Mega-City Regions in the Global South
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2024 | Viewed by 6372
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Interests: urban geography; metropolitan development; urban-rural planning
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Interests: comparative urban studies; global city; social justice; rural development
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Interests: urbanization; migration; urban planning and governance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mega-city regions represent an advanced form of urbanization. While examples of these were first found in the Global North, they have recently become a worldwide phenomenon. In recent decades, mega-city regions in the Global South have not only grown in number, but also come to share the responsibility for coordinating the global economy. They are the leading areas in which new urban uncertainties, challenges, and opportunities arise and are the new starting points from which ideas on mega-city regions can be developed. Against this backdrop, it is imperative to unpack their complexities. It is also imperative to re-theorize on mega-city regions in terms of these complexities. The rise of mega-city regions in the Global South leads to the need for theoretically informed and empirically grounded research, from a global and comparative perspective, and a critical and decolonial thinking.
This Special Issue focuses on the complexities of mega-city regions in the Global South. It aims to bring professional practices and academic discussion into conversation with one another, help to address key issues in these places, and advance the theoretical understandings of mega-city regions. We welcome theoretical reflections from different perspectives, methodological explorations from different disciplines, and empirical studies (both qualitative, such as case studies, and quantitative, such as modeling) from different geographic areas in the Global South. The key topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Global cities in the Global South;
- Social and spatial dynamics in large cities, mega cities, and mega-city regions;
- Demographic, land, and industrial development in mega-city regions;
- Spatial planning and governance in large cities and megaregions;
- Urban-rural interaction in regional development;
- Mega-city regions in the national and/or global economy;
- Post-colonial and critical urban theory;
- Comparative urban studies.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Guangzhong Cao
Dr. Qiujie Shi
Prof. Dr. Tao Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mega-city regions
- global city
- southern urbanism
- comparative urbanism
- regional development
- social and spatial inequality
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