This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.

This commentary explores the roles of planning and urban design in contemporary US urbanization following the global financial crisis in Fall 2008. We focus on the tendency to discuss the planning profession in recovery metaphors -- a perspective that has been emphasized in establishing how the...

Small towns account for a significant fraction of the total population in many regions, but there has been a relative lack of research into small towns, with researchers' attention being drawn more to the effects of globalization and technological change on large cities and city regions. Yet, as...

Lang R. and Knox P. K. The new metropolis: rethinking megalopolis, Regional Studies. The paper explores the relationship between metropolitan form, scale, and connectivity. It revisits the idea first offered by geographers Jean Gottmann, James Vance, and Jerome Pickard that urban expansiveness...

The urban medical delivery system includes not only the technological and scientific skills and apparatus used by health care practitioners but also those economic and social arrangements made by doctors that affect their ability to provide medical care. Among the most important of these is the...

This essay traces the evolution of the American urban medical care delivery system and examines the implications in terms of social and spatial variations in accessability to medical care. It is suggested that the foundations of the present medical care delivery system were laid during the urban...