This article introduces the special issue 'Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated
areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the …

Researchers are paying increasing attention to issues of rural transformation. Exogenous
and endogenous have been conventionally recognized as the mainstream paradigms of …

Once considered an urban phenomenon, rural enterprise hubs (REH) and rural coworking
spaces (RCWS) are now increasing in popularity to support entrepreneurial rural …

This paper, through a case study of the Gengche Township in north Jiangsu (Subei), unveils
how a less-favored region breaks out of the old industry path of waste recycling and …

We consider whether the UK government's levelling-up governance model of Combined
Authorities and metro-mayors is the most appropriate solution for beyond the metropolis. We …

This paper examines the historical and recent efforts towards constructing an integrated
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei global city-region, arguably the most politically privileged urban …

A city region established around a smaller city typically has a higher percentage of its region
being rural relative to city regions based around larger cities. Appreciation of this …

The importance of visionary planning has increased in urban and regional contexts as the
production of visions has become a central tool in, for example, the management of city …

In this paper, we consider the implications of applying the city region concept to a medium-
sized city and whether such an application of a spatial and governmental policy is …

The introduction of the devolved administrations (DAs) in the UK in 1999 was based on
specific legal powers for this new scale of governance which included control of national …