Regional / urban economics Books

Book SynopsisIn this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can consequently be classed as capital. Thus, capital rather than labor is the real source of creativity, innovation, and accumulation. But capital is also a phenomenon in time and in space. Offering a new and path-breaking theory, they show how durable capital with large spatial domains - infrastructural capital such as institutions, public knowledge, and networks - can help explain the long-term development of cities and nations. This is a crucial book for spatial and institutional economists and anyone working outside the neoclassical mainstream. Academics and students of economic history, urban and regional planning, and economic sociology will also find it an illuminating and accessible exploration of time, space and capitalTrade Review'Has humankind experienced material progress? To what extent does the economic theory we have help us explain it? These are among the Big Questions. The Anderssons address the essential questions with great flair. They know their history and they know their economic theory. They present complex material clearly and engagingly. All of this makes the book a joy to read. What a contribution!' --Peter Gordon, University of Southern California, US'In this age of specialization, this book is breathtaking in its success in integrating knowledge from not only the social but also humanistic and natural sciences. The authors have devoted decades in creating an inspiring study which helps us to comprehend how societies have evolved over the last five centuries. It provides novel perspectives about space and time in advancing new perspectives on economic development, systems of law and science, transportation and communication, and creativity. This book should be read by every scholar - irrespective of area of study.' --Rogers Hollingsworth, University of Wisconsin, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Time and Space—An Introduction 2. Time and Capital in Economic Doctrines 3. Space in Economic Analysis—From Discrete to Two-dimensional Continuous Theory 4. Dynamic Theories and Models—Problems and Creative Potential 5. Time in the Microeconomics of Consumption 6. Durability, Duration of Production, Growth, and Location 7. Expectations, Capital, and Entrepreneurship 8. A General Theory of Infrastructure and Economic Development 9. The Role of the Transport Infrastructure in the First Logistical Revolution 10. Institutional Infrastructure and Economic Games 11. Real Estate Capital 12. Re-conceptualizing Social Capital 13. Creative Knowledge Capital 14. Looking Ahead Index

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Book SynopsisThis important volume brings together seminal papers investigating the framework upon which the economic analysis of land markets is based, stretching from the earliest insights of the founding fathers to current debates and research. Recent work on the process and implications of 'land value capitalisation' and land use regulation is well represented, for due to capitalisation, land is responsible for far more of the distribution of real incomes than is widely recognised. This collection settles this, restoring the study of land markets to its rightful place - central to economic understanding.With an original introduction by the editors this insightful collection is an essential reference point for students, researchers and policymakers.Trade Review‘Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber have put together the “go-to” collection for any student interested in land market regulations and their effects. This volume gathers all the classics on the topic over the last sixty years with a welcome focus on recent developments in this active area of research. This collected volume is also very usefully supplemented by an insightful introduction by the two editors.’ -- Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania, USTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Paul C. Cheshire and Christian A.L. Hilber PART I FOUNDATIONS AND ANALYTICAL ORIGINS 1. Paul A. Samuelson (1983), ‘Thünen at Two Hundred’, Journal of Economic Literature, XXI (4), December, 1468–88 2. Colin Clark (1967), ‘Von Thünen’s Isolated State’, Oxford Economic Papers, New Series, 19 (3), November, 370–77 3. William Alonso (1960), ‘A Theory of the Urban Land Market’, Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association, 6 (1), January, 149–57 4. Edwin S. Mills (1967), ‘An Aggregative Model of Resource Allocation in a Metropolitan Area’, American Economic Review, 57 (2), May, 197–210 5. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert W. Helsley (1989), ‘The Fundamentals of Land Prices and Urban Growth’, Journal of Urban Economics, 26 (3), November, 295–306 PART II BEYOND THE MONOCENTRIC MODEL 6. Peter Mieszkowski and Edwin S. Mills (1993), ‘The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 7 (3), Summer, 135-47 7. Sheridan Titman (1985), ‘Urban Land Prices under Uncertainty’, American Economic Review, 75 (3), June, 505–14 8. Dennis R. Capozza and Robert W. Helsley (1990), ‘The Stochastic City’, Journal of Urban Economics, 28 (2), September, 187–203 9. Laarni Bulan, Christopher Mayer and C. Tsuriel Somerville (2009), ‘Irreversible Investment, Real Options, and Competition: Evidence from Real Estate Development’, Journal of Urban Economics, 65 (3), May, 237–51 10. William C. Wheaton (2004), ‘Commuting, Congestion, and Employment Dispersal in Cities with Mixed Land Use’, Journal of Urban Economics, 55 (3), May, 417–38 11. John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen (2000), ‘Employment Subcenters and Subsequent Real Estate Development in Suburban Chicago’, Journal of Urban Economics, 48 (1), July, 135–57 12. Marcy Burchfield, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew A. Turner (2006), ‘Causes of Sprawl: A Portrait from Space’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121 (2), May, 587–633 13. Stuart S. Rosenthal and Robert W. Helsley (1994), ‘Redevelopment and the Urban Land Price Gradient’, Journal of Urban Economics, 35 (2), March, 182–200 14. Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko (2005), ‘Urban Decline and Durable Housing’, Journal of Political Economy, 113 (2), April, 345–75 15. Hans R.A. Koster, Jos van Ommeron and Piet Rietveld (2014), ‘Is the Sky the Limit? High-rise Buildings and Office Rents’, Journal of Economic Geography, 14 (1), January, 125–53 PART III WHAT GETS CAPITALISED? 16. Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard (2004), ‘Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Characteristics and Uncertainty’, Economic Journal, 114, November, F397–F424 17. Soren T. Anderson and Sarah E. West (2006), ‘Open Space, Residential Property Values, and Spatial Context’, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 36 (6), November, 773–89 18. Stephen Gibbons and Stephen Machin (2005), ‘Valuing Rail Access Using Transport Innovations’, Journal of Urban Economics, 57 (1), January, 148–69 19. Nicolai V. Kuminoff and Jaren C. Pope (2014), ‘Do “Capitalization Effects” for Public Goods Reveal the Public’s Willingness to Pay?’, International Economic Review, 55 (4), November, 1227–50 20. Andreas Mense and Konstantin A. Kholodilin (2014), ‘Noise Expectations and House Prices: The Reaction of Property Prices to an Airport Expansion’, Annals of Regional Science, 52 (3), May, 763–97 PART IV REGULATING LAND MARKETS 21. Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard (2002), ‘The Welfare Economics of Land Use Planning’, Journal of Urban Economics, 52 (2), September, 242–69 22. William A. Fischel (2001), ‘Homevoters, Municipal Corporate Governance, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax’, National Tax Journal, LIV (1), March, 157–73 23. Albert Saiz (2010), ‘The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (3), August, 1253–96 24. Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward (2009), ‘The Causes and Consequences of Land Use Regulation: Evidence from Greater Boston’, Journal of Urban Economics, 65 (3), May, 265–78 25. Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Raven Saks (2005), ‘Why is Manhattan so Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in Housing Prices’, Journal of Law and Economics, XLVIII, October, 331–69 26. Christian A.L. Hilber and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (2013), ‘On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas’, Journal of Urban Economics, 75, May, 29–43 27. John M. Quigley and Steven Raphael (2005), ‘Regulation and the High Cost of Housing in California’, American Economic Review, 95 (2), May, 323–8 28. Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber (2008), ‘Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain: The Political Economy of Market Revenge’, Economic Journal, 118, June, F185–F221 29. Christian A.L. Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen (2016), ‘The Impact of Supply Constraints on House Prices in England’, Economic Journal, 126 (591), March, 358-405 PART V TAXES AND LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS 30. Richard J. Arnott and Joseph E. Stiglitz (1979), ‘Aggregate Land Rents, Expenditure on Public Goods, and Optimal City Size’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, XCIII (4), November, 471–500 31. Jan K. Brueckner (1982), ‘A Test for Allocative Efficiency in the Local Public Sector’, Journal of Public Economics, 19 (3), December, 311–31 32. Charles M. Tiebout (1956), ‘A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures’, Journal of Political Economy, 64 (5), October, 416–24 33. Wallace E. Oates (1969), ‘The Effects of Property Taxes and Local Public Spending on Property Values: An Empirical Study of Tax Capitalization and the Tiebout Hypothesis’, Journal of Political Economy, 77 (6), November–December, 957–71 34. H. Spencer Banzhaf and Randall P. Walsh (2008), ‘Do People Vote with Their Feet? An Empirical Test of Tiebout’s Mechanism’, American Economic Review, 98 (3), June, 843–63 Index

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Book SynopsisCollaborated by Chinese and American scholars, Understanding China's Urbanization opens up a new channel to disseminate Chinese studies to the world. Highly readable, the book provides fine-grained materials and detailed information on Chinese urbanization. Li Zhang, Richard LeGates and Min Zhao effectively convey an indigenous perspective on Chinese urban futures and present a picture with sufficient complexity and wide coverage.'- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK'A most comprehensive book about urbanization in China, with in-depth insights from a talented scholarly team. This book is far more than a snapshot of the Chinese story, it reveals the important developments that have occured as China has transitioned into a dynamic urban country.'- Shi Nan, Secretary General, Urban Planning Society of China'Zhang, LeGates, and Zhao's book builds on the voluminous literature on China's urbanization by adding new data, findings, insights, perspectives, and recommendations. Both academically sophisticated and reader-friendly, the book surveys and critiques research in and outside China and highlights new phenomena in urbanization, governance, migration, foreign direct investment, and city clusters. Richly decorated with illustrations as well as the authors' original statistical and field analyses, the book is a much welcome multidisciplinary contribution to understanding a burning question in China.'- C. Cindy Fan, University of California, Los AngelesChina's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial, economic and social aspects of China's urban transformation.Based on years of fieldwork and data analysis from different types of cities and towns in every region of China, the authors present a detailed description of how China has urbanized since 1978 and an original theory about the way in which top-down and bottom-up policies have impacted urbanization. They describe China's on-going urbanization process as a 'double-dual' transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one and from a concern with the quantity to the quality of urbanization. In doing so, the authors provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on Chinese urbanization to date.This scholarly study will appeal to academics and practitioners, including professors and postgraduate students of urban studies, planning, geography, Asian studies, and other social science disciplines and professional fields concerned with cities and urban development. Professionals involved in international development, particularly in China and elsewhere in Asia, will be particularly interested in the book.Trade ReviewUnderstanding China's Urbanization is a comprehensive account of the processes, driving forces, and outcomes of urbanization in China. Drawing upon a wealth of theoretical perspectives from multiple disciplines, the book offers a useful framework of analysis - the double dual transition model. It also provides a rich array of evidence to show how exogenous and endogenous forces have shaped the path of China's urban transformation. --Weiping Wu, Tufts UniversityThis is a book full of fascinating ideas that have been accumulated over the years through in-depth engagement with Chinese urbanization research and urban planning practice. The book offers an original and articulate story of Chinese urbanization, supported by up-to-date information and analysis of institutional, regional and sectoral dimensions, as well as a critical discussion of the development and opportunities associated with large city clusters and small towns. --Sun Sheng Han, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Understanding China’s Urbanization 2. Evolution, Status, and Reform of Hukou 3. Governments, Administrative Divisions and Urban Policies 4. Regional Policies and Regional Urbanization 5. Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and China’s Urbanization 6. Population Flows and Semi-urbanization 7. China’s Evolving City System and Large City Clusters 8. Towns and Rural Urbanization 9. Double Dual-transformation: Understanding Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics 10. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a wonderfully subversive book that should be essential reading for all students of urban planning. Cities evolve under the influence of multiple individual land development plans. Coordination between these can happen to varying degrees, at various spatial scales, under the leadership of different organisations and through multiple mechanisms. Planning education and practice has by and large missed this point for over half a century. We need a new knowledge-base for city-shaping in the 21st century and this book lays some of the essential foundations.'- Chris Webster, University of Hong Kong'Not so very long ago the notion of private city planning would have been of interest to only a few die-hard libertarians. This book shows why no serious analysis of the forces shaping cities across the world today can neglect the role of private planning and the potential it might have to deliver more live-able urban places.'- Mark Pennington, King s College, University of London, UKThrough comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighborhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Andersson and Moroni develop an under-studied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future.Urban planning is often construed only as a form of public planning. This misinterpretation is revealed through an empirical focus on how cities have been planned in the past and how the capacity of private actors will shape planning in the future. Private planning is responsible for most small-scale infill developments, ranging from single-family housing to hotels. However, examples of non-governmental actors that plan larger areas, such as homeowners' associations in the United States and private cities in India, are becoming manifest. Private urban planners are guided by price signals to supply infrastructure and regulations that make land more valuable. Using analytical tools from theoretical traditions such as Austrian and new institutional economics, the contributors to this book eschew the mainstream assumptions that underlie much of the critique of profit-seeking entrepreneurship among urban planners, sociologists and geographers.This volume will be invaluable for urban planners. Economists in a variety of fields will also be interested in the diverse application of economic theory, including applied urban economists, Austrian economists, new institutional economists and public choice economists.Contributors: N. Alfasi, D.E. Andersson, W.E. Block, E. Buitelaar, W. Cox, F.E. Foldvary, M. Galle, P. Gordon, R.G. Holcombe, L.W-C. Lai, A. Lowi, S. MacCallum, T. Margalit, S. Moroni, R. O'Toole, S. Rajagopalan, N. Sorel, A. TabarrokTrade Review‘This is a wonderfully subversive book that should be essential reading for all students of urban planning. Cities evolve under the influence of multiple individual land development plans. Coordination between these can happen to varying degrees, at various spatial scales, under the leadership of different organisations and through multiple mechanisms. Planning education and practice has by and large missed this point for over half a century. We need a new knowledge-base for city-shaping in the 21st century and this book lays some of the essential foundations.’ -- Chris Webster, University of Hong Kong‘Not so very long ago the notion of private city planning would have been of interest to only a few die-hard libertarians. This book shows why no serious analysis of the forces shaping cities across the world today can neglect the role of private planning and the potential it might have to deliver more live-able urban places.’ -- Mark Pennington, King’s College, University of London, UK‘Overall, the volume is well deserving of the attention of those interested in non-market decision making, especially political decision making. . . Ultimately the volume is accessible, and undoubtedly will be valuable, both to those engaging the subject for the ?rst time, and those who are already familiar with the literature. Those working in the area of private governance will ?nd these essays valuable as a foundation upon which to conduct future research.’ -- Alexander William Salter, Public ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Private Enterprise and the Future of Urban Planning Stefano Moroni and David Emanuel Andersson PART 1: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 2. Cities and Planning: The Role of System Constraints David Emanuel Andersson 3. Towards a General Theory of Contractual Communities: Neither Necessarily Gated, nor a Form of Privatization Stefano Moroni 4. Governance by Voluntary Association Fred E. Foldvary 5. Private Urban Planning and Free Enterprise Walter E. Block 6. Community Technology: Liberating Community Development Alvin Lowi and Spencer MacCallum 7. Planning by Contract: Two Dialogues Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai PART II: CASE STUDIES AND POLICIES 8. Modern Cities: Their Role and Their Private Planning Roots Peter Gordon and Wendell Cox 9. Houston’s Land-Use Regime: A Model for the Nation Randal O’Toole 10. Lessons from Gurgaon, India’s Private City Shruti Rajagopalan and Alexander Tabarrok 11. The Rise and Fall of Growth Management in Florida Randall G. Holcombe 12. The Public Planning of Private Planning: An Analysis of Controlled Spontaneity in the Netherlands Edwin Buitelaar, Maaike Galle and Niels Sorel 13. The Challenge of Regulating Private Planning Initiatives Nurit Alfasi and Talia Margalit Index

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Book SynopsisIn this bold, exciting and readable volume, Paul Cheshire, Max Nathan and Henry Overman illustrate the insights that recent economic research brings to our understanding of cities, and the lessons for urban policy-making. The authors present new evidence on the fundamental importance of cities to economic wellbeing and to the enrichment of our lives. They also argue that many policies have been trying to push water uphill and have done little to achieve their stated aims; or, worse, have had unintended and counterproductive consequences.It is remarkable that our cities have been so successful despite the many shortcomings of urban policies and governance. These shortcomings appear in both rich and poor countries. Many powerful policies intended to influence urban development and spatial differences have been developed since the late 1940s, but they have been subject to little rigorous economic evaluation. The authors help us to understand why economic growth has emerged so unevenly across space and why this pattern persists. The failure to understand the forces leading to uneven development underlies the ineffectiveness of many current urban policies. The authors conclude that future urban policies need to take better account of the forces that drive unevenness and that their success should be judged by their impact on people, not on places - or buildings.This groundbreaking book will prove to be an invaluable resource and a rewarding read for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the economics of urban policy, urban planning and development, as well as international studies and innovation.Contents: Foreword by Ed Glaeser 1. Introduction 2. Urban Economic Performance 3. Residential Segregation and People Sorting Within Cities 4. Planning for a Housing Crisis: Or the Alchemy by Which We Turn Houses into Gold 5. Planning and Economic Performance 6. Planning: Reforms that Might Work and Ones that Wont 7. Devolution, City Governance and Economic Performance 8. Urban Policies 9. Conclusions IndexTrade ReviewUrban Economics and Urban Policy pulls together cutting-edge developments in urban and regional economics and draws out their implications for urban policy. This new urban economics goes beyond simple comparative advantage and cost competitiveness of cities, and beyond simple views of capital and labor. It develops a much more complex and realistic view of what constitutes local advantage, due to the spatial sorting of different types of people and different types of firms, giving rise to a lumpy landscape of people, activities, and incomes. By taking seriously the new ways we understand the forces shaping the geography of economic development, the authors suggest fresh new ways to work with the grain of markets, but without letting them rip. It is a tour de force.' --Michael Storper, London School of Economics, UK'Paul Cheshire, Max Nathan, and Henry Overman recognize the large disconnect between urban economics and urban policy, and their book is intended to help bridge that gap. It is the authors' general contention that ''urban economists have to date contributed very little to the development and evaluation of real-world urban policy'' (p. 1). While I think there are some notable counterexamples to which I return below, I largely agree with this claim. In addition, the authors believe that urban economics, particularly modern urban economics, has much value to add to policy making. Here, I think the case is less clear-cut, but the authors present it well. Given the authors' purpose, readers of this book can expect a nontechnical summary of recent research in urban economics, with a clear and complete explanation of what it implies for urban policymaking. This is precisely what the authors deliver, so readers should not expect new findings from this extremely accomplished research team; instead they get careful synthesis, interpretation,and policy recommendations. As such the book will be of most value to students and practitioners in fields that do have a lot of influence in urban policy, especially planning and government.' --Andrew Haughwout, Journal of Regional Science'The book is among the most effective critiques of contemporary urban planning thought, characterized by such approaches as urban containment, compact city, and densification.' --Wendell Cox, New GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Ed Glaeser 1. Introduction 2. Urban Economic Performance 3. Residential Segregation and People Sorting Within Cities 4. Planning for a Housing Crisis: Or the Alchemy by Which We Turn Houses into Gold 5. Planning and Economic Performance 6. Planning: Reforms that Might Work and Ones that Won’t 7. Devolution, City Governance and Economic Performance 8. Urban Policies 9. Conclusions Index

