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This review starts from the rise of Lagos and African urban agglomerations, analyzing why the center of global growth is shifting from nations to cities, and what this means for capital, governance, infrastructure, and the Global South.
A study based on 4,000 respondents in Canada and 40 urban policy issues shows that ideological divisions do exist in urban politics, but once issues are brought back to the more immediate neighborhood scale, these divisions weaken markedly. This is not only a finding in behavioral political science; it also suggests that urban governance is shifting from macro-level competition between positions to a more nuanced contest centered on spatial proximity, lived experience, and local interests.
Cities are becoming the key implementing layer for climate action, but the real bottleneck is not a lack of solutions; it is that finance, technology, and institutions have not yet kept pace with the realities of urbanization. This article analyzes, from the perspectives of global urban competition, governance structures, and infrastructure restructuring, why urban climate solutions always get stuck at the “scaling up” stage.
In the debate in Seattle over the downtown tunnel and the route of the Ballard light rail, what is really being redefined is not a stretch of track, but how a megacity reshuffles its priorities amid fiscal constraints, growth expectations, and spatial politics.
Tokyo and 55 other global cities have sent a common signal: under the combined pressures of climate risk, frequent disasters, and technological transformation, urban networks are evolving from platforms for exchange into new actors in global governance and infrastructure competition.
An international commentary on the restructuring of urban-rural relations: when climate, ecology, population mobility, and infrastructure competition simultaneously rewrite spatial order, the unit of true strategic significance is no longer a single city, but the regional system formed by a city and the surrounding countryside.