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All-American City investigates the recent history of Wichita, Kansas, and illuminates the challenges-and opportunities-facing midsize cities throughout the nation.

Distinctive. Unique. Authentic.

These were the watchwords in the 2020 campaign to revitalize Wichita, Kansas, and to set it apart in the perpetual competition among American urban centers for jobs, investment, population growth, and stature. The master plan to overhaul the riverfront was one of many efforts in which business leaders, elected officials, local boosters, and the general public frequently conflated seemingly contradictory impulses: the aspiration, on the one hand, to make the city stand out as a unique, authentic destination, and the obligation, on the other, to offer a suite of amenities to visitors, residents, and businesses similar or identical to those that could be found in other places believed to be competitors in a zero-sum contest for lucrative, but elusive, urban prizes.

In All-American City, sociologist Chase M. Billingham recounts the recent history of Wichita as a case study of a broader phenomenon across the American urban landscape in which the leaders of midsized cities embrace similarity, even while touting distinctiveness. Many cities appeal simultaneously to both authenticity and mimicry, with the result that cities across the country-and even across the world-that had previously enjoyed their own local flavors, regional cuisines, unique accents, and quirky customs increasingly look and feel the same. Wichita's story serves as a window through which to examine the delicate balance between sameness and distinction that characterizes many cities' economic development strategies.

With a journalist's eye for detail, Billingham chronicles the city's effort to attract a new Minor League baseball team, the closure of an underutilized park and the removal of unhoused people in an effort to revitalize downtown Wichita, local leaders' repeated efforts to cultivate civic pride in order to drive economic growth, and the increasingly vexed relationship between Wichita and its key economic base, the aviation manufacturing industry-compounded by a series of economic crises and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. All-American City reveals the challenges and perils that cities face when trying to stand out from the crowd.

Cities are active policy innovators of global importance, whether responding to climate change, migration, poverty, or health disparities, or aiming to generate growth. Since cities adapt to the needs and interests of global capital, they may implement policies that slight the well-being of everyday residents and the most vulnerable. How cities choose to contribute to a democratic and sustainable future reveals dimensions of political life playing out in society at large.

Global Urban Policy suggests that to understand contemporary societal transformation-and political and policy processes more generally-we need to study the policies that cities create and implement. Going beyond thinking of "urban" as a physical site, the authors show that an urban mode of life is one marked by diversity, complexity, chaos, flexibility, and ongoing change. With eleven empirical case studies, the authors examine issues including housing and urban development, migration, climate change, and crime in cities as varied as Berlin, Medellin, Chicago, Accra, Guangzhou, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, and Saint Etienne. The studies show how contemporary confrontations between public and private property, power and justice, participation and exclusion, wealth and poverty, and emerging technology and existing economic, social, and political structures take physical form in cities. Global Urban Policy engages with theoretical developments in public policy, urban politics, and urban studies to develop and demonstrate a framework for urban policy analysis.

This book provides a compelling and timely exploration of passive design strategies in the coastal city of Bushehr, revealing how centuries-old architectural wisdom can inform today's urgent sustainability agenda. Set against the backdrop of escalating global warming and the high energy demand of HVAC systems, it demonstrates how vernacular solutions can significantly enhance building performance in hot-humid climates. Drawing from Bushehr's rich architectural heritage, the book showcases climate-responsive orientation, spatial organization, natural ventilation methods, and innovative shading systems that ensured thermal comfort long before mechanical cooling existed. Combining field observations, environmental measurements, and insights from traditional building owners, it illustrates how these proven techniques can be refined through modern engineering analysis and seamlessly integrated into contemporary construction. Written for architects, engineers, students, and urban planners, this book serves as both a vital documentation of cultural heritage and a practical roadmap for designing energy-efficient, climate-adaptive, and culturally grounded buildings in coastal and hot and humid regions worldwide.

