ABSTRACT
This chapter joins the recent topical debate within urban geography and planning studies concerning the Global North's declining dominance in the production of urban theory and the need to move beyond methodological regionalism and incommensurability in urban studies research. It examines housing and development; mobility and transport and local government and civil society. Jerusalem and Stockholm is an unusual pair to compare, demanding a short explanation, because they do not hold the same history or social and spatial politics. Uncontrolled sprawl and (lack of) housing and development in East Jerusalem Palestinian areas and continued absence of investment and deteriorating housing conditions in Stockholm's outer suburbs can be determined as a main housing and development anchor point, reinforcing ethnic segregation and deprivation. Public transport and personal mobility have critical implications for access to employment and other basic needs, especially in the case of marginalized minority communities.
