This article reviews existing literature on spatial metrics, presenting a portfolio of metrics
addressing the spatial patterns of growing and shrinking cities and discussing their potential …

Multinational enterprise (MNE) location decisions are central to international business (IB)
scholarship and research shows that global cities are key MNE investment locations …

Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex,
and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates …

Urban shrinkage is not a new phenomenon. It has been documented in a large literature
analyzing the social and economic issues that have led to population flight, resulting, in the …

Major social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies
have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in S pain and L atin …

For several decades, urban geographers asked themselves whether there was such a thing
as the “socialist city.” Did cities during the duration of state socialism (in most parts of East …

Swimming pools are together an exemplificative outcome of urban sprawl and an indicator
of socio-spatial polarizations in metropolitan regions. A comparative analysis of the spatial …

The beginning of the 21st century marks the first time in history that more than half of the
world's population lives in urban areas. In Europe, more than 70% of the population lives in …

This paper undertakes a comparison of two regrowing and two shrinking European cities in
order to identify the factors driving demographic regrowth and economic recovery of cities …

Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …