Urban Regional category: 846 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional...
Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness
Theory, Policy, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means, how it might be achieved, whether and how it can be measured,...
Success Factors of Regional Strategies for Multinational Corporations
Appropriate Degrees of Management Autonomy and Product Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This work examines the factors that drive the success of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in their pursuit of regional strategies. The author develops a comprehensive regional success factor model, by which the effects of regional management autonomy and regional product and service adaptation on...
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1
Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
This book examines emerging hypotheses, new methods and theoretic developments in regional economic development. It offers a diverse set of case studies, ranging from a focus on Europe, Central and East Asia and North America.
Spatial Economic Modelling of Megathrust Earthquake in Japan
Impacts, Reconstruction, and Regional Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This book presents an evaluation of the impacts of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis on regional economies and subsequent reconstruction, as well as regional revitalization by the spatial economic model and dynamic macro and regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The cases examined...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
Rural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards. The regional land use and the evolvement of landscapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers like infrastructural,...
Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development
Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation and leisure activities)...
Boomburbs
The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "cities" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people...
Old Industrial Cities Seeking New Road of Industrialization
Models of Revitalizing Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies. Over the years, China's “economic miracle” has been mainly attributed to rapid development in its coastal region, where the majority of research into the country's development has originated...
by John Yinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for...
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2
Methodological Advances, Regional Systems Modeling and Open Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This is the second volume in a two-part series on frontiers in regional research. It identifies methodological advances as well as trends and future developments in regional systems modelling and open science. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Randstad Holland is the urbanized western part of the Netherlands. It contains the four largest cities of the country: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. The name Randstad (rim city) refers to the distinctive shape of the conurbation, a horseshoe of cities around an open agricultural and...
by Hak Choi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
You have probably heard of Ricardo’s rent theory, which is a perpendicular line. You may also have heard of the rent gradient function, which is a negative curve. So, which one is the correct rent theory? People may choose to live away from city center because of the lower rent, but why is city...