Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development: A Meta-Organisational Approach
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Regional Cooperation and Resilience in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Bobowski
May 01, 2024
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, ...
The Business of Affordable Housing: Case Studies of the Commercial Supply of Affordable Homes
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
May 01, 2024
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 ...
Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Ernst Drewes, Mariske van Aswegen
March 19, 2024
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 ...
European Port Cities and Urban Regeneration: Exploring Cultural and Sporting Mega Events at the Water's Edge
1st Edition
By Enrico Tommarchi
January 29, 2024
Culture- and event-led regeneration have been catalysts for the transformation of redundant urban port areas and for the reframing of the image of many port cities, which notably feature among mega-event bidding and host cities. However, there is little understanding of the impacts of these ...
Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience: The Power of Lifescapes
1st Edition
By Kimmo Lapintie
January 29, 2024
The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed ‘reality’ of the state apparatus at both the local and national level. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging spatial ...
Political Geography of Cities and Regions: Changing Legitimacy and Identity
1st Edition
By Kees Terlouw
October 09, 2023
This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity. This typology is then applied to two different political and historical contexts, namely the trajectories of the metropolitan region Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the metropolitan ...