Urban Studies Monographs

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1. Culture-Led Urban Regeneration

   Edited by Ronan Paddison, Steven Miles

   Series: Urban Studies Monographs

   The idea that culture can be employed as a driver for urban economic growth has become part of the new orthodoxy by which cities seek to enhance their competitive position. Such developments reflect not only the rise to prominence of the cultural sphere in the contemporary (urban) economy, but how...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
2. Clusters in Urban and Regional Development

   Edited by Andrew Cumbers, Danny McKinnon

   Series: Urban Studies Monographs

   Clusters have become a key focus of urban and regional policy in advanced economies as regional specialisation in particular industries has come to be regarded as advantageous in the context of debates about globalization and the knowledge economy. In particular, spatial proximity between...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
3. Employability and Local Labour Markets

   Edited by Ronald W. McQuaid, Anne E. Green, Mike Danson

   Series: Urban Studies Monographs

   The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy. It has also provided a useful framework for analyzing national and urban labour markets and related policies in a variety of different circumstances both for those in and out of work. The papers in this...

   Published May 10th 2006 by Routledge
4. Cities of Pleasure

   Sex and the Urban Socialscape

   Edited by Alan Collins

   Series: Urban Studies Monographs

   This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including: the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining...

   Published November 9th 2005 by Routledge
5. Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting

   Edited by Yong-Sook Lee, Brenda S.A. Yeoh

   Series: Urban Studies Monographs

   In both academic scholarship and the popular imagination, the globality of modern society has been represented by global cities as the corporate and financial epicentres for capital accumulation, cosmopolitan cultures and innovative change. This has created an image of the globalised world as empty...

   Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge