Kevin Ward is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development and Director of the Manchester Urban Institute (www.mui.manchester.ac.uk) at the University of Manchester, UK.

Andrew E. G. Jonas is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Hull, UK.

Byron Miller is Professor and the Coordinator of the Urban Studies Interdisciplinary Program, University of Calgary, Canada.

David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.