Urban Regional category: 846 books
National Transport Models
Recent Developments and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
National and European transport models become increasingly important. The broadening of national transport policy from strategic infrastructure investments to infrastructure management strengthens the need for advanced and more policy sensitive tools of analysis. The increase of interregional and...
by Yoichi Kawamoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed...
Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science
Essays in Honor of Yoshiro Higano
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prof. Higano’s research strongly focuses on...
Advances in Local Public Economics
Theoretical and Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2019
This book introduces recent developments in both theoretical and empirical analyses of local public economics. Theories of those economics as well as empirical analyses have been developed dramatically in various directions in recent years.
One direction has been to reflect real economic circumstances,...
Remaking Regional Economies
Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged as an organizing concept for interpretations...
Routledge Revivals: Localities (1989)
The Changing Face of Urban Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘industrial...
Inter-Regional Place Branding
Best Practices, Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book examines and clarifies key aspects of regional branding with the special focus of inter-regional brands. Today regions are in strong competition for companies, tourists and most of all talent. In order to differentiate one region from another, regional developers, politicians and planners...
Creative Industry Districts
An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently...
by F.W. Porrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Most of the research incorporated in this monograph was initially undertaken as part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University. The research was funded through a Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing...
by The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen coherence and consensus within and across cities in understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage...
The Dilemma of Regional Policy
Increasing ‘Efficiency’ or Improving ‘Equity’?
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Applying the principles of Optimal Control Theory to the problem of regional allocation of investment can be a useful tool for demonstrating how the trade-off between regional equity and overall efficiency can be overcome. This book poses the following questions: are spatial inequalities harmful for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last few years research on regional development has increased dramatically. Real-world concerns have - to a certain extent - driven this scientific concern of interest. The field has been given a big boost in particular by the process of European integration and the attempt to understand how...
Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations
Behind the Smokescreen of Official Mandates
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book re-evaluates the regional organizations landscape and discusses how organizations with similar mandates can exercise strikingly different goals. Even economic organizations, which do not produce any outcomes in terms of economic cooperation, can be valuable for their members or individual...