Regional / International studies Books

Book SynopsisHollywood has a long association with scandal - with covering it up, with managing its effects, and, in some cases, with creating and directing it. This text considers some of the famous transgressions that shocked Hollywood and its audiences during the last century.

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term. Trade Review"Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City presents a theoretically-guided framing of the city as a site of cosmopolitan intersections from the nineteenth century to the present and is a significant contribution to the field." -- Erdag Göknar * author of Nomadologies *"Are ‘global cities’ an antidote to populism and nationalism? Istanbul offers some hope" by Nora Fisher Onar * Washington Post *"An interesting and thoroughly researched edited volume about Istanbul." * Middle East Journal *"This book offers an interesting and somewhat offbeat look at Istanbul with the desire to combine diverse approaches to history and anthropology....The book also shifts the gaze to the urban and architectural transformation of Istanbul on which there has been a plethora of academic research. Instead, it emphasizes the perception and use of space by different people and communities, and this may be one of the great strengths of this book." * Émulations –Revue de sciences sociales *

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Book SynopsisThe variety of people who lived in America prior to Western migration possessed an equal variety of faith practices and beliefs. This work is about how those beliefs began, how they changed due to the influence of outside forces, and how Native Americans today are working to preserve their faiths.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPortugal : ideas of empire and nationhood -- Brazilian national identity : intellectual debates and changing cultural realities -- Subjectivities and homoerotic desire in contemporary Brazilian fiction : the nation of Caio Fernando Abreu -- Women's difference in contemporary Portuguese fiction : the case of Maria Isabel Barreno -- Worlds in transition and utopias of otherness.

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Book SynopsisThis collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together criticism on some important playwrights of the 20th century, including Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman, as well as less studied writers such as Naomi Wallace.Trade ReviewOn issues of originality and significance, I am not aware that this collection has a rival in the market-place. - Milly Barranger, author of Southern Playwrights: A Perspective on Women Writers

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Book Synopsis“All my work fits in my mouth,” Jo Carson says. “I write performance material no matter what else the pieces get called, and whether they are for my voice or other characters’ voices … they are first to be spoken aloud.”Trade Review“Jo Carson is one of the nation’s premier playwrights and storytellers. Her roots as a writer reach back to the American traditional narrative styles, and her dramatic works drawn from American frontier history are brilliant in their originality.”“Jo Carson is one of Appalachia’s most gifted and original playwrights.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“Carson deftly leads the Teller Tales audience through the thicket, occasionally and suddenly bringing us out into a linguistic clearing before plunging us back into the laurel. This narrative inventiveness makes reading Teller Tales an exhilarating experience.” * Appalachian Journal *“This work is not a standard history text. Instead, it is an engaging, almost poetic, pair of narratives that relate historic events told as though the reader is a guest at a kitchen table. Perfect as an easy supplemental read for high school or college history classes, or for any history buff.”

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Book SynopsisNegotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.Trade Review“Abrams Locklear honors the complexity of Appalachian identity by presenting a comprehensive and suitably multi-dimensional look at what it means to be a literate Appalachian woman….” * Studies in American Culture *“An important and revealing portrayal of Appalachian women that works to challenge stereotypes, (Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment) raises questions about the difficulties of negotiating multiple literacies.” * Journal of American Culture *“Informed by literacy theory, Locklear’s analysis is further enhanced by her interviews with DeRosier and Smith, which she includes in this volume. This is a thoughtful contribution to Ohio University Press’s ‘Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia.’’ * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *“Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment is the best study we have to date of the ways in which becoming literate is always a way of becoming a new kind of person. In the process, there is always gain and loss. As people change who they are, they come to see who they were differently. This dilemma is general, but is rendered moving, visible, and real in this striking book.”“In Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment, Erica Abrams Locklear carefully explores what happens when a modern, monolithic, metropolitan literacy is imposed upon residents of the Appalachian South. With great insight, she shows that such literacy, offered as a gift to presumed illiterates, in fact threatens lettered ways of knowing and being that are well adapted to the region’s traditional social arrangements. Understanding in particular how women writers respond to this threat—which for them is also sometimes an opportunity—adds much to what we know about the complex legacies of literacy.” * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *“From many perspectives, Erica Abrams Locklear explores the cultural, social, and psychological complexities of literacy with clarity and compassion: an absorbing and enlightening study.”

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Book SynopsisAppalachia in the Classroom presents topics and teaching strategies for a twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia that reflect the diversity found within the region. It offers a critical resource and a model for engaging place in various disciplines and at several different levels in a thoughtful and inspiring way.Trade Review“Designed to serve as a pedagogical tool for instructors at postsecondary institutions, this book provides how-to strategies for teaching the literature and culture of Appalachia to students who may or may not live in the area…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“This volume does many things well. Essays in this work serve as primers on Appalachian history, on folklore and the oral tradition, on ecocriticism, and on service-learning.”“The fourteen essays in this fine new collection remind us that ‘teaching the region’ can be about far more than understanding the history, circumstances, and cultural production of a particular set of counties in the eastern United States. … Its broadest value… may be as a meditation on the nature of teaching and learning, and in particular, the teaching of critical thinking and the subversion of unexamined notions of how the world is made.” * Journal of Appalachian Studies *“In this book, (Burriss and Gantt) have engaged some of the region’s foremost post-secondary teachers to share their best ideas for teaching about the region. For example, John C. Inscoe on teaching history, Erica Abrams Locklear and Jeff Mann on teaching literature, Ricky L. Cox on teaching the novel, and Grace Edwards on teaching poetry.” * Appalachian Heritage *Table of Contents* Dedication and Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part One: Creative Teaching of Appalachian History * One. Intro to Appalachian Studies: Navigating Myths of Appalachian Exceptionalism Emily Satterwhite * Two. Listening to Black Appalachian Laundrywomen: Teaching with Photographs, Letters, Diaries, and Lost Voices Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt * Three. The Southern Highlands according to Hollywood: Teaching Appalachian History through Film John C. Inscoe * Part Two: Appalachian Literature and Folktales in and out of the Classroom * Four. Building Bridges with Ron Rash's The World Made Straight: Results from One University and High School Partnership Erica Abrams Locklear * Five. The Feast Hall, the Arsenal, and the Mirror: Teaching Literature to Students at Risk Jeff Mann * Six. I Hear Appalachia Singing: Teaching Appalachian Literature in a General Education American Literature Course Linda Tate * Seven. "Way Back Yonder" but Not So Far Away: Teaching Appalachian Folktales Tina L. Hanlon * Part Three: The Novel in Appalachia * Eight. Teaching Modern Appalachia in Wilma Dykeman's The Far Family Patricia M. Gantt * Nine. Fred Chappell's I Am One of You Forever as a Subject for Literary Analysis and an Alternative Image of Mid-Twentieth-Century Appalachia Ricky L. Cox * Ten. Startling Morals: Teaching Ecofiction with Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer Felicia Mitchell * Part Four: Appalachian Poetry and Prose * Eleven. Appalachian Poetry: A Field Guide for Teachers R. Parks Lanier Jr. * Twelve. From Harlem Home to Affrilachia: Teaching the Literary Journey Theresa L. Burriss * Thirteen. Teaching the Poetry and Prose of Marilou Awiakta grace Toney Edwards * Fourteen. Toward "Crystal-Tight Arrays": Teaching the Evolving Art of Robert Morgan's Poetry Robert M. West * Contributors * Index

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Book SynopsisIn a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.Trade Review“Beautifully written, nostalgic, and indeed unique, this work will be welcomed by those who enjoy memoir or American regional history and by anyone interested in Appalachian culture.” * Library Journal *“A clear hallmark of memoir is allowing the reader to experience the author's moments of realization with her as it happens, but it requires a brave writer to share something so raw and unfiltered, and Childers does so without pause.” * Appalachian Heritage *“[Childers] weaves together complex characters, a culture shaped by faith and music, and vibrantly imagined settings to both capture and complicate an often misunderstood facet of Appalachian culture—fundamental Christianity.” * West Virginia Living *“Childers’s collection of carefully arranged family vignettes reveals a master storyteller sharing the tales of her yarn-spinning clan over the generations.” * “Around Cincinnati,” WVXU-NPR *“Nearly all of us have our own full share of childhood memories. But few of us are willing—or able—to dig as deep into our store of memories as does Sarah Beth Childers in her impressive new memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth.” * Charleston Gazette *“A tightly connected collection of essays….” * ForeWord Reviews *“Shake Terribly the Earth announces a new, clear voice in Appalachian nonfiction, free of cant, free of even the rumor of a stereotype. Sarah Beth Childers’s family saga engages the griefs of the region in many ways—times have been difficult in her native West Virginia—but a thread of joyfulness, like light, winds through these essays, as stories accumulated by generations at last find voice in Childers’s telling. It is a pleasure, rare and true, to sit with this book and listen.”“The West Virginia childhood that Sarah Beth Childers gives us in Shake Terribly the Earth is hardscrabble, pietistic, and loving. Disability checks, pizza, and Mountain Dew along with the Holy Spirit inflect this clear-eyed and moving portrait of a young woman’s coming of age in one deep corner of the American Landscape.”“This is a book to rattle us awake and stir in our blood forgotten memories of family and faith, of fire and flood. Shake Terribly the Earth introduces us to a young writer mightily engaged with the world before her. There is wisdom in these pages. Music bellows from the words.”“Wonderfully rich and beautifully written … the collection is also self-aware and articulate about storytelling as an art and as a profoundly human means of creating meaning. Storytelling is furthermore a powerful folkway in Appalachian life, and one of the main themes of the book.… It is a deeply worthwhile and fascinating collection.“

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Book SynopsisIn a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.Trade Review“Beautifully written, nostalgic, and indeed unique, this work will be welcomed by those who enjoy memoir or American regional history and by anyone interested in Appalachian culture.” * Library Journal *“A clear hallmark of memoir is allowing the reader to experience the author's moments of realization with her as it happens, but it requires a brave writer to share something so raw and unfiltered, and Childers does so without pause.” * Appalachian Heritage *“[Childers] weaves together complex characters, a culture shaped by faith and music, and vibrantly imagined settings to both capture and complicate an often misunderstood facet of Appalachian culture—fundamental Christianity.” * West Virginia Living *“Childers’s collection of carefully arranged family vignettes reveals a master storyteller sharing the tales of her yarn-spinning clan over the generations.” * “Around Cincinnati,” WVXU-NPR *“Nearly all of us have our own full share of childhood memories. But few of us are willing—or able—to dig as deep into our store of memories as does Sarah Beth Childers in her impressive new memoir, Shake Terribly the Earth.” * Charleston Gazette *“A tightly connected collection of essays….” * ForeWord Reviews *“Shake Terribly the Earth announces a new, clear voice in Appalachian nonfiction, free of cant, free of even the rumor of a stereotype. Sarah Beth Childers’s family saga engages the griefs of the region in many ways—times have been difficult in her native West Virginia—but a thread of joyfulness, like light, winds through these essays, as stories accumulated by generations at last find voice in Childers’s telling. It is a pleasure, rare and true, to sit with this book and listen.”“The West Virginia childhood that Sarah Beth Childers gives us in Shake Terribly the Earth is hardscrabble, pietistic, and loving. Disability checks, pizza, and Mountain Dew along with the Holy Spirit inflect this clear-eyed and moving portrait of a young woman’s coming of age in one deep corner of the American Landscape.”“This is a book to rattle us awake and stir in our blood forgotten memories of family and faith, of fire and flood. Shake Terribly the Earth introduces us to a young writer mightily engaged with the world before her. There is wisdom in these pages. Music bellows from the words.”“Wonderfully rich and beautifully written … the collection is also self-aware and articulate about storytelling as an art and as a profoundly human means of creating meaning. Storytelling is furthermore a powerful folkway in Appalachian life, and one of the main themes of the book.… It is a deeply worthwhile and fascinating collection.“

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Book SynopsisEvery River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others.Trade Review“Everything I wrote fell flat and lifeless on the page until I finally began to set my fiction in southern Ohio. As I kept writing about it, I began to see the place in a new light, which is, I think, one of the chief things that art is supposed to do.”“Throughout [Carpathios’] poems and stories almost as much attention is paid to our land as to plot and character, from sycamore trees and foothills to the exploded hillsides lining our highways…They are intertwined and interdependent and, as this is writing from the Appalachian foothills, it simply could not be any other way.” * Middle West Review *“I read many compilations by and about Appalachians, but seldom have I read a collection so rooted in place as Every River on Earth. Edited skillfully by Neil Carpathios…this intriguing collection is divided into four parts that speak to the Appalachian experience as defined by southern Ohio.” * WVXU Cincinnati *

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Book SynopsisEvery River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others.Trade Review“Everything I wrote fell flat and lifeless on the page until I finally began to set my fiction in southern Ohio. As I kept writing about it, I began to see the place in a new light, which is, I think, one of the chief things that art is supposed to do.”“Throughout [Carpathios’] poems and stories almost as much attention is paid to our land as to plot and character, from sycamore trees and foothills to the exploded hillsides lining our highways…They are intertwined and interdependent and, as this is writing from the Appalachian foothills, it simply could not be any other way.” * Middle West Review *“I read many compilations by and about Appalachians, but seldom have I read a collection so rooted in place as Every River on Earth. Edited skillfully by Neil Carpathios…this intriguing collection is divided into four parts that speak to the Appalachian experience as defined by southern Ohio.” * WVXU Cincinnati *

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Book SynopsisBlue ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens—this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices.Trade Review“Nothing else besides food nourishes us as profoundly as stories. Here we have a celebration of both, presented in an original, beautiful, and delicious manner. This book fairly bursts with a bounty of words—and wonderful illustrations—that manage to articulate just why food is so important in the way it connects and sustains us. I didn’t realize how much Appalachian Literature needed a book like this until I sat down and devoured the whole thing.““Appalachian food is more than beans and corn bread, and this anthology explores its depth…. There are several takes on the food of immigrants, from Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland…. In all, (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) contains a diversity of voices, styles, and cuisines that will be a pleasant surprise to those unfamiliar with the region.” * Booklist *"Foodways have become such a fad, that it is tempting to respond to a new book on the subject with a ho-hum. NO! Not this book. It builds on the foundation that previous books have provided. It expands upon their reach. (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) features writers who are more diverse and well-versed, scholars who are more accomplished, story-tellers who are more proficient, and poets who are more gifted.” * Appalachian Mountain Books *“Everything we have been handed down, from cookbook to rosette wand, everything we receive, from egg roll to taco, everything we jones for, from red hot hotdogs to candies, becomes a piece of our history, a thread in the story leading to more story. Sitting at the Appalachian table we can taste the proof of a strong, lasting, surprisingly diverse, and infinitely textured history.”“Engelhardt and Smith bring together a diverse group of writers who deftly use foodways to tackle a number of important themes, from identity and power to placemaking and the meaning of ‘Appalachia.’ Working against lingering but misleading and politicized regional signifiers, this riveting and readable book offers a fresh perspective on Appalachia, using foodways as a lens.”“In The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell, Engelhardt and Smith offer an important and informed antidote to Hillbilly Elegy. The contributors handily debunk commonly held narratives and stereotypes, offering a well-rounded, balanced, and insightful look into Appalachia’s peoples and their foodways.”“This book is a creative and challenging anthology about food and Appalachia. I don’t know anything else like it. It both pokes fun at nostalgia but also absorbs it. It doesn’t bow to so-called foodies but is most definitely focused on the power of food to mediate memory, place, social stratification, pleasure, and resistance.”“This is how I want to understand a place, and particularly a place so resistant to definition (and pronunciation) as the diverse and complex region studied here. Pick the most interesting, compelling, and irreverent voices of the region’s best contemporary writers and thinkers, and say, ‘Food. Here. NOW. Tell us of your Appalachia—its flavor, joys and sorrows, inequalities, dialects, the shape of IT, heritage, work, soil, movement, and always, always, change.’ And, there you have it: a tremendously dynamic collection representing food studies as the engaging and enlightening scholarship it can be.”

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Book SynopsisBlue ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens—this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices.Trade Review“Nothing else besides food nourishes us as profoundly as stories. Here we have a celebration of both, presented in an original, beautiful, and delicious manner. This book fairly bursts with a bounty of words—and wonderful illustrations—that manage to articulate just why food is so important in the way it connects and sustains us. I didn’t realize how much Appalachian Literature needed a book like this until I sat down and devoured the whole thing.““Appalachian food is more than beans and corn bread, and this anthology explores its depth…. There are several takes on the food of immigrants, from Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland…. In all, (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) contains a diversity of voices, styles, and cuisines that will be a pleasant surprise to those unfamiliar with the region.” * Booklist *"Foodways have become such a fad, that it is tempting to respond to a new book on the subject with a ho-hum. NO! Not this book. It builds on the foundation that previous books have provided. It expands upon their reach. (The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell) features writers who are more diverse and well-versed, scholars who are more accomplished, story-tellers who are more proficient, and poets who are more gifted.” * Appalachian Mountain Books *“Everything we have been handed down, from cookbook to rosette wand, everything we receive, from egg roll to taco, everything we jones for, from red hot hotdogs to candies, becomes a piece of our history, a thread in the story leading to more story. Sitting at the Appalachian table we can taste the proof of a strong, lasting, surprisingly diverse, and infinitely textured history.”“Engelhardt and Smith bring together a diverse group of writers who deftly use foodways to tackle a number of important themes, from identity and power to placemaking and the meaning of ‘Appalachia.’ Working against lingering but misleading and politicized regional signifiers, this riveting and readable book offers a fresh perspective on Appalachia, using foodways as a lens.”“In The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell, Engelhardt and Smith offer an important and informed antidote to Hillbilly Elegy. The contributors handily debunk commonly held narratives and stereotypes, offering a well-rounded, balanced, and insightful look into Appalachia’s peoples and their foodways.”“This book is a creative and challenging anthology about food and Appalachia. I don’t know anything else like it. It both pokes fun at nostalgia but also absorbs it. It doesn’t bow to so-called foodies but is most definitely focused on the power of food to mediate memory, place, social stratification, pleasure, and resistance.”“This is how I want to understand a place, and particularly a place so resistant to definition (and pronunciation) as the diverse and complex region studied here. Pick the most interesting, compelling, and irreverent voices of the region’s best contemporary writers and thinkers, and say, ‘Food. Here. NOW. Tell us of your Appalachia—its flavor, joys and sorrows, inequalities, dialects, the shape of IT, heritage, work, soil, movement, and always, always, change.’ And, there you have it: a tremendously dynamic collection representing food studies as the engaging and enlightening scholarship it can be.”

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Book SynopsisCuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more.

