Urban Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap

   Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City

   By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-poverty mandate and in particular an agreed commitment to eliminate child poverty by 2020, but there is controversy over how this should be done...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. Urban and Regional Economics

   Edited by Philip McCann

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   Urban and regional economics encompasses both the economics of geography and spatial economics to focus on the growth, behaviour, and economic performance of cities and regions. Over the last two decades, urban and regional economics has grown dramatically—both as a taught subject and as an active...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
8. Urban Regeneration Management

   International Perspectives

   Edited by John Diamond, Joyce Liddle, Alan Southern, Philip Osei

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   This book was born out of the need to ‘capture’ the experience and understanding of the regeneration management process that is neither UK centric nor centred exclusively on urban areas. Written by experts working in the USA, Holland, Greece, Jamaica, Turkey, Spain, Trinidad and the Czech Republic,...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

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

   By Linda Clarke

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   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 July 25th 2011 by Routledge
10. Beyond Territory

    Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation

    Edited by Harald Bathelt, Maryann Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler

    Series: Regions and Cities

    The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two trends seem quite dominant: rigid territorial models of innovation, and localized configurations of innovative activities. The book brings together...

    Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge