Regional and area planning

Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of Jewish residents. Considering a wider range of historical and structural factors in which the colonization of the West Bank developed it allows placing its origins and everyday reality into a

Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about. Across its villages and production sites, state institutions and civil society organisations, the dominant and less well-off sections of society are engaged in antagonistic relations that determine the material conditions of one quarter of the world's 'poor'. Increasingly mobile and often with several jobs in multiple locations, India's 'classes of labour' are highly segmented but far from

Neobarock und Fachwerkromantik in einer Stadt, die groß denkt, nach oben wächst und am liebsten immer schon das kommende Jahrhundert im Blick hat? Kaum war der Plan auf dem Tisch, zwischen Dom und Römer Frankfurts im Krieg zerbombte Altstadt auferstehen zu lassen, hagelte es Kritik.

Doch heute kommen Frankfurter aus dem Staunen nicht mehr heraus. Rund um den Hühnermarkt, nunmehr der schönste Platz der Stadt, ist eine kleine neue Welt entstanden, die mit Wirtshäusern, Läden und sog