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Book SynopsisMurder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia’s New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed “Murder, Inc.” Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular.Trade Review"Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York is a keen account of organized crime during the first half of the twentieth century. Most significant is the book's integral, cogent analysis of the unfortunate marriage of criminality, in all of its diversity, and the general population's fascination with it. A must-read for anyone interested in the complex story of gangsterism in the United States!" -- -Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute "In Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life, Robert Weldon Whalen connects the real gangsters to the 'reel' gangsters and the forces that shaped and fought them. He explores our fascination with the gangster figure through the moral and ethical questions that helped to shape American culture for the past one hundred years. With sound research, good clear writing, and a critical sense of history, Whalen adds new dimensions to the study of this truly unique American archetype of crime and masculinity." -- -Fred Gardaphe Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies, Queens College/CUNY and author of From Wiseguys to Wise MenTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii List of Illustrations ix List of Characters xi Prologue: Naked City 1 1 Reel Gangsters—Mobsters and the Movies 13 2 Real Gangsters: Abe Reles and the Origins of Murder, Inc. 31 3 Gangster City 54 4 Fiorello La Guardia and the Cinema of Redemption 75 5 Gangbuster: Thomas Dewey and Imperfect Justice 97 6 Murder, Inc.: “I Got Used to It” 126 7 A Theater of Ethics: Mr. Arsenic and the Murder, Inc., Trials 157 8 Ethics of Ambiguity: The Canary Could Sing but Couldn’t Fly 185 Epilogue: “That Dangerous and Sad City of the Imagination” 209 Acknowledgments 217 Notes 219 Bibliography 253 Index 259

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed is a remarkable telling of an important story. It's a provocative narrative of tenacity, community activism, politics, perseverance, contentious decision making, and strategic solutions. For anyone interested in urban planning, this book is a must-read. Ultimately, Witty and Krogius remind us that the public triumph of a beautiful park is well worth a good fight!" -- -Deborah Schwartz president of the Brooklyn Historical Society "As a former parks commissioner, it is amazing to me that a spectacular new waterfront park built at great public expense could be as controversial as Brooklyn Bridge Park. This excellent book details how complicated and difficult it was to conceive, design, finance, and build the park and chronicles the dedication and ingenuity of the many who made it happen." -- -Betsy Gotbaum former commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and New York City Public Advocate (2002-2009) "Only in Brooklyn! A tired waterfront becomes a great park and welcomes the world to New York's hippest borough. This fine book tells the inside story of how it happened, of how government works in the real world, of how citizen-actors and political pros produced an urban masterpiece." -- -Marty Markowitz former Brooklyn Borough president and twenty-three-year member of the New York State Senate "Brooklyn Bridge Park recounts the long-running saga of high-stakes competition over the fate of a spectacular piece of waterfront real estate. This fascinating account describes all the challenges and reveals the fascinating combination of politics and process, 'pluck and luck,' behind the result. The 'Grand Bargain' that made the park possible is a grand story." -- -Ellen Schall Senior Presidential Fellow at New York University and Martin Cherkasky Professor of Health Policy and Management at NYU Wagner "More than a simple history of the park, this book digs beneath the surface to explore why and how this environmental masterpiece came to be." -Brooklyn Daily EagleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Stage 2. All Hell Breaks Lose a. Sidebar: Early Park Seed 3. The Manheim Years 4. A New Game: Origins of the Local Development Corporation 5. Strange Bedfellows 6. Recruiting the Team 7. Public Planning 8. Public Planning Continues 9. Money and Political Gamesmanship a. Sidebar: "Pier 4" 10. Breaking the Logjam 11. From Theoretical to Concrete 12. Housing "In the Park" 13. At Long Last, Shovels 14. Politics and Housing 15. The Park Begins to Materialize 16. Deep Differences Over a Nineteenth Century Relic 17. An Ill Wind Blows Good and Bad 18. The Growing Experience 19. Learning from the Site 20. Housing and Politics, Continued 21. Parks, Parks, Parks 22. Reflections on Brooklyn Bridge Park

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Book SynopsisCountering a Northern focus in much Atlantic World scholarship, this volume brings together new scholarship in comparative literary studies, cultural studies and history which explores the South Atlantic as a region, or the way the Atlantic more widely has been viewed from the Global South.Trade Review"The Global South Atlantic is a critically important contribution to current debates and discussions toward remapping the cultural and political geographies of global literary and media production. Specifically, one could mention the changed and changing valences of terms like 'Third World,' the waning disciplinary and curricular influence of 'postcolonial,' and the disputations around questions of globalization, the undecidabilty of the parameters of the 'global South' and the continuing impact of Paul Gilroy's idea of the 'black Atlantic.' ... The argument that underwrites the project of the 'global South Atlantic' is at once incisive in its recapitulation of recent intellectual history and even prescient in its anticipation of new directions in area/cultural/regional/international studies across myriad disciplines of the humanities and social sciences." -- -Barbara Harlow University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction “The Sea of International Politics”: Fluidity, Solvency, and Drift in the Global South Atlantic Joseph R. Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom Part I: South Atlantic Imperial Geographies Chapter One The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic Luiz Felipe de Alencastro Chapter Two A World Girded: San Simonian Space and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Latin Transatlantic Jaime Hanneken Chapter Three Scheherazade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature Jason Frydman Chapter Four Southern By Degrees: Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Sub-Antarctic World Isabel Hofmeyr Part II: South Atlantic Cold War Modernities Chapter Five Beyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South Anne-Garland Mahler Chapter Six South Africa, Chile and the Cold War: Reading the South Atlantic in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples Kerry Bystrom Chapter Seven Islands in Distress: Making Sense of the Malvinas/Falklands War Oscar Hemer Chapter Eight Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic: Gabriel García Marques and Elias Khoury Christina E. Civantos Chapter Nine Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator-Novel of the South Atlantic Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Part III: Global South Atlantic Futures Chapter Ten Postwar Politics in O Heroi and Kangamba Lanie Millar Chapter Eleven Adrift between Neo-liberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeida’s Eva Luís Madureira Chapter Twelve A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror: Rita Indiana Hernandez Writes the Dominican Republic into the Global South Atlantic Maja Horn Chapter Thirteen Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela Waïl Hassan Bibliography Author’s Bios

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Book SynopsisPacific Islander Americans constitute one of the United States' least understood ethnic groups and are given many stereotypes. This work brings together the individual and community histories of Pacific Islands peoples in the US.

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Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of aspects surrounding economic integration in East Asia, this well-researched text will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of development studies, regional economics and Asian studies. It will be of particular value to those on courses concerned with economic and regional integration.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai PART I: FACTS AND THEORIES 1. A History of De Facto Economic Integration in East Asia Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai 2. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (1): Industrial Agglomeration and Concentrated Dispersion Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa 3. Analytical Framework for East Asian Integration (2): Evolution of Industrial Location and Regional Disparity Koji Nishikimi and Ikuo Kuroiwa PART II: INTEGRATION (1): PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND INNOVATION 4. International Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia Mitsuyo Ando 5. Theories on FDI and the Behavior of MNEs in East Asia Ho Yeon Kim and Toshitaka Gokan 6. Productivity, R&D, and Intellectual Property Rights in East Asia and India Kensuke Kubo PART III: INTEGRAION (2): AGRICULTURE, SERVICES, LABOR, AND MONEY 7. Agricultural Issues Related to East Asia’s Economic Integration Masayoshi Honma 8. Services Trade and Investment Liberalization Christopher Findlay 9. Economic Integration and International Migration in East Asia Tomohiro Machikita 10. Monetary Integration in East Asia Eiji Ogawa and Kentaro Kawasaki PART IV: DRIVERS OF INTEGRATION 11. Institutional Building for Economic Integration in East Asia: A Brief History Jiro Okamoto 12. Institutions and Policy Coordination for Further Integration Daisuke Hiratsuka 13. Economic Integration and the Expansion of Trade and Transport Networks Ikumo Isono 14. Infrastructure Connectivity for East Asia’s Economic Integration Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay PART V: COHESION AND SUSTAINABILITY 15. Economic Integration and Regional Disparities in East Asia Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Wei Zhao 16. Economic Integration and Poverty Hosaki Kono 17. Energy Bottlenecks and Cooperation Nobuhiro Horii 18. Trade and the Environment Michikazu Kojima and Etsuyo Michida 19. New Challenges and Directions for East Asian Integration Masahisa Fujita, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Satoru Kumagai Index

