Christian Schmid, for their obvious level of sophistication, broad reading of the literature, and
evident familiarity with cities and the thorny problems they present for social scientists. I …

The spatial agglomeration of urban elements results in the center-periphery urban structure,
but the difference in spatial gradients of socioeconomic and physical elements is unclear …

Although there have been substantial changes in the techniques of public management and
the rhetoric of urban policy, there is little evidence of the massive withdrawal of the state, de …

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the
profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance …

Urban land expansion is closely related to and interacts with human activities. Although
extensive studies have investigated the characteristics and patterns of urban land …

Our future is urban. With more than two-thirds of the global population expected to live in
cities by 2050, urban sustainability is an essential part of sustainable development but …

This article analyses four of the most prominent city discourses and introduces the lens of
urban vitalism as an overarching interdisciplinary concept of cities as places of …

This paper begins with the accusation of “totalization” that has been directed at Neil Brenner
and Christian Schmid's concept of “planetary urbanization.” In so doing, it first critiques the …

Metropolitan governance is shaped by the strong interdependencies within urban areas,
combined with the fragmented geography and roles of the agencies that govern them …

This special issue, papers presented at an Urban Studies Foundation-funded conference in
Jakarta (March 2011), examines the current 'urban century'in terms of three revolutions …