From cities to super mega city regions in China in a new wave of urbanisation and economic transition: Issues and challenges

AGO Yeh, Z Chen - Urban Studies, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
A mega city region comprises a cluster of highly networked urban settlements anchored by
one or more large cities. Substantial studies have been conducted in the 21st century to …

Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: A research agenda

JPD Addie, MR Glass, J Nelles - Regional Studies, Regional …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
An interdisciplinary 'infrastructure turn'has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the
concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to …

Rethinking China's urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions

F Wu, F Zhang - Progress in human geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …

China's emergent city‐region governance: a new form of state spatial selectivity through state‐orchestrated rescaling

F Wu - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the emergence of city‐region governance as a specific state spatial
selectivity in post‐reform China. The process has been driven by the state in response to the …

Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China's Pearl River Delta

X Zhang, Y Li, C Zhou, X Luan, F Yuan - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Ubiquitous in fast-urbanising China, land-driven urban growth is increasingly inter-urban in
nature–a trend that is underexplored in the literature. Grounded in a conceptual framework …

Does regional cooperation constrain urban sprawl? Evidence from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater Bay area

X Zhang, Y Chen, Y Xu, W Yue, C Tang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
Regional cooperation is increasingly adopted by Chinese multiple governments as a
panacea to crack the ineffcient urban land use that is induced by jurisdiction-based land …

Understanding city-regionalism in China: Regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta

Y Li, F Wu - Regional Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding city-regionalism in China: regional cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta.
Regional Studies. China has witnessed the orchestration of city-regionalism and two …

Geographies of transport I: Reinventing a field?

T Schwanen - Progress in Human Geography, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This first of three reports confirms and extends recent reflections on the diversity and
vibrancy of the study of transport in geography. It identifies multiple drivers for the recent re …

Changing value system, shifting geography of opportunity: trajectory of migrant workers in the garment industry in Beijing

R Liu, X Huang - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
Research on the geography of metropolitan opportunities has focused on a set of
opportunities in different urban areas over time to justify policy interventions. The Beijing …

Governing the new metropolis

J Harrison, M Hoyler - Urban Studies, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The expansion of globalising cities into global city-regions poses fundamental questions
about how best to govern the new metropolis. Partly because of the relentless pace of …