Francesco Chiodelli is Senior Research Fellow at Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.Tim Hall is Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Studies and Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Winchester, UK.Ray Hudson is Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK.

"The diverse and rich contents of the book – which have been briefly re-called in this review – makes it suitable for a large audience, both in and outside the academic field. On the one hand, scholars and students from different disciplines, e.g. sociology, criminology, economics, political science, international relations, as well as geography of course, could find many empirical and analytical elements of interests in the volume. On the other hand, the book can also provide useful infor-mation and suggestions to public officers and policy makers for political projects and for the definition of new tools in fighting against criminal phenomena. Finally, the book could also rouse the attention of journalists and media commentators, considering the flurry international public debate about the drivers and the effects of the illicit and the illegal." - Joselle Dagnes, University of Torino

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Grey Governance and the Development of Cities and Regions: The Variable Relationship Between (Il)legal and (Ill)licitFrancesco Chiodelli, Tim Hall, Ray Hudson and Stefano Moroni Chapter 2 Drug trafficking in the Sahara Desert: follow the money and find land grabbing Luca Raineri Chapter 3 Invisible journeys across India-Bangladesh borders and bubbles of corrupt networks: stories of cross-border rural-urban migration and economic linkages Hosna J Shewly and Md Nadiruzzaman Chapter 4 Gangsters, guerrillas and the rise of a shadow state in East Timor James Scambary Chapter 5 Criminal networks, youth street groups and illicit territorial regulation in Moscow and Tbilisi Svetlana Stephenson and Evgeniya Zakharova Chapter 6 Illegal enterprises and the city: when territorial control is an issue of urban governance Lessons from Medellín, ColombiaLaure LeiblerChapter 7 Mobs, Sucanchiuostru, Anti-Communists: Global and Local Actors in the Sack of Palermo Vincenzo Scalia Chapter 8 Filling governance and development vacuums: a role for development actors or criminal groups? Sasha JespersonChapter 9 Planning for Marijuana: Development, Governance, and Regional Political EconomyMichael Polson Chapter 10 Embedding illegality, or when the illegal becomes licit: planning cases and urban transformations in RomeBarbara Pizzo and Edoardo AltavillaChapter 11 Building legitimacy through the spatial aesthetics of the illicit: non-state urban actors in post-311 JapanMargrete Bjone Engelien, John Edom and Hannah WoodChapter 12 The corruption of politics or the politics of corruption? Reconsidering the role of organised crime in the geo-politics of corruption Sue Penna and Martin O'Brien Chapter 13 Corrupt cities: The illicit in local urban development. The Spanish case Monica Garcia Quesada and Fernando Jiménez SánchezChapter 14Corruption, crisis and planning policies: the Free-Trade Zone project in the metropolitan area of Valencia, SpainJorge Ignacio Selfa Clemente Chapter 15 Who is corrupt and where lies corruption? Thinking with land use planning violations in BangaloreJayaraj SundaresanIndex

Francesco Chiodelli is Senior Research Fellow at Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.Tim Hall is Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Studies and Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Winchester, UK.Ray Hudson is Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK.

"The diverse and rich contents of the book – which have been briefly re-called in this review – makes it suitable for a large audience, both in and outside the academic field. On the one hand, scholars and students from different disciplines, e.g. sociology, criminology, economics, political science, international relations, as well as geography of course, could find many empirical and analytical elements of interests in the volume. On the other hand, the book can also provide useful infor-mation and suggestions to public officers and policy makers for political projects and for the definition of new tools in fighting against criminal phenomena. Finally, the book could also rouse the attention of journalists and media commentators, considering the flurry international public debate about the drivers and the effects of the illicit and the illegal." - Joselle Dagnes, University of Torino