Navigating an Evolving Sustainable Built Environment provides a comprehensive, accessible, and practice-oriented guide for anyone seeking to understand or influence the future of sustainability in the built environment. It traces the journey from the early foundations of sustainable development to today's rapidly evolving landscape shaped by climate science, policy, technological disruption, and societal change.

The book aims to empower readers to begin or strengthen their integration of purposeful sustainability - in buildings, landscapes, and cities that are regenerative, future-ready, and genuinely aligned with the needs of people and planet.

Unpacking key frameworks such as the triple bottom line, the five capitals model, and ESG reporting, this book provides the conceptual tools needed to make informed, value-driven decisions. It helps readers navigate the interrelated strands of sustainability subjects and complex policy landscapes, offering assessment of emerging standards and trends including net zero buildings, climate adaptation, health and wellbeing and circular economy. International case studies illustrate transformative impact from the viewpoints of developers, designers and end users, showcasing their focus on vision and technology, action and governance, clearly illustrating real progress being made across the world.

Navigating an Evolving Sustainable Built Environment provides forward-looking insight into the twin major forces shaping the future of the built environment: the accelerating climate crisis and the rise of technologies such as AI. In this emerging new agenda that demands both technical competence and creative leadership, this book aims to offer practical strategies for practitioners and decision-makers to take the next steps with optimism and a sense of shared purpose.

The Post-Global City seeks to open a new field of analytical inquiry that examines knowledge production and technological developments in urban Africa rooted in local, historical realities, while also partaking in transnational, global processes. This work explores the ways in which urban residents have utilized technologies and networks to operate around, under, and beyond the state and the international "order," and challenges the stereotypical images of Africa as a continent either devoid of technology or filled with either broken technologies or technologies from the Global North or Asia. This book focuses on accounts and critiques of new "Rising Africa" ideologies, examining megaprojects such as geothermal and hydroelectric plants with new networked startups that circumvent state and patriarchal hierarchies, women vendors selling online, youths designing and constructing oil refining technologies and tech startups working across diasporas.

Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork carried out in urban spaces in Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Gabon, Cameroon, and Tanzania, The Post-Global City brings together voices from Africa, Europe, and the United States to inquire into the dialectics between technology and the urban on the African continent.

This book examines the transformative role of crowd-sourced data and AI-driven analytics in redefining urban environments. This book presents a thorough investigation into how large-scale and real-time data-harnessed from mobile devices, sensors, and participatory inputs-enhances urban systems, including transportation, public safety, sustainability, and civic engagement. Through cutting-edge data analytics, machine learning techniques, and scalable system architectures, the book demonstrates how intelligent urban management is achieved.

This book integrates theoretical foundations with applied perspectives, offering a structured discussion around three central domains including Urban Crowdsensing Practices (i.e., concepts, models, and service patterns), Data Processing and Analytics (e.g., data fusion, machine learning, and intelligent frameworks), and Technological Enablers (such as mobile sensing, IoT, and cloud-based systems). Key Contributions of this book are:

1. Innovative Integration of Technologies: Demonstrates the convergence of crowdsensing, AI, big data analytics, and IoT to support intelligent and responsive urban decision making.

2. Practical Applications and Case Studies: Showcases real-world implementations of crowdsensing, highlighting its tangible impact on smart city development and urban innovation.

3. Interdisciplinary and Forward-Looking Perspectives: Bridges academia, industry, and policy, offering actionable insights for researchers, engineers, planners, and decision-makers.

Chapters highlight how large groups of newly urbanized populations develop informal strategies to cope with extreme living conditions in poor neighborhoods or shantytowns. They illustrate how, amid violence and conflict, these populations create networks of solidarity, forms of resilience and political collectives that demand better living conditions and the right to the city. The book also assesses the ambivalent role of public policies in mitigating or exacerbating urban poverty and explores the emerging realities and trajectories of urban poverty.