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Book SynopsisToday, economic growth is widely understood to be conditioned by productivity increases which are, in turn, profoundly affected by innovation. This volume explores these key relationships between innovation and growth, bringing together experts from both fields to compile a unique Handbook.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to the Handbook of Regional Innovation and Growth Philip Cooke, Bjørn Asheim, Ron Boschma, Ron Martin, Dafna Schwartz and Franz Tödtling PART I: REGIONAL INNOVATION THEORY Introduction Bjørn Asheim and Dafna Schwartz 2. Schumpeter and Regional Innovation Esben Sloth Andersen 3. Neo-Schumpeterian Perspectives on Innovation and Growth David Wolfe 4. Regional Agglomeration and Growth: The Classical Approach Eirik Vatne 5. Innovation, Product Life Cycle and Diffusion: Vernon and Beyond Gunther Tichy 6. Perspectives on Mature Marshallian Industrial Districts Marco Bellandi 7. The New Marshallian Districts and their Process of Internationalization Fiorenza Belussi PART II: REGIONAL INNOVATION AND GROWTH DYNAMICS Introduction Philip Cooke, Franz Tödtling and Dafna Schwartz 8. Innovation and Productivity: Local Competitiveness and the Role of Space Roberta Capello 9. Human Capital and Labour Mobility Determinants of Regional Innovation Daniel Felsenstein 10. The Geography of Knowledge Flows Stefano Breschi 11. Regional Innovation and Diversity Simona Iammarino 12. Networks of Innovation Elisa Giuliani 13. From Regional Anchors to Anchoring Lisa De Propris and Olivier Crevoisier PART III: REGIONAL INNOVATION AND EVOLUTION Introduction Ron Boschma and Ron Martin 14. Technological Relatedness, Related Variety and Economic Geography Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken 15. Regional Economies as Path-Dependent Systems: Some Issues and Implications Ron Martin 16. Absorptive Capacity in a Regional Context Maria Abreu 17. Regional Knowledge Networks Michael Steiner 18. Regional Competitiveness: From Endowments to Externalities to Evolution Ron Martin 19. Regional Cultural Economy: Evolution and Innovation Al James PART IV: AGGLOMERATION AND INNOVATION Introduction Philip Cooke and Bjørn Asheim 20. Proximity and Innovation Christophe Carrincazeaux and Marie Coris 21. The Changing Form and Geography of Social Capital Stuart Rosenfeld 22. Cluster Evolution Arne Isaksen 23. Transversality and Regional Innovation Platforms Philip Cooke 24. Technology Clusters Edward Malecki PART V: REGIONAL WORLDS OF INNOVATION Introduction Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz 25. Worlds of Production: Conventions and the Microfoundations of Regional Economies Peter Sunley 26. Culture as a Source for Growth and Change: Some Evidences from Cultural Clusters in Andalusia Luciana Lazzeretti 27. Service Innovation Yuko Aoyama and Rory Horner 28. Regional Services Innovation Philip Cooke 29. Open Innovation and Regional Growth Peter Prud’homme van Reine 30. Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Innovation Philip Cooke and Dafna Schwartz 31. Innovation Systems in Emerging Economies: The Case of India Scott Ptak and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen 32. Green Innovation Philip Cooke PART VI: REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM INSTITUTIONS Introduction Dafna Schwartz and Franz Tödtling 33. Regional Innovation Systems Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl 34. Intermediaries in Regional Innovation Systems: Role and Challenges for Policy Claire Nauwelaers 35. Regional Entrepreneurship Niels Bosma, Veronique Schutjens and Erik Stam 36. Venture Capital in Regional Innovation and Growth Jesper Lindgaard Christensen 37. Regional Entrepreneurship Development: Promoting Spin-offs through Coaching and Mentoring Magnus Klofsten and Staffan Öberg 38. Regional Innovation and Incubation: The Technological Incubators Programme for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Daniel Shefer and Amnon Frenkel PART VII: REGIONAL INNOVATION POLICY Introduction Philip Cooke and Ron Boschma 39. Regional Innovation Governance Martin Heidenreich and Knut Koschatzky 40. Learning Regions James Simmie 41. Regional Innovation Platforms Vesa Harmaakorpi, Tomi Tura and Helinä Melkas 42. Regional Innovation Policy and Dramaturgy Philip Cooke 43. Design-Driven Regional Innovation Philip Cooke and Arne Eriksson 44. Regional Innovation Policy between Theory and Practice Arnoud Lagendijk Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides an overview and assessment of the state-of-the-art research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: GENERAL METHODS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL SCIENCE 1. Spatial Econometrics James Lesage 2. Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Analysis Johannes Bröcker 3. Factor Prices and Geographical Economics Steven Brakman and Charles van Marrewijk 4. Shift-Share and Its New Extension Kingsley E. Haynes and Jitendra Parajuli 5. Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems Paul A. Longley 6. Analysis of Spatial Concentration and Dispersion Giuseppe Arbia, Giuseppe Espa and Diego Giuliani 7. Simultaneous-equations Analysis in Regional Science and Economic Geography Timo Mitze and Andreas Stephan 8. Neural Networks: A Class of Flexible Non-linear Models for Regression and Classification Manfred M. Fischer 9. Social Accounting Analysis Demetrios Psaltopoulos and Dimitris Skuras PART II: METHODS AND APPROACHES OF REGIONAL ANALYSIS 10. Local Multiplier and Economic Base Analysis Per Thulin 11. Analysis of Regional Endogenous Growth Roberto Basile and Stefano Usai 12. Unity in Variety? Agglomeration Economics Beyond the Specialisation-Diversity Controversy Frank van Oort 13. Methods and Applications of Regional Innovation Systems Analysis Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen and Jerker Moodysson 14. Geographic Clustering in Evolutionary Economic Geography Koen Frenken and Ron Boschma 15. Methods of Analyzing the Relationship Between New Business Formation and Regional Development Michael Fritsch 16. Analysis of Local Social Capital Hans Westlund and Yuheng Li 17. Regional Social Network Analysis Maureen Kilkenny PART III: METHODS AND APPROACHES OF INTERREGIONAL ANALYSIS 18. Interregional Input-output Modeling: Spillover Effects, Feedback Loops and Intra-industry Trade Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Jan Oosterhaven 19. Empirical Studies in Geographical Economics Han-Hsin Chang, Charles Van Marrewijk and Marc Schramm 20. Accessibility and Market Potential Analysis Johan Klaesson, Johan P. Larsson and Therese Norman 21. The Impact of Private, Public and Human Capital on the US States Economies: Theory, Extensions and Evidence Sandy Dall'erba and Irving Llamosas-Rosas 22. Interregional Migration Analysis Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran and Mark Partridge 23. Applied Spatial Interaction Modelling in Economic Geography: An Example of the Use of Models for Public Sector Planning Mark Birkin, Hamzah Khawaldah, Martin Clarke and Graham Clarke PART IV: SPECIFIC ISSUES IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL SCIENCE 24. Regional Knowledge Production Function Analysis Attila Varga and Márton Horváth 25. Qualitative Methods in Regional Program Evaluation – an examination of the story-based approach Frank Vanclay 26. Using Social and Economic Impact Assessment to Guide Local Supplier Development Initiatives Ana Maria Esteves and Galina Ivanova 27. Analysing the Geography of High-impact Entrepreneurship Sierdjan Koster and Nikos Kapitsinis 28. Gender-specific Dynamics in Hours Worked: Exploring the Potential for Increasing Hours Worked in an Ageing Society Inge Noback, Lourens Broersma and Jouke van Dijk Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume will appeal to all students and researcher with an interest in understanding the techniques, method and application of the spatial dimension of social sciences.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Robert J. Stimson PART I: A SPATIALLY INTEGRATED SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH 1. A Spatially Integrated Approach to Social Science Research Robert J. Stimson 2. Critical Spatial Thinking Michael Goodchild, Donald G. Janelle and Karl Grossner 3. Time Space Convergence Donald G. Janelle PART II: SETTING UP YOUR RESEARCH 4. Approaches to Conducting Research Robert J. Stimson 5. The Literature Review: The Fundamental Element of a Research Project Kevin O’Connor PART III: DATA SOURCES, DATA COLLECTION AND INFORMATION GENERATION 6. Issues to do with Data Robert J. Stimson 7. Using Census Data: An Australian Example Graeme Hugo 8. Survey Research Methods Robert J. Stimson 9. Using Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences Mark Western 10. Qualitative Methods in Socio-spatial Research Philip O’Neill and Pauline McGuirk 11. How to Use Primary and Secondary Data Andrew Beer and Debbie Faulkner 12. Forecasting in Social Science Research: Imperatives and Pitfalls Tony Sorensen 13. Meta-Analysis of Previous Empirical Research Findings Jacques Poot PART IV: RESEARCH TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS 14. Classification for Visualizing Data: Integrating Multiple Attributes and Space for Choropleth Display Tung-Kai Shyy, Imran Azeezullah, Irfan Azeezullah, Robert J. Stimson and Alan T. Murray 15. Spatial Indexes: A Focus on Segregation Martin Watts 16. Shift Share Analysis: Decomposition of Spatially Integrated Systems Kingsley E. Haynes and Jitendra Parajuli 17. Spatial Econometric Modelling William Mitchell 18. Spatial Clustering: Issues and Methods for Identifying Industry Clusters Roger R. Stough 19. Analysing Spatial Interactions: Inter-regional Migration Flows Martin Bell and Dominic Brown 20. Using Circular Statistics to Analyse Spatial Flow Data and temporal data Jonathan Corcoran and Chris Brunsdon 21. Analysing Human Social Networks Galina Daraganova and Philippa Pattison 22. Modelling the Effect of Intervening Variables Using Path Analysis Rod McCrea 23. Merging Survey and Spatial Data Using GIS-Enabled Analysis and Modelling Prem Chhetri and Robert J. Stimson 24. Web-based GIS to Support Visualization and Analysis of Community Variations in Crime Tung-Kai Shyy, Lorraine Mazerolle, Kate Risley and Robert J. Stimson 25. Policy and People at the Small Area Level: Using Micro-simulation to Create Synthetic Spatial Data Ann Harding and Robert Tanton 26. Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks as a Spatial Analytical Tool David Rohde and Jonathan Corcoran PART V: PRODUCING RESEARCH OUTPUT 27. Research and its Policy Relevance Brian W. Head 28. Navigating a Successful Doctoral Research Experience Rebecca Wickes and Tara McGee Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book offers a critical perspective on the state of the current global economy, making sense of knowledge-related issues by critically assessing existing institutional choices, as well as pointing to new ways forward.Trade Review'This book presents an entirely new approach to knowledge, creativity and social organisation. The first part of the book provides a trenchant critique of current globalisation, of multinational corporations, the WTO, and intellectual property rights. The rest of the book outlines an alternative globalisation based on inclusion, democratic participation, and equality. The role of the universities in this process is given special attention. The alternative globalisation is still based on the market economy but not necessarily one in which the sole objective of the corporations is to maximise profits. The book is a must-read for all economists, including those who are satisfied with the current state of the subject. The analyses of this volume of outstanding papers edited by Sacchetti and Sugden are fresh, sober and entirely convincing.' -- Ajit Singh, University of Cambridge, UK'It is arguable that at the root of the current global crisis lies the ferocious attack on critical thinking - indeed freedom of thought - that has taken place over the past 30 years or so. The editors of this volume are among the minority voices that kept thinking outside the box and voicing their views during this period. Their present volume offers fascinating readings on diverse issues ranging from uneven development, through university and art management, to motivation, capabilities and democratic governance, as they relate to knowledge and learning. It is hoped that the book will receive the attention it deserves and that more such voices will now be raised and heard.' -- Christos Pitelis, University of Cambridge, UK'While the relevance of knowledge in economic development represents a consolidated result, this volume takes some important steps forward in new directions. Highly valuable is the attempt to integrate the study of knowledge production, with its potential for improved creativity, whose expression is now dependent on the social structure and is not merely exogenous any more. The focus on heterodox approaches and on non-traditional organisational and proprietary forms is particularly coherent with both the theoretical premises of the volume and the expected evolution of economies.' -- Carlo Borzaga, University of Trento, Italy'This is a collection of essays which escapes the confines of mainstream economics, raising fundamental questions of the role of academics in policy making. It requires the reader to imagine different worlds - to think beyond present realities; a book striving to deal with important issues, not sliding over them to make cheap points. A scholarly work; demanding, in places difficult, but worth persevering with. Should be read by everyone interested in a different way forward for economic development in a global world.' -- Keith Cowling, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction Silvia Sacchetti PART II: KNOWLEDGE, PRODUCTION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2. The Organisation of Production and the Risk of Regional Divergence: A Perspective on the Development of Knowledge Across Economies Silvia Sacchetti 3. Harmonization, Differentiation, and Development: The Case of Intellectual Property in the Global Trading Regime Kenneth C. Shadlen 4. Knowledgeable Regions, Jacobian Clusters and Green Innovation Philip Cooke 5. Higher Education and Economic Development: Do We Face an Intertemporal Trade-off? James R. Wilson PART III: EMERGING INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS, CRITICAL THINKING AND KNOWLEDGE 6. Destroying Creativity? Universities and the New Public Management Sonja Grönblom and Johan Willner 7. A Theoretical Analysis of the Relationship between Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility: Concepts and Definitions Lorenzo Sacconi and Giacomo Degli Antoni 8. Creativity and Institution Building: The Case of Italian Social Cooperatives Alberto Ianes and Ermanno Tortia 9. Creativity in Economic Development: Space in an Inferno Silvia Sacchetti and Roger Sugden PART IV: CREATIVE ACTIVITIES: ART, MEDIA, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY… 10. Economic Development Lite: Communication, Art and ICTs in a Globalised Economy Roger Sugden, Robbin Te Velde and James R. Wilson 11. Media, Governance and the Public Interest J. Robert Branston and James R. Wilson 12. Quantity, Quality and Creativity Francesco Sacchetti PART V: CONCLUSIONS 13. Positioning Order, Disorder and Creativity in Research Choices on Local Development Silvia Sacchetti and Roger Sugden Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely and path-breaking book brings together a group of distinguished and emerging international scholars to critically consider the geographical implications of the worldâs super-rich, a privileged yet remarkably overlooked group.Trade Review‘The twelve chapters chart the global geography of the super-rich and provide an effective sociocultural framework for understanding and analyzing the practical economics of wealth at work, home, and play. In doing so, the authors articulate a new geography of abundance (p. 7) and globalization that heretofore has remained hidden behind the gates of country clubs, secure doors of skyboxes, and the confines of elite auction houses. . . In sum, the collection is solid and well thought out. Indeed, Hay has marshaled a collection that succinctly demonstrates the ways in which the culture, economics, and politics of the super-rich drive globalization.’ -- Jay D. Gatrell, Journal of Regional Science‘Globalization, it seems, has propelled the world’s uber-wealthy to new heights of power and money, with tremendous repercussions for the other 99.9 percent of us. At a time when neoliberalism has propelled the world into a new Gilded Age, with rising inequality everywhere, an aggressive class war being waged by the wealthy, and billionaires inserting themselves bluntly into the politicalf arena, understanding the behavior and spatiality of the super-rich has acquired a pressing urgency. This volume offers a richly textured suite of essays concerning how the super-rich have restructured local places, transforming landscapes as varied as London and Kentucky, Ireland and St. Barts, as well as domains as varied as art, thoroughbred horses, and housing.’ -- Barney Warf, University of Kansas, US‘The world’s super-rich, made up of just 11 million people, have access to about US$42.0 trillion of wealth. These are people who each have a spare million of “liquid” wealth. Their wealth is roughly equal to two thirds of global GDP. They own most of everything. As the editor of this books states “. . . library shelves and the pages of journals remain largely devoid of geographical work on the super-rich – a startling lacuna this volume sets out to fill”. The super-rich now own most of the planet. During the last year their share fell slightly. Times may be changing. Now is the time to begin to study the super–rich in detail, especially if you are worried about where all the wealth has gone.’ -- Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: From Kosrae to Kensington: Uncovering Cartographies of Abundance Iain Hay 1. Establishing Geographies of the Super-Rich: Axes for Analysis of Abundance Iain Hay 2. Economic Wealth and Political Power in the Second Gilded Age John Rennie Short 3. Overseeing the Fortunes of the Global Super-Rich: The Nature of Private Wealth Management in London’s Financial District Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Sarah J.E. Hall and Thomas Wainwright 4. ‘The World Needs a Second Switzerland’: Onshoring Singapore as the Liveable City for the Super-Rich Choon-Piew Pow 5. ‘Super-Rich’ Irish Property Developers and the Celtic Tiger Economy Laurence Murphy and Pauline McGuirk 6. The Homes of the Super-Rich: Multiple Residences, Hyper-mobility and Decoupling of Prime Residential Housing in Global Cities Chris Paris 7. A Study of the Dominance of the Super-Wealthy in London’s West End During the Nineteenth Century Kathryn Wilkins 8. The Elite Countryside: Shifting Rural Geographies of the Transnational Super-Rich Michael Woods 9. The Super-Rich, Horses and the Transformation of a Rural Landscape in Kentucky Susan M. Roberts and Richard H. Schein 10. The Sport of Kings, Queens, Sheiks and the Super-Rich: Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing as Leisure for the Super-Rich Phil McManus 11. Making Art History – Wealthy Private Collectors and Contemporary Visual Art Melanie Fasche 12. Islanders, Immigrants and Millionaires: The Dynamics of Upper-Class Segregration in St. Barts, French West Indies Bruno Cousin and Sébastien Chauvin Index

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Book SynopsisThe critical message of this book is that in the current context of global change, local and national territories have to upgrade their resilience in terms of improving both their competitiveness and capability to innovate.Trade Review'Innovation, Global Change and Territorial Resilience is indeed a timely contribution addressing the challenges that the global economy poses for local, regional and national economies. In the current situation, resilience is instrumental and innovation is the key mechanism to get there. In this volume, an impressive line-up of international authorities in the field - from across Europe and beyond - present highly valuable insights, models and hypotheses on innovation dynamics and activities in current day economics, as well as policy analysis and advice.' --Anders Malmberg, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Mario Davide Parrilli, José Luis Curbelo and Philip Cooke PART I: CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT: INNOVATION, INSTITUTIONS AND CHANGE 1. The New Argonauts, Global Search and Local Institution Building AnnaLee Saxenian 2. Resilience, Innovative ‘White Spaces’ and Cluster Platforms as a Response to Globalisation Shocks Philip Cooke and Arne Eriksson 3. The Innovation Index: Measuring the UK’s Investment in Innovation and its Effects Stian Westlake, Brian MacAulay, Peter Gratzke, Albert Bravo-Biosca and Hasan Bakhshi 4. Territorial Benchmarking Methodology: The Need to Identify Reference Regions Mikel Navarro Arancegui, Juan José Gibaja Martíns, Susana Franco Rodríguez and Asier Murciego Alonso PART II: TERRITORIES: INNOVATIVE AND EVOLVING 5. Innovative Regions: Strategic Spaces for Development Antonio Vázquez Barquero 6. New Policy Approaches to Develop Innovative Territories: Developing Trust and Behavioral Additionality in Gipuzkoa Mirren Larrea, Maria José Aranguren and James Karlsen 7. New Focus of Economic Reactivation in Spain: Creative Industries in the Basque Country Luciana Lazzeretti and Mario Davide Parrilli 8. Assessing Country Competitiveness: The Case of Spain Mercedes Delgado and Christian Ketels PART III: INNOVATION AND VALUE CHAINS 9. Outward FDI from Developing Country MNEs as a Channel for Technological Catch-up Alessia Amighini, Roberta Rabellotti and Marco Sanfilippo 10. Heterogeneous Social Capitals: A New Window of Opportunity for Local Economies Mario Davide Parrilli 11. China: Beyond the Global Production Line Philip Cooke and Fangzhu Zhang 12. Are Clusters the Solution? Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Fabrice Comptour PART IV: TERRITORIAL POLICIES: EMERGING FROM THE CRISIS 13. Conceptualisations, Relationships and Trends between Innovation, Competitiveness and Development: Industrial Policy Beyond the Crisis Patrizio Bianchi and Sandrine Labory 14. Regional Policy: What (it seems) we have Learned from Some European Experiences Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura 15. Cities in Times of Economic Crisis: A Challenge for Local Governments Manuel Perló Cohen 16. What Public Policies Can and Cannot do for Regional Development Mikel Landabaso 17. A Participatory Methodology for Evaluating the Cluster Policy of the Basque Country Cristina Aragón, Maria José Aranguren, Cristina Iturrioz and James R. Wilson 18. For a Resilient, Sustainable and Creative European Economy, in What Ways is the EU Important? Philip Cooke and Lisa De Propris Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOriginally initiated by the Presidential Committee on Regional Development in South Korea, this wide-ranging volume investigates the new directions in regional development policy taking shape around the world.Trade Review’[T]his is a topical book as it describes the newest trends and changes in regional development policy in South Korea with great detail.’ -- Robert Hassink, Regional StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Reshaping Regional Policy in Korea Sang-Chuel Choe PART II: GLOBAL VIEWS 2. Regions and Regional Policy: A Global View Sir Peter Hall 3. Regional Policy: What Works and What Doesn’t Somik V. Lall 4. Barriers and Breakthrough Strategies for Cross-Border Cooperation Michael G. Donovan PART III: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES A. Europe 5. Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: EU Policy Beyond Hard Territoriality Andreas Faludi 6. Cohesion Policy in the European Union: Growth, Geography, Institutions Thomas Farole, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper 7. Policies for Regional Competitiveness Patrick Crézé 8. Strengthening Metropolitan Regions for Growth and Innovation Rupert Kawka 9. Regional Development Agencies in England Harry W. Richardson B. Other 10. Development of Regional Plans and Economic Base Strategies for Sustainable Development in Japan Takashi Onishi 11. Emerging Issues and the Experiences of Economic Regions: The Case of Japan Hiroyasu Horio 12. Constructing Regional Entrepreneurial Advantage: Consensus Building, Technological Uncertainty and Emerging Industries Maryann Feldman and Nichola Lowe PART IV: INCOME VS. SPATIAL EQUITY 13. Identity and Inequality in Planning: Implications for Regional Development Eric J. Heikkila 14. Inequity and Regional Development Policies Chang-Hee Christine Bae 15. The New Economic Geography and Regional Development Policies Harry W. Richardson PART V: KOREA 16. Fiscal Policy and Regional Development Young Geol Lee 17. Regional Development Policy in Korea: The Past, Present and Future Jae-Hong Jang 18. Long-term Strategies for Regional Development Policies in Korea Sam Ock Park 19. The Role of Economic Regions and Metropolitan Economies in Korea’s Regional Policy Soon Nam Jung 20. Building a Regional Governance System for Mega-Economic Regions in Korea Yong-Woon Kim PART VI: CONCLUSIONS 21. Conclusions Harry W. Richardson and Chang-Hee Christine Bae Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book provides readers with a thorough understanding of the key issues in planning and developing prosperous knowledge cities of the knowledge economy era, which will prove invaluable to national, state/regional and city governments’ planning and development departments.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Competing: Important Stimuli for Knowledge Cities to Become Prosperous Peter Franz Preface Introducing: Knowledge-based Development of Prosperous Knowledge Cities Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis and Francisco Javier Carrillo PART I: POLICIES FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 1. Innovating: Creativity, Innovation and the Role of Cities in the Globalizing Knowledge Economy Björn T. Asheim 2. Creating: The Creative-class Based Knowledge City Models of Denmark Mark Lorenzen, Kristina Vaarst Andersen and Stine Laursen 3. Organizing: Spontaneously Developed Urban Technology Precincts Gülnur Çevikayak and Koray Velibeyoğlu 4. Globalizing: What Makes Australian Information Technology Industry Companies Go Global? Glen Searle and Kevin O’Connor 5. Attracting: The Coffeeless Urban Café and the Attraction of Urban Space Kirsten Martinus 6. Researching: Key Factors for the Success of Knowledge Cities in Germany Stefanie Wesselmann, Clas Meyer and Rainer Lisowski 7. Participating: Knowledge Citizens’ Competences and Knowledge City Transformation Octavio González, Rodolfo Wilhelmy, Santiago Cavazos and América Martínez PART II: PLANS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 8. Piloting: Knowledge-based Development Policy and Practice in Building a Vibrant Ecosystem Cathy Garner and Anne Dornan 9. Formulating: An Integrated Strategy for the Development of Knowledge Cities Kostas Metaxiotis and Kostas Ergazakis 10. Designing: Combining Design and High-tech Industries in the Knowledge City of Eindhoven Ana María Fernández-Maldonado 11. Clustering: Concentration of the Knowledge-based Economy in Sydney Richard Hu 12. Connecting: Community Supported Universities for Knowledge City Transformation Ana Cristina Fachinelli and Janaína Macke 13. Promoting: Programs for and Challenges of the Knowledge-based Small Business Joan K. Imukuka, Bhishna Bajracharya, Linda Too and Greg Hearn 14. Enterprising: Academics, Knowledge Capital and Towards PASCAL Universities James A. Powell 15. Transforming: Turning Knowledge Cities into a Knowledge Region Caren Heidemann, Klaus R. Kunzmann and Klaus Wermker PART III: METRICS FOR BUILDING PROSPEROUS KNOWLEDGE CITIES 16. Commuting: The Geography of Melbourne’s Knowledge Economy Kevin Johnson 17. Measuring: Knowledge-based Development Metrics, Evolution and Perspectives Francisco Javier Carrillo and Ricardo Emmanuel Flores 18. Comparing: Knowledge-based Urban Development of Vancouver, Melbourne, Manchester and Boston Tan Yigitcanlar 19. Benchmarking: Knowledge-based Development Metrics through the MAKCi Exercise Alicia Leal and Blanca C. Garcia Afterword Concluding: Directions for Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities Joris van Wezemael Index

