Restructuring of Urban Middle Class and Residential Space

Whose city is it anyway? Middle class imagination and urban restructuring in twenty- first century Kolkata

This article provides an overview of the way in which post-liberalization urban restructuring is determined by middle class imaginations and lifestyles in Kolkata, India. It charts how the conjunction between planning, politics and private investment made middle class hegemony in the new urban politics possible, and how the processes that have been set in motion create new spatializations accor...

Middle-Class Middletown? Wesleyan University and the Reinvention of Urban Space

Provision of car parking space in the residential neighborhoods: A development control challenge in urban areas

Although a substantial body of research concurs that most urban areas have a challenge in providing adequate car parking space, there is a scarcity in the literature on how conformity to planning standards that regulates the provision of car parking spaces may be analyzed. This study, therefore, examines the extent to which the planning standards that regulate compliance with the provision of c...

Regional Restructuring and Urban Regimes:

Middle Class Downward Mobility in the Socio-Physical Space in Tehran

Social mobility takes shape of a physical aspect which makes it possible to translate downward mobility in the physical space. Huge inflation and decrease of purchasing power during the recent years have led to downward mobility of middle class in Iran. Various facets of decrease in physical and social space have to be studied. For this purpose, 20 cases who had experienced such situation have ...