Bücher der Reihe Regions and Cities

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained recognition from national and regional governments. Increasingly, governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries.

This book looks at the economy of Scotland from every angle ¿ from the oil and gas sector to the labour market and education; from the country¿s financial sector to inequality and poverty, bringing together a team of experts in their fields to provide an assessment of the current state of the nation.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, govern urban life, and to drive local and regional economies. This book, through a range of international case studies, suggests social, political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention ¿ this book fills that gap. An international team of academics have compiled a comprehensive study of the competitiveness of cities in the developing world.

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders. This book is based on a number of key case studies which are crucial to understanding the complex web of political, economic and cultural factors that shape the heterogeneous picture of Europe¿s new geography.

Analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions, working from the perspective of uneven development, and drawing on the tradition of regional geography. This book looks at how this regional structure has arisen, and the theories that can be used to analyze it. It devotes a chapter to each English region.

This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area.

This book is designed to broaden and deepen the understanding of the current and future structure and geography of the information technology industry in the Asia Pacific region.

The contributions included in this book explore the emergence of entrepreneurship policies from a transatlantic comparative perspective and address different aspects of entrepreneurship policies including local entrepreneurship policies and the relationship between knowledge-based industries and entrepreneurship policies.

A critical look at regional development and governance, examining the causes of the South-East domination and comparing each region in terms of its characteristics and its experience of devolution.

This book brings together detailed studies of the creative class in cities across the globe, examining the impact of the creative class on growth and development. The countries covered include the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, China, Japan and Canada, in addition to the United States.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards.

This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration.

Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to `re-frame¿ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory; and resilience theory. From below, they address the four major crises creating a `perfect storm¿ for societies and economics involving: the climate change crisis; the energy crisis; the banking and financial crisis; and the global economic crisis.

This book address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies.

Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across Europe.

Provides an overview and critical perspective on the impact of devolution on regionalism in the UK since 1999, taking a research-based look at issues central to the development of regionalism: politics, governance and planning.

This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.

This book, divided into five parts, examines in detail the changes and the challenge for policy makers.

This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century.

Integrating theoretical and practical research, this work covers economic, social and territorial issues aspects of EU intervention. It provides a systematic view of the various stages of the policy cycle, looking at: the evolution of the problems; the design of the policy system; the implementation in practice; and the evaluation of effects.

Focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity process within regions in the knowledge economy. This work demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and shows how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

Explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation. This book combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual/intelligent environments.

The analysis of clusters and industrial districts has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been under-evaluated. This book offers insights into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning.

An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography.