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.
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 ...
Creating Smart Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudio Coletta, Leighton Evans, Liam Heaphy, Rob Kitchin
November 05, 2018
In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies. While "smart city" advocates are keen to promote the benefits of smart urbanism – increased efficiency, ...
The European Territory: From Historical Roots to Global Challenges
1st Edition
By Ragnar Frisch
September 27, 2018
Originally published in French as Le territoire européen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has seen in the past half century. In a period of immense upheaval, the continent has experienced increased integration, largely through the development of ...
Soft Spaces in Europe: Re-negotiating governance, boundaries and borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton, Jörg Knieling, Frank Othengrafen
September 18, 2018
The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that ...
In The Post-Urban World: Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Tigran Haas, Hans Westlund
September 10, 2018
In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we find ourselves at the juncture between entering a post-urban and a post-political world, both presenting new challenges to our metropolitan regions, ...
Industrial Policy Beyond the Crisis: Regional, National and International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bailey, Helena Lenihan, Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod
August 23, 2018
After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession ...
Making Cultural Cities in Asia: Mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism
1st Edition
Edited
By June Wang, Tim Oakes, Yang Yang
August 14, 2018
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian ...
Place-making and Urban Development: New challenges for contemporary planning and design
1st Edition
By Pier Carlo Palermo, Davide Ponzini
August 14, 2018
The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that ...
Spaces and Places in Central and Eastern Europe: Historical Trends and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Gyula Horváth
August 14, 2018
Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common ...
Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe: The Relational Turn in Rural Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Copus, Philomena de Lima
August 14, 2018
This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent years. This reveals a need to refresh the concepts we use to understand, measure and describe rural communities and their development potential. ...