The unprecedented urban economic growth in China has created a huge demand for urban land. Built upon the standard monocentric city model, this empirical study investigates the determinants of urban spatial scale of Chinese cities using a cross-sectional dataset from 650 Chinese cities. The...

K<sc>e</sc> S., H<sc>e</sc> M. and Y<sc>uan</sc> C. Synergy and co-agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing: a panel data analysis of Chinese cities, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper constructs a simultaneous equation model of co-agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing that highlights the synergy...

Agglomeration theory supports and existing findings confirm the geographical proximity of similar firms and spatial attraction of firms to universities. In addition to that, we are able to identify whether universities as one type of innovative units are attracted by firm-type innovators and the...