Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Governance and Leadership in Shrinking Cities: Strategies for Managing Urban Decline
1st Edition
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By Stanisław Mazur
December 18, 2024
The aim of this publication is to look in depth at depopulation - a trend that is affecting an increasing number of cities worldwide. It has recently become a critical issue with a range of detrimental social, economic, spatial, and financial consequences. However, attempts by central and local ...
Regional Development and Forgotten Spaces: Global Policy Experiences and Implications
1st Edition
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By María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, Bruno Blanco-Varela
December 18, 2024
This book constitutes a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. Forgotten Spaces - like the Forgotten Regions, in particular - are spaces that in potential can...
Homes at Work: Urban Informality and Recognition in Latin America and Africa
1st Edition
By María Carrizosa
November 28, 2024
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively understudied practice. But in informal settlements, the definition of "home" and "employment" is completely intertwined, which is why there is so much to learn from ...
The Rural to Urban Transition in Developing Countries: Urbanisation and Peri-Urban Land Markets
1st Edition
By Amrutha Mary Varkey
October 09, 2024
Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other, reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special ...
Urban Heritage in Europe: Economic and Social Revival
1st Edition
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By Gábor Sonkoly
October 09, 2024
Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously reinterpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city’s ...
Evolutionary Urban Development: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Sadowy
August 26, 2024
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes ...
Cities Learning from a Pandemic: Towards Preparedness
1st Edition
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By Simonetta Armondi, Alessandro Balducci, Martina Bovo, Beatrice Galimberti
May 27, 2024
COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting ...
Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development: A Meta-Organisational Approach
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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, ...