China's outward investment has increased tremendously in recent years and it is currently a
global leader in the construction of transportation infrastructure. While its signature 'Belt and …

The term peri‐urbanization has been widely used to describe a range of different processes
that transform rural areas to a mix of rural and urban spaces. Although there is a burgeoning …

This paper argues that infrastructure-led development constitutes an emergent international
development regime whose imperative is to 'get the territory right'. Spatial planning …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

Official discourses of Development are being redefined. If the key geopolitical contexts
shaping the post‐war Development project were decolonisation and the Cold War, the …

This paper proposes 'ruralization'as a concept that human geographers are well placed to
develop across the rural-urban geography divide and in dialogue with scholars in cognate …

This article responds to a preference for short‐term history in research on the infrastructure
turn by engaging with the longue durée of East Africa's latest infrastructure scramble. It …

Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on the transcendence of city-centric
epistemologies in urban theory, this article proposes a theoretical framework for exploring …

In this paper, I explore the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban
transformation and inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I theorise the BRI as a …