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Book SynopsisTopics include the regional determinants of new business formation, the effects of start-ups on growth, the role of globalization for regional entrepreneurship, the effect of national and regional framework conditions, as well as the role of universities as incubators of innovative new firms.Trade Review'Entrepreneurship can have powerful effects on local as well as national economies. The chapters in this edited volume, authored by well known experts in their fields, explore various aspects of entrepreneurship and regional development. The book provides an illuminating overview of the current state of knowledge while also sharing with the reader several new findings and insights on issues as diverse as globalization, regional employment growth, nascent entrepreneurs, gazelles, labor productivity, government regulations and university entrepreneurship. It is recommended reading for anyone interested in these topics.'- Simon C. Parker, The University of Western Ontario, Canada 'There is substantial evidence regarding the considerable regional variation in business creation. Michael Fritsch has done a fine job of assembling the most recent analyses of the best scholars on the regional factors affecting firm creation and the consequences. It is essential reading for any scholar or policy analyst seeking a state of the art overview of the current empirical status of research on this important topic.'- Paul D. Reynolds, George Washington University, US 'This Handbook examines the contribution of the entrepreneur and related processes to regional economic development. The recognition that the indirect entrepreneurial effects on development are more significant than on the direct is an important and under girding conclusion. And further, that entrepreneurial driven effects are often not felt immediately but in some cases only across decades as illustrated by the over two decade incubation of the entrepreneurial culture in the Silicon Valley which only later resulted in it becoming the dominant icon of scientific and technology regional development that it is today.'- Roger Stough, George Mason University, US 'This volume fills an important gap in the research literature on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a localized phenomenon and all too many studies disregard this fact. Thus, the regional economic milieu is a critical factor determining both the volume and type of entrepreneurship but also the effects of entrepreneurship in terms of value added growth, employment growth, etc. The contributions in this book by a number of leading scientists in the field provide an excellent overview and understanding of the prerequisites for and the role of entrepreneurship in regional growth and development.' --- Charlie Karlsson, Jonkoping University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Role of New Businesses in Regional Development: Introduction and Overview Michael Fritsch 2. Globalization, Entrepreneurship, and the Region David B. Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and A. Roy Thurik 3. Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities – Theories and Empirical Evidence Rolf Sternberg 4. The Effect of New Business Formation on Regional Employment: Empirical Evidence, Interpretation, and Avenues for Further Research Michael Fritsch 5. Entrepreneurship, Urbanization Economies, and Productivity of European Regions Niels Bosma 6. High-Impact Firms: Gazelles Revisited Zoltan J. Acs 7. Firm Growth, Institutions, and Structural Transformation Magnus Henrekson and Dan Johansson 8. Inadvertent Infrastructure and Regional Entrepreneurship Policy Maryann P. Feldman, Lauren Lanahan and Jennifer M. Miller 9. Universities, Entrepreneurship, and Local Economic Development Thomas Åstebro and Navid Bazzazian Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding on a variety of contrasting perspectives, this book focuses on the connection between university spin-offs and regional economic development. It aptly captures the diverse range of concepts relating to the main participants in the process of university spin-offs, reflecting on their roles and how these may have changed.Trade Review‘In this timely and important book, the author brings the full weight of her erudition to bear on the spatial and economic implications of academic entrepreneurship. She systematically explains the formation of university spinoff companies and their role in the commercialization of university technology and wealth creation across the globe. This book is a “must read” for scholars of innovation and entrepreneurship and government officials who formulate and implement public policies relating to innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development.’ -- Donald Siegel, Arizona State University, US‘Helen Lawton-Smith’s incisive analysis of the economic, political, social and geographical perspectives by which university spin-offs have been studied provides deep insights into their potential contribution to positive regional development. The Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship is a must-read for academics, researchers, doctoral students and policy-makers interested in the interdependencies between university spin-offs and the region.’ -- Claire Leitch, Lancaster University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Defining spin-offs and data collection 3. Academic and student entrepreneurs 4. Universities, technology transfer offices, institutional structures and spin-offs 5. What university spin-offs do 6. Growth trajectories, life-cycle issues, survival and the region 7. Spin-off firms and the region 8. Conclusions and policy implications References Index

