In a rising urban age planning for cities around the globe is increasingly based on
assessments of ecosystem services, making enhanced considerations of ecosystem service …

The relationship between urbanization and development is a vital policy concern, especially
in Africa and Asia. This paper reviews the arguments and evidence for whether rapid urban …

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

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 …

Foreboding declarations about contemporary urban trends pervade early twenty‐first
century academic, political and journalistic discourse. Among the most widely recited is the …

Abstract In 2015, the China State Council in its 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social
Development strategically initiated the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area …

This article examines the emergence of city‐region governance as a specific state spatial
selectivity in post‐reform China. The process has been driven by the state in response to the …

Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale
and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of …

This paper has two main parts. The first questions two of the underlying principles of
conventional transport planning on travel as a derived demand and on travel cost …

Much of the rising international connectedness of city-regions has developed from MNEs
replacing local connections with (superior) international ones. This often creates local …