Nicholas Phelps

‘It’s the hope I can’t stand’: planning, valuation and new community building

NA Phelps, JT Miao

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Property Research

What are the recursive effects of planning on valuations of land, value capture and returns to developers and hence what urban pla..

Missing Elements of Knowledge Diffusion between Trade Fairs and Industrial Clusters Beyond Pipelines: Evidence from the Furniture Industry in Foshan, China

X Wang, K Wu, NA Phelps, G Huang

Journal article  |  2023  |  Professional Geographer

This study illustrates neglected elements of knowledge transfer from trade fairs to industrial clusters. Based on a case study of ..

E-commerce: A platform for local economic development? Evidence from Taobao Villages in Zhejiang Province, China

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

Journal article  |  2022  |  Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

In contrast to the one village one product (OVOP) and joint action (JA) models, e-commerce disintermediation is the focus of the T..

Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities

Nicholas A Phelps, Paul J Maginn, Roger Keil

Journal article  |  2022  |  URBAN STUDIES

Based on presentations across two days as part of an Urban Studies Foundation-funded seminar series, we elaborate a thematic agend..

Planning in an Uncanny World

Nicholas A Phelps

Book Chapter  |  2022

The First Suburban Nation in a Suburban World

Nicholas A Phelps

Book Chapter  |  2022

Closed or connected? The economic geography of technological collaboration between special economic zones in China's Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou metropolitan area

Yingcheng Li, Xiao Zhang, Nicholas Phelps, Manya Tu

Journal article  |  2022  |  URBAN GEOGRAPHY

Conceived as industry enclaves when they were originally built, China’s special economic zones (SEZs) might be thought to have few..

Can Growth Be Planned? The Case of Melbourne's Urban Periphery

Nicholas A Phelps, David Nichols

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Growth may have a logic of its own that results in the unplanned appearance of development at the urban fringe. We summarize the c..

Beyond the resource curse: The redistributive challenge of sustainable resource-led development in Australia, Chile and Zambia

Martin Arias-Loyola, Julia Loginova, Julie Miao, Nicholas A Phelps, Thomas Sigler, Idah Zulu

Journal article  |  2022  |  EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND SOCIETY

We outline the redistributive challenge (Eggert, 2001) associated with resource-led development posed by entrenched spatial divisi..

The Creativity of the Kampung

Ahmad Rifai, Nina Asterina, Rizqa Hidayani, Nicholas A Phelps

Book Chapter  |  2022