A Modern Guide to Urban Poverty is a crucial resource for scholars and students of sociology, urban planning, human geography and anthropology. Its insights on the complex interplay of the social, economic and political processes that generate urban poverty are also highly relevant to policymakers and researchers in international NGOs.

This book examines the affective domain of the city to visibilise the invisible order that informs the complex urban reality in today's world. Exploring both the lived and imaginary properties of Dhaka, it uncovers alternative spatial logics and signifying relations among other local dynamics shaping urban knowledge. Moving beyond traditional research frameworks, it focuses on ordinary residents' subjective engagement with the city and conceptualizes the imaginary city as a social intermediary. Taking Dhaka as a case study, the author highlights the complexities in the relationship between the "hard city" (physical infrastructure) and "soft city" (lived, embedded realities), arguing the latter is not merely an emotional response to the concrete urban space. Using an interdisciplinary lens from literature, the book expands the scope of urban studies, promotes inter-Asia references, and enriches empirical analysis of Asia's cultural changes. It also examines inclusive, competing urban knowledge production sites by analyzing non-official popular cultural products-such as transport art -which circulate and sustain the city's popular imaginaries. As a valuable addition to psycho-social and cultural urban scholarship, it positions the "imagined city" as a key analytical tool, prompting readers to rethink the boundary between the physical and imaginary urban spaces globally.

In an era marked by global uncertainties and pressing challenges, this scholarly monograph offers insights into the future of European cities based on over a decade of research. Today, halfway through implementing the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pressing issues such as climate change, pandemics, economic upheavals, increased inequities, conflicts, and technological leaps require innovative responses that embrace all fields of society. Addressing these challenges, the authors advocate for innovative solutions that embrace the pivotal roles of culture and ecology.

Drawing from extensive studies centered on the city of Ixelles, Belgium, this book examines the transformative power of integrating biocultural goals into public policies. Through adopting a biocultural approach, Ixelles has achieved sustainable development objectives and addressed critical topics such as gender equality, multiculturalism, and societal change.

Discussing diverse models and policies to enhance community regeneration and global connectivity, the book emphasizes the imperative of collective action for the betterment of all and the planet. It will appeal to students, scholars, and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of biocultural approaches, sustainability, and policy solutions for the pressing issues of our time.

This book examines the evolving intersection of urban development, ecological theology, and technological transformation across diverse spiritual traditions, including Hindu, Sikh, Islamic, Catholic, and Buddhist perspectives. In an age defined by digital urbanism, artificial intelligence, and environmental crisis, this volume explores how sacred values and ecological ethics are being reinterpreted within rapidly changing urban environments. It critically engages with the tensions between technological solutionism and ecological wisdom, questioning how urban technologies shape spiritual relationships and theological understandings of creation and stewardship. Through conceptual frameworks such as the SIMRAN Framework, Nature-Maker Approach, and emerging ideas like smart theology and nAIcolonialism, the book advances a transdisciplinary dialogue between faith, sustainability, and innovation. It will appeal to scholars and practitioners in theology, sustainable architecture, urban planning, and environmental humanities.

Major cities in China have witnessed unprecedented expansion towards outer suburban areas through various forms of mixed-use, clustered development. The peripheries of Chinese cities often comprise diverse residential communities, such as urban villages, workers' dormitories, privatised work-unit compounds, and new commodity housing estates, where local residents and migrants from different backgrounds coexist in a transition period. Chinese migrants now have more housing choices within such areas, but residence in specific neighbourhoods can affect social status, thereby impacting migrants' pathways to integration into the city. This book offers a detailed examination of migrants' integration processes through these peri-urban neighbourhoods.

Drawing on a rich and fine-grained examination of migratory individuals, their families, and their trajectories in four types of peri-urban neighbourhoods, the book provides a new perspective on internal migration within China. It illuminates shiminhua, the fluid integration policy for converting migrants into residents in urban China, conceptualises urban migrant integration, and investigates socio-spatial restructuring among the migrant population of China's metropolises. This book offers an understanding of migrant integration into labour-receiving cities through the lens of neighbourhoods in peri-urban Beijing, an emblematic case that illustrates core patterns of internal migration, politics, and socio-spatial changes in contemporary China.

