This special issue, a collection of papers presented and debated at an Urban Studies
Foundation-funded workshop on Global Gentrification in London in 2012, attempts to …

Across the globe, urban areas are rapidly expanding, and now the majority of the world's
population lives in cities. Peri-urbanization, a specific form of urbanization characterized by …

Rapid urbanization, especially in many developing countries, is accompanied by the decline
of rural populations and rural culture. Tangwan village in Shanghai in China is a typical …

Following a decade of US bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East
Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism …

Starting in the 1990s, the Vietnamese state sought to expand and modernise the country's
urban system after four decades of anti-urban policies. This paper examines the reworking …

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing
on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of …

Through an integrated empirical study in the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan, we examined
the effects of urban land use and climate change on water management, as well as young …

Urban forests are important landscape components in cities around the world that offer
multiple functionality, thereby serve as a nature-based solution to offsetting negative social …

In the context of planetary urbanization, urbanization through resettlement in the global
south has garnered increasingly scholarly attention. In China, state-led rural-to-urban …

The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees
In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam …