Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities

NA Phelps, PJ Maginn, R Keil - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Based on presentations across two days as part of an Urban Studies Foundation-funded
seminar series, we elaborate a thematic agenda for considering the centrality of urban …

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 …

Are new towns prone to urban heat island effect? Implications for planning form and function

M You, J Huang, CH Guan - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
New town developments aim to improve spatial layout and quality of human habitats in
metropolitan areas. However, due to high-density compact development and inadequate …

Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China

F Wu, H Deng, Y Feng, W Wang… - Progress in human …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The death of urban entrepreneurialism is proclaimed surprisingly by opposite
conceptualisations of austerity urbanism and radical municipalism. This paper argues that …

Urban development wave: Understanding physical spatial processes of urban expansion from density gradient of new urban land

J Yang, J Li, F Xu, S Li, M Zheng, J Gong - Computers, Environment and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Investigation and planning of future urbanization pathways necessitates knowledge and
tools to better understand the physical spatial processes of urban expansion. In this study …

Assessing multi-spatial driving factors of urban land use transformation in megacities: a case study of Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area from 2000 to …

Y Meng, M Sing Wong, MP Kwan… - Geo-Spatial …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Rapid morphological and socioeconomic changes have accelerated the urbanization
process and urban land use transformation in China. Megacities comprise clusters of urban …

Competition and coordination in state intrapreneurialism: The case of South Korea's export of urban expertise

JT Miao, HM Kim, NA Phelps - Environment and Planning A …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
State entrepreneurialism in response to external market stimuli has a state
intrapreneurialism counterpart–the entrepreneurialism found within public institutions. In …

Keeping up with the zones (es): How competing local governments in China use development zones as back doors to urbanization

Y Jiang, P Waley - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Development zones are largely missing from discussions on urbanization in China. This is a
surprising omission given the centrality of these zones in economic and urban growth …

Carbon Abatement Effect of Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy: Insights from a Time-Varying DID Model

S Gao, S Wang - Annals of the American Association of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy constitutes a crucial element in China's endeavors to
attain its carbon peak target. Thoroughly analyzing the carbon abatement effects and …

Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China's Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan …

Y Li, X Zhang, N Phelps, M Tu - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Conceived as industry enclaves when they were originally built, China's special economic
zones (SEZs) might be thought to have few linkages to the local economy. Here we …