Village settlements in peri-urban areas have largely been transformed into dense
neighbourhoods in the process of rapid urbanisation and become Villages-in-the-City …

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing
on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of …

For decades, Vietnam has been recognized as one of the countries most vulnerable to the
impact of climate change and its associated phenomena, including natural disasters and …

The Vietnamese government has consistently played the role of policy initiator to achieve
mass affordable housing provision through mobilising resources from the private sector …

This paper explores two issues. First, it focuses on the question of what is the most
appropriate theoretical framework for the study of the urbanisation process in China and …

A growing body of literature is concerned with urbanization processes in contemporary
Vietnam and how the country's globalizing cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are …

Highlights•This paper examines and compare the morphologies of Villages-in-the-City in
Kunming in China and Hanoi in Vietnam.•The diverse practices and small scale tactics …

Since the late 1990s, a new model of urban development has been promoted in Vietnam. So-
called'new urban areas' are being built on the agricultural lands at the periurban interface of …

In recent decades, hundreds of master-planned new urban areas (NUAs) have developed
on the urban fringes of expanding cities in Vietnam. They are promoted as a new urban …

The emergence of informal settlements in the Global South has been at the centre of
debates regarding sustainable development. While the visibility of informal settlements has …