The term ‘hawker’ is defined as someone who travels selling goods, with no one fixed location. With that in mind, the term ‘hawker centre’ is almost ironic in its attempt at ‘locating’ this once nomadic trade. Yet somehow over the years, this term has become an iconic part of the...

The dilemma of ‘order-words’ according to Gilles Deleuze is that it not only defines a problem but also over-determines the answers to that problem. For Deleuze, the order-word simultaneously refers to a word that constitutes a command, as well as one which creates its own universe of order....

The following sections are included:IntroductionResearch MethodSummary and ConclusionAppendix A: Scores of Degree of Carnivalism, Space Composite Attributes and Space Syntax Attributes

The following sections are included:IntroductionPrivately Owned Public Space, Public Space in Private Developments, and Urban SpaceConditional Public Space, Managerial Space, and Neoliberal SpacePark Space, Cultural Space, and Tourist SpacePlanned Public Space, Institutionalised Social Space,...

The following sections are included:BooksArticlesNews MediaWebsites

This chapter consists of the following two essays:Vestigial as Alternative: The KTM Rail Corridor and the Search for the Un-regularized by Liew Kai KhiunThe End of the Rail road in Singapore: A Photo Essay by Claire Leow.

The following sections are included:IntroductionSpatial JusticeHappiness Index

The essays in this volume offer a timely engagement with, and challenge to, accepted thinking about public spaces in cities. Within contemporary urban studies, how public spaces are thought of and theorized is often trapped within a largely Western tradition, which rapidly folds the nature of...

Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...

Abstract: This paper develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of hard and soft law that is drawn in part from recent work in the field of international relations. We examine the literature on the role of soft law, noting that scholars have approached this phenomenon in very different...