently serves as director of the Cities Observatory (Observatorio de Ciudades UC), researcher at CEDEUS, and professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His areas of specialisation are geographic information systems, the generation of urban indicators, spatial analyst, geostatistics, and spatial statistics.

Anahí Urquiza is associate professor at the University of Chile, with an experience in teaching and doing research of over fifteen years. She has an MA in anthropology and development from the University of Chile and a PhD in sociology from the University of Munich, Germany (Ludwig Maximilian Universität München). Anahí teaches methodology, research processes, theory of social systems, and socio-environmental issues. Her field of research focuses on the environment and society relationship, particularly in water vulnerability, poverty and energy transitions, participation, governance, and resilience when facing climate change. She has extensive experience in academic management, the coordination of working teams, as well as the design of methodological-analytical frames to discuss complex issues.

Christophe Verrier, MSc., is a former research assistant at the University of Vienna where he specialised in housing policies and local governance. During a brief return to Canada he acted as a team leader at the Montreal Science Centre where he developed a newfound interest in the popularisation of science. He is currently spending his time between Warsaw and Amsterdam, working with his life partner on gamification systems that can foster alternative conceptions of urban heritage for locals and tourists alike through in-situ narrative experiences.

Serena Vicari Haddock is senior associate professor of sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca where from 2010 to 2016 she supervised the doctoral programme in urban studies (URBEUR). She has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in Leuven (Belgium) and Pavia (Italy). Research interests range from urban regeneration in Italian cities and a comparative perspective to issues of participation, inclusion, and social innovation. She is author of the critical study La città contemporanea (Il Poligrafo, 2004) along with numerous papers, she has edited and contributed to key essay collections including: Teoria ed esperienza (Il Mulino, 2006; with Simon Parker); Rigenerare la città: Pratiche di innovazione sociale nelle città europee (Il Mulino, 2009; with F. Moulaert); Brand-building: The Creative City: A Critical Look at Current Concepts and Practices (Firenze University Press, 2010); Questioni urbane: Caratteri e problemi della città contemporanea (Il Mulino, 2013); and Sei lezioni sulla città (Feltrinelli, 2017; with Guido Martinotti).

Astrid Wood is an assistant professor in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Astrid is an urban geographer concentrating on governance and the built environment in cities of the Global South. Her research on critical urban studies and policy mobilities considers the range of political engagements and exchanges occurring through the localisation of global urban policy. Aspects of this research are published in Antipode, Environment and Planning A, IJURR, Public Culture, and Urban Geography. Her academic work draws on nearly two decades shaping the urban form in over 30 countries.

Preface

I am taking this opportunity to offer a few thoughts and tributes to some of our colleagues in urban studies as well as a few additional remarks. As a Companion volume to the Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies the collection of essays here highlights some key topics that we believe should be covered in much greater depth. Javier, Serena, and I began to collaborate on this effort almost three years ago. I invited them to join me as co-editors and each kindly accepted my invitation. I have known Javier for several years, dating back to the time he was a graduate student at the University of Illinois – Chicago. He took a course in social theory with me and proved to be one of the best students that I have ever taught. I later served on his dissertation committee along with several other people in the Urban Planning Program at UIC. Once again, he proved to be incredibly smart and dedicated in this project, and his dissertation eventually won a major award: the Barclay Gibbs Jones award for best dissertation in planning in North America, given by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).

I have known Serena as a result of her work on the Encyclopedia. She served as an advisory editor on that project, and always furnished important insights and information regarding particular entries. She was strongly recommended to me by several people for the position of co-editor of this Companion. Now a senior associate professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, while her research focuses on issues of urban regeneration. Since 2015, as delegate of the rector she is engaged in the work of the National Center for Studies in Urban Policies. Sadly, Serena is also facing a major health issue. This, coupled with the spread of COVID-19 in Milan, have made the last year a considerable challenge for her and her husband, Phil Haddock. All of us wish her the very best and pray that she is able to regain her health soon.

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I also want to acknowledge the efforts of two people who worked on entries in this Companion. Both of them passed away during the course of the last year. One is Anne Haila. She wrote the entry ‘Financialisation and Real Estate’. There are extensive obituaries to Professor Haila online, including remembrances and tributes from many colleagues and friends. I quote here only one brief passage among many regarding her importance:

Like the great political economists of all time, she understood that research is not simply to understand the world, scholarship must also be able to transform the world. Thus, when Academy Professor Haila was invited to serve on the powerful Economic Policy Council of Finland whose ‘political economy’ was in the policy sphere, she embraced the opportunity, becoming the only woman and also the only political economist on the Council whose task is to evaluate targets set for economic policy and how they link with social and public policy. Asked what her initial impressions were about contributing to the Council, she stated what had to be said, the truth, not what people wished to hear: Finnish land policy is a mess, explaining much of the worsening political-economic and social problems in a country which, according to UN reports, is supposed to be an El Dorado.(Online obituary. Franklin Obeng-Odoom, on behalf of Anne Haila’s Research Group, the ‘Helsinki School of Critical Urban Studies’, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Given the sweep and quality of her research and political influence, I very much regret that I did not get to know her.

The second author to have passed away in 2019 is Sandra Annunziata. Dr Annunziata died suddenly in January 2019. She is one of the co-authors of the chapter ‘Segregation, Gentrification, and Social Mix’. Her colleague, Loretta Lees, wrote a wonderful tribute to her that is also posted online. Besides the loss to her young family and colleagues, Lees notes a number of Annunziata’s accomplishments. I quote here:

In 2009 she won the Best Paper Award for the dissertation results she presented to the International Forum of Urbanism in Delft, Holland. Sandra won the Giovanni Ferraro National Award in 2010 for her PhD dissertation. The award is a nationally recognized prize in Italy for urban and planning research that reaches beyond the frontiers of current planning knowledge and transcends established disciplinary boundaries. Then in 2011 she received the Clarence Stein Award by Cornell University College of Art, Architecture and Planning.

Again, I regret that I never got to know her, someone who was only at the beginning of what promised to be a very important career.

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It has been my great pleasure to work with the authors on the entries in this Companion. They were chosen from among many we could have selected because of the fields of their research and their expertise. The entries that we have included, among them the fine set of essays on the cities and regions in different parts of the world, were selected to highlight matters that we regard as the most significant in urban studies. As you will note later in the ‘Conclusions’, we regard these particular entries as a vital and significant feature of this volume. Although all three of us participated in their identification and the selection of the authors, Javier did a great deal of this work and he deserves the credit for it. At the time I failed to realise how important, indeed rich and informative, these essays would be. Their authors have gone well beyond the call of duty to make them significant contributions.