Regions and Cities
About the Book Series
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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About the Regional Studies Association (RSA)
The RSA is the global community for regional and urban research, development and policy. As a learned society for regional studies, it provides an authoritative voice for researchers, students and practitioners from disciplines including economics, geography, political science, planning, urban sociology, transport planning and other fields. The RSA delivers its charitable aims through knowledge exchange and policy engagement activities, its portfolio of journals and publications, its programme of conferences and events and its worldwide territorial and research networks. The RSA also runs a grant funding programme and recognises good practice in regional studies through its awards. It is an inclusive, diverse and environmental responsible organisation. For more information go to www.regionalstudies.org
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The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession
1st Edition
Edited
By Hyun Bang Shin, Dong-Wan Gimm
November 26, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals. The rise of Asian economies has spurred the proliferation of megaprojects through large-scale resource ...
Regional Economic Development in Mexico
1st Edition
By Alejandra Trejo Nieto
October 20, 2025
Latin America is the most unequal region in the world and geographical imbalances are a significant component of overall inequality. On average, regional economic disparities are four times higher than in countries of the OECD. This book underscores the significance of subnational development and ...
Resilient Cities in the Global South: Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design
1st Edition
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By Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, NezHapi-Dellé Odeleye, Aysegul Can
July 22, 2025
Post-pandemic, cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is ...
Territorial Development in Latin America: Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions
1st Edition
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By Diana Morales, Laura Sariego-Kluge, Tiago Teixeira
April 23, 2025
This book explores one of the most pressing issues of our time: development, a concern that has persisted from the past century through to today, and is increasingly intertwined with challenges related to environmental sustainability and growing inequalities. Despite numerous academic and policy ...
Ageing and Urban Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthias Drilling, Pamela Suero, Hind Al-Shoubaki, Fabian Neuhaus
February 28, 2025
Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. This process requires collaboration between professionals and the community, going ...
Contemporary South Africa and the Political Economy of Regional Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Methembe Mdlalose, Isaac Khambule, Nene Ernest Khalema
February 21, 2025
South Africa’s struggle in balancing its domestic needs while playing a dynamic developmental role in the African region and global context exposes a complex web of relations shaped by its geostrategic location on the continent, and the world, and the staggering legacies of colonialism and ...
Spatial Justice and Cohesion: The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development
1st Edition
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By Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott
January 30, 2025
Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As ...
Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kasia Narkowicz, Anna Gawlewicz, Konrad Pędziwiatr
January 17, 2025
Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of Europe to CEE, pose new challenges for the regional study of race and racialisation, including growing diversity and the tightening of border security. ...
Inequalities, Territorial Politics, Nationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Donatella della Porta, Michael Keating, Mario Pianta
December 18, 2024
This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms. Since the 2008 financial crisis, European countries have faced economic stagnation, rising inequalities, worsening social conditions and ...
Self-Sufficiency and Sustainable Cities and Regions: Planning for Sustainable, Circular and Carbon-Neutral Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Medeiros
November 13, 2024
The concept of self-sufficiency involves the notion of sustainable, circular, and carbon-neutral cities. This book examines how urban planning can lead to greater self-sufficiency. It sheds light on how urban and regional circular and self-sufficiency development can effectively contribute towards ...
Climate Governance and Urban Planning: Implementing Low-Carbon Development Patterns
1st Edition
By Deborah Heinen
August 26, 2024
Urban planning as a discipline is deeply integral to implementing a low-carbon future. This book fosters an understanding for how the rules-in-use that govern urban planning influence the ability to implement low-carbon development patterns. Drawing on the theoretical foundations of the ...
Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies: Territory, Space and Power
1st Edition
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By Jason Luger
August 26, 2024
This book engages with current debates on ‘planetary urbanization’ and the nature of urban political theory but notably considers the implications of illiberalism on space, territory, and power. Such a focus is timely, as illiberalism (across various settings and terrains) is producing, and ...