Direttore Editoriale, Commento Globale
Julian Sterling provides high-level commentary on global urban development. He specializes in identifying structural shifts in metropolitan governance and geopolitical urbanism.
A study covering more than 11,000 cities worldwide over 45 years reveals the deep links between urban compactness and carbon emissions, as well as the spatial strategic choices facing cities in the Global South amid accelerating urbanization.
An assessment of the NAR local market shows how global city competition is shifting from "standalone cities" to "functional regions," offering investors and policymakers a new spatial analysis framework.
The 2032 Olympic Games are not just a sports feast, but a comprehensive activation of Brisbane's urban strategy. This article interprets how this mid-sized city reshapes its global competitiveness through infrastructure supply constraints and long-termism.
A new study on AI applications in information science reveals a structural shift in knowledge management. From the perspective of global urban competition, this article analyzes how AI redefines knowledge infrastructure and the strategies that cities need to adopt in the AI era.
Cities are no longer just functional nodes within national space; planning is becoming a central link in global governance and the evolution of civilization. This article re-examines the contemporary mission of urban planning from multiple dimensions, including historical evolution, the participatory revolution, technological intervention, and global competition.
Research in Gondar, Ethiopia, reveals that urban water supply is quietly shifting from surface water to groundwater. This change is not merely a local case but also reflects the infrastructure dilemmas faced by cities in the Global South under climate change and rapid urbanization. This article analyzes the long-term implications of this transformation from a strategic perspective.
Global information visibility platform Veerixa has launched its commercial service platform, incorporating AI Visibility and Search Visibility into corporate communication resource selection systems to explore new models of information discovery in the AI era.
As artificial intelligence permeates library science, digital humanities, and knowledge dissemination systems, the infrastructure of global knowledge is undergoing a quiet yet profound power shift. Based on a recent study, this article analyzes how AI is redrawing the order of academic information, as well as the real challenges human cognition faces in the algorithmic age.
Examining the spatiotemporal evolution of urban-rural integration across the three major urban agglomerations in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt, analyzing the structural drivers behind it and its significance for global city strategies, and proposing a future-oriented spatial governance framework.
An ICOMOS text analysis based on natural language processing reveals the multidimensional connotations of the concept of "local community," reflecting a deep shift in global urban governance from elite dominance to community orientation.
fDi Intelligence has launched the call for submissions for the "European Cities and Regions of the Future 2027" ranking. This is not only an arena for city marketing but also reflects profound changes in global capital flows, urban governance models, and the geo-economic landscape. The article analyzes the logic of city competitiveness behind the ranking from a strategic perspective, exploring the positioning and challenges of European cities in the restructuring of globalization.
The thorny issues facing African cities, such as informal transportation, electricity, water corruption, and fragmented mapping, reveal deep structural contradictions where policy design is disconnected from reality, informality serves as an alternative planning regime, and governance is contested. Based on four APRI policy briefs, this paper argues for the necessity of rethinking informal cities and reforming governance systems.
With the rapid changes in AI search and the information ecosystem, corporate communication is shifting from exposure management to a signal-driven model. The Global Communication Intelligence Framework proposed by Veerixa reflects the ongoing transformation in the methodology of the communication industry.
US cities take the lead in formulating AI usage rules, triggering governance tensions between federal, state, and local levels. This article analyzes the reasons, challenges, and long-term impacts of city involvement in AI regulation.
Ho Chi Minh City is accelerating the transformation of traditional industrial parks into eco-industrial parks, embedding industrial symbiosis and green technologies into global sustainable supply chains. This is not only an industrial upgrade but also represents a strategic leap of Global South cities within the global urban system.
An empirical study on Chinese primary school English learners shows that AI and VR technologies can significantly improve academic performance, but the effect is highly dependent on students' technological literacy. This finding has profound implications for global urban education strategies, digital divide governance, and future classroom design.
The case of Barcelona reveals a paradigm shift in global cities from chasing tourist numbers to building a visitor economy. Traditional economic indicators are becoming obsolete, and new urban competitiveness depends on ecological balance, resident well-being, and governance innovation.
A satellite-based "urban pulse" study reveals distinctly different development rhythms across six global cities, reflecting deep divergences in national governance, capital logic, and power structures, offering a new diagnostic framework for understanding the future of cities.
This article analyzes the profound impact of Magnitude's autonomous AI workforce on urban cybersecurity governance from a global city strategic perspective, and discusses how cities can build resilient infrastructure in the era of AI-driven attacks.
Based on Kenya's circular economy research, this study explores how ecosystem positioning and strategic collaboration surpass business model innovation to become the key to sustainable competitive advantage, providing insights for global urban strategies.