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Book Synopsis'Cities have been studied and written on from a whole host of unique viewpoints. The contributors of this volume shed light on the city from several perspectives that together constitute the modern singularity of these spaces on Earth. Based on international and cutting-edge research, the content explores critical and sometimes contested issues such as innovation and entrepreneurship, technology, infrastructure, governance and the quality of life of urban inhabitants. The volume brings a clear and refreshing perspective on a fast changing reality.'- Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US'The Rise of the City is a must read for those who want to learn about achieving the promise of cities and urbanisation for society and the well-being of their people. The distinguished group of contributors provides a holistic roadmap about how cities can be economic engines of growth that promote innovation and creativity. This will not be easy as they also identify the challenges that must be overcome including better planning, inclusive governance, and sustainable development.'- Mark Partridge, Ohio State University, USCities and city regions are growing throughout the world and this trend is forecast to continue well into the 21st century. The authors of The Rise of the City see the next 100 years as being the ''Urban Century''. In this book they examine urban growth and the dynamics that are transforming the city and city regions, focusing specifically on the spatial aspects of this process.Forces that are driving city growth include agglomeration spillovers, concentration of innovation and entrepreneurship, diversity of information and knowledge resources, better amenities and higher wages. These benefits produce a positive reinforcing system that attracts more people with new ideas and information, fuelling innovation, new products and services and more high-wage jobs, thereby attracting more people. Such growth also produces undesirable effects such as air and water pollution, poverty, congestion and crowding. These combined factors both impact and change the geography and spatial dynamics of the city. These transformations and the public policies that may be critical to the quality of life, both today and in the future, are the substance of this book.Providing a more informed synthesis of the city and its dynamics in the new century than any other volume, as well as a set of specific analyses and questions on the changing nature of the city, this book will be indispensible to scholars and students of regional science and urban studies.Contributors: Å.E. Andersson, D.E. Andersson, M.G. Boarnet, A.M. Bonomi Barufi, S. Brunow, R. Camagni, R. Capello, A. Caragliu, Z. Chen, Z. Daghbashyan, C.F. Del Bo, R.K. Green, E.A. Haddad, B. Hårsman, K.E. Haynes, N. Ishikawa, K. Kourtit, J.P. Larsson, M.M. Mazurencu, V. Miersch, P. Nijkamp, A.R. Olsson, R.R. Stough, M. van Geenhuizen, R.S. Vieira, Y. Wen, H. Westlund, Q. YeTrade Review'Overall, this book is a valuable resource towards understanding the impact of urban growth on geography, spatial dynamics and public policies, which can collectively provide insightful perspectives and methodological tools of the changing nature of our cities in relation to the quality of human life. The book is well written and structured and offers an in-depth perspective of the themes presented. I enjoyed reading this book with its array of various writers and its thread of topics, and I would highly recommend it to scholars, academics and practitioners seeking an insightful and informative synthesis of the spatial dynamics or urban growth in the 21st century city.' --The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation'[T]he chapters in this book investigate why cities continue to be attractive places for people, innovation and capital, and therefore continue to grow. The book points to the different ways in which cities are adapting and/or adopting policies in an effort to stay viable and grow sustainably. This book will be important for urban researchers, especially in opening new research foci about cities and the forces that aid their growth.' --Science & Public PolicyTable of ContentsContents: PART I URBAN CREATIVITY AND GROWTH 1. Complexity, Scientific Creativity and Clustering Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson, Björn Hårsman and Zara Daghbashyan 2. Agglomeration Economies and Smart Cities Ana Maria Bonomi Barufi and Karima Kourtit 3. Smart Specialization Strategies and Smart Cities: An Evidence-Based Assessment of EU policies Andrea Caragliu and Chiara F. Del Bo 4. Agglomeration Economies in Large vs. Small Cities: Similar Laws, High Specifities Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Andrea Caragliu PART II CITIES, INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY 5. Multi-Actor Analysis of Metropolitan Performance Analysis Karima Kourtit, Miruna Mazurencu and Peter Nijkamp 6. Entrepreneurial Governance for Local Growth Amy Rader Olsson, Hans Westlund and Johan P. Larsson 7. Cities as Seedbeds of Responsible Innovation Marina van Geenhuizen and Qing Ye 8. Innovation Capacity, Workforce Diversity and Intra-industrial Externalities: A Study on German Establishments Stephan Brunow and Valentina Miersch PART III URBAN SYSTEMS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 9. Exploring Surface Transportation Impact on Economic Output: A Panel Granger Causality Test Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes 10. An Accessibility Index for the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo Renato S. Vieira and Eduardo A. Haddad 11. Urbanization and Quality of Life: An Overview of Health Impacts of Urban and Rural Residential Patterns Noriko Ishikawa, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp 12. Dynamic Analysis of the Energy Rebound Effects in Megacities: Evidence from Beijing and Shanghai, China (1990-2011) Yuyuan Wen 13. How Should Cities Manage Economic Development? Highlights from Theory and Practice Marlon G. Boarnet and Richard K. Green Index

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Book SynopsisThe Chinese leadership anticipates that one hundred million people will move from rural areas to China's cities between 2014 and 2020-perhaps the greatest migration in human history. Property ownership and use rights, compensation for when rural land is taken for urban development, and who should receive the increment in value (betterment) are among the most contentious policy issues facing China today. Property rights in China vary from place to place, are often ambiguous, and are changing rapidly. In this remarkable book Tongji University professor Li Tian provides a comprehensive description of China's property rights, betterment, and compensation landscape. Tian reviews Western property rights, betterment and compensation theory and practice and offers her own synthesis and policy recommendations. This is a must-read book for land economists, urban planners, policy makers, and anyone interested in China's development.'- Richard LeGates, San Francisco State University, USLand value capture has long been a hotly debated topic, and it has influenced a wide variety of land ownership regimes. Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development examines the role and impact of government intervention on land markets in China. It reveals that the state has taken selective advantage of the ambiguous definition of property rights in pursuit of the objective of rapid urban growth.Through detailed empirical analysis and case studies, the book develops approaches that are specifically designed to assess the extent of issues engendered by government activities at both macro and micro levels. It also presents a comprehensive and international review on betterment and compensation. Taking the land market of China as an example, it applies the theoretical framework of New Institutional Economics to analyze institutional arrangements at the national, municipal and project levels. It concludes with the implications of property rights reform to promote the sustainable development of land markets.The issues discussed in this book will be of particular interest to academics and researchers in land economics, Asian studies and development studies.Trade Review‘The Chinese leadership anticipates that one hundred million people will move from rural areas to China’s cities between 2014 and 2020 – perhaps the greatest migration in human history. Property ownership and use rights, compensation for when rural land is taken for urban development, and who should receive the increment in value (betterment) are among the most contentious policy issues facing China today. Property rights in China vary from place to place, are often ambiguous, and are changing rapidly. In this remarkable book Tongji University professor Li Tian provides a comprehensive description of China’s property rights, betterment, and compensation landscape. Tian reviews Western property rights, betterment and compensation theory and practice and offers her own synthesis and policy recommendations. This is a must-read book for land economists, urban planners, policy makers, and anyone interested in China’s development.’ -- Richard LeGates, San Francisco State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Nature of Land Rent and Land Value Capture 3. Studying Betterment and Compensation from the Perspective of Property Rights 4. Assessing and Addressing Betterment and Compensation: International Experiences 5. Urban Land Reform and the Evolution of Land Market in China 6. Betterment and Compensation Schemes under the LURs System 7. Assessing and Addressing Betterment and Compensation in Guangzhou: Empirical Evidence 8. Institutional Evolution in the Land Market of Guangzhou 9. Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCities are undoubted key players in technology creation and adoption for sustainable transitions. This book addresses both the active and passive roles of cities in technology innovation, commercialisation, mass-production and adoption. In particular, it examines elements of three socio-technical systems, energy, transport and healthcare.The authors investigate cities in Europe, Asia and North America, providing an in depth understanding of the differences in leadership roles that cities adopt across the globe. The book breaks new ground in the analysis of topical issues such as local '?cradle?' conditions, incentive schemes, niche-development, living labs, impact bonds, grass-roots intermediation and adaptive policy making.Researchers and students involved in the urban studies, socio-technical transitions and sustainability would greatly benefit from reading this book. The variety of practical examples also makes this book an important tool for city policy makers, as well as public policy and public sector scholars.Contributors include: J.A. Annema, U. Dewald, M. Dignum, S. Faber, A. Holbrook, J.A. Holbrook, S. Konsti-Laakso, F. Kuipéri, H. Melkas, R. Nejabat, W. Ravesteijn, V. Scholten, L. Song, P. Stek, M. Taheri, M.S. van Geenhuizen, B. van Hulst, B. Wixted, Q. YeTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Transitions in socio-technical systems and challenges of city leadership Marina van Geenhuizen, J. Adam Holbrook and Mozhdeh Taheri PART II ASSETS AND NETWORKS IN CITIES Energy 2. Cities and photovoltaic inventions: global leaders over time Pieter E. Stek 3. University spin-offs’ steps in commercialization of sustainable energy inventions in Northwest Europe Razie Nejabat, Mozhdeh Taheri, Victor Scholten and Marina van Geenhuizen 4. ‘Solar Cities’ in China as leaders in photovoltaic manufacturing Marina van Geenhuizen and Qing Ye 5. Urban innovation or rural dedication? Contrasts in socio-technical niche development in photovoltaics in Germany Martina Fromhold-Eisebith and Ulrich Dewald 6. Vancouver’s fuel cell cluster: new opportunities or a genteel decline? Claudia Díaz-Perez, Brian Wixted and J. Adam Holbrook Transport 7. Cities and adoption of innovation in passenger mobility Hans Jeekel 8. Seaport development and accelerating energy transition. Could Rotterdam and Shanghai take on a leadership role? Marina van Geenhuizen, Lili Song and Wim Ravesteijn Health 9. Performance of university spin-off firms in commercialization of medical technology Mozhdeh Taheri and Marina van Geenhuizen 10. Adoption of e-health in hospitals and in cities: a myriad of influences Sander Faber and Marina van Geenhuizen PART III GOVERNANCE AND POLICY APPROACHES 11. Electric vehicles and charging infrastructure: adaptive policy making in cities Freek Kuipéri, Marina van Geenhuizen and Jan Anne Annema 12. Urban intermediaries and the governance of the energy transition, two case studies in Amsterdam Marloes Dignum 13. Living labs in health care innovation: critical factors and potential roles of city government Marina van Geenhuizen and Nick Guldemond 14. Enhancing public sector innovation: living lab case studies on well-being services in Lahti, Finland Suvi Konsti-Laakso, Satu Pekkarinen and Helinä Melkas 15. Health Impact Bonds as a novel financial arrangement in healthcare transition Stephan Diek, Marina van Geenhuizen and Bart van Hulst 16. Role of cities and governance in sustainability transitions: challenges in leadership Marina van Geenhuizen and J. Adam Holbrook Index

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Book SynopsisThe populations of many countries in the world are becoming more culturally diverse. This spurs a growing need for an informed debate on the socio-economic implications of cultural diversity. This book offers a solid statistical and econometric perspective on this topical subject by bringing together studies from different countries in Europe and North America.The research in this volume sheds light on several consequences of cultural diversity, including positive impacts on innovation, growth and entrepreneurship. The original and quantitative contributions also highlight the negative social effects on communities. Throughout the volume, it is evident that the effects of cultural diversity on socio-economic outcomes depend largely on the characteristics of local economies, populations and communities.Utilising a broad spectrum of research methods over a multitude of research areas, this comprehensive overview of the socio-economic impacts of cultural diversity is a valuable resource for students and academics.Contributors: I. Abdulloev, M. Aleksynska, J. Bakens, W. Bernasco, M.R. Betz, S. Brunow, B.R. Chiswick, G.S. Epstein, I.N. Gang, M. Gheasi, J. Hartog, I. Lobach, J. Möhlmann, M. Nathan, P. Nijkamp, M.R. Olfert, B.J. Osoba, M.D. Partridge, G. Peri, J. Poot, E. Pungas, P. Rietveld, K. Shih, B. Stockinger, T.Tammaru, O. Toomet, A. Tubadji, A. ZorluTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. E Pluribus Prosperitas: On Cultural Diversity and Economic Development Jessie Bakens, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot PART I: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY 2. Cultural Diversity – A Matter of Measurement Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot 3. Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang 4. The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe Mariya Aleksynska and Barry R. Chiswick 5. Economic Integration Challenges: Aboriginal Population in Saskatchewan, Canada M. Rose Olfert and Iryna Lobach PART II: CULTURAL SEGREGATION AND SORTING 6. Canada’s Multiculturalism and Domestic Migration Michael R. Betz, M. Rose Olfert and Mark D. Partridge 7. Do Better Educated Emigrants Intend to Return? Evidence from Estonian Return Migration from Finland Enel Pungas, Ott Toomet and Tiit Tammaru 8. Ethnic Segregation and Crime: Are Offenders Ethnically Biased When Choosing Target Areas? Wim Bernasco 9. Ethnic Heterogeneity at Neighbourhood Level in the Netherlands Aslan Zorlu and Joop Hartog PART III: SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY 10. Establishments’ Cultural Diversity and Innovation: Evidence from Germany Stephan Brunow and Bastian Stockinger 11. All in the Mix? Top Team Demographics and Business Performance in English Firms, 2008-9 Max Nathan 12. The Cultural Percolation of New Knowledge: A Regional Analysis of the Cultural Impact on Knowledge Creation in EU27 Annie Tubadji and Peter Nijkamp 13. A US State-Level Analysis of Self-Employment, Cultural Diversity, and Risk Tolerance Brian J. Osoba 14. Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets Giovanni Peri and Kevin Shih 15. International Financial Transfers by Foreign Labour: Remittances from Informal Migrants Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld 16. Ethnic Diversity and Firm Productivity in the Netherlands Jan Möhlmann and Jessie Bakens Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing the heterogeneity of and interplay between important concepts guiding modern regional economic development, this volume presents a rich variety of state-of-the-art empirical research. Focusing simultaneously on the meso- and micro-level implications of globalization, drawing attention to incumbent new market seeking in entrepreneurship, and highlighting the various forms innovation can take, the chapters contribute to our understanding of geography as a facilitator of regional dynamics. The comprehensive approach to agglomeration economies, the life-cycle development of industries, proximities and policy responses comes recommended.'- Frank van Oort, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Utrecht University, the Netherlands'I would encourage all researchers interested in entrepreneurship and innovation to read this volume. It provides a new conceptual approach to the link between global economic trends and entrepreneurship, through the role of local space as an important source for innovation. Readers can find old and new issues on the formation of entrepreneurship elegantly linked together, so as to provide new insights into this important field of research.'- Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyWe have, in recent decades, been able to witness a veritable revolution in the world economy, known as 'globalization'. Generally, the term is connected to the rapid increase of the free movement of goods, capital, people, ideas, information and knowledge around the globe. This book contributes to the meso- and micro-economic literature on innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy.Extending our understanding of the many different ways that innovation and entrepreneurship contribute to economic development and growth in a globalized economy, the expert contributors highlight that the current wave of globalization has been a period of exceptional entrepreneurship both among large multinational firms and among independent entrepreneurs. They demonstrate that location matters for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, and clarify that public policy in a globalized economy must stress knowledge and ideas as the source of competitiveness and economic growth.Both graduates and post graduates, along with university researchers, will find this book to be useful in their studies, particularly those with an interest in innovation and entrepreneurship research, regional economics, economic geography and international economics.Contributors: M.J.Abellán Madrid, J. Abrahamsson, M. Andersson, S. Anokhin, R. Antonietti, D.B. Audretsch, M. Belitski, H. Boter, A. Broström, M.R. Ferrante, A. García-Tabuenca, N.M.George, U. Gråsjö, K.E. Haynes, V. Jienwatcharamongkhol, C. Karlsson, B. Kianian, T.C. Larsson, R. Leoncini, C.Y. Liu, M. McKelvey, G. Painter, J. Parajuli, V. Parida, C. Suárez Gálvez, M.G.A. Svensson, S. Tavassoli, V. Vanyushyn, Q. Wang, K.I. Westeren, J. Wincent, S. WixeTrade Review‘Addressing the heterogeneity of and interplay between important concepts guiding modern regional economic development, this volume presents a rich variety of state-of-the-art empirical research. Focusing simultaneously on the meso- and micro-level implications of globalization, drawing attention to incumbent new market seeking in entrepreneurship, and highlighting the various forms innovation can take, the chapters contribute to our understanding of geography as a facilitator of regional dynamics. The comprehensive approach to agglomeration economies, the life-cycle development of industries, proximities and policy responses comes recommended.’ -- Frank van Oort, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Utrecht University, the Netherlands‘I would encourage all researchers interested in entrepreneurship and innovation to read this volume. It provides a new conceptual approach to the link between global economic trends and entrepreneurship, through the role of local space as an important source for innovation. Readers can find old and new issues on the formation of entrepreneurship elegantly linked together, so as to provide new insights into this important field of research.’ -- Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Charlie Karlsson, Urban Gråsjö and Sofia Wixe PART I INNOVATION 1. R&D Investments and Firm Survival Across Regions María Jesús Abellán Madrid, Antonio García-Tabuenca and Cristina Suárez Gálvez 2. Universities and Public Research Institutes as Collaboration Partners for Firms Anders Broström and Maureen McKelvey 3. Technological Advancement through Imitation by Industry Incumbents in Strategic Alliances Nerine Mary George, Sergey Anokhin, Vinit Parida and Joakim Wincent 4. Continuing Corporate Growth and Inter-organizational Collaboration of International New Ventures in Sweden Jan Abrahamsson, Håkan Boter and Vladimir Vanyushyn 5. Routines - Do they Stimulate or Hinder Learning and Innovation in Industrial Production? Knut Ingar Westeren PART II ENTREPRENEURSHIP 6. Creativity Spillover of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from European Cities David B. Audretsch and Maksim Belitski 7. Start-up rates, Entrepreneurship Culture and the Business Cycle: Swedish Patterns from National and Regional Data Martin Andersson 8. Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Agglomeration in High-tech Industries in the USA Cathy Yang Liu, Gary Painter and Qingfang Wang 9. Broadband Internet and New Firm Formation: A US Perspective Jitendra Parajuli and Kingsley E. Haynes 10. When Being Wrong Might be Right: On Overconfidence as an Evolutionary Mechanism of Nascent Entrepreneurs Martin G. A. Svensson Part III INTERNATIONALIZATION 11. Manufacturing Renaissance: Return of Manufacturing to Western Countries Sam Tavassoli, Babak Kianian and Tobias C. Larsson 12. Closing the Gap: Empirical Evidence on Firm's Innovation, Productivity, and Exports Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol and Sam Tavassoli 13. Infrastructure Endowment, Social Capital and Outsourcing: Evidence from Emilia Romagna, Italy Roberto Antonietti, Maria Rosaria Ferrante and Riccardo Leoncini Index

