8 Placemaking Principles for Innovation Districts
Increasingly, startups, incubators and accelerators around the world are clustering around leading-edge companies and institutions in dense urban settings called “innovation districts.” By creating shared value, placemaking has much to offer this … Continue reading
Why we need to reveal the hidden connections at the heart of cities
Urban areas are intense meeting points of people and cultures, but they’re also places where more or less visible interactions happen: between the infrastructures and systems of water, energy, food … Continue reading
Invisible Women in History and Global Studies
This article questions the continuing invisibility of the significant scale of the involvement of women in historical movements/moments. The focus is on Mahatma Gandhi-led Civil Disobedience movement (1930–1933), which was … Continue reading
Democracy Does Cause Growth
We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce … Continue reading
Precarious Work and the Organisation of Workers
The issue of precarious work and of the organisation of precarious workers is becoming one of the core themes of research not just within the sociology of work and labour … Continue reading
The science and practice of urban planning in slums
Originally posted on UGEC Viewpoints:
Jose Lobo Arizona State University, USA The historical experience of the now developed economies is that urbanization accompanied and fostered industrialization, economic growth and productivity…
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