Focusing on county-level urbanization in Sichuan Province, this book analyzes return migrants' residential choices across three dimensions: Willingness to Return Housing Purchase Behavior Residential Location Preferences Research Focus and Methodology First, based on human capital theory and cost-benefit analysis, the study examines how career opportunities, public service access, and migration costs influence the willingness to return. Second, using spatial analysis and nonlinear models, it explores the effects of economic characteristics and local environments on housing decisions. Third, integrating job-housing integration and family life cycle theories, it investigates returning families' residential preferences and their impact on urbanization. This book is innovative in both approach and method: It integrates multi-level spatial choices across county towns, small towns, and villages to uncover regional differences in migration behavior. By combining spatial differentiation indicators with nonlinear analysis, it reveals how personal traits and environments interact, showing spatial and group differences. The mixed-methods approach blends quantitative analysis with qualitative insights for a comprehensive understanding of return migration. Theoretically, this book enriches migration research by examining residential choices in the context of new urbanization, using large-sample data from China. Practically, it provides evidence for optimizing urbanization policies, enhancing county-level population retention, and improving living conditions for return migrants. The findings offer valuable policy support for advancing county-level urbanization and rural-urban integration in western China.

Chapters examine the function, implications and future possibilities of human rights on the political, administrative and legal regulation of housing systems and practices. The book explores how other human rights (such as to property, privacy, self-determination and work) are applied to housing across multiple scales and functions such as shelter, home and financial assets. Hohmann also looks to the future, proposing five principles that guide the interpretation of human rights toward housing justice, including a commitment to substantive equality and adopting a decolonial approach.

This insightful book is a key resource for scholars and students across numerous legal fields, including housing, human rights and property, as well as planning, urban governance and development. It will also assist policy makers and UN experts in navigating the application of human rights in housing.

In the face of urbanization and growing transportation demands, "Demand-Responsive Transit Systems: Operation and Management Solutions" offers a comprehensive exploration of the innovative strategies and technologies shaping the future of public transit. Authored by industry experts Kai Liu and Tao Liu, this book is an essential resource for transit professionals, urban planners, and policy makers.

Leverage the power of data and innovation to revolutionize demand-responsive transit (DRT) systems. This book delves into optimal routing design utilizing aggregated cell phone data and open-source GIS tools, alongside iterated clustering optimization for effective stop locating and bus routing. Discover how customized commuter bus routes can significantly reduce carbon emissions and how pricing strategies can be optimized by considering passenger loyalty decay. The book also explores the design of intelligent platoon transit systems aimed at transportation electrification, and modular bus unit scheduling under range and charging constraints. Further, it provides insights into the formation and scheduling optimization for electric modular buses with station-based demand responsiveness. Additionally, it highlights the coordinated operation of fixed-route and demand-responsive feeder transit services in travel corridors. These advanced strategies and practical applications are essential for enhancing operational efficiency and achieving sustainable urban mobility, making this book an indispensable resource for professionals in the field.

By analysing diverse global case studies, from Europe's smart specialisation strategies to grassroots experiments in Latin America, state led initiatives in Asia and civic partnerships in North America, contributing authors outline the successes and obstacles in aligning innovation with societal needs. Chapters integrate theory and practice, combining cutting-edge conceptual advances with concrete policy experiences of implementing regional TIP. While paths to progress differ widely, this Research Handbook emphasises the universal importance of inclusive governance, long-term commitment and the willingness to experiment.

The Research Handbook on Regions and Transformative Innovation Policy is highly beneficial for scholars and students of economic geography, innovation studies, regional policy and development economics. It is equally relevant to policymakers and administrators in regional development agencies, international organisations and NGOs seeking practical insights into governance, inclusiveness and policy experimentation.

