Richard Child Hill's research while affiliated with Michigan State University and other places

... Even though Latin America is a complex territory with huge biocultural and ecological diversity, the institutional, political, and social characteristics of its urban landscapes profoundly constrain the pathways to sustainability (Romero-Lankao and Gnatz 2013), in particular strategies of niche formation, experimentation, and consolidation (Ramos-Mejía et al. 2018, Wieczorek 2018. Latin American cities have a considerable persistence of hierarchical, multilevel management regimes (Child Hill and Fujita 2003), where top-down approaches generally designed and executed directly by governments, without any kind of participation of the local community at the decisionmaking process, predominate in the arena. Moreover, the persistence of political clientelism and marginalized or socially unattended areas can generate multiple obstacles for an efficient management of the urban space, promoting different kinds of social-ecological traps that contribute to a highly stable, but In this sense, some authors have highlighted that current theories for sustainable socio-technical transitions should be improved by real-world experiences immersed in different urban settings (Frantzeskaki et al. 2016a, through "comprehensively approaching the more complex social aspects, particularly those of governance, while still keeping track of the material, technological side" of such innovation spaces (Ramos-Mejía et al. 2018:222). ...

... Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the population of Japan was quite evenly distributed across the country, but migration to the cities increased dramatically at the start of the 20 th century. Tokyo"s population jumped from 831,000 in 1875 to 2.2 million in 1909 (Fujita & Hill, 1993). Increasing military expenditures in the 1930s strengthened the bond between business and government, and the "…high degree of regulatory authority possessed by the central government attracted Japan"s corporate headquarters to Tokyo" (Ibid, p.8). ...

... Oates (1977) demonstrates that sub-central governments' provision of public services, in the absence of scale economies, can result in significant welfare gains compared to the centralised solution of uniform supply. This theme seems to be highlighted under the modern government charged with economic planning (Hill, 1976). Some pluralist commentators similarly view allocative efficiency in terms of responsiveness (Smith, 1985). ...

... While neoliberalism has become a global force with which actors in many contexts must inevitably engage, its concepts have not fully come to dominate policy in many contexts, including Thailand. In particular, while aspects of the neoliberal laissez-faire doctrine have guided strategic decisions in Thailand (Hewison, 2005), there continues to be a significant amount of state interventionism in practice, either explicitly (via policy) or implicitly (via clientelism) (Ferrara, 2015;Hill & Fujita, 2012;McCargo & Pathmanand, 2005). The broad term generally applied to such a political-economic doctrine is developmentalism, which can be described as an approach seeking to achieve development through overt top-down intervention by the state (Hill & Fujita, 2012). ...

... Moreover, latecomer firms also suffer competitive pressures as they are making undifferentiated products. They can be quite easily substituted by lower-cost producers (Hill and Fujita 1996;. ...

... In response to the crisis, newly elected government chose to part ways with the remnants of the 'developmentalist state' and choose a path of an even more full-fledged neoliberal reform, 'restructuring of the capital relations' (Chang, 2008). The turn to the new policies was supported -if not inspired or even insisted upon -by the western financial institutions, particularly the IMF, who had provided South Korea with its "bailout" package, accompanied, of course, by the strict set of policy requirements in the area of restructurisation -tight monetary and fiscal policies, liberalisation of international trade, easing of labour regulation, significant increase of the interest rates, and so on (Hill, 2011). The initial impact of the program did not wait too long -the bankruptcies of small-and medium-sized firms unable to keep up with the rising interest rates followed suit, along with the rise in unemployment and general deterioration of living standards in the country (Chang, 2008). ...

... Some of the new topics arc: cyclical processes in the world-system (Suter 1992); the roles of women, households, and gender in the world-economy (Bradley 1996; Fricdman-Ka-.aba 1996; Smith ct al. 1988; Tiano 1994; Ward 1984, 1990, 1993); the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union (Bergesen l992a; Cha-.c -Dunn 1992; Smith and Borocz 1995); cities in the world-system (Kasaba 1991; Timb erlake 1985); the role of culture in the world-economy (Bergesen 1990, 1991, l9 92b, n.d.; Kiser andDra-.s 1987); the environment (Bergesen l995a, l995b; Chew 1992, l995 c, l 995d); and subsistence (Bradley ct al. 1990). ...

... New regional institutions like the Urban Revitalisation Cabinet Office and Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Urban Planning Council were set up to deal with regional urban issues. They have sufficient power to screen and evaluate urban renaissance projects and law-making (Fujita and Hill, 2010). Luo and Shen (2009) argue that the involvement of government at higher level can enhance the cooperation initiated by local governments due to its role of leadership and potential preferential policies. ...

... An additional concern is the relationship between fiscal sorting and often racebased social stratification. Hill (1974) argues forcefully that metropolitan fragmentation is a strategy for intentionally promoting inequality. While Stein (1987) did not find support for income sorting in more fragmented MSA's, he did find evidence for sorting by race. ...

... Below the surface of the city's bad image lies a historical trajectory driven by structural trends, a representative case for America's broader urban crisis (Sugrue 1996). Deindustrialization hit Detroit hard beginning in the 1970s, following decades of population loss due to suburbanization (Hill & Negry 1987). In the 1980s, the US federal government largely retreated from the business of maintaining cities, devolving more and more functions to local governments, nongovernmental orga- nizations, and markets, with devastating results for poor central cities (Wallace 1990;Freudenberg et al. 2005). ...