Urban Regional category: 846 books
Modelling with the Master Equation
Solution Methods and Applications in Social and Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book presents the theory and practical applications of the Master equation approach, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of disciplines. The aim of the book is to not only highlight different mathematical solution methods, but also reveal their potential...
Creative Communities
Art Works in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume looks at the temporal and volatile ways in which Frankfurt and Tel Aviv engage the global economy and function as nodes within global networks. Drawing on a combination of qualitative and quantitative empirical studies of leading sectors, it systematically analyzes the process of network...
Transformations in Hungary
Essays in Economy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the first decade after the turn towards democracy and market economy, Hungary's society experienced profound changes. The book analyses related political, legal, institutional and socio-economic structures and processes in order to contribute to a further understanding of Hungary's ongoing...
Vital Little Plans
The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist
No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global...
Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities
Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
While global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities examines such ambitions...
Cities Are Good for You
The Genius of the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark.
Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities...
The Public Wealth of Cities
How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities
Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Modern spatial-economic systems exhibit a high degree of dynamics as a result of technological progress, demographic evolution or global change. In the past decade, an avalanche of new regional economic growth and innovation models has been put forward. This volume contains a unique collection of...
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
The Evolution of Great World Cities
Urban Wealth and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading centres....
Small Business and the City
The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The book aims to present “traditional features” of regional science (as geographical concepts and institutions), as well as relatively new topics such as innovation and agglomeration economies. In particular it demonstrates that, contrary to what has been argued by recent economics literature,...
Knowledge Spillovers in Regional Innovation Systems
A Case Study of CEE Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book provides an assessment of the evolution and dynamics of regional innovation systems (RISs) and the economic and social impact of resulting knowledge spillovers, presenting comparative case studies on the regions of several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic, Poland,...