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Book SynopsisThe diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning.Table of ContentsContents: PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Analysing Creative Cities David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellander 2. Creative People Need Creative Cities Åke E. Andersson 3. The Creative Class Paradigm Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler 4. Big-C Creativity in the Big City Dean Keith Simonton 5. Clusters, Networks and Creativity Charlie Karlsson PART II: PEOPLE 6. The Open City Peter Jason Rentfrow 7. The Value of Creativity Todd M. Gabe 8. Understanding Canada’s Evolving Design Economy Tara Vinodrai 9. Technology, Talent and Tolerance and Inter-regional Migration in Canada Karen M. King 10. Higher Education and the Creative City Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian PART III: NETWORKS 11. Research Nodes and Networks Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and Søren Find 12. Scenes, Innovation, and Urban Development Dan Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul 13. The Arts: Not Just Artists (and Vice Versa) Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick 14. The Creative Potential of Network Cities David F. Batten 15. Why Being There Matters: Finnish Professionals in Silicon Valley Carol Marie Kiriakos PART IV: PLANNING 16. Creative Cities Need Less Government David Emanuel Andersson 17. Land-use Regulation for the Creative City Stefano Moroni 18. The Emergence of Vancouver as a Creative City Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick PART V: MARKETS 19. Cultivating Creativity: Market Creation of Agglomeration Economies Randall G. Holcombe 20. The Sociability and Morality of Market Settlements Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr 21. Creative Environments: The Case for Local Economic Diversity Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppälä 22. Does Density Matter? Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda 23. Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region Börje Johansson and Johan Klaesson 24. The Creative City and its Distributional Consequences: The Case of Wellington Philip S. Morrison PART VI: VISIONS 25. Contract, Voice and Rent: Voluntary Urban Planning Fred E. Foldvary 26. A Roadmap for the Creative City Charles Landry Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful research collection examines the internal and external transformation of the Arab Gulf states and their repositioning within the global order. A multi-level approach begins with sections on domestic political and economic reform and the reformulation of domestic agendas to reflect new issues such as climate-change.Trade Review‘This volume brings together some of the most important articles on the Persian Gulf over the last two decades. All of the articles in the volume have been central to our understanding of the region, and some have been game-changers. For anyone interested in knowledge of the Middle East in general and the Persian Gulf in particular, this book is essential reading.’ -- Mehran Kamrava, School of Foreign Services, QatarTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Kristian Coates Ulrichsen PART I RENTIERISM AND POST-RENTIER APPROACHES 1. Lisa Anderson (1991), ‘Absolutism and the Resilience of Monarchy in the Middle East’ 2. F. Gregory Gause III (2000), ‘In the Persistence of Monarchy in the Arabian Peninsula: A Comparative Analysis’ 3. James Onley and Sulayman Khalaf (2006), ‘Shaikhly Authority in the Pre-Oil Gulf: An Historical-Anthropological Study’ 4. Hazem Beblawi (1990), ‘The Rentier State in the Arab World’ 5. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry (1995), ‘Economic Liberalization and the Lineages of the Rentier State’ 6. Gwenn Okruhlik (1999), ‘Rentier Wealth, Unruly Law, and the Rise of Opposition: The Political Economy of Oil States’ 7. Steffen Hertog (2007), ‘Shaping the Saudi State: Human Agency’s Shifting Role in Rentier-State Formation’ PART II POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION AND PARTICIPATORY OPENINGS 8. Gerd Nonneman (2008), ‘Political Reform in the Gulf Monarchies: From Liberalization to Democratization? A Comparative Perspective’ 9. Michael Herb (2009), ‘A Nation of Bureaucrats: Political Participation and Economic Diversification in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates’ 10. Katherine Meyer, Helen Rizzo and Yousef Ali (2007), ‘Changed Political Attitudes in the Middle East: The Case of Kuwait’ 11. Jeremy Jones and Nicholas Ridout (2005), ‘Democratic Development in Oman’ 12. Stéphane Lacroix (2004), ‘Between Islamists and Liberals: Saudi Arabia’s New “Islamo-Liberal” Reformists’ PART III THE ECONOMIC RISE OF THE GCC STATES 13. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (2006), ‘The Impact of Globalization on Arab Gulf States’ 14. Jill Crystal (2009), ‘Economic and Political Liberalization: Views from the Business Community’ 15. Giacomo Luciani (2005), ‘From Private Sector to National Bourgeoisie: Saudi Arabian Business’ 16. Christopher Davidson (2007), ‘The Emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai: Contrasting Roles in the International System’ 17. Martin Hvidt (2009), ‘The Dubai Model: An Outline of Key Development-Process Elements in Dubai’ 18. Dilip K. Das (2008), ‘Sovereign-Wealth Funds: A New Role for the Emerging Market Economies in the World of Global Finance’ PART IV CHANGING DOMESTIC AGENDAS 19. Gawdat Bahgat (1999), ‘Education in the Gulf Monarchies: Retrospect and Prospect’ 20. Mohammed Bosbait and Rodney Wilson (2005), ‘Education, School to Work Transitions and Unemployment in Saudi Arabia’ 21. Caroline Montagu (2010), ‘Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector in Saudi Arabia’ 22. Onn Winckler (2009), ‘Labor and Liberalization: The Decline of the GCC Rentier System’ 23. Andy Spiess (2008), ‘Developing Adaptive Capacity for Responding to Environmental Change in the Arab Gulf States: Uncertainties to Linking Ecosystem Conservation, Sustainable Development and Society in Authoritarian Rentier Economies’ 24. Joanna Depledge (2008), ‘Striving for No: Saudi Arabia in the Climate Change Regime’ PART V EVOLUTION OF REGIONAL SECURITY AGENDAS 25. Henner Fürtig (2007), ‘Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf: The Interregional Order and US Policy’ 26. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (2009), ‘Internal and External Security in the Arab Gulf States’ 27. Toby Craig Jones (2006), ‘Rebellion on the Saudi Periphery: Modernity, Marginalization, and the Shi’a Uprising of 1979’ 28. Bruce Riedel and Bilal Y. Saab (2008), ‘Al Qaeda’s Third Front: Saudi Arabia’ 29. Dalia Dassa Kaye and Frederic M. Wehrey (2007), ‘A Nuclear Iran: The Reaction of Neighbours’ 30. Toby Matthiesen (2010), ‘Hizbullah al-Hijaz: A History of the Most Radical Saudi Shi’a Opposition Group’ PART VI FOREIGN POLICY AND GLOBAL REBALANCING 31. Fred Halliday (2002), ‘The Middle East and the Politics of Differential Integration’ 32. Gerd Nonneman (2005), ‘Determinants and Patterns of Saudi Foreign Policy: “Omnibalancing” and “Relative Autonomy” in Multiple Environments’ 33. Abdulla Baabood and Geoffrey Edwards (2007), ‘Reinforcing Ambivalence: The Interaction of Gulf States and the European Union’ 34. J.E. Petersen (2006), ‘Qatar and the World: Branding for a Micro-State’ 35. Madawi Al-Rasheed (2008), ‘The Minaret and the Palace: Obedience at Home and Rebellion Abroad’ 36. Steve A. Yetiv and Chunlong Lu (2007), ‘China, Global Energy, and the Middle East’

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Book SynopsisIn today’s globalised world, modern society is characterized by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp and Philip McCann PART I: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. The Spatial Consequences of Autarky in Land-use Regulation: Strategic Interaction or Simply Parallelism? Paavo Monkkonen and John M. Quigley 2. Intra-urban Mobility and Changing Density Functions in Tel Aviv, 1995–2006 Daniel Felsenstein and Shlomie Hazam 3. The Role of Monetary and Financial Factors in Regional Development: An Overview Masagus M. Ridhwan, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld and Henri L.F. de Groot PART II: INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION 4. Spatial Mobility of Firms Piet H. Pellenbarg and Joris Knoben 5. The Location of Knowledge Economy and High-tech in Israel Dafna Schwartz, Gil Avnimelech and Raphael Bar-El 6. University–Industry Technology Transfer: Fostering and Hindering Factors and Programmes Amnon Frenkel and Daniel Shefer PART III: HUMAN CAPITAL, MIGRATION AND LABOUR FORCE 7. The Effect of Asset and Credit Constraint on Interregional Labour Migration Patricio Aroca, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Michael Sonis 8. Circular Statistics, Migration Models and the Directionality of Job Search Processes Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran and Philip McCann 9. Commuting and Migration: Can They be Complementary? Raphael Bar-El and Miki Malul 10. Globalisation, the CEECs and European Policy Daniela Constantin, Zizi Goschin and Philip McCann 11. Spatial Filtering Methods for Tracing Space–Time Developments in an Open Regional System: Experiments with German Unemployment Data Roberto Patuelli, Daniel A. Griffith, Michael Tiefelsdorf and Peter Nijkamp PART IV: SPATIAL MOBILITY 12. The Role of Computing in Urban Travel Forecasting: How Transportation Planning Practice Shaped Software, and Software Impacted Transportation Planning Practice David Boyce and Hillel Bar-Gera 13. Sustainable Transportation Development and Travel Behavior Yoram Shiftan and Daniel Shefer 14. Reinventing the Wheel: Planning the Rail Network to Meet the Mobility Needs of the 21st Century Moshe Givoni and David Banister 15. Are Urban Transportation Benefits Absorbed Fully by Land Values? Haim Aviram and Daniel Shefer Index

