Category: Geography
Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water access in US cities
The housing unaffordability and cost-of-living crisis is affecting millions of people in US cities, yet the implications for urban dwellers’ well…
Unequal roles of cities in the intercity healthcare system
Cities are increasingly interdependent regarding healthcare provision and demand. However, the intercity healthcare system (IHS) behind the nationw…
Urban growth strategy in Greater Sydney leads to unintended social and environmental challenges
Cities have advanced in terms of economic and social status over the past five decades, improving the living conditions of hundreds of millions of …
Toward change in the uneven geographies of urban knowledge production
More than four-fifths of the global urban population live in the Global South and East. Most urban theories, however, originate in the Global North…
A systematic review of smart city governance in the Southern African Development Community
This paper offers a systematic review of literature on smart cities in the Southern African Development Community countries, with a focus on the co…
Uneven diffusion: a multi-scale analysis of rural settlement evolution and its driving forces in China from 2000–2020
In recent years, the spatial and temporal patterns of rural settlement expansion in China have shifted significantly due to rapid urbanization and …