Urban design is the process of designing and sha** the physical forms of cities, towns,
and suburbs. It involves the arrangement and design of street systems, groups of buildings …

Urban agglomeration is a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities. It occurs when
the relationships among cities shift from mainly competition to both competition and …

The academic literature on urban policy and planning which explicitly links to neo-liberalism
is huge. The paper systematises much of this literature from the period 1990 to 2010, with an …

Reviews of 1st edition:-"... A major, carefully argued contribution, which should raise the
discourse among planning theorists to a new level-a level reserved for a book that succeeds …

The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research
and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of …

The graduate approach applied in China for the economic transition poses the risk of
continued government influence on the market. The land reform and the following …

Abstract Analysis of local government contracting decisions typically focuses on transactions
costs related to service characteristics, especially asset specificity and difficulty of contract …

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical
look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban …

In the last decade the planning literature has reflected growing interest in the topic of gated
communities. To date, this relatively new field of research has generated limited theoretical …

This paper draws on institutionalist approaches as developed in the fields of policy analysis
and planning, to develop a methodological approach for assessing how the governance …