The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical
access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion …

A vigorous debate has emerged in recent years over how to understand cities of the Global
South. A pivotal issue in this debate is whether urbanisation processes in the South are so …

Growing importance has been attached to the concept of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE)
as productive structures that encompass complex sets of interaction driving economic …

Planning policies are important drivers of spatial evolution in Chinese metropolitan areas;
however, research on the impact of planning policy implementation on the spatial evolution …

This paper presents a novel method to delineate metropolitan areas–or functional urban
areas (FUAs)–in the entire world and assesses their population trends. According to the …

We examine the application of quantitative spatial models to the growing body of fine spatial
data used to study economic outcomes for regions, cities, and neighborhoods. In “granular” …

What is a city? Researchers use different criteria and datasets to define it—from population
density to traffic flows. We argue there is one dataset that could serve as a proxy of the …

At the heart of urban economics are agglomeration economies, which drive the existence
and extent of cities. This paper estimates urban agglomeration effects, exploring simple and …

This paper proposes a novel methodology for delineating urban areas based on a machine
learning algorithm that groups buildings within portions of space of sufficient density. To do …

Many studies have shown that high-speed rail (HSR) can reshape the spatial pattern of
economic geography. However, there needs to be more logical argumentation and rigorous …