Not my area at all but Sam Dalrymple's 'Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia' (William Collins) might be a general start.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Also by slowing traffic, speed limits potentially make PT and active modes relatively slightly more competitive, thus in turn generating emissions-reducing mode shift.

Interesting. GS has become an essential and appreciated tool for researchers and academics but sadly doesn't see much development.

Welcome to 🦋! Do you have any involvement in the development of Google Scholar at all?

Unlike prestige federal domains such as economic or foreign policy, perhaps even social policy, urban affairs has until only recently been a sustained federal policy concern, and still very marginal, as the recent national urban policy process and ministerial portfolio allocations demonstrate.

There's almost no student demand for (traditionally interdisciplinary) urban studies programs in Australia (cf US/UK). Most students come to it via geography or urban planning programs. Content of the latter is shaped by the accreditation requirements of the professional institute.

I suspect editors are also grappling with greater time demands and maybe haven't the attention to attend to these nuances. Perhaps in your next revision you could emphasise the divergences of view in the literature so they appear as field-level issues rather than problems internal your work.

If R4 thinks the cites and R1/3 are wrong, but you think yourself, cites and R1/3 are correct, then that signals there is a debate in the field. That in turn deserves to be resolved through publication and exchange rather than being closed off at review stage. Journals usually encourage debates.