Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
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 ...
Managing Knowledge, Governing Society: Social Theory, Research Policy and Environmental Transition
1st Edition
By Alain-Marc Rieu
May 31, 2023
Since the 1980s, two different paradigms have reshaped industrial societies: the Neoliberal paradigm and a Research and Innovation paradigm. Both have been conceptualized and translated into strong policies with massive economic and social consequences. They provide divergent responses to the ...
The Economics of Sustainable Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Szelągowska, Aneta Pluta-Zaremba
May 31, 2023
This book presents the ways in which three key issues of the modern world – transformation, digitalisation and sustainability – may be combined for the greater good and highlights which activities may be designed to integrate these three directly linked paths. It is an experience-derived and ...
The Regional Economics of Technological Transformations: Industry 4.0 and Servitisation in European Regions
1st Edition
By Roberta Capello, Camilla Lenzi
May 31, 2023
The Regional Economics of Technological Transformations provides a comprehensive overview of 4.0 technological transformations in Europe and their socio-economic impact, with a particular emphasis on the regional dimension of the phenomena. The authors employ extensive original data and robust...
The Cultural Sector and Sustainable Economic Development: Innovation and the Creative Economy in European Cities
1st Edition
By Biljana Mickov
February 01, 2023
The cultural sector plays an important role in sustainable economic development and creates economic activities, opportunities for entrepreneurship and jobs, adding to the attractiveness of cities and contributing to the development of tourism. The Cultural Sector and Sustainable Economic ...
Family Business and Regional Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodrigo Basco, Roger Stough, Lech Suwala
January 09, 2023
This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and...
Governing Cities: Asia's Urban Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kris Hartley, Glen Kuecker, Michael Waschak, Jun Jie Woo, Charles Chao Rong Phua
June 13, 2022
This book presents the latest research on three issues of crucial importance to Asian cities: governance, livability, and sustainability. Together, these issues canvass the salient trends defining Asian urbanization and are explored through an eclectic compendium of studies that represent the many ...
Outsourcing in European Emerging Economies: Territorial Embeddedness and Global Business Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Łukasz Mamica
May 30, 2022
Drawing on a range of European cases, this edited volume analyses the offshoring and outsourcing of foreign companies, with a focus on territorial embeddedness. The book opens by developing a theoretical framework and then presents a range of international case studies exploring the experiences of...
Mental Health and Wellbeing in Rural Regions: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah-Anne Munoz, Steve F. Bain
April 29, 2022
This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings. Through the use of international and comparative case studies, the book offers insight into the spatiality of mental health diagnoses, experiences, services...
The Geography of Mobility, Wellbeing and Development in China: Understanding Transformations Through Big Data
1st Edition
Edited
By Wenjie Wu, Yiming Wang
September 30, 2021
Big data is increasingly regarded as a new approach for understanding urban informatics and complex systems. Today, there is unprecedented data availability, with detailed remote-sensed data on the built environment and rich mineable web-based sources in the form of social media, web mapping, ...