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Grey Governance and the Development of Cities and Regions: The Variable Relationship Between (Il)legal and (Ill)licitFrancesco Chiodelli, Tim Hall, Ray Hudson and Stefano Moroni Chapter 2 Drug trafficking in the Sahara Desert: follow the money and find land grabbing Luca Raineri Chapter 3 Invisible journeys across India-Bangladesh borders and bubbles of corrupt networks: stories of cross-border rural-urban migration and economic linkages Hosna J Shewly and Md Nadiruzzaman Chapter 4 Gangsters, guerrillas and the rise of a shadow state in East Timor James Scambary Chapter 5 Criminal networks, youth street groups and illicit territorial regulation in Moscow and Tbilisi Svetlana Stephenson and Evgeniya Zakharova Chapter 6 Illegal enterprises and the city: when territorial control is an issue of urban governance Lessons from Medellín, ColombiaLaure LeiblerChapter 7 Mobs, Sucanchiuostru, Anti-Communists: Global and Local Actors in the Sack of Palermo Vincenzo Scalia Chapter 8 Filling governance and development vacuums: a role for development actors or criminal groups? Sasha JespersonChapter 9 Planning for Marijuana: Development, Governance, and Regional Political EconomyMichael Polson Chapter 10 Embedding illegality, or when the illegal becomes licit: planning cases and urban transformations in RomeBarbara Pizzo and Edoardo AltavillaChapter 11 Building legitimacy through the spatial aesthetics of the illicit: non-state urban actors in post-311 JapanMargrete Bjone Engelien, John Edom and Hannah WoodChapter 12 The corruption of politics or the politics of corruption? Reconsidering the role of organised crime in the geo-politics of corruption Sue Penna and Martin O'Brien Chapter 13 Corrupt cities: The illicit in local urban development. The Spanish case Monica Garcia Quesada and Fernando Jiménez SánchezChapter 14Corruption, crisis and planning policies: the Free-Trade Zone project in the metropolitan area of Valencia, SpainJorge Ignacio Selfa Clemente Chapter 15 Who is corrupt and where lies corruption? Thinking with land use planning violations in BangaloreJayaraj SundaresanIndex

Francesco Chiodelli is Senior Research Fellow at Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy.Tim Hall is Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Studies and Head of the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Winchester, UK.Ray Hudson is Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK.

"The diverse and rich contents of the book – which have been briefly re-called in this review – makes it suitable for a large audience, both in and outside the academic field. On the one hand, scholars and students from different disciplines, e.g. sociology, criminology, economics, political science, international relations, as well as geography of course, could find many empirical and analytical elements of interests in the volume. On the other hand, the book can also provide useful infor-mation and suggestions to public officers and policy makers for political projects and for the definition of new tools in fighting against criminal phenomena. Finally, the book could also rouse the attention of journalists and media commentators, considering the flurry international public debate about the drivers and the effects of the illicit and the illegal." - Joselle Dagnes, University of Torino

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Grey Governance and the Development of Cities and Regions: The Variable Relationship Between (Il)legal and (Ill)licitFrancesco Chiodelli, Tim Hall, Ray Hudson and Stefano Moroni Chapter 2 Drug trafficking in the Sahara Desert: follow the money and find land grabbing Luca Raineri Chapter 3 Invisible journeys across India-Bangladesh borders and bubbles of corrupt networks: stories of cross-border rural-urban migration and economic linkages Hosna J Shewly and Md Nadiruzzaman Chapter 4 Gangsters, guerrillas and the rise of a shadow state in East Timor James Scambary Chapter 5 Criminal networks, youth street groups and illicit territorial regulation in Moscow and Tbilisi Svetlana Stephenson and Evgeniya Zakharova Chapter 6 Illegal enterprises and the city: when territorial control is an issue of urban governance Lessons from Medellín, ColombiaLaure LeiblerChapter 7 Mobs, Sucanchiuostru, Anti-Communists: Global and Local Actors in the Sack of Palermo Vincenzo Scalia Chapter 8 Filling governance and development vacuums: a role for development actors or criminal groups? Sasha JespersonChapter 9 Planning for Marijuana: Development, Governance, and Regional Political EconomyMichael Polson Chapter 10 Embedding illegality, or when the illegal becomes licit: planning cases and urban transformations in RomeBarbara Pizzo and Edoardo AltavillaChapter 11 Building legitimacy through the spatial aesthetics of the illicit: non-state urban actors in post-311 JapanMargrete Bjone Engelien, John Edom and Hannah WoodChapter 12 The corruption of politics or the politics of corruption? Reconsidering the role of organised crime in the geo-politics of corruption Sue Penna and Martin O'Brien Chapter 13 Corrupt cities: The illicit in local urban development. The Spanish case Monica Garcia Quesada and Fernando Jiménez SánchezChapter 14Corruption, crisis and planning policies: the Free-Trade Zone project in the metropolitan area of Valencia, SpainJorge Ignacio Selfa Clemente Chapter 15 Who is corrupt and where lies corruption? Thinking with land use planning violations in BangaloreJayaraj SundaresanIndex