Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Resilient and Generative Smart Cities: Innovation, Creativity and Urban Sustainability
1st Edition
By Marino Cavallo
July 07, 2026
The smart city is not merely a set of digital infrastructures, but a complex ecosystem in which technological networks, human capital, and urban communities intertwine. This volume explores the smart city as a relational space, a place where innovation, creativity, and resilience redefine urban ...
Evolving Intelligent Environments: Smart Ecosystems and Transformative Innovations in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Nicos Komninos
June 24, 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 ...
Sustainable and Smart Cities: Governance, Economy and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Anshuman Khare, Terry Beckman
June 22, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges modern cities face in the context of climate change and urban development. By integrating varied viewpoints, it delves into the concept of sustainable and smart cities and sheds light on the opportunities for innovative and effective ...
The Economics of Regional Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By Sándor Gyula Nagy
June 22, 2026
This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integrations spanning four continents - The Americas, the European Union, ...
The European Green Deal and the Eastern Partnership: Towards Resilient, Sustainable and Integrated Economies
1st Edition
By Zofia Gródek-Szostak, Jadwiga Adamczyk, Karolina Kotulewicz-Wisińska, Agata Niemczyk, Karolina Wanda Olszowska, Anna Szeląg-Sikora
June 22, 2026
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009 to strengthen institutional, economic and political relations between the European Union (EU) and the six Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine). Further, the adoption of the European Green Deal (EGD) ...
Economic Resilience and Pandemic Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnieszka Rzepka, Artur Paździor
May 22, 2026
The COVID-19 pandemic upended our social and economic lives. Lockdowns forced firms to implement health and safety protocols, employees to work from home, and businesses of all sorts to close. Even as lockdowns eased, the landscape of work, commerce, leisure, and education was irrevocably ...
Urban Living: Anthropological-Evolutionary Urbanism
1st Edition
By Luca S. D'Acci
April 27, 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 ...
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
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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 ...