Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale
and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of …

This article presents a “second-generation” rational choice explanation for voluntary
regional governance. It identifies the interests that motivate interlocal collaboration and …

Since the early 1990s, the concept of regional competitiveness has become a hegemonic
discourse within public policy circles in developed countries. However, it is a somewhat …

Regional integration is an important element of China's decarbonization and sustainability
strategies. The present study uses an extended Spatial Durbin Model and county-level …

Against the backdrop of city-regionalization of Chinese urban jurisdictions, both the
integration of urban-rural land-use and the conservation of arable land resources are under …

During the post-war era in the United States, the low-density suburban sprawl model has
been the dominant paradigm of urban growth. In recognition of the significant economic …

In the debate on metropolitan governance, a commonly expressed hypothesis is that the
reconstruction of statehood can take metropolitan governance along a variety of paths. This …

This study presents a conceptual framework for the multidimensional aspects of regional
governance that influence regional development. In order to test the coupling effect of …

Scholarship abounds on the importance of city‐regions to regional and national prosperity,
and to the wider global economy. But little is known about their capacity to function as …

'New'regionalism privileges social communication over political'coercion'as a means to
motivate intermunicipal, interagency and multiactor co-operation in metropolitan regions …