This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas. Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, it depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. The chapters in this book were originally published in Urban Geography.
Fulong Wu holds the Bartlett Professorship of Planning at University College London, UK. His research interests include urban development in China and its social and sustainable challenges. He is currently working on a European Research Council Advanced Grant on China's urban governance. His latest book is Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes (2022). In 2022, Wu co-edited the volume After Suburbia: Urbanization in the 21st Century with Roger Keil.
Roger Keil is Professor of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Canada. Researching global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, and regional governance, Keil is the author of Suburban Planet (2018), co-author, with S.Harris Ali and Creighton Connolly, of Pandemic Urbanism (2022), and co-editor, with Xuefei Ren, of The Globalizing Cities Reader (Routledge 2017). Keil also co-edited the volume After Suburbia: Urbanization in the 21st Century with Fulong Wu (2022).