Urban Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

   By Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert, Andreas Novy

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

   Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

   By Linda Clarke

   First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Creative Industries and Urban Development

   Creative Cities in the 21st Century

   Edited by Terry Flew

   The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world’s population, particularly in relation to the significance of cities as...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Cities, Regions and Flows

   Edited by Peter Hall, Markus Hesse

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to...

   Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

   From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

   Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Controversies in Local Economic Development

   Stories, strategies, solutions

   By Martin Perry

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

   The Governance of the Global Value Chain

   Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

   Series: Regions and Cities

   During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Creative Regions

   Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

   Edited by Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz

   Series: Regions and Cities

   This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of...

   Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Megapolitan America

   By Arthur Nelson, Robert Lang

   With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. These 'megapolitan' areas are networks of metropolitan areas sharing common economic, landscape,...

   Published January 19th 2012 by APA Planners Press
10. China and Europe

    The Implications of the Rise of China for European Space

    Edited by Klaus Kunzmann, Willy A Schmid, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr

    Series: Regions and Cities

    What are the likely long-term implications of this shift to Asia for the cities and regions of Europe? To just ‘wait and see’ cannot be the response, nor the hope that the attractiveness of Asia will diminish over time and that the economic growth will slow down. Will Europe be able to retain its...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge