ABSTRACT
A rapid process of concentrated and extended urbanisation is frenetically expanding the global built environment, creating a range of policy and ecological dilemmas. Often overlooked, however, is the hidden role which deviant state–corporate practices play in prosecuting urban change, that is exclusionary and unsustainable. It is argued in this chapter that crimes of the powerful research has an important role to play in explaining the social and ecological crises being generated by planetary urbanisation. Against this backdrop, the core aims of the book are set out, in addition to its structure.