This book seeks a common tread linking economic growth, urban development and environmental sustainability, specifically focusing on urban and metropolitan contexts in developed countries. Starting from a theoretical reflection on capitalistic growth models and the evolution of territorial inequalities, it examines how social and environmental dynamics intersect with economic processes, highlighting the central role of urban areas as innovation, productivity and social transformation engines. It underlines the necessity of new governance strategies aimed at fostering sustainable growth pathways, through inclusive public policies and integrated urban tools. The second part of the book delves into the concept of sustainable development within the context of global warming. The phenomenon of urban sprawl is analyzed, with a focus on critical issues related to demographic growth, "coastlization" and land consumption. It then proposes a polycentric model as an answer to more balanced urban growth. In this framework, territorial economics gains relevance as an emerging tool to study the intricate relationship between competitiveness and sustainability. The analysis starts with describing settlement pattern development and, considering the impact of polycentrism on urban-rural relations, it emphasizes how spatial planning can integrate environmental and economic considerations at various spatial scales. The book concludes with a reflection on social inequalities and the necessity for multilevel governance to sustainably face contemporary urban challenges.

Expert contributors critically investigate how land, housing, infrastructure and even nature are recast as assets for global investors. Drawing on case studies spanning agribusiness regions in Brazil, earthquake-stricken villages in Nepal and Canadian forests and mines, the authors trace the contours, actors and power relations of planetary financialisation. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, they advance a spatial and socioecological lens exposing how the planet, in all its socio-ecological dimensions, has become the terrain of financial markets' extractive practices, as well as the frictions, contradictions and limits that unsettle them.

This Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars, students and researchers of human and financial geography, urban and economic sociology, architecture and planning, as well as anthropology and political science. Its coverage of urban development and socio-environmental (de)regulation also makes this essential reading for activists and policymakers concerned with the socio-environmental consequences of financialisation.

Scholars, practitioners and activists from across the globe illustrate the differences and contradictions in this kaleidoscopically diverse field. Topics covered range from border crossings, gig economy delivery riders and the experience and perspective of those who move, to the policies and techniques which seek to govern mobility, and the ways those (im)mobilities might be resisted, or expressed in artistic and creative forms.

The Encyclopedia of Mobilities is an essential resource for students and academics of mobilities and movement across the social sciences, including human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and politics as well as interdisciplinary fields such as urban studies, migration and border studies and transport studies. It is also a beneficial read for practitioners and activists involved in mobility and transport justice movements, migration and environmental advocacy.

Key Features:

• Presents creative and critical approaches
• Covers key topics in mobility across disciplines
• Includes more than 150 clear and accessible entries

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 residents in the first half of the twentieth century to more than 31 million in 2024. This explosive growth has reshaped the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA), also known as Jabodetabek, presenting complex challenges and highlighting the critical role of urban planning. This edited volume explores Jakarta's evolving urban landscape through the lens of post-suburbanization. While the city exhibits traits of post-suburban development, its central areas continue to attract population and investment, suggesting a unique, early-stage form of post-suburban growth. Across the inner city and surrounding suburbs, physical, social, and economic transformations are underway-marked by uneven patterns of inclusion, displacement, and redevelopment.

The book adopts a multi-dimensional perspective, examining changes in residential, industrial, and commercial development, alongside impacts on employment, infrastructure, environmental degradation, and social dynamics such as segregation and gentrification. As the first comprehensive study of Jakarta's post-suburbanization, this volume brings together twenty-two contributors, including academics, planners, urban designers, and architects, to assess planning practices and policy responses. Organized into four thematic sections-economic development, environmental challenges, housing and public space, and gentrification and displacement-it offers critical insights and forward-looking strategies for shaping the JMA over the next twenty years.

A vital contribution to urban planning literature in Indonesia, Growth of a Megacity provides a timely and accessible analysis for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners navigating Jakarta's complex urban future.