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Book Synopsis'The authors set out to develop a framework that explains if and how co-creation can be used as ''strategy-as-practice.'' In doing so, they have produced a wonderful case study on co-creating a city's living and public space, the next movement and cultural turn following the ''creative class'' studies in urban design. There are innovative uses of narrative analysis to provide multiple perspectives of the co-creative process. It contains valuable insights for anyone interested in urban design.'- Hans Hansen, Texas Tech University'The book makes a very important contribution to the strategy-as-practice field as it proposes a thorough ethnography about how governments, academia, business, non-profits and citizens engage themselves in the strategic and collaborative process of planning. Drawing on a comprehensive and compelling notion of ''action nets'', the book provides a fascinating interpretive explanation that will be inspiring as well as for academics and practitioners. This timely volume raises a host of fascinating issues related to organizing and strategizing as ''co-creative practices'' and will be an invaluable resource across multiple domains and organizational research areas. Moreover, the book will convince you that ''small is beautiful''!'- Linda Rouleau, HEC Montreal, CanadaOver the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful book outlines potential avenues through which culture and creativity can raise the imaginative capability of citizens and harness opportunities tied to what the book calls 'culture-driven growth'.Building on three years of observations, interviews and research the authors argue that a 'strategy-as-practice' perspective can reveal how strategy making is enabled or constrained by organizational and social practices. The authors reveal how the 'sweet-spot' of city regeneration occurs where urban and cultural planning are aligned. They then evaluate the practice of 'co-creation' within organizing bodies and investigate the extent to which its success depends on a fusion of top-down rules and bottom-up action. Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth will appeal to international scholars and students in organization studies, geography, city governance and planning, urban design, and urban and regional development. Policymakers and planners will also find it to be a valuable resource.Trade Review'This book provides an important contribution on the links between urban planning and other types of organizing work performed in the name of the 'creative city'. Further, it also highlights the daunting challenges associated with attempting to realize highly ambitious ideals of decentralized co-creation, empowering a plethora of heterogeneous actors, in a manner that does not sell short democratic transparency and accountability.' --Jonathan Metzger, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden'A detailed, processual and ethnographic study of European Cities of Culture is overdue. This book fills an important gap in both scholarship and civic management. For any city authorities planning to bid for and stage future City of Culture programs it is an essential practical guide; for any researchers interested in the management of cities, those elusive, flexible objects of analysis, it will be an important contribution to their analytical toolbox. Lively and well researched, it is a must-read.' --Stewart Clegg, University of Technology Sydney, Australia'Organizing Cultural Capital events has become the contemporary equivalent of Tennesse Valley Authority: every city wants to do it, and prescriptions how to do it proliferate. This book is unique in that it presents many different stories and points of view, providing a detailed description of everyday organizing, but also original theoretical insights together with useful practical recommendations.' --Barbara Czarniawska, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Co-creation and the city PART I: THE PLANNERS’ VIEW 2. The planning process 3. The ‘cultural turn’ in urban design PART II: THE VIEW FROM THE ACTION NETS 4. The organizer’s view: exploring emergent project action nets 5. The insider-participant view: common dualities on urban design and program organization 6. The public view: analysis of the narratives in the local press 7. Building a milieu for city marketing and branding The vignette collection PART III: THE ACHIEVEMENT 8. Comparisons with other European Capitals of Culture 9. Co-creating cities: future challenges Index

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Book SynopsisOver the past two decades, sustainability has become a principal concern for city administrators. It is more than just an environmental issue entailing economic, demographic, governance, social, and amenity aspects. After a short introduction to some theory, this book provides broad coverage of these aspects and their manifestations in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The contributors discuss, in detail, topics surrounding measurement, growth strategy, citizen participation, revitalization, and competitiveness. Though each of the cities discussed - ranging from Shanghai, to Barcelona, to Montreal - are distinct, there are similarities that connect them all. The book highlights their common elements to provide a feasible outcome for sustainable urban development.City administrators, academics and other researchers and consultants will find both the theory and principles discussed in this book of great interest. The individual contributions will be useful for students at all levels pursuing urban economics, environmental studies, planning and public policy.Contributors: L. Van den Berg, L. Bruzzo, D. Ietri, W. Jacobs, S. Jianfa, J.-L. Klein, P.K. Kresl, D. Maurrasse, W. Mittulah, M. Nijdam, I. Orihuela, N. Pengfei, J. Rochman, C. Shaopeng, J. Sobrino, D.-G. Tremblay, J. Trullén, E. van TuijlTrade Review’As recently as 1960, the world was only one-third urbanized. Today it is 54% urbanized and by mid-century should be almost two-thirds urbanized. This edited volume featuring authors from around the globe offers valuable insights concerning urbanization, sustainability, and collaborative problem-solving. The book is a must read for academics and practitioners alike.’<>BR>- Earl H. Fry, Brigham Young University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Peter Karl Kresl PART I THEORY 1. Sustainable Development of Cities: The Role of Leader Firms Leo Van den Berg, Wouter Jacobs, Michiel Nijdam and Erwin van Tuijl 2. Strategic Considerations for Urban Anchor Institutions in Local and Regional Engagement David Maurrasse 3. The Analysis and Representation of Local Territorial Networks in Building Public-private Partnerships Luigi Bruzzo and Daniele Ietri PART II ASIAN AND AFRICAN EXAMPLES 4. Urbanisation Process and Policies for Sustainable Urbanization in China Shen Jianfa 5. Shanghai and Nantong: The Twin Cities’ Tale of Sustainable Competitiveness Ni Pengfei and Cai Shaopeng 6. Political Engagement Deficit in Sustainable Competitivenessof Cities in East Africa Winnie Mittulah Part III EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN EXAMPLES 7. Inclusive Growth and Urban Strategies: The Case of Barcelona Joan Trullén 8. Urban Sustainability and Competitiveness: Factors Defining Mexican Cities Isela Orihuela 9. Sustainable Development and Competitive Performance in Mexican Cities: Economic and Environmental Accounts Jaime Sobrino 10. Chicago and Pittsburgh: Two Paths to Sustainable Renewal Peter Karl Kresl 11. Urban Sustainability and Revitalization; the Case of the Mile End in Montreal Juan-Luis Klein, Diane-Gabriella Tremblay and Juliette Rochman PART IV THE ROLE OF PARTNERSHIPS IN SUSTAINABILITY 12. Partnerships in a Small University Town Peter Karl Kresl 13. Partnerships and Industrial Clusters; the Case of the Fashion Cluster Development in Montreal Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 14. The Third Runway Project of HKIA: The Process of Consultation and Consensus Building in Hong Kong Shen Jianfa 15. From Trash Disposal to Business District: Public-private Partnerships Behind Santa Fe, Mexico City Jaime Sobrino 16. Partnerships for Public Service Delivery in Mexico: Types, Territorial Distribution and Competiveness Isela Orihuela Index

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Book SynopsisChina's Urban Century is the impressive outcome of a European and Chinese collaborative project. The book extensively covers Chinese urban governance, environment, heritage, lifestyle and megacities. Ambitious and timely, François Gipouloux edits the book, not only to address topical issues such as migrant housing, social security and low-carbon development, but also to probe into the fundamental process of city creation, fiscal relations, and community configuration.'- Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK'This is an exciting, informative, and insightful volume produced out of truly multi-disciplinary and international collaborations. It makes a timely and landmark contribution to the understanding of China's phenomenal urban transformation and its social, political, and environmental implications. With its unparalleled breadth and depth, this book provides illuminative accounts of the many facets of China's urbanization past, present, and in the years to come. A must-read for any scholars and practitioners interested in the dawn of China's urban century and the new age of global urbanism.'- George C.S. Lin, Hong Kong UniversityThe achievements of China's urbanization should not be evaluated solely in terms of adequate infrastructures, but also in their ability to implement sound governance practices to ensure social, environmental and economic development. This book addresses sever al key challenges faced by Chinese cities, based on the most recent policies and experiments adopted by central and local governments.The contributors offer an interdisciplinary analysis of the urbanization process in China, and examine the following key topics: the institutional foundations of Chinese cities, the legal status of the land, the rural to urban migration, the preservation of the urban heritage and the creation of urban community, and the competitiveness of Chinese cities. They define the current issues and challenges emerging from China's urbanization.Students and academics of urban studies and related subjects will find the strong theoretical backgrounds to be of use to their research. Policy-makers and other practitioners will benefit from the practical advice and recommendations.Contributors: C.-H. Ai, L. Balula, O. Bina, K.W. Chan, H. Chen, D. Du, M. Elosua, S. Feuchtwang, F. Ged, F. Gipouloux, W. Gong, S. Goulard, Y. Hu, L. Huang, A. Hussain, S. Li, P. Morais, P. Ni, D.H. Perkins, O. Pillet, Y. Pu, Y. Shao, J. Tan, J. Wang, A. Xiong, W. Xu, Z. Yuan, H. ZhangTrade Review‘Overall, this is an admirable group effort by Chinese and European scholars and institutions to jointly study Chinese urbanism. It offers useful narratives that map the macro trends of Chinese urbanization.’ -- Xuefei Ren, Paciffic Affairs‘China’s Urban Century is the impressive outcome of a European and Chinese collaborative project. The book extensively covers Chinese urban governance, environment, heritage, lifestyle and megacities. Ambitious and timely, François Gipouloux edits the book, not only to address topical issues such as migrant housing, social security and low-carbon development, but also to probe into the fundamental process of city creation, fiscal relations, and community configuration.’ -- Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London, UK‘This is an exciting, informative, and insightful volume produced out of truly multi-disciplinary and international collaborations. It makes a timely and landmark contribution to the understanding of China's phenomenal urban transformation and its social, political, and environmental implications. With its unparalleled breadth and depth, this book provides illuminative accounts of the many facets of China's urbanization past, present, and in the years to come. A must -read for any scholars and practitioners interested in the dawn of China's urban century and the new age of global urbanism.‘ -- George C.S. Lin, Hong Kong University' In sum, this book is a useful reference for researchers who have an interest in learning about China's urbanization, especially developments since the millennium .The comprehensive account of China's institutional foundation, key policy issues and local practices provides readers with plenty of interesting points to think about. ' -- Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Dwight H. Perkins 1. Introduction François Gipouloux PART I THE INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF URBANIZATION IN CHINA 2. The City Creation Process in China François Gipouloux and Li Shantong 3. Central-local Relations in Chinese Urbanization: The Case of Chongqing Pu Yongjian and Xiong Ailun 4. Public Ownership of Land and Urbanization in China Athar Hussain and Gong Wei 5. China’s Hukou Reform and New Urbanization Blueprint Kam Wing Chan 6. Snail without a Shell: Migrant Workers' Difficult Path toward Urban Housing Chi-Han Ai, Miguel Elosua and Sébastien Goulard PART II ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN URBAN AREAS 7. The “Eco” and “Low-carbon” Promise: A Critical Review of China’s Experience Luis Balula and Olivia Bina 8. Choices Between Development and Environmental Preservation in Huangshan City Chen Hongfeng and Wang Jingya 9. Social Security Reform and its Impact on Urbanization: The Case of Shanghai Yuan Zhigang and Jing Tan 10. Implementation of New Social Housing Programmes: The Case of Shanghai and Chongqing Miguel Elosua and Ni Pengfei PART III HERITAGE PRESERVATION, TRADITIONS AND MODERN LIFESTYLES IN CHINESE CITIES 11. Historic Urban Landscapes in Shanghai: The Challenging Path from Recognition to Innovation and Appropriation within an Accelerated Socio-economic Context Françoise Ged and Shao Yong 12. The Challenge of Brownfield Rehabilitation: A Case Study of Dadukou District, Chongqing Chi-Han Ai and Oriane Pillet 13. The Formation of Governmental Community and the Closure of Housing Classes Stephan Feuchtwang, Zhang Hui and Paula Morais PART IV REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF CHINESE MEGA-CITIES 14. Fiscal Constraints and Their Impact on Financing Urbanization: The Case of Kunming Hu Ying 15. Evolutionary Process of Shanghai’s Rise to a Global City: Dynamic Dialectics of Localization and Globalization Du Debin and Huang Li and Xu Wei Index

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Book SynopsisThis is an excellent book built around an analysis of uniquely detailed datasets and providing very clear empirical insights to a range of important analytical questions in urban economics. The relevance of the book goes well beyond Europe to the wider international arena and exposition is so clear that the book serves a dual purpose - it can be used both to throw light on the empirics of key issues while at the same time it can also serve as a teaching book. Highly recommended.'- Philip McCann, University of Groningen, the Netherlands'Cities are back and so is urban economics. This book documents and explains the resurgence of cities in general and Dutch cities in particular: this is refreshing given the almost total concentration of recent analysis on the US and to a lesser extent the UK. Not only is there a clear account of what agglomeration economies mean and how they reveal themselves in Dutch cities, particularly Amsterdam, but there is a proper emphasis on the consumption aspects of cities. People like them, they like living in them and they benefit from that. It is not all about cities making workers more productive. Another excellent feature of this book is that it gives proper emphasis to land markets and how the good things cities generate get reflected in the price of land and housing. Nor is it all about abstract models and the private sector - there is proper emphasis on the importance of good urban governance and how it can be effectively paid for. The book is accessible and illustrated with great diagrams and maps. It is a good read for all interested in modern urban development.'- Paul C. Cheshire, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Cities and the Urban Premium advances our understanding of urban phenomena through the detailed quantitative description of the characteristics and evolution of the urban system in the Netherlands. Its scope and use of the latest theories and ideas in urban economics, effectively translated to the practical concerns of policy makers in the specific context of the Netherlands, make it a unique book. One that should be an invaluable companion of everyone involved in urban policy.'- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University, USAfter a long period of suburbanization, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city centre than on a large house in the countryside - and why doesn't this apply to all cities? The authors of this book argue that the appeal of the city in the 21st century is not only determined by the production side of the economy, but also by the consumption side: its array of shops, cultural activities and, for example, an historic city center.All these factors translate into a huge disparity in land prices as well as different wages for urban and rural citizens. This study maps out these variations, with an economic approach to spatial planning and an emphasis on land rents as a basis for cost-benefit analysis. The use of land prices as a reflection of the appreciation for urban amenities is an ideal measurement tool in the cost-benefit analyses for local investments and spatial planning policies, and sheds new light on the organization of public administration.This accessible book will be of interest to geographers, economists and social scientists, as well as policymakers involved in urban planning, seeking an in-depth understanding of land prices and the increasing importance of cities in the 21st century.Trade Review‘The book is easy to read and highly recommended for anyone interested in understanding the economic aspects of recent urban developments.’ -- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.‘This is an excellent book built around an analysis of uniquely detailed datasets and providing very clear empirical insights to a range of important analytical questions in urban economics. The relevance of the book goes well beyond Europe to the wider international arena and exposition is so clear that the book serves a dual purpose - it can be used both to throw light on the empirics of key issues while at the same time it can also serve as a teaching book. Highly recommended.’ -- Philip McCann, University of Groningen, the Netherlands‘Cities are back and so is urban economics. This book documents and explains the resurgence of cities in general and Dutch cities in particular: this is refreshing given the almost total concentration of recent analysis on the US and to a lesser extent the UK. Not only is there a clear account of what agglomeration economies mean and how they reveal themselves in Dutch cities, particularly Amsterdam, but there is a proper emphasis on the consumption aspects of cities. People like them, they like living in them and they benefit from that. It is not all about cities making workers more productive. Another excellent feature of this book is that it gives proper emphasis to land markets and how the good things cities generate get reflected in the price of land and housing. Nor is it all about abstract models and the private sector – there is proper emphasis on the importance of good urban governance and how it can be effectively paid for. The book is accessible and illustrated with great diagrams and maps. It is a good read for all interested in modern urban development.’ -- Paul C. Cheshire, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK‘Cities and the Urban Premium advances our understanding of urban phenomena through the detailed quantitative description of the characteristics and evolution of the urban system in the Netherlands. Its scope and use of the latest theories and ideas in urban economics, effectively translated to the practical concerns of policy makers in the specific context of the Netherlands, make it a unique book. One that should be an invaluable companion of everyone involved in urban policy.’ -- Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University, US‘De Groot, Marlet, Teulings and Vermeulen have written a compelling book on the economics of cities, land values, and their interconnection within a greater urban system. As their title promises, the authors keep land values at the forefront: arguably, the range between urban and agricultural values – which in the Netherlands varies by a factor of 200 – is the pecuniary marker of ‘civilization’, taken literally. Land prices encapsulate the value of location. The urban land premium arises from the tremendous opportunities that cities offer.’ -- Papers in Regional ScienceTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Resurrection of the City 2. Land Underneath the City 3. The Dynamics of the Dutch System of Cities 4. The Production City 5. The Consumer City 6. Land Prices and Governmental Policy 7. Agglomeration Benefits and Spatial Planning Policy 8. Social Cost-benefit Analysis of an Inner City Transformation Project 9. Agenda for the Future Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. City-regions are regeneration economies, or in other words, places that are experiencing on-going processes of recovery, adaptation or transformation. This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas of research for reading city-regions, including: trade, services and people, regional differentiation, big data, global production networks, governance and policy, and regional development. The book focuses on developing a more integrated and systematic approach to reading city-regions as part of regeneration economics by identifying conceptual and methodological developments in this field of study. Students in geography, urban studies and city and regional planning will greatly benefit from reading this, as it provides a wealth of stimuli for essays and dissertation topics. Advanced business and public policy students will also benefit from the focus on translating research into practice, an approach that this Research Agenda takes in several chapters.Contributors include: L. Andres, J.R. Bryson, J. Clark, G.J.D. Hewings, N. Kreston, M. Nathan, P. Nijkamp, J. Steenbruggen, R.J. Stimson, E. Tranos, A. Weaver, D. Wójcik, G. YeungTrade Review'This important text meaningfully advances our understanding of the complex relations between city regions and regeneration economies across the globe. Bryson, Andres and Mulhall masterfully assemble leading voices in the social sciences that provide us with innovative and penetrating analyses of current economic realities in these places and what needs to be done to resuscitate them. The result is a compelling and provocative account of places struggling to regenerate their economies and how informed public policy may make a difference.' --David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US'We often assume regions in crisis are destined for continued decline. This book challenges that assumption, showing the possibility for struggling regions to rebound and overcome economic adversity. But equally it highlights the need for thoughtful and sustained institutional action to extend the benefits of regeneration, especially in support of shared prosperity.' --Nichola Lowe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US'A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies is a most welcome addition to the scholarly literature on regional economic development planning and ''regeneration economies''. The lessons offered by the distinguished contributors to this volume should find a prominent place in professional planning curricula as well as in continuing-education workshops for practitioners.' --Jeffrey M. Chusid, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Timing and Placing Regeneration Economies 1. Dynamics and City-Region Regeneration Economies: Shaping the directions of a new Research Agenda Lauren Andres and John R. Bryson 2. Regenerating Regional Economies: Trade in Goods and Services and People Geoffrey J.D. Hewings 3. Economic Restructuring and Spatial Differentiation Down-Under Robert J. Stimson 4. Beyond Years of Schooling: Precisely Measured Skills, Skill Formation, and Economic Growth Andrew Weaver 5. Global Production Networks and Regeneration Economies Godfrey Yeung 6. Resilience of US metropolitan areas to the 2008 financial crisis Nicholas Kreston and Dariusz Wójcik 7. Regeneration Economies: A Research Agenda: Governance, policy and regional development Jennifer Clark 8. Mobile phone operators, their (big) data and urban analysis Emmanouil Tranos, John Steenbruggen and Peter Nijkamp 9. Linking Research and Policy for Local Economies Max Nathan 10. People, Place, Space and City-Regions: Towards an Integrated or Systemic Approach to Reading City-Region Regeneration Economies John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres and Rachel Mulhall 11. Epilogue: Towards a Research Agenda for City-Region Regeneration Economies: From Artificial Intelligence, the Gig Economy to Air Pollution John R. Bryson and Lauren Andres Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook addresses one of the most pertinent questions of the 21st century: why are some regions more economically resilient than others? Contributors provide a state-of-the-art collection on the meaning of resilience when applied to regional economies, offering a range of methodological approaches and rich empirical analyses of regions around the world. Chapters feature in depth examinations of regional resilience in such fields as policy practice, exports, economic shocks and supranational structural funds. Giving readers an insight into ways in which economic resilience is measured, this Handbook explores key theoretical debates and emerging pathways for the application of resilience in policy and practice. Comprehensive and deeply informative, this Handbook is crucial to researchers working in economic geography and regional studies who require insight into the breadth of debate on regional economic resilience. Practitioners and policy makers working in regional economic development will also benefit from its broad empirical approach to resilience. Contributors include: P. Benczur, E. Beqiraj, G. Bristow, J. Courvisanos, M. Cowell, G. Di Bartolomeo, P. di Caro, M. Di Pietro, D. Diodato, E. Evenhuis, R. Hassink, A. Healy, X. Hu, A. Jain, E. Joosens, T. Kitsos, A.R. Manca, K.R. Mardaneh, R. Martin, B. Menyhert, N. Pontarollo, Y. Psycharis, C. Serpieri, P. Sunley, V. Tselios, M. Tsiapa, J. Vincente, A. Weterings, S. ZecTrade Review‘As the concept of resilience becomes further entrenched into the academic and policy discourse around regional economic development, this edited volume provides a timely summary of the current state of the art. The book serves as an excellent entry point for scholars and policy makers wishing to understand the various conceptualizations, measurements, and evidence surrounding the concept of regional economic resilience as well as a wealth of ideas as to future developments in the field.’ -- Andrew Johnston, Eurasian Geography and Economics'Resilience is a now a significant concept that helps us explain why regions can weather economic shocks. This Handbook draws together a team of leading scholars, exploring the role and impact of shocks on the economic development trajectories of regions. It represents an excellent gateway for those seeking to understand the theories, measurement and analysis of regional economic resilience.' --Robert Huggins, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience 1 Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy PART I CONCEPTS AND THEORY: CONCEPTUALISING REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE 2 Regional economic resilience: evolution and evaluation 10 Ron Martin and Peter Sunley 3 Regional resilience: an agency perspective 36 Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy 4 Adaptation, adaptability and regional economic resilience: a conceptual framework 54 Xiaohui Hu and Robert Hassink 5 New directions in researching regional economic resilience and adaptation 69 Emil Evenhuis PART II MEASURING REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE 6 Quo vadis resilience? Measurement and policy challenges: using the case of Italy 88 Paolo di Caro 7 Ranking regional economic resilience in the EU 103 Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri 8 A guide to patterns of regional economic resilience 126 Karim K. Mardaneh, Ameeta Jain and Jerry Courvisanos 9 Building a policy relevant resilience measure: beyond the economic perspective 143 Peter Benczur, Elisabeth Joossens, Anna Rita Manca, Balint Menyhert and Slavica Zec 10 Putting adaptive resilience to work: measuring regional re-orientation using a matching model 171 Dario Diodato and Anet Weterings 11 Economic resilience in Great Britain: an empirical analysis at the local authority district level 190 Tasos Kitsos PART III THE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL RESILIENCE 12 Unravelling the driving forces of networks on regional resilience capabilities 209 Jérôme Vicente 13 Exports and regional resilience: evidence from Greece 226 Yannis Psycharis, Maria Tsiapa and Vassilis Tselios 14 Resilience in regional business cycles across the Benelux 242 Elton Beqiraj, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Marco Di Pietro and Carolina Serpieri 15 Interpreting and defining economic resilience: regional resilience in policy practice 263 Margaret Cowell 16 Supranational policy and economic shocks: the role of the EU’s structural funds in the economic resilience of regions 280 Adrian Healy and Gillian Bristow 17 Conclusions and reflections 299 Gillian Bristow and Adrian Healy Index 303