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and applying the methods and strategies for cities to attain a more sustainable future.Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Sustainable City: Introduction and Overview Hilda Blanco and Daniel A. Mazmanian 2. Rediscovering Compact Cities for Sustainability Peter Newman 3. Potable, Stormwater and Waste Water Strategies in the Context of Climate Change Blanca Jiménez Cisneros 4. Urban Food System Strategies Nevin Cohen 5. Sustainable Strategies for Consumer Products in Cities Gregory A. Keoleian, Joshua P. Newell, Ming Xu and Erin Dreps 6. Strategies for Growing Green Business and Industry in a City Karen Chapple 7. Strategies and Considerations for Investing in Sustainable City Infrastructure Rae Zimmerman 8. Aligning Fiscal and Environmental Sustainability Richard F. Callahan and Mark Pisano 9. Gauging the Health of a City: Maximising Health and Sustainability Alek Miller and Richard J. Jackson 10. From Information Provision to Participatory Deliberation: Engaging Residents in the Transition Toward Sustainable Cities Michaela Zint and Kimberly S. Wolske 11. Developing Effective Participatory Processes for a Sustainable City Connie P. Ozawa 12. A Measure of Justice: Environmental Equality and the Sustainable City Manuel Pastor 13. Analyzing a City’s Metabolism Christopher Kennedy, Larry Baker and Helge Brattelbø 14. Developing Sustainability Cities Indicators Kent E. Portney 15. Climate Action Planning Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve and Tammy L. Seale 16. Climate Change Adaptation Adrienne I. Greve and Michael R. Boswell 17. Economic Resilience and the Sustainability of Cities in the Face of Climate Change: An Ecological Economics Framework Adam Rose 18. A Systems Approach Towards Sustainable Procurement Laurie Kaye Nijaki 19. Urban Design and Sustainability: Looking Backward to Move Forward Tridib Banerjee 20. The Future of Sustainable Economic Development in Cities Edward J. Blakley 21. Sustainable Cities and Governance: What Are the Connections? Daniel J. Fiorino 22. Technology and City Sustainability Bill Tomlinson 23. Overview and Conclusions Daniel A. Mazmanian and Hilda Blanco Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnographic study of the cultural politics of urban redevelopment in Kampung Serani, one Penang community, in the 1990s. Through interviews, newspaper reports, and other records, Goh considers changing notions of culture, ethnic...Trade ReviewA major contribution to the understanding of Malaysian modernity. The theories and themes discussed... would be of interest to a range of scholars from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, politics, and human geography. * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Goh provides a refreshingly analytical and nuanced account of the interplay especially between competing influences of ethnicity, religion, class, and politics that have shaped modern Malaysia. * Crossroads *This excellent piece of research work... fills a significant gap in knowledge about the evolution and transformation of the cityscapes in modern cities of Malaysia. * Bijdragen *

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Book SynopsisThis volume consists of twenty studies on problems related to transition to democracy in central and eastern Europe during the decade following the collapse of communist states. The book focuses on preconditions and problems of transitions, case studies, patterns of performance and consolidation and inter-regional comparative aspects.

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Book SynopsisThis text raises questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Wu Hung uses the Chinese government's cancellation of the exhibition It's Me, Beijing 1998, to anchor his analysis of the challenges face by contemporary Chinese artisits and curators.

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Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary in its approach, with expert contributors from diverse backgrounds, Resilience and Regional Development brings to light the significance of multiple dimensions of resilience and its implications for the economy.Trade Review‘This book shows how the concept of resilience is relevant when studying space and sustainability. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics. Therefore, this book ought to be very useful for researchers interested in learning about the scope of resilience, as an organizing principle, in regional science.’ -- Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: resilience and regions: different places, different dynamics and different policies 1 Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Ramona Țigănaşu, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp PART I THE NEXUS OF RESILIENCE AND SPACE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS 2 Creativity in cultural and creative industries as a source of regional adaptive resilience 10 Roberta Capello and Roberto Dellisanti 3 Accessibility, population dynamics and regional economic resilience 30 John Östh, Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp 4 Binding resilience to the regional convergence framework: how does resilience affect the EU regional gaps? 51 Cristian Incaltarau and Zizi Goschin 5 Improving resilient development in Austrian cities from a transdisciplinary perspective 91 Antonija Bogadi and Rudolf Giffinger 6 A spatial perspective on wellbeing in the European Union 108 Alexandra Gheorghiu and Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu 7 Does history affect regional resilience in the long term? Path-dependence lessons from Poland 127 Rafał Matera and Mariusz E. Sokołowicz PART II RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY 8 Sub-national governmental budget tools for surviving shocks: resiliency in the public sector 152 Steven Craig and Annie Yu-Hsin Hsu 9 Sustainable Development Goals. People and places chose what they do not have 169 Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Giovanni de Francesco, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Karmina Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Joanna Kurowska-Pysz, João Lourenço Marques, Ana Vinuela and Umut Türk 10 Spatial economic damage and recovery caused by tsunami risk in Japan: a dynamic input–output approach 189 Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Daichi Matsushima and Mingji Cui 11 Coping with extreme temperatures in European regions – from resilience to prosilience? 209 Ema Corodescu-Roşca, Alexandru Bănicá, Ionel Muntele and Pavel Ichim PART III CASE STUDIES: MULTIDIMENSIONAL SHOCKS, IMPACTS AND POLICIES 12 Crises, governance and resilience. A perception-based study 237 Ramona Ţigănaşu, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu and Alexandra Gheorghiu 13 Governance challenges of resilient local development in peripheral regions 279 Réka Horeczki and Ilona Pálńe Kovács 14 Typifying social cohesion in rural areas – the social places concept (SPC) 300 Sylvia Herrmann, Shari Jäkel and Berthold Vogel 15 Tourism and meeting incentive convention event (MICE) tourism in Europe, systemic shock, structural transformations and resilience 322 Sylvie Christofle 16 Resilience of tourism in times of global crises: the case of Romanian urban destinations 342 Alexandra Cehan, Alexandru Bănică, Mihail Eva and Corneliu Iaţu Index 377

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book is essential for everybody who wants a modern overview of theories of regional and urban economics. Not only the beginner, but also the experienced reader has something to learn from Capello’s clear exposition. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the exciting mysteries of spatial economics.’ -- Hans Westlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden‘Advanced Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics represents a fascinating journey through the relationship between economic activity and place, looking at regional and urban economics with new eyes. An essential read for all those interested in a fresh and insightful view of the profound impact of space on economic dynamics.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics 2 Location theory 3 Regional growth theories: constant returns to scale 4 Local development theories: agglomeration economies 5 Local development theories: innovation and proximity 6 Regional growth theories: increasing returns to scale 7 Conclusion to Regional and Urban Economics References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This book is essential for everybody who wants a modern overview of theories of regional and urban economics. Not only the beginner, but also the experienced reader has something to learn from Capello’s clear exposition. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the exciting mysteries of spatial economics.’ -- Hans Westlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden‘Advanced Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics represents a fascinating journey through the relationship between economic activity and place, looking at regional and urban economics with new eyes. An essential read for all those interested in a fresh and insightful view of the profound impact of space on economic dynamics.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Introduction to Regional and Urban Economics 2 Location theory 3 Regional growth theories: constant returns to scale 4 Local development theories: agglomeration economies 5 Local development theories: innovation and proximity 6 Regional growth theories: increasing returns to scale 7 Conclusion to Regional and Urban Economics References Index

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Book SynopsisHow San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Situating San Francisco 2 Constructing San Francisco’s Growth Control and Housing Rights Movements 3 A Framework for the Analysis of Urban Movements 4 Dot-com Boom and Struggles in the Mission 5 The Public-Private Partnership: The Case of Mission Bay 6 Urban Movements and the Question of Urban Governance 7 Local and Global Implications of San Francisco NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisShould the surprisingly successful outcomes achieved by outsider candidates in Philadelphia elections be interpreted as representing fundamental changes in the local political environment, or simply as one-off victories, based largely on serendipitous circumstances that advanced individual political careers? John Kromer's insightful Philadelphia Battlefields considers key local campaigns undertaken from 1951 to 2019 that were extraordinarily successful despite the opposition of the city's political establishment.Kromer draws on election data and data-mapping tools that explain these upset elections as well as the social, economic, and demographic trends that influenced them to tell the story of why these campaign strategies were successful. He deftly analyzes urban political dynamics through case studies of newcomer Rebecca Rhynhart's landslide victory over a veteran incumbent for Philadelphia City Controller; activist Chaka Fattah's effective use of grassroots organizing skills to winTrade Review“‘All politics is local,’ Tip O’Neill famously said, and I can think of no better guide to the local politics of Philadelphia than John Kromer. In Philadelphia Battlefields,he takes us through a series of ‘disruptive campaigns’ and makes a compelling case for what they can teach us today. Kromer balances details that will appeal to political junkies with the wisdom that he has accumulated over the years as one of the city’s most distinguished public servants. And his message is clear: politics in Philadelphia will only be as effective as you and I are committed to making it.”—Steven Conn, W. E. Smith Professor of History, Miami University, and author of Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past"Kromer’s analysis of Philadelphia’s political and electoral dynamics is impressive. There has been much written and said on the surface about successful and unsuccessful political campaigns by insurgent candidates since the 1950s, but Kromer’s linkage of mobilization strategies and activism to the electoral process is new and engaging. The rigor of his analysis of voting data, coupled with his own insights, brings a needed richness to the story. Philadelphia Battlefields should inspire citizens to be more politically aware and engaged in their local and state elections as well as at the grassroots level.”—David L. Cohen, Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation

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