From Metropoles, Willem Salet (Amsterdam): New Metropolitan Spaces and Metropolitan Strategies in the Face of Modernisation; and Paul Kantor (Fordham): Globalization and the American Model of Urban Development: Making the Market. Are immigrants good for cities? Research on US data shows that high immigration cities experienced higher wage and housing price growth. Why the gay bars of Boston are disappearing, and what it says about the future of city life. We’ll climb that bridge when we come to it: For urban explorers, no place in the city is out of bounds and every landmark, structure, abandoned building and rat-infested tunnel is fair game — its wilder territories are nothing but accessible adventure.
