Cities are the foundation of urban life, and these 4 key definitions--global city, metropolis, megacity and megalopolis--help us differentiate their importance.
It boasts a higher proportion of FDI enterprises, marking its status as an international megacity. Furthermore, international trade is a crucial component of Shanghai’s economic development, with higher export value and more FDI firms, enhancing the city’s international openness and providing ...
Although our analysis is based on the performance of Chinese cities in the case of COVID-19, the research framework can be applied in understanding COVID-19 control performance of cities in other countries and the findings can be useful for improving health-related urban resilience and ...
Figure 1. MCMA’s population (in thousands) in 2019. Source: Compiled by the authors using official data from state, municipal, and locality boundary files from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI). The metropolitan-wide transport network is mainly compo...