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Regions and Cities

Series Editor: Ron Martin, Gernot Grabher, Maryann Feldman, Gillian Bristow, Martin Perry

In today’s globalised, knowledge-driven and networked world, regions and cities have assumed heightened significance as the interconnected nodes of economic, social and cultural production, and as sites of new modes of economic governance and policy experimentation. This book series brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research on this resurgence of regions and cities, and should be of interest to geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.

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1-10 of 64 results in Regions and Cities

  1. The Futures of the City Region

    Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The University and the City

    By John Goddard, Paul Vallance

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  3. Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia

    Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship

    Edited by Henry Wai-chung Yeung

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Significant historical and geographical differences account for the many processes and trajectories of regional development in East Asia. These historical and geographical specificities in East Asia have prompted serious re-examination of existing theories in regional development, and in particular...

    Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

  4. Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

    Community Development and Social Innovation

    Edited by Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Flavia Martinelli, Sara Gonzalez

    Series: Regions and Cities

    For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Re-framing Regional Development

    Evolution, Innovation and Transition

    Edited by Philip Cooke

    Series: Regions and Cities

    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;...

    Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets

    Edited by Ulrich Hilpert, Helen Lawton Smith

    Series: Regions and Cities

    A map which shows where innovation is clustered worldwide is also a map of the location of the highly skilled and talented labour. New technologies, their creative applications or synergy across different areas of scientific research or technology development always create opportunities for the...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Leadership and Change in Sustainable Regional Development

    Edited by Markku Sotarauta, Lummina Horlings, Joyce Liddle

    Series: Regions and Cities

    This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

  8. Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development

    Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe

    By Matthias Fink, Stephan Loidl, Richard Lang

    Series: Regions and Cities

    How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities learn from each other? How can each individual in the local area contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know-how can successfully be transferred on a communal...

    Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?

    Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies

    Edited by Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson, Henrik Halkier

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys...

    Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe

    Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Luciana Lazzeretti

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development. Increasingly, European cities and regions are using the arts to fuel wellbeing and reinvigorate...

    Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Europe's Changing Geography: The Impact of Inter-regional Networks
    Edited by Nicola Bellini, Ulrich Hilpert
    To Be Published April 17th 2013
  2. Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities
    Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Bas van Heur
    To Be Published April 17th 2013
  3. The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development: A Scandinavian Perspective
    Edited by Lisbeth Lindeborg, Lars Lindkvist
    To Be Published April 21st 2013
  4. Working Regions: Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy
    By Jennifer Clark
    To Be Published May 12th 2013
  5. The Impacts of Automotive Plant Closure: A Tale of Two Cities
    Edited by Andrew Beer, Holli Evans
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  6. 'Whither regional studies?'
    Edited by Andy Pike
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  7. Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and the Transformation of Regions
    Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson, Roger Stough
    To Be Published June 10th 2013
  8. The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region
    Edited by Philip Cooke, Glen Searle, Kevin O'Connor
    To Be Published June 11th 2013
  9. Beyond Territory: Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation
    Edited by Harald Bathelt, Maryann Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler
    To Be Published July 4th 2013
  10. Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge
    By Ali Madanipour
    To Be Published July 4th 2013

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