Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Chicago: An economic history
1st Edition
By John F. McDonald
December 12, 2019
Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world’s foremost urban areas. This book is an economic history of the Chicago metropolitan area from the 1820s to the present. It examines the city in its ...
Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics: A case study in complexity science
1st Edition
By Joel Dearden, Alan Wilson
December 12, 2019
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear ...
Knowledge Economy in the Megalopolis: Interactions of innovations in transport, information, production and organizations
1st Edition
By T. R. Lakshmanan, William P. Anderson, Yena Song
December 12, 2019
In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge. Amidst the globalization of economic activities and the arrival of transformative technologies, knowledge has become the key driver of competitiveness and is ...
Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness
1st Edition
Edited
By João J. M. Ferreira, Mário L. Raposo, Cristina I. Fernandes, Marcus Dejardin
December 12, 2019
Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead of being regarded as merely supplementary to traditional industry and manufacturing, services have generated progressively rising levels of growth in developed economies while at the...
Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America: The Case of Santiago
1st Edition
Edited
By Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich
December 12, 2019
In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed ...
Regional Disparities in the Enlarged European Union: Geography, innovation and structural change
1st Edition
By Valentina Meliciani
December 12, 2019
The last twenty years have seen an increase in European integration and the emergence of the technological revolution. Although tighter integration coupled with technological innovation should facilitate cross-regional convergence, some European regions have managed to jump ahead while others have ...
Rural Housing and Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Don E. Albrecht, Scott Loveridge, Stephan Goetz, Rachel Welborn
December 12, 2019
Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development. Rural areas face a substantial disadvantage compared to urban areas in regard to housing, and this ...
Situated Practices of Strategic Planning: An international perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis Albrechts, Alessandro Balducci, Jean Hillier
December 12, 2019
All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems. New developments, challenges and opportunities cause these issues and yet cases tell us that traditional spatial planning responses and tools are often insufficient to tackle these problems and challenges.Situated Practices of ...
Smart Development in Smart Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Gilberto Antonelli, Giuseppe Cappiello
December 12, 2019
The concept of smart cities has become one of the most significant new lines of thinking to emerge in the social sciences in recent years, both from the research and policy angles. To date, the focus in smart specialization has been on what regions as a whole can do to bring about innovation, but ...
Spatial Dynamics in the Experience Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Lorentzen, Karin Topsø Larsen, Lise Schrøder
December 12, 2019
This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy. It offers a valuable contribution to this new approach and the planning and management challenges it faces.This book emphasises three key avenues to understanding the experience ...
Structural Change, Competitiveness and Industrial Policy: Painful Lessons from the European Periphery
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurora Teixeira, Ester Silva, Ricardo Mamede
December 12, 2019
The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. The specific case of countries located in the southern periphery region has come to the centre stage, due to the harsh economic conditions that all these...
Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness: Theoretical issues and empirical evidences
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Capone
December 12, 2019
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing.This book investigates ...