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A qualitative exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on families with a child under 5 years-old in the borough of Newham, East London
AimFamilies from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds appear to have been greatly impacted and face worsening inequalities as a result of the...
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Safer Traffic Recovery from the Pandemic in London – Spatiotemporal Data Mining of Car Crashes
In the aim to provide evidence for deployment policies towards post-pandemic safer recovery from COVID-19, this study investigated the spatiotemporal...
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Positioning Borough Market as Market and Marketplace
This chapter introduces the case study through which the arguments of this book are developed: London’s Borough Market. It explains the relevance of...
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Creating Shia Spaces in British Society: The Role of Transnational Twelver Shia Networks in North-West London
Scholarship addressing Shia Muslim minorities in Western contexts often refers to them as a ‘minority within a minority’ or ‘the other within the...
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Bangladeshis in London and Tower Hamlets: Community Activism and the Local State
After introducing the Bangladeshi community in multi-ethnic Tower Hamlets and outlining the key events during the pandemic between 2020 and 2022, the...
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London congestion charge: the impact on air pollution and school attendance by socioeconomic status
Air pollution negatively affects individuals’ health and human capital accumulation. For example, students’ school performance is hampered by air...
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From Tree to Cup: Coffee and Commodity Culture in Borough Market
At their heart, markets and marketplaces are about the negotiation, valuation and exchange of things—commodities. Generating the space of the...
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Repair and Do-It-Yourself Urbanism: Good Practice in London and Berlin
This paper examines the extent to which the activation and further development of the broad range of commercial and non-commercial practices of...
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Grassroots Spaces Make London Exciting: The Relationship Between the Civitas and the Urbs
This chapter explores the contradictory nature of London’s processes of urban regeneration and proposes alternative approaches that can nurture the...
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Private Events in a Public Park: Contested Music Festivals and Environmental Justice in Finsbury Park, London
City parks have long been understood as contested spaces. But cree** privatisation and commercialisation in an era of neoliberal austerity have...
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Migrant Irregularity in Britain and Spain, London and Barcelona
This chapter provides the necessary context for my comparative analysis. It first discusses the distinctive roles that the most common (state)...
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Resisting, Reacting and Reinventing: Exploring the Role of Minority Religious Solidarities in Milan and London During the Pandemic
The chapter first explores the ways in which religion played a crucial intermediary role for minority populations during the global health crisis as...
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Commonplace and out-of-place diversities in London and Tokyo: migrant-run eateries as intercultural third places
In global cities such as London and Tokyo, there are neighbourhoods where ethnic, religious, cultural and other forms of diversity associated with...
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Taking a long view perspective on estate regeneration: before, during and after the New Deal for Communities in London
This paper takes a long view perspective on estate regeneration with reference to Clapham Park, a large social housing estate in London. This estate...
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The Importance of Urban Culture as a Middle Ground Between State and Ethnic Minorities in Negotiating (Im)mobilities: The London Context
This chapter considers the complexities of class, gender, cultural dynamics and cultural change within an urban context, as well as the positions...
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All London Green Grid as Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
In the face of the heightened threat and risks of climate change in urban areas, nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained attention as an...
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All London Green Grid as Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience
In the face of the heightened threat and risks of climate change in urban areas, nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained attention as an...
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Climate Urbanism in the Post-pandemic World: Map** Vulnerabilities and Exploring Community Activism in East London
This chapter proposes an approach to understand and map city social and environmental vulnerabilities, alongside bottom-up and emerging community...
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London versus East London
Contemporary London as a global and multicultural city is in part a product of its transnational relations and its postcolonial challenges, which has...
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Understanding the Current Geographic Disposition of the Jewish Population of England and Wales: Growth and Contraction
The release in March/April 2023 of England and Wales 2021 Census complete data on “usual residents” by the Office for National Statistics provides an...
