ABSTRACT
In one, secondary, sense, this special issue on cities of power is related to an ongoing project of mine on cities of power. As far as I understand, it was the reason why professor In Kwon Park and the editors of IJUS most kindly invited me to guest edit it. Focusing on national capital cities of the globe, the project is interested in how cities over the years manifest and represent power, and thereby also generating contestations of power. It has spawned a small set of publications over the years1, and currently I have embarked upon writing a concluding book.
