A mega city region comprises a cluster of highly networked urban settlements anchored by
one or more large cities. Substantial studies have been conducted in the 21st century to …

The paper gives firstly, a summary of the literature on neoliberal urban governance of the
past decade-especially on the" entrepreneurial city"-and more recent tendencies like the …

Austerity, the sustained and widespread cuts to government budgets, has characterised
Britain's public policy since 2010. The local state has undergone substantial restructuring …

In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of
migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and …

Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic
Geography and Transition Studies. Regional Studies. This paper develops a theoretical …

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 …

This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of
Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to …

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 …

Place‐making–the set of social, political and material processes by which people iteratively
create and recreate the experienced geographies in which they live–is an important but oft …

The limits of the environmental state in the context of the provision of economic growth are
addressed by applying materialist state theory, state-rescaling approaches and the …