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.
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East meets West
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Sako Musterd
December 12, 2019
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the world, the poor are increasingly ...
Technology and the City: Systems, applications and implications
1st Edition
By Tan Yigitcanlar
December 12, 2019
The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing importance of smart technologies and systems in contemporary cities, and providing an in-depth understanding of both ...
Territorial Policy and Governance: Alternative Paths
1st Edition
Edited
By Iain Deas, Stephen Hincks
December 12, 2019
In response to both policy and conceptual debates, alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policymaking. As local and regional policy actors strive to respond to the geographically uneven effects of the economic crises of the early twenty-first century, a ...
The EU's New Borderland: Cross-border relations and regional development
1st Edition
By Andrzej Jakubowski, Andrzej Miszczuk, Bogdan Kawałko, Tomasz Komornicki, Roman Szul
December 12, 2019
The strengthening of relations between Poland and Ukraine over the last 25 years is one of the most positive examples of transformations in bilateral relations in Central and Eastern Europe. In spite of the complex and difficult historical heritage dominated by the events of the World War II and ...
The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip McCann, Frank van Oort, John Goddard
December 12, 2019
Smart specialisation is the new policy approach to the development of regional innovation systems across Europe and it involves fostering innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives which are well tailored to the local context. The different technologies, skills profiles, business activities, ...
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development: Corrupt Places
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Chiodelli, Tim Hall, Ray Hudson
December 12, 2019
Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. However, these debates have impinged little on ...
The Political Economy of Capital Cities
1st Edition
By Heike Mayer, Fritz Sager, David Kaufmann, Martin Warland
December 12, 2019
Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the political, economic, social and ...
The Rural and Peripheral in Regional Development: An Alternative Perspective
1st Edition
By Peter de Souza
December 12, 2019
The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulate a debate and a re-evaluation of how the concepts of the rural, peripheral and marginal are treated in academia and policy.Approaching this theme from ...
Transformation of Resource Towns and Peripheries: Political economy perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Halseth
December 12, 2019
Most developed economies, including single-industry and resource dependent rural or small town regions, are transforming rapidly as a result of social, political, and economic change. Collectively, they face a number of challenges as well as new opportunities. This international collaboration ...
Unfolding Cluster Evolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiorenza Belussi, Jose Luis Hervás-Oliver
December 12, 2019
Various theories have been put forward as to why business and industry develops in clusters and despite good work being carried out on path dependence and dynamics, this is still very much an emerging topic in the social sciences. To date, no overarching theoretical framework has been developed to ...
Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal and Creative Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Wise, Julie Clark
December 12, 2019
Economic restructuring and demographic change have in recent years placed much strain on urban areas with the effects falling disproportionately on neighbourhoods that were previously underpinned by industry and manufacturing. This has presented policy makers and city planners with a binary choice:...
Place-based Economic Development and the New EU Cohesion Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip McCann, Attila Varga
December 19, 2018
The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the Western world, and one of the largest of such programmes anywhere in the world. The reforms to the EU Cohesion Policy contain many different elements each of which interlink in order to provide a cohesive ...