Chinese Collaborative Planning in the Digital Era: Institutions, Power Relations, and Public Spheres is the first accessible text on theoretical underpinnings and extensive case material on China's collaborative planning. It questions the validity of agonistic and communicative approaches and lays out a new theoretical framework for collaborative planning in China.

The book also elaborates the changing governance contexts for collaborative planning in China, including the participative and deliberative turn, and the impact of social media and digital transition on power relations and public spheres. Collaborative planning has become a practical solution to solve increasingly complex problems and the challenges of sustainability under rapid economic development. The authors present several in-depth case studies of collaborative practices in the fields of urban regeneration, environmental protection, and green initiatives in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen, and other cities. The materials of the case studies are collected from in-depth fieldwork in China, practical experience, and online social networking sites. The book not only gives an overview of collaborative practices and policies in China but also reflects the universal collaborative planning theory and presents new research methodologies.

The interdisciplinary nature of the book makes it interesting for students, educators, scholars, and practitioners in spatial planning, environmental planning, public policy, and new media fields.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.

Despite decades of rural-to-urban transformation in China, much of the literature still treats villages and cities as distinct entities. This book reframes rural-urban transformation as an integrated process, examining administrative practices, implementation challenges, and the evolution of new-type urban communities.

Based on extensive, multisite fieldwork conducted over several decades in Shandong Province, the author makes a contribution to Chinese village studies by examining the contexts, drivers, and processes of village consolidation and the formation of new-type urban communities. The book illustrates how village mergers and new-type urbanization are shaped by-and in turn shape-project-based governance, grassroots organizations, and villagers' everyday lives. It also explores why "new urban residents" often face delays in acquiring urban citizenship. Finally, it outlines people-centered pathways toward a more integrated urban-rural relationship.

The book clarifies the institutional and everyday challenges of China's rapid rural transformation, offering timely insights for scholars of Chinese studies and global researchers and practitioners facing accelerated social and spatial restructuring.

Architecture, tourism, and media intersect in profound ways, shaping our perception and experience of places. This book delves into how iconic buildings transform into cultural symbols through the images we create, share, and consume-whether online or in person.

Drawing on four compelling case studies-the Christchurch Transitional Cathedral in New Zealand, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, Mona in Tasmania, and the M+ Museum in Hong Kong-this book examines how architecture is framed and reimagined through tourist practices and media representations. It weaves together theories from architecture, tourism studies, and media studies to reveal how buildings are not just physical structures but dynamic participants in global image-making ecosystems. Through immersive ethnography, visual analysis, and media critique, the book uncovers how architecture's symbolic and material affordances shape and are shaped by social practices.

This original research offers a fresh lens on how architecture operates as both medium and message in the digital age. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners interested in architecture, tourism, media, and urban culture-and for anyone curious about how buildings become icons in the collective imagination.

This book investigates how arguments for economic growth are perceived and advanced to promote road investment across the world.

In the literature, the relationship between building roads and achieving economic growth is heavily reliant on quantitative tools while ignoring the contextual details of roading projects. Using the Aristotelian concept of phronesis, the research undertakes six case studies from New Zealand, Britain, the United States, Pakistan, Brazil and Kenya. Phronesis is an intellectual virtue capable of incorporating practical problems and contextual details in everyday life. The concept was operationalised by devolving into three main questions, in which the roads policy direction, the associated processes and discursive pragmatism were explored. Detailed analysis of the following six projects has been carried out: MacKays to Peka Peka Expressway; London Orbital Motorway; Houston Interstate Highway 610; Lahore Ring Road; Mario Covas Ring Road and the Nairobi Expressway. The analysis provides the reader with a critical understanding of how roads are expanded using assertive policies without evidence of how economic growth will be achieved.

This book could be of interest to multilateral development organisations, researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners in the areas of planning, urban economy, public administration, transport economics, project management and development economics.

