Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Untamed Urbanisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling
December 12, 2019
An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the ...
Urban Recycling Cooperatives: Building resilient communities
1st Edition
By Jutta Gutberlet
December 12, 2019
Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-term consequences. Inappropriate management of solid waste can lead to damaging environmental impacts, particularly in the megacities of the Global ...
Post-Metropolitan Territories: Looking for a New Urbanity
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandro Balducci, Valeria Fedeli, Francesco Curci
October 02, 2019
Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the shifting concepts of both the city and the metropolis. International literature highlights how what we have ...
The Political Economy of City Branding
1st Edition
By Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
October 25, 2018
Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms of capital, entrepreneurship, information, expertise and consumption. This competition takes place in an asymmetric ...
Airports, Cities and Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Conventz, Alain Thierstein
October 18, 2018
Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation linkages. In recent years, Airports worldwide have stepped beyond the stage of being pure infrastructure facilities while the complex dynamics that are ...
Quality of Life in Cities: Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandra Michelangeli
October 18, 2018
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers...
Rural and Regional Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Hogan, Michelle Young
October 18, 2018
Agriculture, mining and related rural industries have been central to the development of Australia’s economy. This book details the role that the Australian Government has played in the making of rural and regional Australia, particularly since World War II. The book reviews these policies and ...
Regional Development in Australia: Being regional
1st Edition
By Robyn Eversole
January 03, 2018
In Australia, regions are not just geographic locations, they are also cultural ideas. Being regional means being located outside the nation’s capital cities and in the periphery of its centres of power and influence. Regional development in Australia is thus significantly different than ...
Broadband Telecommunications and Regional Development
1st Edition
By Tony H. Grubesic, Elizabeth A. Mack
December 18, 2017
Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of broadband pricing and speed relevant in this context, but the overall quality of service for broadband can often dictate ...
Territorial Patterns of Innovation: An Inquiry on the Knowledge Economy in European Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta Capello, Camilla Lenzi
June 23, 2015
This edited volume describes the spatial diffusion of knowledge and innovation using a large dataset at the regional level, and presents scientific evidence on the role of knowledge and innovation on regional development. The empirical results support a new design for innovation policies at the ...