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Cover Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, and John Tomaney
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national ‘rebalancing’ efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118958
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Economics 2019
Cover Cities and Regions in Crisis
Cities and Regions in Crisis
The Political Economy of Sub-National Economic Development
Martin Jones
This book offers a new geographical political economy approach to our understanding of regional and local economic development in Western Europe over the last twenty years. It suggests that governance failure is occurring at a variety of spatial scales and an ‘impedimenta state’ is emerging. This is derived from the state responding to state intervention and economic development that has become irrational, ambivalent and disoriented. The book blends theoretical approaches to crisis and contradiction theory with empirical examples from cities and regions.
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29 Mar 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117456
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
Reading City-Regions
Editors: John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, and Rachel Mulhall
This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas for reading city-regions, including: trade, services and people, regional differentiation, big data, global production networks, governance and policy, and regional development. The book focuses on developing a more integrated and systematic approach to reading city-regions as part of regeneration economics, identifying conceptual and methodological developments in this field of study.
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Publication Date:
28 Dec 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785360299
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Economics 2018
Cover Global City Makers
Global City Makers
Economic Actors and Practices in the World City Network
Editors: Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter, and Allan Watson
Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research. Focusing on financial services, management consultancy, real estate, commodity trading and maritime industries, the detailed studies in this volume are located across the globe to incorporate major world cities such as London, New York and Tokyo as well as globalizing cities including Mexico City, Hamburg and Mumbai.
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Publication Date:
28 Sep 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785368950
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Economics 2018
Cover Varieties of Capital Cities
Varieties of Capital Cities
The Competitiveness Challenge for Secondary Capitals
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.
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31 Aug 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116435
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Cities and Sustainable Technology Transitions
Cities and Sustainable Technology Transitions
Leadership, Innovation and Adoption
Editors: Marina van Geenhuizen, J. Adam Holbrook, and Mozhdeh Taheri
This enlightening book elucidates the leadership challenges of various cities in emerging transitions towards higher levels of sustainability. It examines elements of three socio-technical systems, energy, transport and healthcare, while addressing technology invention, commercialization, mass-production and adoption. The book breaks new ground in the analysis of topical issues such as local ‘cradle’ conditions, incentive schemes, niche-development, living labs, impact bonds, grass-roots intermediation and adaptive policy making. It offers a broad coverage of global systems of cities, with a particular focus on Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, China, Korea, Japan, the US and Canada.
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29 Jun 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476770
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Economics 2018
Cover How Great Cities Happen
How Great Cities Happen
Integrating People, Land Use and Transport
John Stanley, Janet Stanley, and Roslynne Hansen
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than how it functions as a place to live and visit. How Great Cities Happen addresses this challenge by developing a wider, all-encompassing agenda for more productive, inclusive and sustainable cities.
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Publication Date:
24 Feb 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718398
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development
Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development
Rethinking Innovative Milieus
Editors: Leïla Kebir, Olivier Crevoisier, Pedro Costa, and Véronique Peyrache-Gadeau
This book questions the way contemporary innovation processes develop and become embedded in territories. It analyses recent developments in territorial systems of production, networks of innovation and innovative milieus, with regard to the issue of sustainable development. Drawing on 12 case studies aimed at fostering sustainable development and conducted by an experienced team of international scholars, a new conceptual approach to sustainable innovation is proposed. More broadly, it also reassesses the development models proposed in the 1980s that emerged in the context of globalization, competitiveness and technological innovation.
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Publication Date:
27 Jan 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784712211
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth
Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth
Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture
Nils Wåhlin, Maria Kapsali, Malin H. Näsholm, and Tomas Blomquist
Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful book outlines potential avenues through which culture and creativity can raise the imaginative capability of citizens and harness opportunities tied to what the book calls ‘culture-driven growth’.
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Publication Date:
28 Oct 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783479382
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Business 2016
Cover Understanding China's Urbanization
Understanding China's Urbanization
The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, and Min Zhao
China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China’s urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial, economic and social aspects of China’s urban transformation.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 Mar 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474745
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Social and Political Science 2016