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Identifying potential cross-border metropolitan regions
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📣 New book 'Media Industries and Cities', edited by Andrew Spicer and Paul McDonald, including a chapter on ‘Transnational media corporations in global media cities’ by @allanwatson1.bsky.social, Michael Hoyler and @bdrudder.bsky.social.
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A new paper proposing a methodology for identifying potential cross-border metropolitan regions (CBMRs):
Van Migerode, C. and Derudder, B. (2026) 'Identifying potential cross-border metropolitan re...
A new book Media Industries and Cities, edited by Andrew Spicer and Paul McDonald, has been published by Routledge, including a chapter on 'Transnational media corporations in global media cities' by ...
Looking forward to this new city study, authored by the incredible Peter Taylor and a terrific group of scholars. #gawc #newcastle #globalcities #urbanhistory
🏙️ NEW in #UrbanStudies
✍️ Van Migerode et al.
🔍️ How can an urban #standardisation effort be organised in practice? What is the role of different stakeholders, and how are different forms of #diversity negotiated?
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Event recap: Boston and the Making of a Global City, with Jim O'Connell, Loretta Lees and Michael Hoyler
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Globalization and World Cities
Asymmetries in Chinese cities’ knowledge collaborations gawc.lboro.ac.uk/asymmetries-...
New book! Peter Taylor, Michael Barke and @zpneal.bsky.social: Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Transformation of 19th Century Newcastle ⬇️
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A new paper by Takayuki Kubo, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, situating Fukuoka among globally competitive regional cities through an assessment of quality of life and urban growth.
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Economic Geography: The Basics - new book by @jmacleavy.bsky.social, @keanfanlim.bsky.social and @allanwatson1.bsky.social ⬇️
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Which city has the most diversified elite wealth? Which banking centre is most globally connected? Where does venture capital flow in China? This new Finance and Space collection on financial networks tackles these questions and more
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Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming a metropolitan city region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how
A new paper that examines how cities function as providers or receivers of innovative knowledge:
Yang, Y., Demuynck, W. and Derudder, B. (2026) 'Asymmetries in Chinese cities' knowledge collaborati...
Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming of a metropolitan city-region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan st...
World-city theories leave significant gaps in explaining how regional, moderate-sized cities fit into the global urban system and how they balance quality of life (QoL) with urban growth (UG). This study simultaneously evaluates QoL and UG in Fukuoka City, Japan, using a dual-axis benchmarking framework. Building on a model first developed in 2014, the study compares Fukuoka with five peer cities—Barcelona, Munich, Melbourne, Vancouver, and Seattle—using 64 indicators grouped into four categories: (1) Livability and Community, (2) Security and Sustainability, (3) Resources and Productivity, and (4) Innovation and Interaction. Findings show that Fukuoka has sustained a relatively high QoL while making gradual gains in UG, although challenges remain in global connectivity and innovation. These findings provide context for recent urban policy initiatives, including the “Tenjin Big Bang,” “Hakata Connected,” and universal design policies. These policy initiatives have supported improvements in livability and business functions, although they have not yet fully closed the gap with peer cities. Methodologically, the study offers a transparent, policy-relevant benchmarking framework, while also acknowledging limitations arising from heterogeneous data boundaries and partial inconsistency between the 2014 and 2024 indicator sets. Conceptually and empirically, the findings position Fukuoka within emerging post-growth urban debates, illustrating how moderate-sized cities can pursue co-prosperity between QoL and UG under demographic and environmental constraints.
Economic Geography: The Basics examines how geographical concepts – place, space, territory, networks, and scale – enable the study of economic phenomena from a spatial perspective.
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