Global city-regions, urban planning, global urban research, urban governance, metropolitan regions, urban theory making, megaregions
John Harrison is an urban-regional geographer based at Loughborough University, UK. He is interested in the planning and governance of cities and regions. As a geographer, he has written extensively on globalisation’s new urban form, particularly the spatiality of city-regions, polycentric urban regions and megaregions. He is also interested in the practice of doing global urban research, and recent work focuses on the role of actors – particularly private, economic actors – in planning future cities and regions.
His books include The Planning and Governance of Cities in Globalization (2012, with Kathy Pain, Routledge), Megaregions: Globalization’s New Urban Form? (2015, with Michael Hoyler, Edward Elgar), Doing Global Urban Research (2018, with Michael Hoyler, Sage), Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance (2020, with Karsten Zimmermann and Daniel Galland, Springer) and Planning Regional Futures (2022, with Daniel Galland and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Routledge).