Edited by Peter Nijkamp, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Faculty of Economics, Rijeka University, Rijeka, Croatia, Karima Kourtit, Faculty of Management, Open University of the Netherlands, Kingsley E. Haynes, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, USA and Zeynep Elburz, Faculty of Architecture, City and Regional Planning Department, Izmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye