Land use problems and conflicts

causes, consequences and solutions

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens ...

Sustainable urban development

.Vol.1: The framework and protocols for environmental assessment

Sustainable Urban Developments examines the models of sustainable development and sets out the framework for analysing urban development and the sustainability issues this gives rise to. It examines the protocols (planning, property development, design, construction and operational activities) developed to address the issues and provides ...

Intellectual capital for communities

nations, regions, and cities

In the knowledge economy, the value of corporations is directly related to their knowledge and intellectual capital. But broaden the perspective a little wider and you begin to see the possibilities: Think of cities, regions, even entire nations, in addition to the public sector. If ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

Globalization and urban development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities ...

Economic development finance

Economic Development Finance is a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of private, public, and community financial institutions, policies and methods for financing local and regional economic development projects. The treatment of policies and program models emphasizes their applications and impact, key design and management issues, and ...

Governing sustainable cities

Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world and the EU is currently finalizing its Urban Thematic Strategy, which will guide European urban environmental policy for the next decade. Based on three years of field research in 40 European cities, this ...

Economic geographies

ciruits, flows and spaces

How do we conceptualise the production and re-production of social life? What are the most appropriate ways to conceptualise capitalist economies and their geographies? Economic Geographies integrates ideas of structure, agency, and practice to provide: · a detailed overview of recent key debates in economic geography ...

Communities and communication

building urban partnerships

This book compares three great cities of the South, Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro, to explore how local government interacts with the communities of the cities, and to discover how communication can lead to partnership. The authors explore what partnership means, arguing that it ...

Beyond metropolis

the planning and bovernance of Asia's mega-urban region

Beyond Metropolis studies planning and governance in the regions surrounding the twelve cities in Asia with populations over ten million: Tokyo, Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Delhi, Shanghai, Jakarta, Osaka, Beijing, Karachi, Metro Manila, and Seoul. These regions are greater than cities plus suburbs: for almost all ...

regional disparities in small countries

Regional Disparities in Small Countries Series: Advances in Spatial Science Felsenstein, Daniel; Portnov, Boris A. (Eds.) 2005, VI, 333 p. 61 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-24303-8 Ready for shipping within 3 days. 79,95 # About this book

Spillovers and innovations

space, environment, and the economy

Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial structures and environmental factors? The papers analyse innovation processes and spillovers in the economy from various angles, focussing mainly on regional and environmental aspects. Among others ...

Spatial economics

#Masahisa Fujita is undoubtedly the leading scholar in spatial economics. Being the (co-) author of the two main books in urban economics and economics of geography, he was especially well qualified to edit this collection of readings in that field. Anyone who wishes to get ...

Economía urbana

¿Por qué existe la ciudad? ¿Cómo se organizan las actividades productivas y residenciales en su interior?¿Sobre qué elementos se basa la sostenibilidad del desarrollo urbano? Estas son algunas de las cuestiones a las que responde este libro, indispensable para todo aquel que esté interesado ...

Culture, institutions and economic development

a study of eight European regions

Regions are increasingly recognised as a key aspect of economic change in Europe, not merely as geographic spaces but also as social systems. Their history, culture, institutions and patterns of leadership mould the way in which they adapt to European and global competitive challenges. This ...

Economic geography and public policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However ...

Innovation policy in a knowledge-based economy

theory and practice

The main underlining conviction, throughout the book, is the importance of dynamical and systemic approaches to innovation policies. The first part of the book provides the theoretical background for the subsequent more empirical contributions. In the second part, a series of three papers analyse each ...

Location and competition

aLocating economic concentration / Jeroen Hinloopen and Charles van Marrewijk -- Transport costs, location and the economy / Jan Osterhaven and Piet Rietveld -- Agglomerations in equilibrium? / Jan G. Lambooy and Frank G. van Oort -- Policy competition in theory and practice / Ruud A. Mooij, Joeri Gorter and Richard Nahuis ...

La oruga y la mariposa

un caso ejemplar de desarrollo en la Italia de los Distritos Industriales Prato (1954-1993)

Inspirándose en la figura de Alfred Marshall, el profesor Giacomo Becattini tiene el mérito de haber planteado un enfoque alternativo a la forma convencional de analizar los hechos económicos, de gran impacto internacional. Una perspectiva en clave no ya sectorial sino espacial, asociada al concepto ...

La confusión del urbanismo

ciudad pública VS. ciudad doméstica

En el libro se recupera la terminología que F. Chueca Goitia aplicó para designar las dos maneras de ver y entender la ciudad en el mundo occidental, a saber: "ciudad pública" y "ciudad doméstica". Conceptualmente corresponden a las nociones de "ciudad" y "asentamiento humano". El ...