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Book SynopsisThis collection of original research chapters by international scholars addresses the complementary roles of transportation and knowledge and their spatial manifestations in modern urban and regional economies. The featured studies employ the most current and sophisticated technologies, while the authors add a strong element of practical application and policy implications in each chapter.The book is organized into four major themes. The first is infrastructure and economic growth, addressing the historical and contemporary economic impacts of rail, highway and transit infrastructure. The second theme, models for transportation planning and policy, includes methods for optimal toll setting and the effect of transport costs on interregional trade. The third theme, which is the spatial structure of cities, examines processes that drive and arise from urban form, including personal interaction, shopping, commuting and residential location. The fourth theme is transformations in the knowledge economy, including growing income inequality and the role of knowledge in urban dynamics. This book will be of interest to the research communities in urban and regional economics and planning, regional science, transportation studies and the knowledge economy. With its emphasis on practical aspects, it will also be of interest to the policy community.Contributors include: B. Anderson, Å.E. Andersson, C. Burke, Z. Chen, K.E. Haynes, B. Johansson, K. Kobayashi, A. Koike, Y. Konishi, T. Laitila, W.W. Ling Lo, M. Lundgren, H. Maoh, K. Matsushima, S.-i. Mun, Y. Nishiyama, Y. Ohira, M. Okumura, M. Olsson, M. Onishi, T. Otazawa, G. Ray, K. Sato, S. Segi, J-e. Sung,Y. Wan, H. Westlund, H. Yamaguchi, A. ZhangTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction, Kakuya Matsushima and William P. Anderson PART I: TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 2. Railways and Regional Growth, Dispersion and Concentration in Scandinavia over 150 Years Hans Westlund 3. Regional Economic Impacts of a Transportation Infrastructure Project: The Herb Grey Parkway William P. Anderson, Hanna Maoh and Charles Burke 4. Modeling Transportation in General Equilibrium Gautam Ray 5. Comparative Assessment of Public Transportation Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes PART II: MODELS FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND POLICY 6. Second Best Toll Pricing of Highway Taking Account of Maintenance Costs Shunsuke Segi and Kiyoshi Kobayashi 7. Armington Elasticities in Multi-Regional Trade for Transport Policy in Japan Keisuke Sato and Atsushi Koike 8. Empirical Analysis of Transport Cost for Interregional Trade Yoko Konishi, Se-il Mun, Yoshihiko Nishiyama and Ji-eun Sung 9. Airport Charges, Infrastructure Life Cycle, and Economic Impact: A Case Study of Hong Kong Yulai Wan and Anming Zhang PART III: STUDIES ON THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF CITIES 10. Synergy Effects of Face-to-face Interactions and Urban Spatial Structure Toshimori Otazawa and Yuki Ohira 11. Endogenous Formation of Urban Structure with Residential Sorting Kakuya Matsushima and Kiyoshi Kobayashi 12. A Discount Point System and Vitalization of a Commercial District with Small Retail Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Masamitsu Onishi 13. Private Purpose Inter-Regional Travels: An Integrator of Historical Inter-Regional Migrations Makoto Okumura and Hiromichi Yamaguchi 14. A Model of Commuting and the Economic Milieu. An Analysis Using Aggregated Data for Sweden Thomas Laitila, Marie Lundgren and Michael Olsson PART IV: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY 15. Internal and External Knowledge and Development in Regions Åke E Andersson and Börje Johansson Dedication: Professor Kiyoshi Kobayashi. Kakuya Matsushima and Bill Anderson Index

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Book SynopsisFor the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized architecture to achieve a variety of aims, influencing the situation, perception and competitiveness of their cities. Whether the objective is branding, re-vitalization of the economy, beautification, development of an economic and business center, status development, or seeking distinction with the tallest building, distinctive architecture has been an essential instrument for those who manage the course of a city's development. Since the 1870s, and the reconstruction of Chicago following the Great Fire, architecture has been affected powerfully by advances in design, technology and materials used in construction. The authors identify several key elements in such a strategic initiative, and in the penultimate chapter examine several cases of cities that have ignored one or more of these elements and have failed in their attempt. A unique set of insights into this fascinating topic, this study will appeal to specialists in urban planning, economic geography, and architecture. Readers interested in urban development will also find its coverage accessible and enlightening.Trade Review'In the 21st century, cities will increasingly become the dominant centres of economic and social activity and interaction. Understanding how they evolve and develop will be of crucial importance to ensuring their long-term success and sustainability. This book is a very welcome addition to the literature that seeks to explain both the tangible and intangible factors underpinning effective urban development.'R --Robert Huggins, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Architecture and modern Cities PART I The Hard Side 2. Stimulating the Revival of the City 3. Establishing Business Center Status 4. Establishing Global City Status – the World’s Tallest Building 5. Creating Transformative Parks PART II The Soft Side 6. Establishing a ‘Brand’ or ‘Identity’ 7. Relating the City to the Nation 8. Attracting a Specific Social Cohort 9. Creating Community PART III Final thoughts 10. What Happens when a City Fails to Use Architecture Creatively? 11. Some Observations and Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisResilience has lately emerged as a recurrent notion to explain how territorial socio-economic systems adapt successfully (or not) to negative events. Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics uses resilience as a bridging notion to connect different types of theoretical and empirical approaches, helping improve understanding of the impacts of economic turbulence at both system and actor levels. Providing a unique overview of the recent financial crisis, as well as assessing the importance of innovation dynamics for regional resilience, the international array of contributors offers an engaging and thought-provoking debate as to how regional resilience can be improved as well as exploring the social aspects of vulnerability, resilience and innovation. In offering a set of challenges from different regional and structural perspectives, the book helps to consolidate the research surrounding resilience in regional science. Essentially, the contributions consider the relevance of innovation systems, knowledge networks and the role innovation actors play to create new possibilities for preparing for, and adapting to, both present shocks and future problems that may arise. Offering a wealth of refreshing studies with great value for academia, industry and government, this book will be relevant for students and researchers of economics, urban and regional studies, and innovation as well as regional scientists and planners.Contributors include: P. Bary, T. Baycan, M.B. Baypinar, M. Benke, A.B.S. Bravo, R. Comunian, P. Cooke, K. Czimre, A.S. Dogruel, F. Dogruel, L. England, A. Faggian, M.E. Ferreira, K.R. Forray, T. Heinonen, D. Kallioras, T. Kozma, B. Martini, S. Márton, F.J. Ortega-Colomer, B.S. Özen, Y. Özerkek, P. Pantazis, E. Pekkola, T.S. Pereira, H. Pinto, Y. Psycharis, M.M. Ridhwan, M. Sipikal, M. Siserova, R.R. Stough, V. Szitasiova, K. Teperics, B.J. ValenciaTrade ReviewResilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics is a timely and welcome contribution to the debate on economic resilience. The volume takes a fresh look at the topic with a special focus on economic turbulence and vulnerability of regional economies. It brings together a remarkable collection of conceptual and empirical contributions from Europe and beyond, addressing many different dimensions of economic resilience. It is essential reading for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students as they seek to understand the ability of regional economies to navigate these turbulent times.' --Elvira Uyarra, University of Manchester, UK'This book, authored by recognised and young authors from thirteen countries across all continents, shows that globalisation raises similar issues for people and places around the world. It fulfils an important role in the production and sharing of scientific knowledge whilst reinforcing the vocation of regional science to respond to emerging issues in the real world.' --Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Editor of Regional Science Policy and PracticeTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics: Emerging Challenges Tüzin Baycan and Hugo Pinto PART II INNOVATION, CRISIS AND RESILIENCE 2. The effects of the global economic crisis on the innovation performance of EU countries Tüzin Baycan and Berna Sezen Özen 3. The resilience of innovation systems under economic turbulence Hugo Pinto and Tiago Santos Pereira 4. Learning regions for resilience in Hungary: Challenges and opportunities Magdolna Benke, Klára Czimre, Katalin R. Forray, Tamás Kozma, Sándor Márton and Károly Teperics 5. Innovation support, resilience and regional development in Slovakia Valeria Szitasiova, Miroslav Sipikal and Monika Siserova 6. The regional effects of macroeconomic shocks in Indonesia Masagus M. Ridhwan and Pakasa Bary 7. Transversality, Resilience and Innovation: A Qualitative Regional Analysis Philip Cooke PART III LABOR MARKETS, EMPLOYMENT AND RESILIENCE 8. Labor market resilience and reorientation in disaster scenarios Benjamin Jara and Alessandra Faggian 9. External Shocks and Regional Economic Performance in Turkey A. Suut Doğruel, Fatma Doğruel and Yasemin Özerkek 10. Employment changes and regional resilience: An application of trade-adjusted shift-share analysis to the Greek regions Yannis Psycharis, Dimitris Kallioras and Panagiotis Pantazis 11. Resilience, reorientation and variety: An analysis of Italian provinces after the 2007 economic shock Barbara Martini 12. Role of engineering education in the transition of industry: Central steering or local resilience? Francisco Javier Ortega-Colomer, Elias Pekkola and Tuomo Heinonen PART IV CLUSTERS, INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS AND RESILIENCE 13. Learning regions, clusters and resiliency: A typology of regional and cluster dynamics Roger R. Stough 14. A case study of resilience: The footwear cluster of Northern Portugal Maria Estela Ferreira 15. Innovation, technology transfers and regional competitiveness: A study for Oeiras Bio-pharmaceutical industry Ana Santos Bravo 16. Resilience of Software Clusters and Turkey’s Experience Mete Başar Baypınar 17. The resilience of knowledge from industrial to creative clusters: The case of regional craft clusters in the West Midlands (UK) Roberta Comunian and Lauren England Index

