The global population has rapidly urbanized over the past century, and the urbanization rate
is projected to reach about 70% by 2050. In line with these trends and the increasing …

Polycentrism, basically denoting the existence of multiple centres in one area, seems to
have become one of the defi ning characteristics of the urban landscape in advanced …

Urbanisation leads to dramatic changes in regional land use, which significantly affects
habitat quality. Research on the coupling coordination relationship between urbanisation …

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present
urbanization is often referred to as an'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth …

Using travel time to cities of different sizes, we map populations across an urban–rural
continuum to improve on the standard dichotomous representations of urban–rural …

The urban has become a keyword of early twenty-first-century economic, political, and
cultural discourse. But as its resonance has intensified in social science and in the public …

In the rapidly growing literatures on globalisation, many authors have emphasised the
apparent disembedding of social relations from their local-territorial pre-conditions …

Because of the inadequacies of mainstream formulations, marxian urban analysis has
emerged to explain the important urban events since World War II. Similarly, but within a …

The peri-urban (sometimes also called the urban fringe) may be the dominant urban form
and spatial planning challenge of the twenty-first century. In older industrial or post-industrial …