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Violence reduction in a changing European urban context: Frontline practitioner’s understanding of the roots of violence, and why it matters for policy and prevention Open

Rowland Atkinson · 2025

Violence continues to be a concern for policymakers and communities, notably so in urban contexts in which socio-demographic change, retrenched social support and evolving forms of exclusion affect its distribution and intensity. Drawing f…

The UK’s coastal ‘ghost enclaves’ are the result of government failure on low-use homes Open

Rowland Atkinson, Rafaella Lima, Jonathan Bourne · 2024

Arrive and retreat: London’s ultra-prime apartment blocks as dark urban renaissance Open

Rowland Atkinson, Martha Mingay · 2024

The expansion of an archipelago of residential blocks across London's West End has created an urban renaissance of sorts, but it is a rebirth that has targeted the expanded ranks of the global super-rich, yielding a visibly luxurious, ofte…

What future for public housing? A critical analysis Open

Keith Jacobs, Rowland Atkinson, Angela Spinney, Val Colic‐Peisker, Mike Berry , et al. · 2024

This Research Paper provides a discussion about the historical processes and factors that have shaped public housing in Australia. The intention is to provide a baseline that can inform the next stage of the investigation on the long-term …

Applying the global wealth chain typology to property purchases in the Liverpool and Merseyside Area Open

Rex A. McKenzie, Rowland Atkinson, Andrea Ingianni · 2023

The wealth chain is a conceptualisation of extended flows of capital operating across multiple tax jurisdictions in order to extract maximum value from investment locations. To date, such chains have largely been considered in relation to …

Libertecture: A catalogue of libertarian spaces Open

Rowland Atkinson, Liam O’Farrell · 2023

In this article we identify spaces and built environments that have the effect of placing libertarian thinking in urban contexts, using the term ‘libertecture’ to refer to the way that these architectures convey principles of personal libe…

Negotiating Fear and Risk in the New Urban China: The Emotional Landscapes of the Privileged Inside Gated Communities Open

Yixin Liu, Rowland Atkinson · 2023

Contributors Open

Maurizio Artero, Rowland Atkinson, Samuel Burgum, Nigel De Noronha · 2022

Maurizio's main research interests are in the field of forced migration and urban refuge.His current research deals with practices and policies of refugees' reception and integration in Italy in light of the conflict between local policies…

Housing, Inequality and Sociology: A Comment on Pragmatic Socioeconomics Open

Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs · 2022

In this brief article, we reflect on the contribution of Martin Lux and Petr Sunega to the role of sociology in the domain of housing economics. Applauding the attempt at injecting a more sociologically informed housing economics, we draw …

Parents' points of view: an evaluation of the M'Lop Tapang special needs programme, Cambodia Open

Dianna McDonald Shoemaker, S Chhim, Stijn Dom, C Ngov, Rosemary Kennedy , et al. · 2020

M’Lop Tapang is a registered non-governmental organisation working in South West Cambodia and providing services to 5000 vulnerable children and 2500 families. \nThis evaluation was commissioned to review M’Lop Tapang’s special needs progr…

Anchoring capital in place: The grounded impact of international wealth chains on housing markets in London Open

Rex A. McKenzie, Rowland Atkinson · 2019

Taking as our focus the city of London over the last decade, we use state-held records of house sales to consider the impact of competition for housing resources in the luxury property market. This data suggests that the use of offshore in…

London’s extraordinary surplus of empty luxury apartments revealed Open

Rowland Atkinson · 2018

Necrotecture: Lifeless Dwellings and London's Super‐Rich Open

Rowland Atkinson · 2018

This article problematizes the relationship between the global super‐rich and processes of property development that have generated large volumes of underused residential space. Evidence is presented to show that much of London's new skyli…

Disorderly cities and the policy-making field: the 1981 English riots and the management of urban decline Open

Simon Parker, Rowland Atkinson · 2018

This article develops a framework for understanding policy-making responses to the crisis of the post-industrial urban economy in Britain through an exploration of the policy event of the 1981 English riots and the policy-making field that…

Disconnected: Non-Users of Information Communication Technologies Open

Mariann Hardey, Rowland Atkinson · 2018

Growing concern about the impact of constant, mediated connection has often focused on the ways in which technologies contribute to a ubiquitous sense of presence and interaction, and the kind of invasion that this may represent to a sense…

Elite Formation, Power and Space in Contemporary London Open

Rowland Atkinson, Simon Parker, Roger Burrows · 2017

In this article we examine elite formation in relation to money power within the city of London. Our primary aim is to consider the impact of the massive concentration of such power upon the city’s political life, municipal and shared reso…

Frontmatter Open

Rowland Atkinson, Lisa Mckenzie, Simon Winlow · 2017

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert opinions outlining what might help to make better socie…

Looking for big ‘fry’: The motives and methods of middle-class international property investors Open

Hang Kei Ho, Rowland Atkinson · 2017

Anxieties about the effects of international property investment in world cities like London have mainly focused on super-rich investors and corporate vehicles that have generated price inflation of assets and accelerated exclusion from an…

References Open

Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy · 2016