On the changing nature of the urban, and its relations to the ‘extraurban’.
- Urban modernity: its forms and dynamics
- Property costs and the mortgage crisis
- Edge-urban spaces and ‘sprawl’
- De-urban spaces: processes and consequences of urban decay and ‘hollowing out’
- Micro-urban spaces: the changing role and dynamics of small urban communities
- Greenfield spaces and regional development
- Off-the grid spaces and development in formerly remote places
- Globalization and its local effects
- Economic development dynamics: changing sites of production and employment
- Local and global labor markets
- Socio-economic inequalities: proximities and distances
- Ethnic and racial separation, juxtaposition and integration