By Michi Ochiai (email), Masters student in Human Geography Research, Newcastle University Introduction In recent years, social infrastructure has been emerging as a key concept in understanding urban life and development. Defined by sociologist Eric Klinenberg as “the physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact” (Klinenberg, 2019, p.5), it includes public institutions […]
By Dr Paul Abiero Opondo, Department of History and Political Science, Moi University, Kenya Abstract Daron Acemolgu and James Robinson (2012) have examined why some countries are poor while others are rich and prosperous with higher national incomes. They concluded that accepting democracy, human rights and free trade is an important characteristic for development. Today […]
By Dr Guanyu Wang, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK. Introduction Although Harvey (2007) understood China’s urbanisation as a variant of neoliberalism, the new forms of cooperation between capitalism and China’s politics keep stimulating debate on whether the existing framework of urban knowledge is sufficient to understand how Chinese cities reproduce the social-political […]
