European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. The purpose of this study is to identify the main factors of city life satisfaction across Europe. Data come from the recent fifth survey on quality of life in European cities and cover 83 cities loc…
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. Secondary dwellings, from ‘backyard’ and basement units to converted garages or ‘granny flats’ are increasingly viewed as a potential source of lower cost rental accommodation. However, in many citie…
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. Using Venice as a case study, this article seeks to analyse the experience of migrant workers in the hotel industry through a theoretical engagement with the local labour market segmentation approach…
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print.
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. Beginning in the late 1990s, Spain experienced major changes in both its population structure and housing market. Between 1998 and 2008, the country’s immigrant population increased nearly 10-fold, f…
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print.
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. The social and spatial integration of knowledge-related urban development projects into their urban environment is seen by policymakers as a necessity to unlock local and regional growth dynamics and…
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. Social innovation scholars see grassroots welfare initiatives as being potentially empowering. However, they also argue that this potential is enhanced when these initiatives receive support from loc…
European Urban and Regional Studies, Ahead of Print. Urban designers have long sought to plan more secure public spaces by encouraging a sense of territory through the surveillant and the surveyed. Nevertheless, the racial dimension of this territorial…