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Book SynopsisAs a consequence of globalization, news, ideas and knowledge are moving quickly across national borders and generating international spillovers. So too, however, are economic and financial crises. Combining a variety of methods, concepts and interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides an in-depth examination of these structural changes and their impact. Case studies from a range of countries including Japan, Turkey, Sweden, Germany and the USA offer insight into different national contexts and are used to explore a variety of theoretical and empirical issues relating to the geography of growth. Assessing the implications of globalization for businesses and sectors, the chapters focus on the interdependencies between different economic and political layers, and explore topics such as human capital, creativity, innovation, networks and collaboration. Researchers and policy makers who are interested in regional growth at different spatial scales will find that this work addresses a number of existing knowledge gaps. Students of economics, economic geography, regional science and international industrial management will also find it to be a valuable interdisciplinary resource to help deepen their knowledge of the myriad processes induced by globalization.Contributors include: G.M. Artz, T. Arvemo, G. Cook, A.P. Cornett, U. Grasjo, Z. Guo, M. Hirano, O. Hovardaoglu, N. Javakhishvili-Larsen, C. Karlsson, M. Klatt, M. Kurashige, H. Loof, A. Naveed, M. Olsson, O. Olsson, P.F. Orazem, O. Pesamaa, K. Sakakibara, Y. Shevtsova, T.-A. Stone, M. Svensson, T. WallinTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization, international spillovers and sectoral changes: an introduction Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett and Tina Wallin Part I General aspects of globalization 2. Does Culture Matter? The Role of Board Efficacy, Growth and Competitiveness in Western and Asian Corporate Governance Ossi Pesämaa and Martin Svensson 3. The impact of technology spillovers and international knowledge flows on the productivity and innovativeness of UK multinationals Gary Cook, Yevgeniya Shevtsova and Hans Lööf 4. How does distance determine multinational location choice? A literature review Trudy-Ann Stone Part II Sector-specific transformations 5. Yanagiya: One of the Best Practice Manufacturing SMEs in Japan Makoto Hirano, Mitsuhiro Kurashige and Kiyonori Sakakibara 6. ICT as a driver of innovation: a life cycle approach Ola Olsson Part III Implications for regions in general 7. Knowledge-based Strategies and Sources of Growth in Small and Medium-sized Cities: A lesson from the literature Amjad Naveed 8. Location, Location, Location: Place-Specific Human Capital, Rural Firm Entry and Firm Survival Georgeanne M. Artz, Zizhen Guo, and Peter F. Orazem 9. Succeeding Generations, Changing Trajectories: Influences of Generational Transition on Local Development Experiences Ozan Hovardaoğlu 10. The Swedish commuting pattern: A gravity model of commuting, with housing-expenditure and income constraints Michael Olsson Part IV Implications for cross-border regions 11. Employment and economic activity in different Swedish border regions Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö 12. Identifying potential human capital creation within the Cross-Border Institutional Thickness model in the Rhine-Waal Region Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, Andreas P. Cornett, and Martin Klatt Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years China has experienced intense economic development. Previously a rapidly urbanising industrial economy, the country has become a post-industrial economy with a service sector that accounts for almost half the nation's GDP. This transformation has created many socio-political changes, but key among them is social mobilisation. This book provides a full and systematic analysis of social mobilisation in China, and how its use as part of state capacity has evolved.The first book on the topic written in English in recent decades, Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China provides readers with a thorough analysis covering all vertical administrative levels, as well as considering new participants. Bringing together interdisciplinary analyses of the current uses of social mobilisation in China, this book draws on empirically rich original research. It presents a clear picture of how boyi ('strategic game-playing') is acted out at different levels of society and within different sectors, and the social dynamics at work.This book is a unique resource, and will be invaluable for researchers and students of Asian and Chinese studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Management studies. Policy analysts, activists, strategists and educators will also find this book a useful tool for learning more about how social mobilisation mechanisms are utilised in China today.Table of ContentsContents Preface 1. China’s current rural urbanisation and historical context 2. The evolving role of central decision-makers in launching policy initiatives 3. The politics of social mobilisation at the provincial level 4. The emerging powers of the ‘invisible hand’ 5. Mobilising policy support and resources at the prefectural Level 6. The awkward roles of county and township governments in rural urbanisation 7. Participatory responses of villagers to initiatives 8. Towards an updated understanding of social mobilisation in China References Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive literature review presents key contributions to the topic of regional economic advantage. It helps the reader to understand how regions build advantage for industrial development through the use of endogenous and exogenous resources, how regional industrial development can be supported by place-based policy, and how the form and mechanisms of regional advantage change over time in a path dependent manner. Also analysed is research on industrial districts and new industrial spaces, as well as regional clusters and innovation systems, along with more recent discussion of global development impulses and evolutionary perspectives on regional development. Written by three experts in the field, this important review is an essential resource for those studying, researching or practicing in this area. Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Bjørn T. Asheim, Arne Isaksen and Michaela Trippl PART I INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS 1. Sebastiano Brusco (1982), ‘The Emilian Model: Productive Decentralisation and Social Integration’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 6 (2), June, 167–84 2. Giacomo Becattini (1990), ’The Marshallian Industrial District as a Socio-Economic Notion’, in F. Pyke, G. Becattini and W. Sengenberger (eds), Industrial Districts and Inter-Firm Co-Operation in Italy, Chapter 4, Geneva, Switzerland: International Institute for Labour Studies, 37–51 3. Sebastiano Brusco (1990), ‘The Idea of the Industrial District: Its Genesis’, in F. Pyke, G. Becattini and W. Sengenberger (eds), Industrial Districts and Inter-Firm Co-Operation in Italy, Chapter 2, Geneva, Switzerland: International Institute for Labour Studies, 10–19 4. Bjørn T. Asheim (2000), ‘Industrial Districts: The Contributions of Marshall and Beyond’, in Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman and Meric S. Gertler (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Part IV, Section 9, Chapter 21, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 413–31 PART II INNOVATIVE MILIEUS 5. Roberto P. Camagni (1995), ‘The Concept of Innovative Milieu and its Relevance for Public Policies in European Lagging Regions’, Papers in Regional Science, 74 (4), October, 317–40 6. Denis Maillat (1995), ‘Territorial Dynamic, Innovative Milieus and Regional Policy’, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 7 (2), 157–65 PART III FLEXIBLE SPECIALISATION AND NEW INDUSTRIAL SPACES (PAST AND PRESENT) 7. Giorgio Fuà (1983), ‘Rural Industrialization in Later Developed Countries: The Case of Northeast and Central Italy’, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, 36 (147), December, 351–77 8. Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin (1985), ‘Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization’, Past and Present, 108 (1), August, 133–76 9. A. J. Scott (1988), ‘Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 12 (2), June, 171–85 10. Michael Storper and Bennett Harrison (1991), ‘Flexibility, Hierarchy and Regional Development: The Changing Structure of Industrial Production Systems and Their Forms of Governance in the 1990s’, Research Policy, 20 (5), October, 407–22 11. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift (1992), ‘Neo-Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 16 (4), December, 571–87 12. Michael Storper (1995), ‘The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later: The Region as a Nexus of Untraded Interdependencies’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 2 (3), July, 191–221 PART IV INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES 13. AnnaLee Saxenian (1996), ‘Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128’, Cityscape: Bridging Regional Growth and Community Empowerment, 2 (2), May, 41–60 14. Richard Florida (2002), ‘The Economic Geography of Talent’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92 (4), 743–55 15. Meric S. Gertler (2003), ‘Tacit Knowledge and the Economic Geography of Context, or The Undefinable Tacitness of Being (There)’, Journal of Economic Geography, 3 (1), January, 75–99 16. Michael Storper and Anthony J. Venables (2004), ‘Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy’, Journal of Economic Geography, 4 (4), August, 351–70 17. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (2013), ‘Do Institutions Matter for Regional Development?‘, Regional Studies, 47 (7), 1034–47 PART V REGIONAL CLUSTERS 18. Bjørn Asheim, Philip Cooke and Ron Martin (2006), ‘The Rise of the Cluster Concept in Regional Analysis and Policy: A Critical Assessment’, in Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations, Chapter 1, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 1–29 19. Michael E. Porter (2000), ‘Locations, Clusters, and Company Strategy’, in Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman and Meric S. Gertler (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Part III, Section 6, Chapter 13, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 253–74 20. Ron Martin and Peter Sunley (2003), ‘Deconstructing Clusters: Chaotic Concept or Policy Panacea?’, Journal of Economic Geography, 3 (1), January, 5–35 21. Maryann P. Feldman, Johanna Francis and Janet Bercovitz (2005), ‘Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm: Entrepreneurs and the Formation of Industrial Clusters’, Regional Studies, 39 (1), February, 129–41 22. Anders Malmberg and Dominic Power (2006), ‘True Clusters: A Severe Case of Conceptual Headache’, in Bjørn Asheim, Philip Cooke and Ron Martin (eds), Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations, Chapter 3, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 50–68 23. Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell (2006), ‘Localized Learning Revisited’, Growth and Change, 37 (1), March, 1–18 24. Bjørn T. Asheim, Arne Isaksen, Roman Martin and Michaela Trippl (2017), ‘The Role of Clusters and Public Policy in New Regional Economic Path Development’, in Dirk Fornahl and Robert Hassink (eds), The Life Cycle of Clusters: A Policy Perspective, Part I, Chapter 1, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 13–34 PART VI REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS AND POLICY 25. Philip Cooke (2001), ‘Regional Innovation Systems, Clusters, and the Knowledge Economy’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (4), December, 945–74 26. Kevin Morgan (1997), ‘The Learning Region: Institutions, Innovation and Regional Renewal’, Regional Studies, 31 (5), 491–503 27. Maryann P. Feldman (2000), ‘Location and Innovation: The New Economic Geography of Innovation, Spillovers, and Agglomeration’, in Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman and Meric S. Gertler (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Part IV, Section 8, Chapter 19, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 373–94 28. Bjørn T. Asheim and Arne Isaksen (2002), ‘Regional Innovation Systems: The Integration of Local “Sticky” and Global “Ubiquitous” Knowledge’, Journal of Technology Transfer, 27 (1), January, 77–86 29. Franz Tödtling and Michaela Trippl (2005), ‘One Size Fits All? Towards a Differentiated Regional Innovation Policy Approach’, Research Policy: Regionalization of Innovation Policy, 34 (8), October, 1203–19 30. Bjørn T. Asheim and Meric S. Gertler (2005), ‘The Geography of Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems’, in Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery and Richard R. Nelson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Part II, Chapter 11, New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press, 291–317 PART VII LOCALISATION AND GLOBALISATION 31. Harald Bathelt, Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell (2004), ‘Clusters and Knowledge: Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation’, Progress in Human Geography, 28 (1), February, 31–56 32. Kevin Morgan (2004), ‘The Exaggerated Death of Geography: Learning, Proximity and Territorial Innovation Systems’, Journal of Economic Geography, 4 (1), January, 3–21 33. AnnaLee Saxenian (2005), ‘From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China’, Studies in Comparative International Development, 40 (2), Summer, 35–61 34. Elisa Giuliani and Martin Bell (2005), ‘The Micro-Determinants of Meso-Level Learning and Innovation: Evidence from a Chilean Wine Cluster’, Research Policy, 34 (1), February, 47–68 35. Henry Wai-chung Yeung (2009), ‘Regional Development and the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective’, Regional Studies: Local and Regional Development in Asia, 43 (3), April, 325–51 PART VIII CONSTRUCTING REGIONAL ADVANTAGE AND SMART SPECIALISATION 36. Dominique Foray (2014), ‘From Smart Specialisation to Smart Specialisation Policy’, European Journal of Innovation Management, Special Issue: Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation in Europe, 17 (4), 492–507 37. Ron Boschma (2014), ‘Constructing Regional Advantage and Smart Specialisation: Comparison of Two European Policy Concepts’, Italian Journal of Regional Science, Special Issue: Smart Specialisation and the New EU Cohesion Policy Reform, 13 (1), 51–68 38. Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés (2015), ‘Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy’, Regional Studies: Place-Based Economic Development and the New EU Cohesion Policy, 49 (8), 1291–302 39. Bjørn Asheim, Markus Grillitsch and Michaela Trippl (2017), ‘Smart Specialization as an Innovation-Driven Strategy for Economic Diversification: Examples From Scandinavian Regions’, in Slavo Radosevic, Adrian Curaj, Radu Gheorghiu, Liviu Andreescu and Imogen Wade (eds), Advances in the Theory and Practice of Smart Specialization, Chapter 4, London and Oxford, UK and Cambridge MA and San Diego, CA, USA: Academic Press, 73–97 PART IX EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES 40. Ron A. Boschma (2004), ‘Competitiveness of Regions from an Evolutionary Perspective’, Regional Studies, 38 (9), December, 1001–14 41. Ron Martin (2010), ‘Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography – Rethinking Regional Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution’, Economic Geography, 86 (1), January, 1–27 42. Ron Boschma (2015), ‘Towards an Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Resilience’, Regional Studies: Evolutionary Economic Geography: Theoretical and Empirical Progress, 49 (5), 733–51 43. James Simmie (2013), ‘Path Dependence and New Technological Path Creation in the Economic Landscape’, in Philip Cooke (ed.), Re-framing Regional Development: Evolution, Innovation and Transition, Part II, Chapter 8, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 164–85 44. Stuart Dawley, Danny MacKinnon, Andrew Cumbers and Andy Pike (2015), ‘Policy Activism and Regional Path Creation: The Promotion of Offshore Wind in North East England and Scotland’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 8 (2), July, 257–72 45. Arne Isaksen and Michaela Trippl (2016), ‘Path Development in Different Regional Innovation Systems: A Conceptual Analysis’, in Mario Davide Parrilli, Rune Dahl Fitjar and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose (eds), Innovation Drivers and Regional Innovation Strategies, Part I, Chapter 4, New York, NY, USA and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 66–84 Index

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.Trade Review'Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure explores the crucial connection between globalised financial flows and the infrastructure that provides the scaffolding for urban development. By following the money, the authors show the interaction of state and capital in shaping urban form and the uneven impacts on particular cities and groups within them.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance 3. Towards city statecraft 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals 6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, economic crises, regional fragmentation trends, radical technological innovation and the failures of regional policies have expanded the knowledge horizon of experts in regional growth and development. This fully updated, revised and expanded Second Edition contains eight new chapters as well as exploring theories prevalent in the first edition in the face of recent changes in the field. With 30 chapters from leading experts from across the globe, this Handbook looks at new pathways in regional economics, presenting the most cutting-edge theories explaining regional growth and local development. It thoroughly examines recent advances in theories, the normative potentialities that they have and the cross-fertilization of ideas between regional and mainstream economists, providing crucial insights to the topic. This will be an essential source of reference and information for scholars and advanced students of regional science and regional economics. It will also be a useful tool for experts in international institutions researching regional growth.Trade Review'Capello and Nijkamp's significantly extended and updated Handbook is a tour de force of the best scholars in regional science. It is a complete guide to the theories, methodologies and literature of the field, and should be on the desk of all regional science and regional economic scholars.' --Mark Partridge, Ohio State University, US, Jinan University, China and GSSI, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the second edition: novelties and advances Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp Part I Growth Theories and Space 1. Theories of Agglomeration and Regional Economic Growth: a Historical Review Philip McCann and Frank van Oort 2. Space, Growth and Development: a Historical Perspective and Recent Advances Roberta Capello 3. Location/Allocation of Regional Growth Gunther Maier and Michaela Trippl 4. Regional Growth and Trade in the New Economic Geography and Other Recent Theories Kieran P. Donaghy 5. Leadership, Institutions and Regional Economic Development and Growth Roger `R. Stough Part II Development Theories: Regional Production Factors 6. Agglomeration, Productivity and Regional Growth: Production Theory Approaches Jeffrey P. Cohen, Cletus C. Coughlin, and Catherine J. Morrison Paul 7. Territorial Capital and Regional Development: Theoretical Insights and Appropriate Policies Roberto Camagni 8. Human Capital and Regional Development Alessandra Faggian, Félix Modrego and Philip McCann 9. Infrastructure and Regional Development Johannes Bröcker, Dirk Dohse and Piet Rietveld 10. The Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp 11. Foreign Direct Investments, Global Value Chains and Regional Development Laura Resmini Part III Development Theories: Innovation, Knowledge and Space 12. Theories of Innovation in Space: Path-breaking Achievements in Regional Science Roberta Capello 13. Innovation and space. Achievements and prospects Camilla Lenzi 14. R&D Spillovers and Regional Development/Growth Daria Denti 15. Regional Development and Knowledge Borje Johansson and Charlie Karlsson 16. Territorial development and proximity relations André Torre 17. Sustainable Development and Regional Growth Revisited Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp 18. Spatial Clusters and Regional Development Karima Kourtit and Peter Gordon Part IV Regional Growth and Development Measurement Methods 19. Measuring Agglomeration Ryohei Nakamura and Catherine J. Morrison Paul 20. Investigating endogenous regional performance Robert J. Stimson, William Mitchell, Michael Flanagan, and Alistair Robson 21. Spatial-Economic Disparities and Convergence Stilianos Alexiadis 22. Heterogeneous reaction versus interaction in spatial econometric regional growth and convergence models Julie Le Gallo and Cem Ertur 23. CGE Modelling in Space: a Survey Kieran P. Donaghy 24. Modern Regional Input-Output and Impact Analyses Jan Oosterhaven, Karen R. Polenske and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings Part V Regional Growth and Development Policies 25. Institutions and Regional Development T.R. Lakshmanan and Ken J. Button 26. Regional Policy: Rationale, Foundations and Measurement of Effects Jouke van Dijk, Henk Folmer and Jan Oosterhaven 27. Regional Policy Models: a Review Ana M. B. Barufi and Eduardo A. Haddad 28. Quantitative Evaluation Techniques for Regional Policies Augusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini 29. The Regional Adjustment Model: An Instrument of Evidence-based Policy John I. Carruthers and Gordon F. Mulligan 30. Economic Decline and Public Intervention: Do Special Economic Zones Matter? Peter Friedrich and Chang Woon Nam Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas. Chapters explore novel contributions on urban evolution and adjustment patterns based on studies from across the globe. Both causal mechanisms and policy responses to the high social costs of urban disasters are addressed. In particular, the book explores the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters, including migration due to large earthquakes in Japan, the economic impact of terrorist attacks in Istanbul and labour market changes as a result of natural disasters in Italy. Urban planning and urban economics scholars will greatly benefit from the multidisciplinary analyses of a variety of case studies in the book. City planners and urban administrators will also find the exploration of potential paths of resilience for cities to be an invaluable tool for future planning.Contributors include: K. Borsekova, M. Dobrík, K. Fabián, R. Fabling, D.l. Felsenstein, R. Goncharov, A. Grimes, A.Y. Grinberger, T. Inal-Çekiç, Y. Ishikawa, M. Morisugi, K. Nakajima, P. Nijkamp, M.D. Özügül, F. Pagliacci, M. Russo, L. Rýsová, N. Sakamoto, E. Seçkin, M. Taheri Tafti, L. Timar, N. ZamyatinaTrade Review'This book evidences an era where cities and disasters become larger and resilience becomes more difficult to manage.' --Roger Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Part I Methodology and disaster impact analysis 1. Blessing in Disguise – Long-Run Benefits of Urban Disasters Kamila Borsekova and Peter Nijkamp 2. Natural selection: Firm performance following a catastrophic earthquake Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar 3. What Factors Determine Economic Strength in the Restoration Process from Extreme Disasters? Masafumi Morisugi, Kazunori Nakajima and Naoki Sakamoto 4. Population Change and Economic Impacts on the Affected Region: The Case of Massive Earthquakes in Japan Yoshifumi Ishikawa Part II Case studies on resilience 5. An AHP Based Methodology Towards Resilient Tourism Strategies: The Istanbul Case Ebru Seçkin 6. Resilience of Urban Systems in the Context of Urban Transformation: Lessons from Beykoz-İstanbul Tuba Inal Çekiç and Mehmet Doruk Özügül 7. Arctic urbanization: resilience in a condition of permanent instability. The case of Russian Arctic cities Nadezda Zamyatina and Ruslan Goncharov Part III Policy prevention and recovery analysis – simulations and scenario building 8. Urban Resilience and the politics of scale Mojgan Taheri Tafti 9. Multi-hazard, exposure and vulnerability in Italian municipalities Francesco Pagliacci and Margherita Russo 10. Urban Disasters Crisis Management Scenario Design and Crisis Management Simulation Karol Fabián, Lucia Rýsová and Michal Dobrík 11. Emerging Urban Dynamics and Labor Market Change: An Agent-Based Simulation of Recovery from a Disaster A. Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein Index

