Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Urban Heritage in Europe: Economic and Social Revival
1st Edition
Edited
By Gábor Sonkoly
October 09, 2024
Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously reinterpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city’s ...
Technology-Based Regional Economic Development: Institutional Perspectives from the United States and Japan
1st Edition
By Akio Nishizawa, David V. Gibson
October 08, 2024
Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world. However, policy recommendations from government officials, industry leaders and academics are often ambiguous or are ...
Lagging Regions in the European Union: Structural, Productivity and Efficiency Aspects
1st Edition
By Paweł Dobrzański
September 02, 2024
Unequal distribution of income is one of the most important socio-economic issues. The processes of globalisation and integration are accelerating economic growth; however, at the same time, imbalances between regions are growing. Reducing inequalities within regions and national economies, as well...
Evolutionary Urban Development: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Sadowy
August 26, 2024
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes ...
Economic Resilience and Pandemic Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnieszka Rzepka, Artur Paździor
August 05, 2024
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 ...
Cities Learning from a Pandemic: Towards Preparedness
1st Edition
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By Simonetta Armondi, Alessandro Balducci, Martina Bovo, Beatrice Galimberti
May 27, 2024
COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting ...
Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development: A Meta-Organisational Approach
1st Edition
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By Evgeniya Lupova-Henry, Nicola Francesco Dotti
May 27, 2024
Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development conceptualises the role of organised clusters in the transition towards sustainability. It introduces a novel perspective on these clusters, viewing them as deliberate collective actors within their environments that can become the driving force for ...
Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World: Metropandemic Revolution
1st Edition
By Anthony Larsson, Andreas Hatzigeorgiou
May 27, 2024
Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have caused intense debates over the future of cities. Through a series of ...
The Economic Geography of the Car Market: The Automobile Revolution in an Emerging Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Bartłomiej Kołsut, Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
May 27, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of long-term changes in the car market of an emerging economy, with a focus on its spatial and temporal dimensions. Poland, the case study in question, represents a unique "laboratory of automobile revolution" during the late 20th and early 21st centuries...
The Economics of Affordable Housing
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
May 27, 2024
The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries. At the same time, over the entire post-World War II period, ...
Urban Change in Central Europe: The Case of Kraków
1st Edition
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By Jacek Purchla
May 27, 2024
The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region. This book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków, ...
Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America: Policy Interactions and Urban Outcomes in Mexico City
1st Edition
By David López-García
May 27, 2024
This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility ...