ABSTRACT
early concept of the ‘urban field’ has informed and inspired contemporary research on urbanisation and spatial expansion in Nigeria. Chung Tong-Wu shows the contradictory situation arising when cross-border development occurs in the adjoining peripheries of two nations. Keith Pezzoli shows how bioregional theory and sustainability science can be combined to build rooted communities and transformative city-region development. My essay critically explores the rise of social innovation and enterprise in relation to John Friedmann’s ideas of economic activity and radical planning challenges to neoliberal development. And Yuko Aoyama explores how social enterprises have reconfigured the economic and governance sphere into a hybrid domain that links communities, civil society organisations, corporations and government agencies in new partnerships for economic development.
