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 …

Through an empirical focus on Metropolitan Boston, this paper examines the effects of
territorial politics and fragmented metropolitan governance on an urban data ecosystem and …

There are changing dynamics among political regionalization processes and the rescaling
of nation-states in Europe. However, updated and timely research remains scant …

This article identifies the evolution of, and critiques, unsolicited urbanism—a project of city-
shaping favouring powerful market actors but inconsistent with the neoliberal tenet of …

This paper investigates urban governance empirically by applying social network analysis
methods to data gathered through structured interviews in London and New York. We …

This editorial presents the reasons why the metropolitan scale is gaining momentum as a
concept, as well as a process taking place in the real world, and considers its definition. The …

The literature on public–private partnerships (PPPs) often portrays infrastructure
construction as a depoliticized and technocratic exercise about efficiency and cost …

Focusing on commercial office real estate as both a manifestation of and a conduit of cross-
border capital flows, this paper refers to the concepts of topology and topography in a …

Literature on sub-national governance and leadership has frequently suggested that elected
leaders can use influence and facilitation skills alongside coercive power, legal …

Facing de-globalisation, changing international politics, climate changes and new smart
technologies in the post-pandemic era, city-regions become important spaces for economic …