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On geography and encounter Open
The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio-cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that ‘encounter’ is a conceptually charged construct that is worthy of sustained a…
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Critical Commentary: Cities in a post-COVID world Open
This paper examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout on cities and metropolitan regions. We assess the effect of the pandemic on urban economic geography at the intra- and i…
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Space, Settlements, Towns: The Influence of Geography and Market Access on Settlement Distribution and Urbanization Open
The spatial distribution of economic activity is strongly linked to the structure of the urban system. The origin and development of the spatial pattern of this system is separated into two stages, the diffusion of settlements and their po…
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A review of spatially-explicit GeoAI applications in Urban Geography Open
Urban Geography studies forms, social fabrics, and economic structures of cities from a geographic perspective. Catalysed by the increasingly abundant spatial big data, Urban Geography seeks new models and research paradigms to explain urb…
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Cities in a Post-COVID World Open
This paper examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic, fiscal, social and political fallout on cities and metropolitan regions. We assess the effect of the pandemic on urban economic geography at the intra- and i…
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Home-city geographies: Urban dwelling and mobility Open
Developing an agenda to conceptualise the connections between the domestic and the urban, this paper focuses on urban domesticities (homemaking in the city), domestic urbanism (the city as home) and the home-city geographies that connect t…
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Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it Open
Social infrastructure is an emerging research frontier in urban geography and urban studies. This editorial introduction provides a concise introduction to the term. It briefly sets out the intellectual provenance of the concept of social …
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Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town Open
Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential …
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The intimate city: violence, gender and ordinary life in Delhi slums Open
In this paper I argue for an expansion of the horizons of urban geography through a notion of the intimate city. I focus on the slum as a space where the violence of an exclusionary city is woven into its intimate material and social condi…
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Urban geography and scaling of contemporary Indian cities Open
This paper attempts to create a first comprehensive analysis of the integrated characteristics of contemporary Indian cities, using scaling and geographical analysis over a set of diverse indicators. We use data of urban agglomerations in …
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Gentrification in Porto: floating city users and internationally-driven urban change Open
The heightening scale of urban tourism and the fast-growing number of “floating” city users raise new challenges to understand contemporary urban change – namely for internationally open, heritage-rich medium-sized cities. Discussing the c…
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Fiscal geographies: “Placing” taxation in urban geography Open
As the state’s primary means of both redistributing wealth and incentivizing private investment, tax plays an outsized role in a range of critical urban processes, including (re)development, gentrification, financialization, and local and …
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Simulating the urban spatial structure with spatial interaction: A case study of urban polycentricity under different scenarios Open
Polycentric urban development is gaining momentum in both scholarly research and real-life practice. This brings new demand for planning support systems to simulate and analyse the urban spatial structure in terms of polycentricity under v…
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From an emerging market to a multifaceted urban society: Urban China studies Open
China is undergoing an urban revolution. In 2011 more than half of the total population resided in cities and towns for the first time in history. Over the last two decades urban China scholars have actively engaged in dialogues with urban…
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China’s rapid urban ascent: an examination into the components of urban growth Open
Having gone from 11.8% of its population inhabiting urban areas in 1950 to 49.2% by 2010, China represents the most dramatic urban transformation the world has seen. With the contemporary urban narrative presenting new challenges, particul…
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The urban geographical imagination in the age of Big Data Open
This paper explores the variety of ways that emerging sources of (big) data are being used to re-conceptualize the city, and how these understandings of what the urban is shapes the design of interventions into it. Drawing on work on the p…
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The geography of urban agriculture: New trends and challenges Open
In the article, which is a theoretical and conceptual introduction for the Special Issue of Moravian Geographical Reports on ‘New trends and challenges of urban agriculture in the context of Europe’, the authors resume and review diverging…
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Human diffusion and city influence Open
Cities are characterized by concentrating population, economic activity and services. However, not all cities are equal and a natural hierarchy at local, regional or global scales spontaneously emerges. In this work, we introduce a method …
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Modelling urban vibrancy with mobile phone and OpenStreetMap data Open
The concept of urban vibrancy has become increasingly important in the study of cities. A vibrant urban environment is an area of a city with high levels of human activity and interactions. Traditionally, studying our cities and what makes…
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Spatial pattern of urban-rural integration in China and the impact of geography Open
Urban-rural integration (URI) is a global challenge that is highly related to inequalities, poverty, economic growth, and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Existing research has evaluated the extent of URI and explored its influe…
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Engaging with “urban science” Open
In this Intervention we discuss possible engagements between an inherently diverse urban geography and an emergent urban science dealing with information technology-driven,quantitative analysis of urban data. Although initial responses fro…
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Spatial Heterogeneity in the Determinants of Urban Form: An Analysis of Chinese Cities with a GWR Approach Open
It is of great significance to investigate the determinants of urban form for shaping sustainable urban form. Previous studies generally assumed the determinants of urban form did not vary across spatial units, without taking spatial heter…
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Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction Open
"Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reve…
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Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction Open
Acknowledgments vi List of Figures vii 1 Why Economic Geography Is Good For You 1 Part I Thinking Critically about Economic Geography 23 2 What Is Economic Geography? 25 3 Inventing Economic Geography: Histories of a Discipline 50 4 Econom…
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Medium-sized Cities in Spain and Their Urban Areas within National Network Open
Traditionally, medium-sized cities have been compact urban centres, which have also emerged as satellite nuclei within metropolitan areas of larger cities. However, urban dispersion models have led to growth in population and the increasin…
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Thinking spatially: new horizons for urban history Open
A new opportunity, and a new challenge, presents itself to urban historians. In order to obtain a deeper understanding of historical urban space and spatial relationships, the contributors to this Special Issue deploy new techniques of spa…
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Medium-sized cities in decline in France: between urban shrinkage and city centre devitalisation Open
Since the end of the 2000s, the question of the decline of French medium-sized towns has become central within the scientific and public debate. More specifically, two processes are underlined: the devitalisation of city centres on the one…
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Urban Network and Regions in China: An Analysis of Daily Migration with Complex Networks Model Open
This paper analyzed urban network and regions in China using a complex network model. Data of daily migration among 348 prefectural-level cities from the Baidu Map location-based service (LBS) Open Platform were used to calculate urban net…
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Understanding the social geographies of urban regions through the socio‐economic and cultural dimension of class Open
Economic restructuring and changing demographic and migration patterns have significantly altered the population compositions of urban regions. Whereas there is evidence that employees in various sectors of the economy have different resid…
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Towards weird verticality: The spectacle of vertical spaces in Chongqing Open
Critical scholarly attention to vertical urbanism has expanded greatly in recent years but has seldom engaged with the variety of high-rise urban forms developed in mainland Chinese cities following the demise of socialist urban political …