The literature on interurban competition emphasizes that market rules as an external
coercive power dominate local state space conductive to economic growth. Is there another …

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 …

In recent years, the emergence of mega city-regions and their implications for regional
governance have attracted wide attention from scholars in the fields of geography, planning …

The central government established Pudong in Shanghai as the first national-level new area
(new area). It replicated this territorial experiment in major cities, particularly during the last …

China's recent rapid urban growth has embraced city peripheries, with such great expansion
occurring that polycentric city-regions have been created. Recognizing that multiple levels of …

This article develops the concept of territorial urbanization in China through the historical
conditions and research design problems of the Chinese administrative divisions in relation …

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

Urbanization in China involves administrative conversion of rural counties into urban
districts. During the 1990s, provincial governments enhanced the authority of county …

The transformation of the regional system in China has resulted in polycentric spatial forms
in major city-regions. With urban entrepreneurialism prevailing across the country, these …

Under the Belt and Road Initiative, a new city-regionalism has replaced the independent
county system in western China to form a new accumulation regime. Drawing on empirical …