This paper argues that infrastructure-led development constitutes an emergent international
development regime whose imperative is to 'get the territory right'. Spatial planning …

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

Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on the transcendence of city-centric
epistemologies in urban theory, this article proposes a theoretical framework for exploring …

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

Contemporary development policy portrays enhanced connectivity as the key to fostering
economic growth in lagging regions. This global policy consensus and consequent …

The question of urbanisation 'beyond the city'has generated a lively debate in the fields of
urban studies and geography in recent years. This paper brings a key concept from this …

In this paper, we show how communities in Northern Kenya proactively engage an unfolding
megaproject and the temporalities it evokes—the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia …

The reorganization of the extractive industries into transnational supply chains has signaled
the functional integration of hitherto dispersed elements of social production and brought …

In this framing paper for the special issue on land use tools for mitigating boom and bust
dynamics we present a framework to analyze the effects of dramatic ups and downs on …

This paper offers a space-relational extension to the local turn in peace studies. We argue
that unflattening the local in research on peace and conflict has the potential to explain why …