"In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for...

This paper draws on critiques of ‘global cities’ to conceptualise Birmingham, the UK’s second largest metropole, as a ‘global’ city by highlighting forms of economic globalisation that draw on the city’s residents, their histories and their social and cultural networks. The paper...

Urbanization is one of the indicators of development. Developing economies strains itself to industrialize and urbanize their economies. India historically was the cradle of urbanization. The cities, Harappa and Mohenzdaro were known for its organized, standard and structural town planning and...