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.
If you would like to discuss a potential new book for the series, please contact:
Stephen J Ramos – [email protected] – Series Editor-in-Chief, or
Kristina Abbotts – [email protected] – Routledge Commissioning Editor
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.
30% DISCOUNT AVAILABLE
Did you know that as a Regional Studies Association member you’re entitled to a 30% discount on all Routledge books? To order, simply email James Hill ([email protected]), or phone on +44 (0) 7831 120 008 and declare your RSA membership.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Working Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Ilaria Mariotti, Mina Di Marino, Pavel Bednář
May 27, 2024
This edited volume presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces (NeWSps), both formal and informal (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, public libraries, and coffee shops), and their role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic...
Governance and City Regions: Policy and Planning in Europe
1st Edition
By Karsten Zimmermann, Patricia Feiertag
September 25, 2023
City-regions are areas where the daily journeys for work, shopping and leisure frequently cross administrative boundaries. They are seen as engines of the national economy, but are also facing congestion and disparities. Thus, all over the world, governments attempt to increase problem-solving ...
Planning Regional Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By John Harrison, Daniel Galland, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
September 25, 2023
Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned. This is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually and practically – in ways ...
The Confines of Territory
1st Edition
Edited
By John Agnew
September 25, 2023
The word ‘territory’ has taken on renewed significance in a world where its close association with state sovereignty has made a serious comeback, invoked alike by proponents of Brexit in the UK, ‘Making America Great Again’ in the USA, and myriad populists from India to Brazil by way of Italy and ...
Universities and Regional Engagement: From the Exceptional to the Everyday
1st Edition
Edited
By Tatiana Iakovleva, Elisa Thomas, Laila Nordstrand Berg, Rómulo Pinheiro, Paul Benneworth
September 25, 2023
The study of universities’ role in regional engagement has traditionally been focusing on exceptional cases. This book presents a reconceptualization which embraces its underlying complexity and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities’ "...
Border Cities and Territorial Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Medeiros
May 31, 2023
This monograph analyses the role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world. It not only embraces the scientific fields of regional and urban studies but also addresses territorial (urban, local, regional) development and planning theories, as...
Metropolitan Governance in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Alejandra Trejo Nieto, Jose L. Niño Amézquita
May 31, 2023
This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity. It examines Latin American metropolitan governance by focusing on the issue of public service provision and comparatively examining five of the largest and most complex urban ...
The Randstad: A Polycentric Metropolis
1st Edition
Edited
By Wil Zonneveld, Vincent Nadin
August 01, 2022
The Randstad metropolitan region encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a ‘successful’ polycentric metropolis. It is widely cited as an example of how a region of interconnected small cities can effectively compete ...
Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Karl Kresl
April 29, 2022
Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities, and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention – this book fills that gap. An international team of expert academics have come together to present a comprehensive study of the ...
Creative Cluster Development: Governance, Place-Making and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlen Komorowski, Ike Picone
December 13, 2021
In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments. Governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries.Our understanding of ...
Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa De Propris, David Bailey
December 13, 2021
This edited volume brings together a group of expert contributors to explorebthe opportunities and the challenges that Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) is likely to pose for regions, fi rms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like servitization,...
Geography of Innovation: Public Policy Renewal and Empirical Progress
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadine Massard, Corinne Autant-Bernard
June 30, 2021
Within the European context of innovation for growth, public and corporate actors are faced with pressing questions concerning innovation policy and the return on public and private investment in innovation at the regional level. To help them answer these questions, researchers in the field of ...