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Smart Transitions in City Regionalism: Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability book cover

1st Edition

Smart Transitions in City Regionalism Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

By Tassilo Herrschel, Yonn Dierwechter Copyright 2018
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In recent years "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around what "smart" actually means, both theoretically and empirically, have emerged within the interdisciplinary arenas of urban and regional studies. This book explores the changes in discourse, rationality and selected responses of smartness through... Read more

Introduction, 1. The Smart Turn: Tracing Transitions to City-Regional Smartness, 2. Economic Factors in Shaping City Regionalism and ‘Smartness’, 3. Political Factors in Shaping City Regionalism and ‘Smartness’, 4. Going for ‘smartness’: reframing city-regionalism, 5. Beyond Post-Fordist Regimes: Smart City-Regionalism in North America and Western Europe, 6. Beyond Post-Authoritarian Regimes: Smart City-Regionalism in Eastern Europe and South Africa, 7. Conclusions: Smart transitions in city-regionalism

Biography

Tassilo Herrschel is a Reader in Urban and Regional Governance in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK, and Associate Research Fellow at the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium



Yonn Dierwechter is Professor in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA

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