Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Evolving Intelligent Environments: Smart Ecosystems and Transformative Innovations in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Nicos Komninos
June 22, 2026
There is growing global interest in understanding how digital technologies and physical spaces, particularly within the framework of digital and green agendas, can transform cities, influence behaviour, and stimulate innovation. This book advances a novel and interdisciplinary framework for ...
Urban Living: Anthropological Evolutionary Urbanism
1st Edition
By Luca S. D'Acci
April 29, 2026
This interdisciplinary book lays the foundations for a new critique of human societies examining how humans, as a species, are suited to live across the rural-urban spectrum. It proposes a new perspective for urban studies, ultimately centred on human nature. Evolutionary perspectives are at the ...
Inclusive, Smart and Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
By Elwira Gross-Gniot, Zbigniew Makieła, Magdalena M. Stuss, Jacek Szołtysek, Grażyna Trzpiot
March 09, 2026
This book addresses critical issues for contemporary cities building their future, presenting a cohesive narrative rooted in the diverse experiences of its authors and reflecting the systemic nature of urban environments. The authors attribute the success of programming and implementing the ...
Regional Cooperation and Resilience in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Bobowski
December 26, 2025
This book argues that a resilient region should act reactively and proactively in the face of shocks and disruptions and asserts that the institutionalization of regional cooperation may be the answer to development challenges in times of uncertainty and instability. It considers regional, ...
Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Ernst Drewes, Mariske van Aswegen
December 26, 2025
This book analyses regional development policy or the lack thereof in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which forms a key trading bloc on the African continent as well as the Global South. It explores the main attributes relevant to the formulation of regional policy in terms of ...
Spatial Planning and the European Union: Europeanisation from Within
1st Edition
By Eva Purkarthofer
December 26, 2025
European Union policies are intertwined with all sectors of public administration and governance in the member states, including spatial, urban and regional planning. Legal regulations like the Natura 2000 Directives, funding programmes associated with EU Cohesion Policy or strategies such as ...
The Business of Affordable Housing: Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
December 26, 2025
Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction ...
Sustainable Finance and Smart Cities
1st Edition
By Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Aneta Michalak
December 08, 2025
The development of Smart Cities (SC) is inextricably linked to the need to obtain financing for both current projects and long-term investments. Issues related to the financing of Smart Cities, raising funds, their capital structure or financing risks are underexplored and are described in a ...
The Urban University and the Knowledge Economy: New Spaces of Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrizia Ingallina
October 03, 2025
This book presents international experiences of territorial strategies and urban projects in which universities have played a major role over the past fifteen years, through spatial planning and within a multiscalar approach. This approach constitutes the book’s first originality, illustrating the ...
Sustainability and the Rural Enterprise Economy: Economic, Environmental and Social Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Gretzinger, Birgit Leick, Teemu Makkonen
September 10, 2025
Enterprises in rural regions must now act in a globalized world and face global challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcities and social inequalities or the sustainability preferences of consumers. Rural start-up enterprises often strive to contribute to the solutions of global-scale ...
Cross-Border Mobility in Eastern European Union Countries: External Shocks and Regional Resilience
1st Edition
By Tomasz Komornicki, Rafał Wiśniewski, Andrzej Jakubowski, Barbara Szejgiec-Kolenda, Eugenia Maruniak
September 09, 2025
This book examines how cross-border mobility across the eastern border of Poland with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, driven by external shocks, influences different territorial units. It offers a new understanding of the determinants, dynamics, spatial distribution and impact on such mobility in ...
Technology and Forced Migration: Ukrainian Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska, Marie Jelínková, Agnieszka Bielewska, Karin Amit
August 12, 2025
The Russian aggression on Ukraine has drastically altered the migration situation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), drawing international attention. Despite numerous global studies on individuals seeking refuge, CEE remains underresearched. This book details the recent, lesser-known experiences ...