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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Stephen J Ramos – [email protected] – Series Editor-in-Chief, or
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The Regions and Cities book series welcomes Open Access projects. Please contact Kristina Abbotts or visit https://www.routledge.com/info/open_access for more details.
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
Dissemination Support for Authors
The RSA increases the dissemination of research and supports authors publishing in this book series through the promotion of new books, organisation of online book launches in cooperation with the author(s) and by offering a platform for the publication of book reviews.
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Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?: Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson, Henrik Halkier
July 17, 2014
Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys...
Regional Development in Northern Europe: Peripherality, Marginality and Border Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Danson, Peter de Souza
July 17, 2014
This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the...
Working Regions: Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
By Jennifer Clark
May 16, 2014
Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues for a new...
Shrinking Cities: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Harry W. Richardson, Chang Woon Nam
March 19, 2014
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, ...
The Impacts of Automotive Plant Closure: A Tale of Two Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Beer, Holli Evans
December 11, 2013
Economic restructuring has been a notable feature of so-called mature industrial economies such as the UK and Australia in the last two decades, with deregulation, privatisation, technological change and globalisation combining to reshape such economies. Some industries have grown, while others ...
The Creative Class Goes Global
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotta Mellander, Richard Florida, Bjørn T. Asheim, Meric Gertler
October 29, 2013
The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, and his subsequent book entitled The Flight of the Creative Class has helped to maintain a decade-long explosion of interest in the field. While these ...
Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy
1st Edition
By Willem van Winden, Leo van den Berg, Luis Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl
September 20, 2013
In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacturing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable ...
The Futures of the City Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Neuman, Angela Hull
August 14, 2013
Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental ...
Beyond Territory: Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Bathelt, Maryann Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler
August 07, 2013
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 ...
Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Knowledge and policy development in an enlarged EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Adams, Giancarlo Cotella, Richard Nunes
August 07, 2013
This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process. Focusing on the experiences on Central and Eastern ...
The Recession and Beyond: Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bailey, Caroline Chapain
August 07, 2013
How has the recession impacted on firms, people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD ...
Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge
1st Edition
By Ali Madanipour
July 08, 2013
This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies. If a new knowledge-based economy is emerging, ...