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Cover The City and Quality of Life
The City and Quality of Life
Peter K. Kresl
This unique and insightful work examines the importance of ‘quality of life’ for the city which has become a key component of urban competitiveness over the past 30 years. It argues that having a high or low ‘quality of life’ will have important consequences for the vitality and status of any city. The book’s six substantive chapters explore this issue by each examining a distinct element that comprises ‘quality of life’, including the approach of economists to quality of life, links to urban competitiveness, the economy, urban amenities and attributes.
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Publication Date:
20 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880115
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Economics 2021
Cover Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Editor: Peter K. Kresl
This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, this book discusses and analyzes the issues that different cities face, such as social cohesion, tolerance and cultural diversity, and how this will determine their developmental trajectories through the coming decade. Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City will be an invaluable read for scholars and professors in urban economics and urban studies more broadly, particularly those who are focusing on the importance of sustainability in both areas
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20 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839107481
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Economics 2020
Cover Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Learning from the Margins
Editors: Manuel González-López and Bjørn T. Asheim
Offering a novel contribution within the growing field of regional innovation policies, this book combines recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, with a particular focus on non-core regions. Leading academics in the field discuss the topics of regional path transformation, place-based strategies and policy learning. Also included are sections on the role of EU institutions on the promotion of regional innovation and the analysis and comparison of the innovation policies experiences of four non-core European regions.
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01 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789904161
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories
Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories
Revised and Extended Second Edition
Editors: Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp
Regional economics – an established discipline for several decades – has undergone a period of rapid change in the last ten years resulting in the emergence of several new perspectives. At the same time the methodology of regional economics has also experienced some surprising developments. This fully revised and updated Handbook brings together contributions looking at new pathways in regional economics, written by many well-known international scholars. The aim is to present the most cutting-edge theories explaining regional growth and local development. The authors highlight the recent advances in theories, the normative potentialities of these theories and the cross-fertilization of ideas between regional and mainstream economists. It will be an essential source of reference and information for both scholars and students in the field.
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Handbook
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26 Jul 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970020
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Economics 2019
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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31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118958
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Economics 2019
Cover Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development
Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development
Finance, Stakeholder Alignment, Governance
Editors: Raymond E. Levitt, W. R. Scott, and Michael J. Garvin
Large infrastructure projects often face significant cost overruns and stakeholder fragmentation. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) allow governments to procure long-term infrastructure services from private providers, rather than developing, financing, and managing infrastructure assets themselves. Aligning public and private interests and institutional logics for decades-long service contracts subject to shifting economic and political contexts creates significant governance challenges. We integrate multiple theoretical perspectives with empirical evidence to examine how experiences from more mature PPP jurisdictions can help improve PPP governance approaches worldwide.
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Monograph Book
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26 Apr 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973182
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Social and Political Science 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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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Mar 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117456
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Resilience and Urban Disasters
Resilience and Urban Disasters
Surviving Cities
Editors: Kamila Borsekova and Peter Nijkamp
This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas. In particular, the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters are explored.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
25 Jan 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788970105
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Economics 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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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Dec 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785360299
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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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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 Aug 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116435
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Social and Political Science 2018