| 1. Creative Cities |
| Urbanity and creativity: how culture and economy work with each other as overlapping and interdependent sets of actions, discourses and objects in geographically and historically specific urban settings. |
| Culture, space and power in London and Mumbai: how spatial articulations and exclusions associated with the creative city have been implicated in asserting discourses and practices of ‘neoliberal’ urbanism, not least in instigating new waves of inner-city gentrification. |
| Global circuits and networks of creativity: a critical engagement with new perspectives which emphasise the relational spatialities of globalisation and challenge many of the functionalist and structuralist tendencies within urban literature. |
| 2. Urban Infrastructure in India |
| Liquid cities: how water networks play an important role in delineating social formations and revealing political tensions within Indian urbanisation processes. |
| Concrete geographies: an examination of the geographical and sociotechnical imaginations involved in the configuration, construction and maintenance of road networks and high-rise buildings. |
| 3. Comparative Urbanism |
| The use of inter-urban and intra-urban frameworks to highlight important particularities both between and within cities, and to challenge the way certain spaces are deemed emblematic of contemporary urban transformations. |
| Reorienting urban geography: how cities such as Mumbai can be used to contest widespread and entrenched Eurocentric assumptions in urban and social theory, and open up new channels of urban policy formation. |
