Luis Fernández-Galiano   Four recent works chart the political economy of globalization and the spaces of control and conflict in the contemporary world. A sociologist and a political scientist writing from Columbia and Berkeley and an economist and a philosopher doing so fr

Álvaro Ardura Urquiaga   Many have felt the need to investigate commonplaces dealt with by Jane Jacobs. Sonia Hirt, a Virginia Tech professor whose specialty is post-Soviet Eastern European urban planning, found the pretext to do so in an issue that The Journal of Architectu

Saskia Sassen   Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy