Despite a growing number of studies featuring “informality” in their title, including many from
the post-socialist region, little has been done to reach a consensus on what informality …

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 …

Urbanization has an abundant connotation in dimensions such as population, economy,
land, and society and is an important sign to measure regional economic development and …

This paper introduces the concept of “bypass urbanism” to account for a process of
urbanization that is reordering center-periphery relations of urban regions into new …

With this paper, we analyse an ordinary urban process, which has received little attention so
far, and propose a new concept to take account of it: plotting urbanism. It is usually …

The rural land system reform (RLSR) is inseparable from the protection of farmers' rights and
profits. The success or failure of the system reform determines the value embodiment of the …

The study of urban informality has exploded since Keith Hart theorized the term the 'informal
sector.'This explosion has coincided with a growing interest among urban scholars who train …

The processes of globalisation, circulation and networks make cities and metropolises units
that are increasingly interdependent. There were some countervailing trends in urban …

Slums and informal settlements have long been a policy concern, particularly in post-
independence cities of the global South. Although national and local governments devise …

Recent decades have seen a rising interest in the peripheral nature of urbanization
processes. While research has put the spotlight on large‐scale, transnational and …