Urbanization is a global phenomenon with strong sustainability implications across multiple
scales. We argue that much of the associated challenges, and opportunities, are found in the …

Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

There is a growing body of literature on China's land reform, land system and land-centred
urbanisation. While the contribution of land proceeds to Chinese local public finance and …

This report discusses the financialization of urban governance and the built environment as
an explicit state strategy, focusing on municipal finance and the use of financial products by …

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 …

Governing the future growth of the world's megacities towards higher land use efficiency is
important for achieving global sustainability. We have computed statistics of the urban …

To the modernist and image building Chinese state, urban villages are unique but a
transitional phenomenon of urbanization where peri-urban peasants have built substandard …

This paper offers an interpretive framework linking polycentric urban expansion in
emerging/frontier economies to the global extension of infrastructure networks. Drawing from …

Financial flows into Africa are being reoriented through the pervasive discourse of the
'infrastructure gap'. The article argues that the generation of new infrastructures identified as …