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Book SynopsisLarge infrastructure projects often face significant cost overruns and stakeholder fragmentation. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) allow governments to procure long-term infrastructure services from private providers, rather than developing, financing and managing infrastructure assets themselves. Aligning public and private interests and institutional logics to create robust, decades-long service contracts subject to shifting economic and political contexts is a significant cross-sectoral governance challenge. This work summarizes over a decade of research conducted by scholars at Stanford s Global Projects Center and multiple US and International collaborators to enhance the governance of both infrastructure projects and institutional investors, whose long term, cash flow obligations align especially well with the kinds of long term inflation-adjusted returns that PPP infrastructure projects can generate. In these pages, multiple theoretical perspectives are integrated and combined with empirical evidence to examine how experiences from more mature PPP jurisdictions can help improve PPP governance approaches worldwide. The information contained here will appeal to engineering, economics, political science, public policy and finance scholars interested in the delivery of high-quality, sustainable infrastructure services to the citizens in countries with established and emerging market economies. Officials in national, state/provincial and local government agencies seeking alternative financing and service provision strategies for their civil and social infrastructure, and legislators and their staff members interested in promoting PPP legislation will find this book invaluable. It will also be of high interest to long-term investment professionals from pension funds, sovereign funds, family offices and university endowments seeking to deploy money into the infrastructure asset class, and practitioners seeking insights into methods for enhancing stakeholder incentive alignment, reducing transaction costs and improving project outcomes in PPPs. Contributors: B.G. Cameron, G. Carollo, C.B. Casady, E.F. Crawley, K. Eriksson, W. Feng, M.J. Garvin, K.E. Gasparro, R.R. Geddes, W.J. Henisz, D.R. Lessard, R.E. Levitt, T. Liu, A.H.B. Monk, D.A. Nguyen, C. Nowacki, W.R. Scott, R. Sharma, A.J. SouthTrade Review'In conclusion, the editors of the book have collected a series of chapters that provide a valuable and contemporary look into the state of practice of PPP in the United States, it offers various interesting proposals for the improved institutional design of PPPs, and it inspires and strengthens the comparative research agenda on studying the performance and design of PPPs.' --Stefan Verweij, Public Works Management & Policy'This is the book on infrastructure development that researchers and practitioners have been waiting for. It brings together some of the world's leading scholars - several based in the Global Project Center at Stanford University - to provide a rigorous analysis and critical discussion of the challenges involved in the governance, financing and management of mature and innovative new forms of PPP transportation infrastructure projects. While the work addresses a diverse range of topics concerning the risks and opportunities for PPP provision in developing and developed countries, each chapter draws upon a shared intellectual framework and is informed by ideas and concepts from organization theory and design.' --Andrew Davies, University College London, UK'This is a remarkable contribution to the growing literature on infrastructure financing and management. Ray Levitt and his colleagues provide the fundamental conceptual building blocks for understanding how public-private partnerships can transform the market for infrastructure development. They do so with a sure feel for the theoretical issues as well as the very practical concerns that come with stitching together public, private, and community interests in infrastructure investment. Each paper is important in its own right - and the combination is unbeatable. This book will make a lasting contribution to how we understand the issues and is just as important for the emerging economic powerhouse of China and the developed economies of the West.' --Gordon Clark, Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt and Michael J. Garvin Part I: Public-Private Partnerships: Definitions, Myths and Institutional Challenges W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt and Michael J. Garvin 1. Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Delivery Ashby H. B. Monk, Raymond E. Levitt, Michael J. Garvin, Andrew J. South, and George Carollo 2. Stakeholder Network Dynamics in Public-Private Partnerships Andrew J. South 3. Toward a Unified Theory of Project Governance: Economic, Sociological and Psychological Supports for Relational Contracting Witold J. Henisz, Raymond E. Levitt, and W. Richard Scott 4. Stakeholders, Issues, and the Shaping of Large Engineering Projects Wen Feng, Donald R. Lessard, Bruce G. Cameron, and Edward F. Crawley Part II: Governance Mechanisms in PPP Planning, Delivery, Contracting and Management Introduction to Part II Raymond E. Levitt, W. Richard Scott, and Michael J. Garvin 5. Mitigating PPP Governance Challenges: Lessons from Eastern Australia Raymond E. Levitt and Kent Eriksson 6. Contractual Risk Sharing Mechanisms in US Highway PPP Projects Duc A. Nguyen and Michael J. Garvin Part III: Leveraging Institutional Capital and Governmental Fiscal Support for PPPs to Enable the “Golden Handshake” Michael J. Garvin, W. Richard Scott, and Raymond E. Levitt 7. The Role of Institutional Investors for PPP Infrastructure Investments Ashby H. B. Monk and Rajiv Sharma 8. Framework to Assess Fiscal Support Mechanisms for Mitigating Revenue Risk in Transportation Public-Private Partnerships Ting Liu and Michael J. Garvin Part IV: Evolution of Mature PPP Institutional Fields W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt, and Michael J. Garvin 9. (Re)Assessing Public-Private Partnership Governance Challenges: An Institutional Maturity Perspective Carter B. Casady, Kent Eriksson, Raymond E. Levitt, and W. Richard Scott 10. Transportation Public-Private Partnership Market in the United States: Moving Beyond Its Current State Michael J. Garvin 11. Private Participation in US Infrastructure: The Role of Regional PPP Units Carter B. Casady and R. Richard Geddes Part V: Emerging Tools for Infrastructure Project Finance and Delivery Raymond E. Levitt, W. Richard Scott and Michael J. Garvin 12. The Financier State: Infrastructure Planning and Asset Recycling in New South Wales, Australia Caroline Nowacki 13. Community Investment and Crowdfunding as Partnership Strategies for Local Infrastructure Delivery Kate E. Gasparro Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC.Examining studies from the end of 1970 through to the current leading approach to urbanism, planning and design, the book provides an up-to-date snapshot of CTC. Insightful chapters are split into five parts covering the early foundations of the topic, the evolution of towns and cities and urban complexity, the links between complexity, languages and cities, modelling traffic and parking in cities, and urban planning and design. The Handbook on Cities and Complexity concludes with the contributors’ personal statements on their observations of COVID-19’s impact upon global cities. This book will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity and also for scholars of urban studies, planning, physics, mathematics, AI, and architecture.Trade Review'This is a fascinating collection of discussions by leading authors, ranging from philosophical perspectives to conceptual frameworks and mathematical models across many disciplines. A unifying theme is the role of human cognition and decision making, addressed via psychology, uncertainty and risk, evolutionary game theory, behavioral economics and more. The book should be a reference to anyone interested in the history of the field and as a source of ideas for the opportunities (and challenges) of treating cities as complex systems in contrast to less holistic approaches to urban planning and policy.' -- Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Cities and Complexity 1 Juval Portugali PART I FOUNDATIONS 1 Cities, complexity and beyond 13 Juval Portugali 2 The emergence of complexity theories: an outline 28 Hermann Haken 3 City systems and complexity 48 Michael Batty 4 Major transitions in the story of urban complexity 64 Stephen Marshall and Nick Green PART II COMPLEXITY THEORIES OF CITIES 5 Complexity: the evolution and planning of towns and cities 86 Peter M. Allen 6 Synergetic cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Co-evolution as the secret of urban complexity 136 Denise Pumain 8 Fractal geometry for analyzing and modeling urban patterns and planning sustainable cities 154 Pierre Frankhauser 9 Scaling, fractals and the spatial complexity of cities 176 Yanguang Chen 10 Cybernetic cities: designing and controlling adaptive and robust urban systems 195 Carlos Gershenson, Paolo Santi and Carlo Ratti PART III COMPLEXITY, LANGUAGE AND CITIES 11 New concepts in complexity theory arising from studies in the field of architecture: an overview of the four books of the nature of order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised 210 Christopher Alexander 12 The dialectic as driver of complexity in urban and social systems 233 Alan Penn PART IV MODELING COMPLEX CITIES 13 Modelling car traffic in cities 260 Vincent Verbavatz and Marc Barthelemy 14 Studying the dynamics of urban traffic flows using percolation: a new methodology for real-time urban and transportation planning 274 Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy, Shlomo Havlin and Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal 15 The simple complex phenomenon of urban parking 295 Itzhak Benenson and Nir Fulman PART V COMPLEXITY, PLANNING AND DESIGN 16 Complexity and uncertainty: implications for urban planning 319 Stefano Moroni and Daniele Chiffi 17 Tailoring nudges to self-organising behavioural patterns in public space 331 Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo 18 Evolutionary games in cities and urban planning 349 Sara Encarna..o, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Margarida Pereira, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali 19 Homo faber, Homo ludens and the city: a SIRNIA view on urban planning and design 370 Juval Portugali Epilogue: cities and complexity in the time of COVID-19 391 Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali, Michael Batty, Stephen Marshall, Nick Green, Peter M. Allen, Pierre Frankhauser, Carlos Gershenson, Alan Penn, Vincent Verbavatz, Marc Barthelemy, Daniele Chiffi, Stefano Moroni, Koen Bandsma, Ward S. Rauws and Gert de Roo Index

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Book SynopsisA novel contribution to the growing field of regional innovation policies, this timely book combines recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions. With a keen focus on non-core regions, some of the top scholars in the field discuss the topics of regional path transformation, place-based strategy and policy learning. Analysing the role of EU institutions, the book includes a thematic section on EU regional and innovation policies as well as four key case studies of peripheral European regions, Galicia, Apulia, Malopolska and Agder. By analysing these case studies, the authors offer advice on how to improve regional innovation policies and systems within a modern context, where smart specialisation dominates and competitiveness is increasingly relevant. EU studies, innovation and regional studies scholars will appreciate the blend of empirical evidence and theory. It will also be useful to policy-makers in charge of innovation policies at regional as well as EU level. Contributors include: C. Ares, A. Arrona, B.T. Asheim, E. Baier, C.A.M. del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, I. Dileo, J. Gancarczyk, M. Gancarczyk, M. González-López, R. Hassink, A. Isaksen, J. Karlsen, R.N.S.S. J.P. Knudsen, M. Larrea, F. Losurdo, M. Najda-Janoszka, Ó. Rodil-Marzábal, S. Strickert, M. Trippl, P. Varela-Vázquez, X. Vence-Deza, A. ZenkerTable of ContentsContents List of contributors vii Introduction: regional innovation systems and regional innovation policies 1 Manuel González-López and Bjørn T. Asheim 1 The role of the Regional Innovation System approach in contemporary regional policy: is it still relevant in a globalised world? 12 Bjørn T. Asheim, Arne Isaksen and Michaela Trippl 2 Advancing place-based regional innovation policies 30 Robert Hassink 3 Policy learning in regions: the potential of co-generative research methodologies to help responsible innovation 46 Ainhoa Arrona, James Karlsen and Miren Larrea 4 Regional autonomy and innovation policy 66 Elisabeth Baier and Andrea Zenker 5 EU regional development policy, from regional convergence to development through innovation 92 Cristina Ares 6 An overview of the European Union innovation policy from the regional perspective 113 María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira 7 Regional Innovation Systems and regional disparities in the Euro area: insights for regional innovation policy 139 Óscar Rodil-Marzabal and Xavier Vence-Deza 8 The effects of projects funded by the EU Framework Programmes on regional innovation and scientific performance 162 Pedro Varela-Vazquez and Manuel González-López 9 Evolution and change of the Galician innovation system and policies 188 Manuel González-López 10 The evolution of regional innovation policy in a peripheral area: the case of Apulia region 207 Ivano Dileo and Francesco Losurdo 11 Regional innovation system and policy in Malopolska, Poland: an institutionalised learning 225 Marta Gancarczyk, Marta Najda-Janoszka and Jacek Gancarczyk 12 The Agder region: an innovation policy case study 252 Roger Normann, Sissel Strickert and Jon P. Knudsen Index 271

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook examines the evolution of smart growth over the past three decades, mapping the trajectory from its original principles to its position as an important paradigm in urban planning today. Critically analysing the original concept of smart growth and how it has been embedded in state and local plans, contributions from top scholars in the field illustrate what smart growth has accomplished since its conception, as well as to what extent it has achieved its goals.Providing an overview of the history of smart growth, the book further examines its changing governance over time, and the new horizons for smart growth, exploring ways to confront contemporary challenges in urban planning. Illuminating key issues in the field, from urban sprawl to gentrification, that the original principles failed to address, this insightful Handbook advocates for the expansion of smart growth principles to meet the emerging challenges of the modern world, concluding with an agenda for a “smart growth 2.0”. Informative and comprehensive, this Handbook will prove to be essential reading for researchers, academics and students of urban planning. Its proposals for the future evolution of smart growth will also serve as an accessible and up-to-date reference point for urban planning professionals, activists and policymakers.Trade Review‘Too often when a new and transformational movement emerges, we do not take time to contemplate and evaluate its achievements and shortcomings. This crucial and comprehensive volume on smart growth gives us a much-needed critical reflection on how the movement unfolded and how it continues to impact urbanization as new challenges arrive in the 21st century. A must-read for every urbanist, whether professional or armchair!’ -- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto, Canada‘Full of counter-intuitive and often sobering insights, this volume is not just incredibly timely, it's indispensable as a reference on the past, present and uncertain future of the smart growth ideal.’ -- Xavier de Souza Briggs, Brookings Metro, US‘The Handbook is a sobering assessment of the movement’s progress over its first generation. While its success has been too elusive for many advocates, this book shows that Smart Growth’s progress over just a generation is impressive, nonetheless. Using lessons from the first generation, the Handbook is the platform that will guide research, policy, and practice over the next generation.’ -- Arthur C. Nelson, University of Arizona, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii Introduction xix PART I SMART GROWTH HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, AND GOVERNANCE 1 Smart growth: introduction, history, and an agenda for the future 2 John D. Landis 2 Smart growth governance in historical context: the rise and fall of states 35 Martin A. Bierbaum, Rebecca Lewis, and Tim Chapin PART II SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE LOCATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 3 Urban containment as smart growth 60 John I. Carruthers, Hanxue Wei, and Lucien Wostenholme 4 Farmland and forest conservation: evaluation of smart growth policies and tools 75 David A. Newburn, Lori Lynch, and Haoluan Wang 5 Redevelopment and the smart growth movement: definitions, consequences, and future considerations 92 Bernadette Hanlon PART III SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT 6 Promoting mixed land uses for smart growth: implications and recommendations for research and practice 111 Yan Song 7 The urban design requirements of smart growth 128 Emily Talen 8 Smart growth and housing choice 145 Casey Dawkins and Jinyhup Kim PART IV SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES: THE TRANSPORTATION-LAND USE CONNECTION 9 A step ahead for smart growth: creating walkable neighborhoods 168 Kelly J. Clifton 10 Transportation: a facilitator of and barrier to smart growth 188 Timothy F. Welch and Steven R. Gehrke PART V NEW HORIZONS FOR SMART GROWTH: HEALTH AND EQUITY 11 Planning for opportunity: linking smart growth to public education and workforce development 207 Ariel H. Bierbaum, Jeffrey M. Vincent, and Jonathan P. Katz 12 Smart growth and public health: making the connection 228 Andrea Garfinkel-Castro and Reid Ewing 13 Smart growth’s misbegotten legacy: gentrification 245 Nicholas Finio and Elijah Knaap 14 Growing together or apart? Critical tensions in charting an equitable smart growth future 259 Willow Lung-Amam and Katy June-Friesen PART VI NEW HORIZONS FOR SMART GROWTH: CLIMATE, ENERGY, AND TECHNOLOGY 15 Community resilience to environmental hazards and climate change: can smart growth make a difference? 277 Marccus D. Hendricks and Philip R. Berke 16 Tale of two sprawls: energy planning and challenges for smart growth 291 Jacob Becker and Nikhil Kaza 17 Leveraging the promise of smart cities to advance smart growth 307 Robert Goodspeed PART VII UNFINISHED BUSINESS: WHERE DOES SMART GROWTH GO FROM HERE? 18 Toward a “Smart Growth 2.0” 324 Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Rebecca Lewis, Arnab Chakraborty and Katy June-Friesen Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence. It argues that using algorithmic logic alone for automation and optimisation in modern smart cities is not sufficient, and analyses the importance of integrating this with strong participatory governance and digital platforms for community action. Separated into three parts, the book moves from looking at the academic establishment of the smart city paradigm as an advanced system of innovation, to focusing on major technologies and the governance of smart cities. Chapters explore other sources of intelligence available in cities within both institutions and platforms, including human intelligence, innovation, and collective intelligence, with insights on how to combine algorithmic logic in these areas of competence to become much more effective. Offering a crucial understanding of how cities and regions can adopt the smart city paradigm, this book will be a useful read for policy-makers and stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of smart city strategies. Urban studies and planning scholars, post graduate students, as well as those researching the built environment, will benefit from the blend of theoretical and practical knowledge offered in the book. Contributors include: M. Angelidou, A.-V. Anttiroiko, D. Bechtsis, F. Duarte, C. Kakderi, N. Komninos, I. Kompatsiaris, K. Kourtit, V. Loscri, N. Mitton, L. Mora, V. Moustaka, P. Nijkamp, J. Oskam, A. Özdemir, R. Petrolo, A. Panori, C. Ratti, A. Reid, H. Schaffers, I. Tsampoulatidis, A. Vakali, S. Zhang Trade Review'Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era: Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance is a seminal original contribution to the emerging field of smart cities. The book sets out to highlight the pervasive importance of smart technologies, platforms and governance in the urban context. It frames this new challenging field, and offers a wealth of informed conceptual and practical studies. For academics, students, and practitioners, this book offers many novel and useful insights.' --Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'The 21st Century is said to be the Century of Cities. Echoing this sentiment, Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era argues they emerge from collaboration technologies, data science and AI and the algorithmic logic, under which these technologies operate, can be much more effective if such platforms combine with other sources of intelligence available in cities, such as human intelligence, creativity and innovation, collective and collaborative intelligence already embedded in institutions. The constructive alignment and augmentation of these technologies with human, collective and collaborative intelligence and sharing of the knowledge such a synthesis produces, is the object of this latest book from Komninos and Kakderi.' --Mark Deakin, Edinburgh Napier University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Smart cities beyond algorithmic logic: digital platforms, user engagement and data science 1 Nicos Komninos, Anastasia Panori and Christina Kakderi PART I SMART CITIES, ALGORITHMIC LOGIC AND THE QUEST FOR INTELLIGENCE 2 The current status of smart city research: exposing the division 17 Luca Mora, Alasdair Reid and Margarita Angelidou 3 Towards an algorithmic city: transformation in politics, governance and service provision 36 Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko 4 Shaping ecosystems for collaborative innovation towards fostering urban and regional development 70 Hans Schaffers 5 The creation of city smartness: architectures of intelligence in smart cities and smart ecosystems 101 Nicos Komninos and Anastasia Panori PART II SMART CITIES AT THE CROSSROADS OF IOT, SOCIAL MEDIA AND DATA SCIENCE 6 Cloud, network and sensing in a smart city: toward a cloud of meshed cooperative heterogeneous things 129 Valeria Loscri, Nathalie Mitton and Riccardo Petrolo 7 City dynamics tracking based on citizens’ data and sensing analytics 150 Athena Vakali and Vaia Moustaka 8 Moving from e-Gov to we-Gov and beyond: a blockchain framework for the digital transformation of cities 176 Ioannis Tsampoulatidis, Dimitrios Bechtsis and Ioannis Kompatsiaris 9 A world of data: Underworlds and health challenges in the age of smart cities 201 Snoweria Zhang, Fábio Duarte and Carlo Ratti PART III SMART CITIES, PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS 10 Exploring the relationship between smart cities and spatial planning: star cases and typologies 217 Margarita Angelidou and Luca Mora 11 Social policy in smart cities: the forgotten dimension 235 Akın Özdemir, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp 12 Smart cities, ‘sharing’ and platform impact 262 Jeroen Oskam 13 Smart cities and vision zero: common ground for a generic vision zero methodology 279 Christina Kakderi Index 293