This book examines different aspects of public transport design and its relationship to passenger experiences, reflecting the growing concern with approaching mobility through the lens of the arts and humanities and social sciences.

The chapters in this book explore how transport environments, mobility infrastructures, and embodied movement practices have been shaped and 'designed' by a whole host of experts, professionals and political actors for different ends. Examples focus on a range of transport modes in different parts of the world, including buses in urban Chile, underground metro railways in China and the UK, and railways in Sweden and Japan. The book examines the role of architecture and design features in shaping, affording and hindering passenger flows, behaviour and experience, resulting in infrastructures which may include or exclude certain groups of passengers in different ways.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in geography, urban planning, architecture, design studies, sociology, and mobility studies. It will also appeal to practitioners in transport planning, urban design, and public policy who are concerned with creating more inclusive and effective mobility infrastructures.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.

The Art of Sustainable Stormwater: Designing Blue-Green Cities explores the needs and possibilities for transforming stormwater engineering into design for ecological and multi-functional urban spaces. With climate change and rapid urbanization causing rainfall runoff to present increasingly severe problems in cities and metropolitan regions, this book shows how stormwater can become an amenity when designers artfully capture, detain, treat and re-use rainwater, using it to generate more habitable and environmentally and socially sustainable cities. Taking a global approach, it provides useful planning and design principles and tools and illustrates inspiring case studies demonstrating how stormwater can contribute positively to natural systems, urban infrastructure, neighborhoods, parks, plazas, streets, and buildings. This book is essential for practitioners and students of landscape architecture and related environmental design fields.

Why does injustice often deepen during moments of rapid urban growth? And what does the pursuit of more just urban futures look like when the realization of alternatives seems impossible?

African cities have boomed over the last two decades. Large-scale infrastructure projects, high-rises, and real estate ventures have transformed urban landscapes. While urban poverty levels have declined, rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and forced evictions - twinned with political authoritarianism - have intensified precarity and injustice.

Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research in construction sites, design offices, and new developments, anthropologist Marco Di Nunzio narrates the tensions animating the urban transformation that has reshaped Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, beyond recognition.

Unjust Developments reminds us that city building in Addis Ababa, as elsewhere, is not only about economic accumulation. It is a moral project, rooted in the belief that modern infrastruc-ture will generate opportunity and uplift the poor. These promises have often failed the poor. Commitments to infrastructure have given political leaders, investors, planners, developers, and architects the leverage to prioritize their own visions of development and dismiss demands for better wages and affordable housing as politically irrelevant or economically unviable. Government and corporate investments in the built environment have helped entrench unequal hierarchies of entitlement and rights.

Yet city building remains a fragile achievement. It is marked by struggles not only between developers and displaced communities, or companies and workers, but also among the city build-ers themselves. Demands for a more just city and frictions within the building industry open space for rearticulating what counts as political necessity, moral action, expertise, and the future of development.

In conversation with critical urbanism, anthropology, and moral philosophy, Unjust Developments offers a powerful account of city building as both a site of injustice and a terrain of struggle - where justice is not guaranteed, but persistently demanded.

This book examines how catastrophes-natural, technological, ideological, biological and socioeconomic-transform urban design and planning, potentially creating "turning points" in a city's development trajectory.

Through historical case studies, the book traces urban responses to catastrophe: the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake that accelerated European Enlightenment; Haussmann's Paris redesign addressing cholera and social unrest; Chicago's reinvention following the 1871 fire and economic depression; and New York's expressway developments that sparked community activism. Each case reveals significant shifts in urban planning theory and practice. The book explores how urban planning often begins with promising visions that ultimately betray their original intent. Drawing on Plato's Republic and the myth of Atlantis, urban development is framed as a cycle where destruction is inevitable, yet contains seeds of renewal and innovation. This examination of catastrophe's role in urban transformation offers critical insights for understanding contemporary cities and planning for their futures.

The book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, urban design, planning history, and planning theory.