Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
The Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development: The Case of North East England
1st Edition
By Ray Hudson
July 04, 2025
The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England. How and why did its economy grow from the sixteenth century to be a "Workshop of the World" by the ...
Smart Cities in Europe and Asia: Urban Planning and Management for a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Prana Krishna Biswas, Robert Dygas
May 06, 2025
The smart city concept, together with the growing importance of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, has a significant impact on city management and governance. This book examines real cases of smart city management across Asia and Europe. It covers regions such as Iceland, Estonia, Poland, ...
Sustainable and Smart Cities: Governance, Economy and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Anshuman Khare, Terry Beckman
April 01, 2025
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
March 12, 2025
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, ...
Sustainable Regional Development: Revitalizing Regions through Innovation
1st Edition
By Michael P. Clair
January 30, 2025
Many communities and regions are being left behind in the new economic order. The book starts with the premise that, in today’s knowledge-based economy, innovation is key, but that only seems to happen in larger urban centres. It seems that smaller centres and peripheral regions can only look ...
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
December 30, 2024
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) ...
European Regional Policy and Development: Forgotten Regions and Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, Bruno Blanco-Varela
December 18, 2024
The shortcomings of traditional regional policies led to a major policy. Thus, regions have become more active in the design and implementation of policies, following a bottom-up approach and involving the participation of the local community in strategic planning, as opposed to the traditional ...
Governance and Leadership in Shrinking Cities: Strategies for Managing Urban Decline
1st Edition
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By Stanisław Mazur
December 18, 2024
The aim of this publication is to look in depth at depopulation - a trend that is affecting an increasing number of cities worldwide. It has recently become a critical issue with a range of detrimental social, economic, spatial, and financial consequences. However, attempts by central and local ...
Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces: Global Policy Experiences and Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, Bruno Blanco-Varela
December 18, 2024
This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions, in particular - are spaces that in potential can...
Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa
1st Edition
By María Carrizosa
November 28, 2024
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively understudied practice. But in informal settlements, the definition of "home" and "employment" is completely intertwined, which is why there is so much to learn from ...
Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science
1st Edition
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By Luca S. D'Acci
October 29, 2024
Urban allometry empirically describes how “things”, for example crime, GDP, emissions, energy use, area, street length, housing prices, etc. change in cities when their size, in terms of population, increases. Urban scaling is a relatively recent area of urban science, investigating how measurable ...
The Rural to Urban Transition in Developing Countries: Urbanisation and Peri-Urban Land Markets
1st Edition
By Amrutha Mary Varkey
October 09, 2024
Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other, reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special ...