This article takes a critical look at the collaboration between William Alonso and John Friedmann in compiling two early collections of readings on regional development and planning. Important as these volumes were at the time they appeared (1964 and 1975), helping to delineate a new field of...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>In this essay, the author develops an argument for an endogenous development of city-regions throughout the world. He emphasizes seven clusters of tangible regional assets in which investments should preferentially be made: basic human needs; organized civil...</p>

In urban China, neighbourhoods are administratively demarcated and under the management of Neighbourhood Residents’ Committees, officially recognized as self‐governing grassroots organizations. The increase in their responsibilities and authority, introduced in the late 1990s to help...