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 …

Sustainable and inclusive development aims to achieve long‐term economic growth while
ensuring environmental and social sustainability. This study investigates the significance of …

This Introduction to the special issue,'Comparative Methods for Global Urban Studies',
outlines the basis for a reformatted comparative method inspired by the complex spatialities …

In this article we suggest that the process of peri-urban formation is a case of “exploded
urbanism”–a situation in which urban features fly like shrapnel from the urban core to the …

River sand, in its fluid form, is constantly shifting, being displaced through human activities
and hydrological processes. The specific connections between the drivers and …

Contemporary urbanization is characterized by the incorporation of historically isolated
places into vast urbanized networks that are planetary in scope. We underscore the political …

Large-scale urban development projects are a significant format of urban expansion and
renewal across the globe. As generators of governance innovation and indicators of the …

This paper offers a space-relational extension to the local turn in peace studies. We argue
that unflattening the local in research on peace and conflict has the potential to explain why …

Greater Cairo (GC) is the seventh-largest metropolitan city globally. In recent decades, GC
has witnessed massive urban expansion, which has yet to be empirically measured or …

The implementation of large-scale projects including road infrastructures is often seen as the
driver of socio-economic growth and development of countries. Interestingly, in the Global …