The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) has emerged to become one of the most populous metropolises in mainland China those days. While government reinforced coordination major cities located YRD, multiple issues have been found interfere with city agglomeration metropolis area. objective study is reveal level intra-city polycentricity YRD and provide possible solutions improve polycentricity. suggests t...

Relocating activities along the fringe, re-designing economic functions, and re-modelling settlement structures across larger regions broader spatial scales, reflect inherent shift toward complex metropolitan systems. A refined understanding of urban change requires adoption a ‘complex thinking’ that focuses on adaptive behaviour key agents local development networks within highly volatile real...

This paper assesses some of the strong claims made about the significance of virtual communities to electronic commerce. It focuses on the notion of community building as a means to constructing virtual metropolises, where tens of thousands of individuals are engaged in public computer-mediated discourse. It is argued that the community approach discourages systemic analysis of collaborative me...