The urban south and the predicament of global sustainability

H Nagendra, X Bai, ES Brondizio, S Lwasa - Nature sustainability, 2018 - nature.com
Urbanization is a global phenomenon with strong sustainability implications across multiple
scales. We argue that much of the associated challenges, and opportunities, are found in the …

Urban interventions and participation tools in urban design processes: a systematic review and thematic analysis (1995–2021)

C Ataman, B Tuncer - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
All cities need to change and transform to become more livable. Urban interventions are
effective for observing the changes and participation tools are in use for collecting data from …

Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities

PA Balland, C Jara-Figueroa, SG Petralia… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately
in large cities. The ten most innovative cities in the United States account for 23% of the …

[LIBRO][B] Comparative urbanism: Tactics for global urban studies

J Robinson - 2022 - books.google.com
COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

Notes on a Southern urban practice

G Bhan - Environment and Urbanization, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Writing alongside Southern urban theorists, this essay argues that the emerging body of
“theory from the South” must be simultaneously tied to the production of forms and theories …

The role of built and social environmental factors in Covid-19 transmission: A look at America's capital city

M Hu, JD Roberts, GP Azevedo, D Milner - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The goal of this research was to investigate the multifaceted interrelationships between the
built and social environments and the impact of this relationship on population-level health …

Towards a new epistemology of the urban?

N Brenner, C Schmid - City, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
New forms of urbanization are unfolding around the world that challenge inherited
conceptions of the urban as a fixed, bounded and universally generalizable settlement type …

[PDF][PDF] New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

N Brenner - 2019 - researchgate.net
The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

Is urbanisation in the Global South fundamentally different? Comparative global urban analysis for the 21st century

GF Randolph, M Storper - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A vigorous debate has emerged in recent years over how to understand cities of the Global
South. A pivotal issue in this debate is whether urbanisation processes in the South are so …

Rethinking China's urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions

F Wu, F Zhang - Progress in human geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …