Clutterbuck, Richard, Protest and the Urban Guerilla, Cassells, London, 1973.

Urban Regeneration in Stratford, London

In this paper we focus on the shift in British urban policy from the crudely authoritarian imposition of Urban Development Corporations (UDCs) upon poor localities in the 1980s to an apparently more devolved, localist strategy in the 1990s. This new approach offered to re-empower local government and respect local priorities in the framework of local ‘partnerships’ between government (central a...

Inequality of the Distribution of Personal Wealth in Germany 1973 - 1998 Richard

New urban demands in early modern London.

From 1550 onwards, London grew and changed enormously, with the attendant problems of disease and disorder. The combined impact of "rapid immigration, recurrent mortality crises and population growth applied critical pressures to the social and administrative structures" ofthe metropolis. ' This paper gives an overview ofhow local authorities endeavoured to deal with problems of drainage, water...

Mozambique: Destabilization and Counter- revolutionary Guerilla Warfare

, 'N0W' in the early minutes of June 25, the flagraising ceremony proceeds, the vast crowd cheering as Samora Machel, briefly but eloquently, proclaims the country's independence. We're together, representatives of various western support groups, and we embrace one another enthusiastically. Embrace, too, Mozambicans, strangers and old friends. I greet Janet Mondlane, wife of Eduardo, FRELIMO's ...

An Imagined Geography: Ideology, Urban Space, and Protest in the Creation of Barcelona's Chinatown, c.18351936

Henri Lefebvre famously seized upon the duality of the modern city: how for some it is a space of play and liberation, and for others a centre for power and repression. This article explores this duality through an analysis of the changing historical geography of Barcelona’s Raval district, an inner-city working-class community and the birthplace of Catalan industrialization. From the 1920s onw...