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 …

Territorial notions of place and region are being challenged by the relational viewpoint. Yet
relational thinking often neglects to address questions of territory and territorial politics. This …

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

This annual lecture paper bridges two influential but parallel literature strands on
evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global production networks (GPN). It argues …

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 …

The entrepreneurial city is no longer (only) a growth machine: recession and austerity, new
forms of financialization, and diverse experiments in urban policy have diluted local elites' …

Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers
around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts …

Cities around the world are striving to be global. This book tells the story of one of them, and
in so doing raises questions which are essential for all cities. These questions concern …

The idea of the city-region has been present in the literature on urban studies at least since
the publication of Patrick Geddes's Cities in Evolution in 1915. However, it was only after the …

Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense of the world we inhabit.
Amongst other things, it allows us to declare one event or process a national one and …