Nicholas Phelps

Market maker? The Fantus Company and the making of a market for location in the United States

Nicholas A Phelps, Andrew M Wood

Journal article  |  2021  |  BUSINESS HISTORY

Large firms are faced with an ever-widening array of consultancy services and providers. From management consulting to accounting ..

Which City? Grounding Contemporary Urban Theory

Nicholas A Phelps

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF PLANNING LITERATURE

It remains common for the city to be treated as an undifferentiated unit in urban theory. This review of literature reveals that e..

International urban development leadership: Singapore, China and South Korea compared

Hyung Min Kim, Julie Tian Miao, Nicholas A Phelps

Book Chapter  |  2021

E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China

Cassandra C Wang, Julie T Miao, Nicholas A Phelps, Jia Zhang

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES

Drawing on original interview data from the Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang province, China, we examine the multifaceted nat..

From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan

NA Phelps, JT Miao, Z Li, S Lin

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

There is no better place to explore the relationship of industry enclaves to urban life than China, where traditional danweis (wor..

Suburban (mis)fortunes: Outer suburban shrinkage in Tokyo Metropolis

H Ohashi, NA Phelps

Journal article  |  2021  |  Urban Studies

Tokyo’s suburban territory now forms part of an increasing multi-dimensional urban–suburban divide in socio-demographic, economic ..

Polycentric urbanization as enclave urbanization: a research agenda with illustrations from the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR), China

Nicholas Phelps, Tian Miao, Xiao Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Territory, Politics, Governance

Polycentric urbanization as enclave urbanization: a research agenda with illustrations from the Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR), China

Nicholas A Phelps, Julie T Miao, Xiao Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  TERRITORY POLITICS GOVERNANCE

Interest in enclave urbanization has surfaced recently in urban and political geography scholarship. However, little of this work ..

Edge City Denied? The Rise and Fall of Tokyo’s Outer Suburban “Business Core Cities”

NA Phelps, H Ohashi

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Planning Education and Research

The tradition of planning for polycentricity in Tokyo saw outer suburbs designated as Business Core Cities (BCCs). However, as the..

From Metropolitanization to Megaregionalization: Intentionality in the Urban Restructuring of Java's North Coast, Indonesia

Delik Hudalah, Yustina Octifanny, Tessa Talitha, Tommy Firman, Nicholas A Phelps

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

This paper examines the intentionality behind the emergence of megaregion in Indonesia’s reinvented developmentalist state traditi..