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.
Strategic Approaches to Regional Development: Smart Experimentation in Less-Favoured Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Iryna Kristensen, Alexandre Dubois, Jukka Teräs
September 30, 2020
The existence and persistence of regional disparities between European regions require context-tailored policies to promote structural change. This book explores the congruence between place-based development and regional competitiveness in the EU context. Drawing on a range of social science ...
The Entrepreneurial Discovery Process and Regional Development: New Knowledge Emergence, Conversion and Exploitation
1st Edition
Edited
By Åge Mariussen, Seija Virkkala, Håkon Finne, Tone Merethe Aasen
September 30, 2020
There is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission began implementing Smart Specialisation Strategy, a place-based strategy of growth, regional transformation and new industrial policy with collective ...
Transitions in Regional Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivan Turok, David Bailey, Jennifer Clark, Jun Du, Ugo Fratesi, Michael Fritsch, John Harrison, Tom Kemeny, Dieter Kogler, Arnoud Lagendijk
December 19, 2019
At a time of extraordinary challenges confronting the world, this book analyses some of the profound changes occurring in the development of cities and regions. It discusses the uncertainties associated with the stalling of hyper-globalization and asks whether this creates opportunities for ...
Territorial Designs and International Politics: Inside-out and Outside-in
1st Edition
Edited
By Boaz Atzili, Burak Kadercan
December 17, 2019
Territory is back with a vengeance. Although territorial politics never really went away, it was often perceived that way in public discussion and among scholars. The territorial conflicts of the last several years, however, have raised new academic and policy questions, revived old debates that ...
Approaches to Economic Geography: Towards a geographical political economy
1st Edition
By Ray Hudson
December 12, 2019
The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously been excluded. Beginning with a grounding in Marxian political economy, this book explores a range of new ideas as to...
Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities
1st Edition
By Wen-jie Wu
December 12, 2019
Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid – albeit geographically uneven – local and regional economic growth during the past few decades. Notwithstanding this development pattern, China has been investing heavily in targeted coastal and inland regions through planning policies ...
Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy
1st Edition
By Sami Moisio
December 12, 2019
We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy ...
Governing Smart Specialisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Dimitrios Kyriakou, Manuel Palazuelos Martínez, Inmaculada Periáñez-Forte, Alessandro Rainoldi
December 12, 2019
In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research, it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic potential, developing mechanisms to involve the...
Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences: Beyond clusters
1st Edition
By Kean Birch
December 12, 2019
The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This sector is frequently presented as a major opportunity for policy-makers to upgrade and renew regional economies, ...
People, Places and Policy: Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane
December 12, 2019
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and ...
Reanimating Regions: Culture, Politics, and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By James Riding, Martin Jones
December 12, 2019
Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. ...
Rethinking International Skilled Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Micheline van Riemsdijk, Qingfang Wang
December 12, 2019
In today’s global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified. Highly skilled workers are an asset to companies, knowledge institutions, cities, and regions as they contribute to knowledge creation, innovation, and economic growth and development. Skilled ...