Book description
This exciting collection of original essays provides students and
professionals with an international and comparative examination of
changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and
spatial division or polarization.
Peter Marcuse
is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City.
He has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, as
well as universities in Johannesburg, Weimar, and Sao Paulo. He has been
President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and a member of a
Community Board in New York City. A lawyer as well as planner, he has
written widely on comparative housing and planning issues.
Ronald van Kempen is Associate Professor of urban geography at
the Urban Research Centre Utrecht at Utrecht University. His current
research focuses on the links between spatial segregation, social
exclusion and the development of cities. He has published widely on
these subjects. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal
of Housing and the Built Environment.