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. City-regions are regeneration economies, or in other words, places that are experiencing on-going processes of recovery, adaptation or transformation. This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas of research for reading city-regions, including: trade, services and people, regional differentiation, big data, global production networks, governance and policy, and regional development. The book focuses on developing a more integrated and systematic approach to reading city-regions as part of regeneration economics by identifying conceptual and methodological developments in this field of study. Students in geography, urban studies and city and regional planning will greatly benefit from reading this, as it provides a wealth of stimuli for essays and dissertation topics. Advanced business and public policy students will also benefit from the focus on translating research into practice, an approach that this Research Agenda takes in several chapters.Contributors include: L. Andres, J.R. Bryson, J. Clark, G.J.D. Hewings, N. Kreston, M. Nathan, P. Nijkamp, J. Steenbruggen, R.J. Stimson, E. Tranos, A. Weaver, D. Wójcik, G. YeungTrade Review'This important text meaningfully advances our understanding of the complex relations between city regions and regeneration economies across the globe. Bryson, Andres and Mulhall masterfully assemble leading voices in the social sciences that provide us with innovative and penetrating analyses of current economic realities in these places and what needs to be done to resuscitate them. The result is a compelling and provocative account of places struggling to regenerate their economies and how informed public policy may make a difference.' --David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US'We often assume regions in crisis are destined for continued decline. This book challenges that assumption, showing the possibility for struggling regions to rebound and overcome economic adversity. But equally it highlights the need for thoughtful and sustained institutional action to extend the benefits of regeneration, especially in support of shared prosperity.' --Nichola Lowe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US'A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies is a most welcome addition to the scholarly literature on regional economic development planning and ''regeneration economies''. The lessons offered by the distinguished contributors to this volume should find a prominent place in professional planning curricula as well as in continuing-education workshops for practitioners.' --Jeffrey M. Chusid, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface: Timing and Placing Regeneration Economies 1. Dynamics and City-Region Regeneration Economies: Shaping the directions of a new Research Agenda Lauren Andres and John R. Bryson 2. Regenerating Regional Economies: Trade in Goods and Services and People Geoffrey J.D. Hewings 3. Economic Restructuring and Spatial Differentiation Down-Under Robert J. Stimson 4. Beyond Years of Schooling: Precisely Measured Skills, Skill Formation, and Economic Growth Andrew Weaver 5. Global Production Networks and Regeneration Economies Godfrey Yeung 6. Resilience of US metropolitan areas to the 2008 financial crisis Nicholas Kreston and Dariusz Wójcik 7. Regeneration Economies: A Research Agenda: Governance, policy and regional development Jennifer Clark 8. Mobile phone operators, their (big) data and urban analysis Emmanouil Tranos, John Steenbruggen and Peter Nijkamp 9. Linking Research and Policy for Local Economies Max Nathan 10. People, Place, Space and City-Regions: Towards an Integrated or Systemic Approach to Reading City-Region Regeneration Economies John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres and Rachel Mulhall 11. Epilogue: Towards a Research Agenda for City-Region Regeneration Economies: From Artificial Intelligence, the Gig Economy to Air Pollution John R. Bryson and Lauren Andres Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook explores the handling of city and municipal finances in the 21st century. It examines the impact of the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic on cities and municipalities, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and avenues for future progress in city and municipal financial management.Bringing together leading global scholars of public finance and budgeting, economics, law, political science and policy analysis, this Research Handbook scrutinises how cities and municipalities have adapted after crisis periods. It combines theoretical ideas, empirical findings and practical applications, focusing on federalist systems as well as including global case studies from diverse governance contexts. Contributors analyse sources of revenue for cities and municipalities, critical areas of spending, fiscal structure, budgeting, debt, pensions and financial resilience. Forward thinking, it considers the strength and resilience of city and municipal finances in meeting long-term liabilities and responding to short-term crises.This Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of public finance and administration, urban economics, and political economy. Providing cutting-edge policy recommendations, it will also be a highly useful guide for policy-makers and administrators seeking to effectively guide city and municipal finances.Trade Review‘This book is a very engaging and informative compilation of research in municipal finance topics. It will serve as a good reference for young scholars just embarking on a research career, as well as more experienced researchers and practitioners looking for summaries of the more important research on a topic. I especially enjoyed the inclusion of relatively new areas of research such as the effects of COVID-19 on fiscal health, the role of cybersecurity in financial risk, and the role of public health spending. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and will use it as a reference for years to come.’ -- Kenneth A. Kriz, University of Illinois Springfield, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance 1 Craig L. Johnson, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, and Justin M. Ross PART I RAISING REVENUES AND SPENDING FUNDS 1 Municipal revenues: data dilemmas, structures, and trends 8 Justin M. Ross and Lanjun Peng 2 Property taxes and municipal finance 24 Joan Youngman 3 Local option taxes 42 Whitney Afonso 4 The growing role of nontax revenue sources in American cities 64 Min Su 5 Municipalities in the intergovernmental revenue system: the federal government’s stabilization function? 88 Amanda Kass, Christiana McFarland, Farhad Omeyr, and Michael A. Pagano 6 The role of cities and public health expenditures in the COVID-19 era 105 Yusun Kim 7 Spending on physical infrastructure: is it enough? 138 Yonghong Wu 8 Mitigating fiscal risk through municipal cybersecurity 159 Douglas A. Carr PART II FISCAL ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE, BUDGETING, AND FINANCIAL CONDITION 9 The role of special districts and intergovernmental constraints 173 Christopher B. Goodman 10 Municipal financial risks: special-purpose district financial health during COVID-19 187 Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, Marc Joffe, and Allan Wheeler 11 Municipal budgets, balance sheets, and acute fiscal shock 204 Robert S. Kravchuk 12 Understanding financial success: an exploration of the determinants of fiscally healthy cities 220 Bruce D. McDonald III and Michaela E. Abbott 13 State intervention in local government fiscal distress 235 Lang (Kate) Yang 14 The fiscal structure of county governments from 2002 to 2019: the impact of the Great Recession and the run-up to the COVID-19 pandemic 257 Craig L. Johnson, Luis Navarro, and Andrey Yushkov PART III DEBT AND PENSIONS 15 The security, structure, and market of municipal debt: recent trends, research, and developments 271 W. Bartley Hildreth and Justina Jose 16 The status of municipal financial intermediaries after the financial crisis and Dodd-Frank: underwriters, insurers, advisors, and credit rating agencies 301 Martin J. Luby and Joshua E. Terkel 17 The structure of county government debt from 2002 to 2020: the financial crisis, the Great Recession, and the COVID-19 pandemic 319 Craig L. Johnson, Andrey Yushkov, and Luis Navarro 18 The impact of fiscal rules on local debt: credit ratings, borrowing costs, and debt levels 335 Sungho Park, Craig S. Maher, and Steven C. Deller 19 Do municipal pensions matter? A review of pensions’ impact on US local governments 352 Gang Chen PART IV CITY AND MUNICIPAL FINANCE ACROSS THE GLOBE 20 Municipal finance in federalist systems 370 Chris Thayer, Alex Hathaway, and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez 21 Municipal finances in unitary systems: the effects of crises on financial autonomy in four European countries 391 Ringa Raudla, Mark Callanan, Kurt Houlberg, and Filipe Teles 22 Government financial resilience – a European perspective 408 Carmela Barbera, Bernard Kofi Dom, C.line du Boys, Sanja Korac, Iris Saliterer, and Ileana Steccolini 23 Measuring urban financial resilience: a resource flow perspective 433 Christine R. Martell and Temirlan T. Moldogaziev 24 Managing crises and public financial management in Singapore 453 Chang Yee Kwan and Hui Li Conclusion: themes and directions for future research 469 Craig L. Johnson, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, and Justin M. Ross Index

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Book SynopsisInfrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial, entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national 'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning, and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private sectors seeking insights into the intersections of financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe and globally.Trade Review'Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure explores the crucial connection between globalised financial flows and the infrastructure that provides the scaffolding for urban development. By following the money, the authors show the interaction of state and capital in shaping urban form and the uneven impacts on particular cities and groups within them.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Who owns, runs and pays for city infrastructure? 2. Financialising city infrastructure and governance 3. Towards city statecraft 4. City infrastructure provision and geographical inequalities in the UK’s centralised state 5. Deal or no deal? Austerity, decentralisation and the City Deals 6. Sell, hold or buy? Privatising, managing, owning, and acquiring city infrastructure assets 7. Fixing urban infrastructure in the London global city-region, undermining the rest of the UK? 8. Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive overview of the governance of urban infrastructures, this Companion combines illustrative cases with conceptual approaches to offer an innovative perspective on the governance of large urban infrastructure systems. Contributions by leading scholars in the field present a transdisciplinary approach to the topic, with a global scope.Chapters examine the challenges facing urban infrastructure systems, including financial, economic, technological, social, ecological, jurisdictional and demand. Using novel conceptualizations of urban infrastructure, and examining global cases of specific energy, mobility, water, housing, green and telecommunication systems, the Companion further illustrates how these challenges are interrelated with their governance. Finding efficiency, sustainability, and resilience to be key governance performance indicators, it concludes by highlighting the role that digitalization plays in making cities smarter and argues for the potential of digitalization for large urban infrastructure governance.With global significance, this Companion will be an invaluable read for students and scholars of urban studies, governance and infrastructure. The informative case studies will be an excellent resource for city practitioners, officials and policymakers.Trade Review‘The Elgar Companion to Urban Infrastructure Governance is an impressive collection of contributions on a variety of highly relevant topics. The editors have managed to produce a volume that covers timely issues in infrastructure governance and planning (such as digitalization, climate resilience, metropolitan governance and urban mobility). Remarkably, authors and cases are from all over the globe and the chapters are grounded in new scholarship. This is one of the most complete statements on urban infrastructure and enhances substantially our knowledge on urban governance and the provision of urban infrastructures.’ -- Karsten Zimmermann, Dortmund University, Germany‘Finger and Yanar have introduced today’s urban analyst to a treasure trove of case studies, data and “how-tos” from around the globe; rich country, poor country – all are faced with the mega challenge of the 21st century: sustainability. Each case study is unique in presenting the impacts of local governance, addressing critical issues (from Detroit to Nairobi). 21st century tools of analysis and modern technology –carefully presented throughout – make this a volume that is a must read for everyone in the urban infrastructure world, from practitioner to academic to citizen.’ -- Robert E Paaswell, City College of New York, US‘Defined broadly or narrowly, infrastructure is critical to economic productivity and people’s quality of life in all societies. Infrastructure discourse is multidisciplinary. These authors amplify the discourse on lessons that can be learned as the world strives to make all facets of infrastructure ‘smart,’ equitable, resilient, affordable and sustainable.’ -- Jerry Kolo, American University of Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 1 Matthias Finger and Numan Yanar PART I CASES 2 Detroit: A history of financial challenges for the motor city government 16 Eric A. Scorsone 3 Cities facing economic development challenges: The case of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area 32 Alejandra Trejo Nieto 4 Deciphering the complex structure of large urban systems through the case study of Istanbul 51 Başak Demireş Özkul 5 Housing urbanism: Collective representation and its impact in the city 68 Armando Tetsuya Hashimoto Hongo 6 Sustainable community design amidst social challenges: Insights from Nairobi, Kenya 87 Cherie Enns 7 Metropolitan governance: The challenge for the metropolitan area of Mexico City 109 Edgar O. Tungü. Rodríguez PART II CONCEPTUALIZATIONS 8 Urban energy systems: Municipal utilities and the case of Switzerland 129 Christian Opitz 9 Digitalization in urban mobility: An assessment through the IGLUS framework 148 Umut Alkım Tuncer 10 Brownfield infrastructures 165 Francesco Gastaldi and Federico Camerin 11 A sociotechnical perspective on integrated urban water systems 181 Janice A. Beecher and James F. Burton 12 Telecommunication systems 200 Ezatul Faizura Mustaffa Kamal Effendee 13 Urban waste management: The case of Turkey and Istanbul 218 Fatih Hoşoğlu 14 Well-connected urban green infrastructures for more livable and resilient urban systems 238 Andréa Finger-Stich PART III GOVERNANCE 15 Efficiency in urban systems 264 J. Ernst Drewes 16 Large urban systems: Towards a sustainability framework 284 Mariske Van Aswegen and Francois Pieter Retief 17 Resilience of urban systems: Perspective for the integration of climate resilience actions in the resilient cities network 308 Arnoldo Matus Kramer, Rodríguez-Izquierdo Emilio, and Abril Cid 18 Central–metropolitan government relations over urban infrastructure governance: The case of Istanbul 329 İnan İzci 19 Citizen participation 350 İmge Akçakaya Waite 20 Planning 365 Ignazio Vinci 21 Digitalization 383 Matthias Finger 22 Urban infrastructures implemented in public–private partnerships 400 Nicolas Hatem Index 419

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Book SynopsisLarge infrastructure projects often face significant cost overruns and stakeholder fragmentation. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) allow governments to procure long-term infrastructure services from private providers, rather than developing, financing and managing infrastructure assets themselves. Aligning public and private interests and institutional logics to create robust, decades-long service contracts subject to shifting economic and political contexts is a significant cross-sectoral governance challenge. This work summarizes over a decade of research conducted by scholars at Stanford s Global Projects Center and multiple US and International collaborators to enhance the governance of both infrastructure projects and institutional investors, whose long term, cash flow obligations align especially well with the kinds of long term inflation-adjusted returns that PPP infrastructure projects can generate. In these pages, multiple theoretical perspectives are integrated and combined with empirical evidence to examine how experiences from more mature PPP jurisdictions can help improve PPP governance approaches worldwide. The information contained here will appeal to engineering, economics, political science, public policy and finance scholars interested in the delivery of high-quality, sustainable infrastructure services to the citizens in countries with established and emerging market economies. Officials in national, state/provincial and local government agencies seeking alternative financing and service provision strategies for their civil and social infrastructure, and legislators and their staff members interested in promoting PPP legislation will find this book invaluable. It will also be of high interest to long-term investment professionals from pension funds, sovereign funds, family offices and university endowments seeking to deploy money into the infrastructure asset class, and practitioners seeking insights into methods for enhancing stakeholder incentive alignment, reducing transaction costs and improving project outcomes in PPPs. Contributors: B.G. Cameron, G. Carollo, C.B. Casady, E.F. Crawley, K. Eriksson, W. Feng, M.J. Garvin, K.E. Gasparro, R.R. Geddes, W.J. Henisz, D.R. Lessard, R.E. Levitt, T. Liu, A.H.B. Monk, D.A. Nguyen, C. Nowacki, W.R. Scott, R. Sharma, A.J. SouthTrade Review'In conclusion, the editors of the book have collected a series of chapters that provide a valuable and contemporary look into the state of practice of PPP in the United States, it offers various interesting proposals for the improved institutional design of PPPs, and it inspires and strengthens the comparative research agenda on studying the performance and design of PPPs.' --Stefan Verweij, Public Works Management & Policy'This is the book on infrastructure development that researchers and practitioners have been waiting for. It brings together some of the world's leading scholars - several based in the Global Project Center at Stanford University - to provide a rigorous analysis and critical discussion of the challenges involved in the governance, financing and management of mature and innovative new forms of PPP transportation infrastructure projects. While the work addresses a diverse range of topics concerning the risks and opportunities for PPP provision in developing and developed countries, each chapter draws upon a shared intellectual framework and is informed by ideas and concepts from organization theory and design.' --Andrew Davies, University College London, UK'This is a remarkable contribution to the growing literature on infrastructure financing and management. Ray Levitt and his colleagues provide the fundamental conceptual building blocks for understanding how public-private partnerships can transform the market for infrastructure development. They do so with a sure feel for the theoretical issues as well as the very practical concerns that come with stitching together public, private, and community interests in infrastructure investment. Each paper is important in its own right - and the combination is unbeatable. This book will make a lasting contribution to how we understand the issues and is just as important for the emerging economic powerhouse of China and the developed economies of the West.' --Gordon Clark, Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt and Michael J. Garvin Part I: Public-Private Partnerships: Definitions, Myths and Institutional Challenges W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt and Michael J. Garvin 1. Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Delivery Ashby H. B. Monk, Raymond E. Levitt, Michael J. Garvin, Andrew J. South, and George Carollo 2. Stakeholder Network Dynamics in Public-Private Partnerships Andrew J. South 3. Toward a Unified Theory of Project Governance: Economic, Sociological and Psychological Supports for Relational Contracting Witold J. Henisz, Raymond E. Levitt, and W. Richard Scott 4. Stakeholders, Issues, and the Shaping of Large Engineering Projects Wen Feng, Donald R. Lessard, Bruce G. Cameron, and Edward F. Crawley Part II: Governance Mechanisms in PPP Planning, Delivery, Contracting and Management Introduction to Part II Raymond E. Levitt, W. Richard Scott, and Michael J. Garvin 5. Mitigating PPP Governance Challenges: Lessons from Eastern Australia Raymond E. Levitt and Kent Eriksson 6. Contractual Risk Sharing Mechanisms in US Highway PPP Projects Duc A. Nguyen and Michael J. Garvin Part III: Leveraging Institutional Capital and Governmental Fiscal Support for PPPs to Enable the “Golden Handshake” Michael J. Garvin, W. Richard Scott, and Raymond E. Levitt 7. The Role of Institutional Investors for PPP Infrastructure Investments Ashby H. B. Monk and Rajiv Sharma 8. Framework to Assess Fiscal Support Mechanisms for Mitigating Revenue Risk in Transportation Public-Private Partnerships Ting Liu and Michael J. Garvin Part IV: Evolution of Mature PPP Institutional Fields W. Richard Scott, Raymond E. Levitt, and Michael J. Garvin 9. (Re)Assessing Public-Private Partnership Governance Challenges: An Institutional Maturity Perspective Carter B. Casady, Kent Eriksson, Raymond E. Levitt, and W. Richard Scott 10. Transportation Public-Private Partnership Market in the United States: Moving Beyond Its Current State Michael J. Garvin 11. Private Participation in US Infrastructure: The Role of Regional PPP Units Carter B. Casady and R. Richard Geddes Part V: Emerging Tools for Infrastructure Project Finance and Delivery Raymond E. Levitt, W. Richard Scott and Michael J. Garvin 12. The Financier State: Infrastructure Planning and Asset Recycling in New South Wales, Australia Caroline Nowacki 13. Community Investment and Crowdfunding as Partnership Strategies for Local Infrastructure Delivery Kate E. Gasparro Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique and insightful work examines the importance of 'quality of life' for the city which has become a key component of urban competitiveness over the past 30 years. It argues that having a high or low 'quality of life' will have important consequences for the vitality and status of any city.Throughout the book, emphasis is placed upon the skilled, highly mobile and generally younger labour force who choose the city in which they want to work and live based on the 'quality of life' elements offered to them. Consequently, there is mounting pressure on today's cities and the firms in their economies to create environments that are attractive to the new-age of the workforce and the key resource in the economy. The book's eight substantive chapters explore this issue by each examining a distinct element that comprises 'quality of life', including the approach of economists to quality of life, links to urban competitiveness, the economy, urban amenities and attributes.Providing an original perspective on contemporary cities and their economies, The City and Quality of Life will be essential reading for city and company leaders who implement policy and wish to further understand the attributes of 'quality of life' for their citizens. It will also be useful for researchers, university professors and students in disciplines such as economics and finance, geography and urban studies.Trade Review‘The City and Quality of Life covers a wide-ranging body of literature and ideas, many of which could be hypotheses suitable for further testing. The book could be useful for those students, academic researchers, and policy makers interested in urban studies and the promise of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world.’ -- Robert W Marans, Journal of Urban Affairs‘The City and Quality of Life marked a significant reorientation of economic research about the quality of life of a city. It reflects Kresl’s outstanding knowledge of urban economics developed throughout a distinguished career. This book speaks to a wide readership in social sciences beyond disciplinary confines, and without doubt provides a stimulus for further critical debate about quality of life in contemporary cities.’ -- Alessandra Michelangeli, Regional Studies'In an era of pandemics and economic turbulence, remote working and learning, and significant shifts in both international and domestic migration patterns, Peter Karl Kresl has provided a timely and at times provocative treatise on cities and the quality of life that they provide in a world undergoing unprecedented urbanization. This very readable text should be required reading for professional planners and many of the people who find themselves navigating on a daily basis both the wondrous joys and vexing challenges of contemporary city life.' -- Earl H. Fry, BYU Emeritus Professor and co-director of the New International Cities Era project'Under the challenge of global and regional economic restructuring, cities have to achieve high quality of life to attract skilled people and companies in the evolving new economy. This book is a systematic study on the concept of quality of life, its impacts on urban economy, and how demographics, urban attributes and amenities affect the quality of life. This is a timely book for urban scholars and city leaders to understand and enhance the quality of life and urban competitiveness.' -- Jianfa Shen, The Chinese University of Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the importance of the quality of urban life 2. Contemporary analysis of quality of life 3. Quality of life and competitiveness 4. Quality of life and the economy 5. Demographics and quality of life 6. Urban attributes and quality of life 7. Urban amenities and quality of life 8. Looking forward Index

