A5085096701- Urban Planning and Governance
- Night-time city culture
- Global Urban Networks and Dynamics
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Public Policy and Administration Research
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Economic Zones and Regional Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- International Development and Aid
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Political Systems and Governance
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
University of Bristol
2024-2025
The University of Melbourne
2017-2024
University College London
2013-2023
University of Oxford
2013-2023
NED University of Engineering and Technology
2022
De La Salle University
2022
Centre for Cities
2022
Faculty of Design
2018
City, University of London
2017-2018
The London College
2018
There is today a global recognition that we live in an 'urban age' of near-planetary urbanization where cities are at the forefront all sorts agendas. Yet little attention offered to active role as political drivers urban age. might be more than two hundred 'city networks' globally, with thousands para-diplomatic connections actively defining relations between cities, international organization and corporate actors. This networked texture age shapes areas policy and, not least, relations,...
The urban built environment is underpinned by an increasingly complex digital infrastructure, which posing a variety of unpredictable and unprecedented challenges for governance. paper discusses how the new "hard" infrastructures such as broadband are accompanied need to understand governance public sector information; in turn this relates emergence smart city strategies. illustrated using empirical examples drawn from Australian infrastructure development, with reference international...
The international society's lack of leadership is often blamed for many the shortcomings in addressing global challenges. Yet this focus might have been on wrong kind leaders: rather than heads state and diplomats, effective responses be better situated with ordinary influence city leaders. While capable reaching beyond urban politics developing transnational networks, mayors represent a key hinge response to important challenges like climate change or sustainability. Against scholarly...
Networked urban governance is emerging as a major feature of metropolitan strategy and activity. The field studies yet to deeply engage in the debates on new forms cross national networking that are potentially framing reframing strategy. Yet this dimension can no longer go unnoticed. In article we draw together insights from extant literature into research agenda reconfiguring governance. We propose centred three themes: political economy ‘new-gen’ networks, especially relation role...
Pandemic responses can engender healthier and more sustainable societies only if we attend to urban equality.
Cities are formalising collaborations across borders at an unprecedented rate: ‘city networks’ now form a wide ecosystem of global partnerships between local authorities that is often underestimated. It might be time to think city networks more explicitly as institutionalised and presenting challenging more-than-local urban governance. To do so, our essay mixes review the overall landscape (beyond environmental sector where most literature found), with both network analysis how these...
Abstract Cities are increasingly capturing the attention of major international actors and now regularly feature in multilateral processes. Yet while there many studies on networking among cities, have been few ‘city networks’ as formal institutionalized governance structures facilitating city‐to‐city city‐to‐other cooperation, or diplomacy’. Institutionalized networks not new, becoming a growing presence scene, almost omnipresent perhaps even too common. Might it be time for ‘Darwinian’...
The emergence of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has resulted in changes to way we perceive our natural resources. Stressors such as climate change and population growth have highlighted fragility WEF systems, necessitating integrated solutions across multiple scales. While a number frameworks analytical tools been developed since 2011, comprehensive tool remains elusive, hindered part by limited data understanding interdependencies connections systems. To achieve this, community...
Abstract Over the past few decades, cities have repeatedly demonstrated high levels of ambition with regard to climate action. Global environmental governance has been marked by a proliferation policy actions taken local governments around world demonstrate their potential advance change mitigation and adaptation. Leading ‘by example’ demonstrating extent action that it is possible deliver, aspired raise national international put into practice via growing number ‘climate experiments’...
The science of urban planning has drawn on a wide range disciplines and research perspectives. This makes it challenging to define the boundaries directions field. Here, nearly 100,000 articles are analysed objectively determine divisions, temporal trends influential references actors planning. In terms structural composition, four broad divisions identified: (1) governance policy, (2) economics markets, (3) housing (4) built natural environment. evolution, earliest were related "welfare...
Abstract Little interest has thus far been paid to the role of cities in world politics. Yet, several are examples city-based engagements suggesting an emerging urban presence international relations. The Climate Leadership Group, despite its recent lineage, is perhaps most significant case metropolitan intersection with global governance. To illustrate this I rely on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) develop a qualitative network analysis evolution C40 past seven years from limited gathering...
Garbage is stuff that matters: the generation, disposal, and management of waste represent some most visceral flows in our society. Yet international scholars continue to regard it as trivial focus on mundane practices menial materiality associated with managing rubbish. Contra this dissociation, through an analytics assemblages, I argue theory can (and nowadays must) encompass both grand designs diplomacy cosmopolitics everyday life. In everyday, “international” embodied, performed,...
In this introduction to the special issue ‘Transcending (in)formal urbanism’ we outline important place that informal urbanism has acquired in urban theorising, and an agenda further standing towards even more explicit role defining how research cities. We note informality frequently been perceived as formal’s ‘other’ implying a necessary ‘othering’ of creates dualisms between formal informal, localised globalising formal, or resistance neoliberal control, seeks challenge. The introduction,...