Cities on the new silk road
The global urban geographies of China’s belt and road initiative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evangelia Apostolopoulou (0000-0002-8166-4639, ICTA, Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), Han Cheng (0000-0003-4076-3793, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, corresponding author), Jonathan Silver (0000-0002-4870-2226, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK), Alan Wiig (0000-0002-6224-2633, University of Florida) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1095-1114 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02723638.2023.2247283 |
| OpenAlex | W4386477253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 86 |
Over the last decade, scholarship on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the New Silk Road, has burgeoned. However, it is only recently that analysis has interrogated the BRI as a driver of global urban transformation. In this paper, we advance an in-depth review of literature generated since 2013 that has critically examined relations between the BRI and urban-scale processes. Based on a categorization of studies into three areas, staging of the urban BRI, the building of BRI cities and living in BRI cities, we suggest that the urban is integral to the scope and impacts of the initiative. As the BRI goes into its second decade, we argue that BRI’s infrastructural spaces can be seen as new landscapes where novel kinds of urbanization are emerging, influencing patterns of socio-spatial contestation, and demanding new narratives of social change to make sense of cityscapes and urban futures worldwide
China · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Scholarship · Sociology · Urban planning · Urbanization · China's Global Influence and Migration · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Engineering · Urban Studies
Global connection, local exception
Recharting ‘informal empire’
Gatekeeping beyond the state
Cities bound, bounded, boundless
Urban policies mobility from China to Africa
The Rise of Offshore Urbanism and the Expanding Frontiers of Financialisation in the Global South
Enclaved Mobility
From Ny‐lon to Silk ? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
Silk Road here we come
From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa
Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics
The dragon’s head or Athens’ sacrifice zone? Spatiotemporal disjuncture, logistical disruptions, and urban infrastructural justice in Piraeus port, Greece
Zone, city, border, corridor
Climate change, extractivist infrastructure and environmental conflicts at the Northern Sea-Polar Silk Road intersection
Six paths of Global China
A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization
Catching China-Europe trains
Communication geography and the spatio-discursive construction of BRI projects
More-than-urban coalitions for socio-ecological reproduction. Response to ‘Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities’
Multiregional economic cooperation and urban-rural income gap
Nusantara as Spectacular Fix
The unending corridor
The flammable city
Shifting sands and ecological uncertainties
Authoritarian urbanism in Pakistan and Indonesia
Arriving at Airport City Manchester
Contesting the Anticipated Infrastructural City
Cities Network Along the Silk Road
New Urban Spaces
Splintering Urbanism
Operational Landscapes
The Belt and Road Initiative
Town Making at the Gateway to Kenya’s ‘New Frontier’
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
Connecting the World
China’s spatial fix and ‘debt diplomacy’ in Africa
Splintering Urbanism at 20 and the “Infrastructural Turn”
China’s Strategic Partnership with Kuwait
Globalisation redux
Precarious in Piraeus
The Belt and Road as method
Towards a new epistemology of the urban
China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States
Vulgarisation of Keynesianism in China's response to the global financial crisis
Demystifying Chinese overseas investment in infrastructure
Relational comparison revisited
Introduction—Experiments in Comparative Urbanism
Provincializing Global Urbanism
Moving the mountain and greening the sea
China at large, Chinas for comparative conversation
The urbanising dynamics of global China
Continental metropolitanization
Importing export zones
Urbanization patterns and poverty reduction
China’s ‘New Silk Roads’
How local political economy dynamics are shaping the Belt and Road Initiative
Tracing the Links between Infrastructure‐Led Development, Urban Transformation, and Inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
On the Coloniality of “New” Mega‐Infrastructure Projects in East Africa
The Making and Unmaking of a Megaproject
Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes
Getting the territory right
Crashed
Geographies of infrastructure III
Belts and roads every- and nowhere
The Georgian logistics revolution
Theorizing China-world integration
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
The geopolitics of connectivity, cooperation, and hegemonic competition
How to understand a development corridor? The case of Lamu Port–South Sudan–Ethiopia‐Transport corridor in Kenya
Ruili, China
The New Urban Frontier
Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations
Turbulent presents, precarious futures
Silk Road here we come
Is a pixel worth 1000 words? Critical remote sensing and China's Belt and Road Initiative
From Chinese dam building in Africa to the Belt and Road Initiative
They will not automatically benefit
Trans-Himalayan power corridors
China's Belt and Road Initiative
The Geo-political Economy of Global Production Networks
Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics
Contesting the Anticipated Infrastructural City
Victim, broker, activist, fixer
A novel geographical research agenda on Silk Road urbanisation
China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation
Debate on Global Urbanisms and the Nature of Urban Theory
Chinese Capitalism and the Maritime Silk Road
Interrogating China's Global Urban Presence
From Dissensus to Consensus
Towards a minor global architecture at Lamu, Kenya
Land, livelihoods and belonging
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |