[Text Extract …] The papers in this issue have various features in common; they deal with the history of relations between core and periphery, they focus on different levels and stages in the production and consumption of the built environment as well as the economic, political and cultural conditions in which this takes place, and to varying degrees, they relate these issues to questions of race, class, ethnicity and nation. The larger phenomenon under which all of these issues is subsumed is colonial urbanism and urbanization and its role in the development of the capitalist world economy.

Considering its impact on contemporary urban political, economic and cultural life, the historical experience of colonialism and imperialism’ is greatly underresearched.