Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World / Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City (PDF)

Ken Salo is lecturer and the community development coordinator at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental justice, environmental racism, law and international environmental policy, global justice movements, international human rights, food security, legal cultures in postcolonial societies and international development and planning. More specifically he is closely connected with the social movements and grassroots groups that mobilize against urban injustices in the US and in South Africa. These include Anti-Eviction campaign in Chicago and in Western Cape as well as justice media project, among others. He is author of "Contested Legalities in the Production of Post-apartheid South Africa's Privatizing Seafood Fishery." African Studies Quarterly, Vol 9, no 4 Fall 2007.

David Wilson is professor of geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently investigating projects pivoting around the political economy of the U.S. city. Specific projects examine the politics of urban growth regimes in Midwest cities, the politics of competing discursive formations that generate gentrified neighborhoods and poverty communities, and the racializing of the contemporary urban issues of crime and city growth. He is author of Cities and Race: the New American Black Ghetto (2007) London: Routledge Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space Representation (2005) Syracuse: Syracuse University. At the moment, he serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography, Professional Geographer, Social and Cultural Geography, Syracuse University Press (Society, Space, and Place Book Series), Inter-Cultural Studies, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography project and Acme: International Journal for Critical Geography.