Associate Fellow, SPERI, & Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and International Development, University of Sheffield
Why ‘plugging’ infrastructure gaps through international finance can generate new problems for African cities.
Exploring how capital intersects with contemporary urban forms can help to bring Africa to its rightful position at the forefront of global debates on capitalist transformation.
Africa is undergoing an urban revolution which is taking place in the context of a sea change in global geopolitics
In the UK and in developing countries enormous wealth is generated from property. New approaches and action is needed to value and tax property wealth
Placing property taxation, redistribution and social justice in an ethical context
The recent big fall in price creates some space for new thinking, but also poses questions to which we don’t have answers