Impacts and implications for the post-COVID city: the case of Toronto

S Brail, M Kleinman - … Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Since the onset of COVID-19, scholars have questioned whether the pandemic will alter the
fundamentals propelling the growth of global cities. Using a case study of Toronto, the paper …

Introduction: Comparative global urban studies in the making: Welcome to the world of imperfect and innovative urban comparisons

P Le Galès, J Robinson - The Routledge Handbook of …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
The processes of globalisation, circulation and networks make cities and metropolises units
that are increasingly interdependent. There were some countervailing trends in urban …

Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of 'global cities research'

M Van Meeteren, B Derudder… - Dialogues in Human …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper engages with postcolonial critiques of global cities research (GCR). We argue
that such criticisms tend to be hampered by their tendency to be polemical rather than …

Getting urbanization to work in Africa: the role of the urban land-infrastructure-finance nexus

I Turok - Area development and policy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The serious social and environmental problems and risks associated with large-scale
urbanization in Africa are widely recognized. However, the potential for urbanization to …

[HTML][HTML] Integración urbana y calidad de vida: disyuntivas en contextos metropolitanos

M Vicuña, A Orellana, R Truffello, D Moreno - Revista Invi, 2019 - SciELO Chile
Este trabajo explora en qué medida la integración urbana se relaciona con una mejor
calidad de vida en las áreas metropolitanas de Santiago, Valparaíso y Concepción, desafío …

Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics

H Li, V Mykhnenko - The Geographical Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study exposes and maps a hitherto little‐known dimension of China's urban geography–
that of shrinkage, directly affecting one in 10 of its cities. Urban shrinkage is revealed to be a …

[图书][B] Interplaces: An economic geography of the inter-urban and international economies

NA Phelps - 2017 - books.google.com
Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations-the
geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now. In this …

Intelligent urbanism with artificial intelligence in shaping tomorrow's smart cities: current developments, trends, and future directions

Z Yan, L Jiang, X Huang, L Zhang, X Zhou - Journal of Cloud Computing, 2023 - Springer
Abstract 21st century has witnessed a profound metamorphosis in human civilization,
primarily driven by the confluence of advanced network technologies and industrial …

“Superstar Cities” & the generation of durable inequality

P Le Galès, P Pierson - Daedalus, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
The striking economic agglomerations emerging in affluent democracies are generating,
reproducing, and expanding inequalities. A major mechanism for this is housing, which is …

Beyond city limits: A conceptual and political defense of 'the city'as an anchoring concept for critical urban theory

M Davidson, K Iveson - City, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
With the publication of their piece 'Towards a New Epistemology of the Urban?'in City 19 (2–
3), Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid hoped to ignite a debate about the adequacy of …