The emergence over the last 30–40 years of what is variously termed edge city, edgeless,
and postsuburban development in North America and elsewhere raises a set of challenges …

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 …

Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and
institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an …

Abstract A llen J. and C ochrane A.(2007) Beyond the territorial fix: regional assemblages,
politics and power, Regional Studies 41, 1161–1175. The idea of regions as territorially …

This paper reviews the (primarily North American and European) literature for signs of the
economic significance of suburbs. It has been common to view suburbs as economically …

This paper explores the imaginations of place and spatial organization and of governance
mobilized in recent experiences of strategic spatial planning for urban regions in Europe …

In this introduction to a special Debates and Developments forum on city‐regions, we argue
that the recent revival of interest in city‐regions has been constructed around a rather …

Recent contributions by geographers on the relationships between states and citizens have
documented the rise of rolled‐out neoliberalism. Development agendas are, it is argued …

Urban entrepreneurialism and intensive inter-city competition prevail in post-reform China,
which has been extensively documented in the literature. However, decentralization is not …

This paper sets out a sympathetic critique of a series of writings that we refer to as new
regionalist approaches to the city. We review the recent work on state restructuring/rescaling …