Mountainous settlements accommodate nearly one tenth of the world's population. Most
mountainous cities have adopted the strategy of polycentric urban development due to an …

The polycentric urban structure is regarded to be more rational than the monocentric
structure in recent urban studies. However, challenges have emerged in the implementation …

Despite much insightful work on polycentric urban development in China, there is a lack of
systematic comparison at the intra-city level. Therefore, this paper explores polycentric …

Despite the advantages of polycentric structure and its rich literature drawn from cities in
industialized countries, little attention has been paid to the study of polycentric urban …

The idea of megaregions, which focuses on polycentricity, competitiveness, and integration
attracts much attention in research and policy. China has used megaregions as a normative …

An emerging polycentric spatial structure in China's mega cities has been confirmed in the
literature, but few studies have addressed the linkage between the change in spatial …

This article reports a multi-scale analysis of polycentric urban development in 22 Chinese
city-regions. Using fine-grained population data, our analysis contrasts polycentric …

Although polycentrism is widely promoted by city planners and policymakers as a potential
solution for alleviating the sprawl of central urban areas, there is no sufficient empirical …

Urban spatial structure is a critical component of urban planning and development, and
among the different urban spatial structure strategies,'polycentric mega-city region …

The polycentric idea has recently been reinvigorated in many rapidly urbanising countries,
but the paucity of reliable and disaggregated data has so far made it almost impossible to …