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Book SynopsisExploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban management are shifting, indicating that urban governance is becoming increasingly important in dealing with wicked issues, like climate change and social and economic inequalities in cities.Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies offers rich international examples looking at housing, public space, water, climate change, the environment and economic development. Chapters showcase the changing role of urban professionals, with a particular focus on the dynamic social, cultural and economic transformations of cities in emerging economies. Exploring contemporary approaches to urban governance, contributors draw attention to the prevalence of smart cities, new forms of partnerships and just transitions in a changing urban landscape.Researchers and students of urban development, planning, management and governance will appreciate the multiple theoretical angles and the key case studies used throughout the book. The examples and theories will be helpful for urban leaders, strategists and advocates working in emerging economies.Trade Review’The authors argue that cities in emerging economies can increase their sustainable competitiveness by replacing their traditional system of urban planning and management with a modern system of urban governance. This is a must-read for those interested to understand how cities in emerging economies can cope with societal dynamics.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Urban paradigm shifts in emerging economies 1 Jan Fransen, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Jurian Edelenbos 2 Urban management in practice, issues at stake and overview of the book 20 Meine Pieter van Dijk 3 Managing a just transition in urban contexts 40 Darren McCauley 4 Structural change, labour markets and urban economic policy in emerging economies 57 Frank van Oort, Paula Nagler and Indriany Lionggo 5 Smart city for comprehensive urban management: concepts, impacts, and the South Korean experience 80 Yirang Lim 6 How sustainable, green and smart eco-cities deal with water issues 99 Meine Pieter van Dijk 7 Urban commons in emerging economies 117 Rudina Toto, Marija Ćaćić, Zvezdina Ivanova, Peter Nientied and Katarzyna Stachowiak-Bongwa 8 Knowledge and skill transfer in Addis-Ababa’s light-rail transport 142 Taslim Adebowale Alade and Alberto Gianoli 9 Financing urban infrastructure and services in Africa 162 Aloysius N. Bongwa and Meine Pieter van Dijk 10 Collaborative capacity of public–private partnerships in housing projects: case studies from Nigeria 186 Daniel Adamu and Alberto Gianoli 11 Planning for all? Guiding principles for selecting multi-stakeholder tools in urban planning processes 204 Els Keunen and Saskia Ruijsink 12 Conclusions: new insights in urban planning, management and governance in emerging economies 225 Jan Fransen Index

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Book SynopsisSpatial Inequalities and Wellbeing represents a timely contribution to the literature tackling one of the most crucial concerns of modern times: the rise of inequalities and its far-reaching implications for individual wellbeing. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, the book highlights the different types and sources of inequalities and identifies opportunities for policy action to tackle various inequalities at once.Featuring expert contributions from eminent scholars, this insightful book posits that policies themselves can produce deep inequalities at the spatial level while trying to reduce them and also explores how inequalities and marginalisation depress individual wellbeing and can become a threat to political and institutional stability. Chapters critically analyse the causes of spatial inequalities, ranging from education and housing to location in the largest cities. The book also highlights the negative consequences of these gaps widening, and emphasises how participatory and bottom-up interventions can contribute to narrowing such disparities at the micro-level.Academics, researchers and students in urban and regional studies; human geography; economics and finance; politics and public policy; and sociology and social policy will find this to be an informative read. Policymakers within these fields will equally find this to be a beneficial resource.Trade Review‘The work is presented through up-to-date and scholarly comparative chapters that are immensely topical and timely. Contemporary European societies are facing the twin trends of growing socio-economic disparities between people and places, and the expansion of a regressive political populism that is undermining attempts to foster greater cohesion. This book contributes to the development and re-assertion of progressive agendas founded on social justice and the propagation of well-being.’ -- Mike Raco, University College London, UK‘Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing: A Multidisciplinary Approach is a brilliant and original contribution to the analysis of the new spatial dimension of social inequalities in EU countries. Through the innovative lens of a multi-scalar perspective, the book deals with different aspects of the challenges related to spatial inequalities and wellbeing, using different disciplinary approaches ranging from regional economics to urban studies, from economic and urban geography to planning.’ -- Gabriele Pasqui, Politecnico di Milano, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: the interplay among inequalities, wellbeing and space 1 Camilla Lenzi and Valeria Fedeli 1 Spatial Inequalities in an Era of Modern Reindustrialization 16 Roberta Capello and Silvia Cerisola 2 Left behind places and local democracy: German small towns under the conditions of peripheralisation 33 Thilo Lang, Franziska Görmar, Stefan Haunstein and Martin Graffenberger 3 Resolving the Urban Wellbeing Paradox: The Role of Education and Social Contact 52 Philip S. Morrison 4 Housing and Urban-Rural Differences in Subjective Wellbeing in the Netherlands 95 Marloes Hoogerbrugge and Martijn J. Burger 5 Urbanization and the Geography of Societal Discontent 116 Camilla Lenzi and Giovanni Perucca 6 Regional disparities in the sensitivity of wellbeing to poverty measures 133 Cristina Bernini, Silvia Emili and Maria Rosaria Ferrante 7 Spatial Inequalities and International Cooperation Projects: a Bottom-up Wellbeing Model for Inclusion 155 Daniela De Leo and Valentina Vittoria Calabrese 8 Behind Left and Right – Disentangling the Voting Behaviour of Radical Parties in Europe 173 Luise Koeppen, Dimitris Ballas, Arjen Edzes and Sierdjan Koster 9 Spatial justice: the contemporary uncertainties of the French model 212 Valeria Fedeli

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Book SynopsisProviding a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded as the age of cities, is associated with the current crisis of democracy.The book explores the tension between non-democratic liberalism and non-liberal democracy and the present era of cities as complex systems, in which the characteristics and dynamics of urbanism are transforming our way of life. Against the backdrop of globalization, the Anthropocene, and Industry 4.0, each chapter analyses the challenges and crises facing modern democracies from the unique perspective of cities and complexity theory. Expert contributors analyse the interplay between complexity theory, urban planning, governance and the internet, ultimately highlighting the need to rediscover the relationship between urban beauty and democracy.Offering key insights into the complexities of urban development and the challenges that arise when democracy intersects with the needs of modern cities, this innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of urban geography, political science, public administration, and architecture. It will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity.Trade Review‘Juval Portugali's The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities offers a compelling analysis of the challenges facing democratic governance in complex hybrid systems. This edited volume provides a thought-provoking exploration of the intersections between urbanization and democratic politics, shedding light on the key issues confronting our societies today.’ -- Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction x PART I PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 1 The crisis of democracy in the age of cities and complexity 2 Juval Portugali 2 The ancient Greek lottery and modern democracies 24 Irad Malkin 3 The end of empire and the age of cities 31 Michael Batty PART II COMPLEXITY THEORY, CITIES AND DEMOCRACY 4 Learning from small urban nations – the importance of randomness and feedback for democratic stability 51 Karoline Wiesner 5 Perfection, does it lean toward balance or perversion? How democracy and the urban grid inform about the human condition 68 Gert De Roo 6 A synergetic cities view on the crisis of democracy in the age of cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Democracy demands wisdom 136 J.A. Scott Kelso PART III THE INTERNET, SMART CITIES AND DEMOCRACY 8 Why the internet must become more like a city 148 Luís M. A. Bettencourt 9 Privacy and trust in artificially intelligent cities 167 Charlie Catlett, Juval Portugali and Venkat Venkatakrishnan PARTIV URBAN GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING 10 Cities under pressure – urban democracy and everyday life 185 Sabine Knierbein 11 Governing cities democratically through partnerships 204 Ashwin Mahalingam and Juval Portugali 12 A crisis of lost values: rediscovering the relationship between urban beauty, democracy and complexity 220 Stefano Cozzolino 13 Democracy beyond the state in the age of cities: explaining crisis dynamics in national democracy 246 Hans Agné Index 267

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics.Chapters highlight how existing digital infrastructures can be coupled with emerging ones, so that they can provide increased efficiency and performance, with an ultimate objective of rendering safer, more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, aligning with the needs of the SDGs. The book also covers emerging technologies and concepts, such as 6G and the ’15-minute city’, underlining how these can develop within smart city frameworks.This is an invigorating look into the concept of the smart city and how it can be improved and rethought, making it useful for urban studies and human geography academics and researchers. It also offers helpful insights for policy makers and planners on how to increase the quality of life in modern cities.Trade Review'Rethinking Smart Cities offers a refreshing and insightful survey of the increasingly popular concept of “smart cities” It surveys the concept’s evolution before critiquing the scope and offering contemporary warnings about the biases and assumptions embedded in this idea that is pervading much of our Western-informed city and regional planning literature and practice today.' -- David S Jones, Monash University and Griffith University, Australia‘In the post-COVID world, humanity needs new models of understanding positive urbanization such as the “15-minute city”. Allam and Takun argue for using technology to implement the human-scale city, not to replace it with a totalitarian dystopia. Massive collection of data can be used either to enhance the human experience, or to control the population.’ -- Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. What is a smart city? Understanding the concept beyond a tech-centric approach 2. The underlying and basic foundations of the smart city: where do artificial intelligence, machine learning and other buzz words fit in the narrative? 3. Smart cities must be sustainable and inclusive cities 4. Smart cities as an urban regeneration avenue: redefining the efficiency and performance of cities 5. The paradox of safety within data-driven smart cities 6. Enter 6G and the augmented smart city 7. The emergence of a new urban proximity-based morphology: the 15-minute city and the smart city 8. Future smart and autonomous cities: an overview towards future trends Index

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering Handbook outlines the ways in which big data and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping cities. Leading scholars analyze how innovative computational methods can make use of the vast amounts of data available to gain new insights into urban life, inform policy, and drive innovation.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Offering fresh insights into the key emerging issues in the field, including the changing socio-economic contexts brought about by the rise of the millennial generation and the creative class, the Covid-19 pandemic, and a greater emphasis on social responsibility, this forward-looking Research Agenda critically debates and rethinks theories and practices in the property sector. Promoting interdisciplinary approaches to the topic, chapters explore the disruptive changes to the field brought about by technological revolutions, before moving on to reflect upon the meaning of value, risks and investment behaviours, and finally examining the institutional contexts and stakeholders that shape the industry. Leading scholars combine practice with in-depth theoretical discussions, highlighting critical future avenues of research in the field.Real estate, planning and economics scholars will find this to be an important read, particularly with the blend of conceptual and empirical perspectives. Real estate practitioners and businesses will also find the practical guidance and discussion of real-life challenges in the book helpful.Trade Review‘This book proposes a multi-disciplinary approach to real estate research and collects essays written from different backgrounds. Those who pursue a multi-disciplinary approach should find this book inspiring.’ -- Charles Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Real Estate 1 Piyush Tiwari and Julie T. Miao PART I DISRUPTIVE CHANGES: TECHNOLOGIES AND SPACES 2 Market disruptions and the future trends in real estate: what do we not know? 19 Piyush Tiwari and Jyoti Shukla 3 Interface of property and knowledge-based economic development 41 Julie T. Miao 4 Future directions of research in innovative workplaces 59 Eileen Sim 5 Housing share: opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary research 81 Djordje Stojanovic PART II VALUES: INVESTMENT AND RISKS 6 Market value in a sea of values: re-examining the ‘theory of value’ of land and property through the lens of ‘capability theory’ 99 Jyoti Shukla and Mike McDermott 7 Circular economy in the real estate sector 121 Ashish Gupta and Piyush Tiwari 8 Climate change and risk to real estate 139 Georgia Warren-Myers and Anna Hurlimann 9 The confluence of real estate and infrastructure: a research agenda 167 Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala PART III INSTITUTIONS: BEHAVIOURS, GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN ACTORS 10 Local community in brownfield redevelopment: the Alphington Paper Mill Project in Melbourne 185 Xuqing Li, Hao Wu and Huiying (Cynthia) Hou 11 International real estate investments: issues and research agendas 205 Hyung Min Kim 12 Neoliberalization in urban governance at the real estate turn: perspective from urban redevelopment in China 227 Xiang Li 13 Institutional governance of innovation adoption in residential developments: future research directions 247 Godwin Kavaarpuo Index

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Book SynopsisThis original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness.Focusing on major cities in East Asia, North America, and Western Europe, Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City illuminates the ways in which cities differ not only in their course and stages of development, but in the nature of their economies and their administrative structures. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, this book discusses and analyzes the issues that different cities face, such as social cohesion, tolerance and cultural diversity, and how this will determine their developmental trajectories through the coming decade. These issues are explored in relation to contemporary topics including the growing economy of robotics, the rising importance and use of artificial intelligence and the information and communications economy.Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City will be an invaluable read for scholars and professors in urban economics and urban studies more broadly, particularly those who are focusing on the importance of sustainability in both areas. Its stimulating, yet accessible, approach to the topic and key case studies will also greatly benefit urban planners and economic policy makers looking to improve contemporary cities.Trade Review'This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at the national or international level, other sections focus instead on specific case studies, from Korea to Mexico or Canada, among the others. Organized by members of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, this work is of sure interest for scholars and policy makers in the area of strategic urban planning and competitiveness.' -- Daniele Ietri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy'Competitiveness, sustainability and tolerance. These are three key factors for urban development proposed by this book edited by Peter Kresl. In the "modern city", economic and technological competitiveness cannot be sustained without environmental sustainability, tolerance and social balance. The reader will find very up-to-date diagnoses about cities that will star in urban growth in the 21st century in India, China, Mexico, South Korea, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe. They are carried out by professors from leading universities in each country. A fresh and forward-looking book about the city in the 21st century.' -- Joan Trullen, The Autonomous University of Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Introduction viii PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership 2 Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and competitiveness 16 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez 3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China 38 Shen Jianfa 4 In search of an innovation economic geography 55 Edward Blakely 5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urban resilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea 72 Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan Kim PART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY 6 “Focused Research University” and “Matrix College”: Incheon National University’s strategies based on combination and permutation 90 Cho Dong-Sung 7 Human behavior and economic development: culture, psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions 106 Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson 8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? 147 Peter Karl Kresl 9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emerging economies: a case of urban India 160 Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar 10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentration in Mexico, 1980–2015 179 Jaime Sobrino 11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence of interactive cities 200 Clemente Ruiz Durán 12 Mexican cities’ innovative industry and competitiveness in the age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 223 Isela Orihuela Index 241

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Book SynopsisInnovative study of the role of sports in modernity in Africa. Sports in Ethiopia was always more than a means of useful recreation. It was also a way to enjoy and define fun, as new modes of behaviour emerged that showed what it meant to be a modern man or woman. This book is the first academic study of the history of modern sports in Ethiopia during the imperial rule of the twentieth century. Showing how agents, ideas and practices linked societal improvement and bodily improvement, this innovative study argues thatmodern sports offers new possibilities to explore the meanings of modernity in Africa. Drawing on written and oral sources in Amharic, Tigrinya, English, French, German and Italian, Bromber provides an in-depth analysis of the role of sports in modern educational institutions, volunteer organizations and urbanization processes. She examines sports' function as a political propaganda tool during the Italian fascist occupation (1935 - 1941), as well as in representations of successful modernization under Haile Selassie (1930 - 1974). The integration into global networks of ideas about the fit colonized body linked Ethiopia, which was never colonized, to the legacy of colonialism. Institutions such as schools, civilian sports clubs, and volunteer organizations were not only loaded with coercive procedures, but instituted modes of behaviour that developed into certain styles and affirmation of the self as well as their contestation. Examining the locations for practising sports in organized forms, informal leisure and practices consumption in Ethiopia, this book contributes to recent debates on the role of sports in the history of urbanization in Africa, as well as those on global modernity. Ethiopia: AAUPTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Transliteration, Titles, Currency, and the Ethiopian Calendar Introduction 1. The Emergence of Ethiopia's Modern Sports Scene (1900-1935) 2. Sports and Propaganda during the Fascist Occupation (1935-1941) 3. Muscular Reconstruction: Urban Leisure, Institutionalised Physical Education, and the Re-establishment of Boy Scouting (1940s-1960s) 4. Training Leaders and Athletes: The Ethiopian YMCA (1940s-1970s) 5. Sports' Material Infrastructure and the Production of Space (1910s-1970s) 6. Conclusion and Outlook Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and development progress as well as the livability of cities in the Occident.The volume focuses on three broad themes: nuances in urban policy formulation in Britain and the United States; the evolvement of urban systems regionally and globally; and the social and economic forces that determine urban livability and bring about change in the demographic landscape of cities in both Europe and the United States. In this Handbook some of the world's most experienced researchers express their views - often controversial - on topics as diverse as the role of the IT sector, population ageing, migration, global warming and social economics within urban development. This important Handbook has a strong demographic and developmental focus and covers urban policy issues that should be of interest to a wide readership - from urban planning, geography, regional science and economics to international business, population studies, history and political science.Table of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: THE URBAN POLICY CONTEXT 1. Introduction: The Policy Context of Urbanization M. Pacione PART II: EVOLVING URBAN SYSTEMS 2. Differential Urbanization Trends in Europe: The European Case E. Heikkilä and H. Kaskinoro 3. Large Urban Economies: The Role of Knowledge and ICT Infrastructure P. van Hemert, M. van Geenhuizen and P. Nijkamp 4. World Cities: Organizational Networking and the Global Urban Hierarchy P.J. Taylor PART III: FORCES OF SPATIAL ECONOMIC CHANGE 5. The New Economic Geography: A Simple Exposition D. Urban 6. Land Markets and their Regulation: The Economic Impacts of Planning P. Cheshire and W. Vermeulen 7. The Continuing Urban Form Controversy: Towards Bridging the Divide H.S. Geyer 8. Spatial Planning and Institutional Design: What Can We Expect From Transaction Cost Economics? F. Moulaert and A. Mehmood 9. The Economy of the Large European City: The Social Nature of Articulated Rationality F. Moulaert and J. Nussbaumer 10. E-Government: Turning the Digital Divide into a Digital Dividend in Manchester (UK) D. Carter PART IV: THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE 11. International Labour Migration in the EU: Likely Social and Economic Implications T. El-Cherkeh 12. Immigration in the USA: Evolving Demographic Contexts, Geographies and Policy Debates D.A. Plane and L. Hoffman 13. Winds of Change: Controversies Underlying the Urban Policy Debate H.S. Geyer Index

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Book SynopsisWhile much of the current literature on the economic consequences of an aging population focuses on the negative aspects, this enlightening book argues that seniors can bring significant benefits ? such as vitality and competitiveness ? to an urban economy.The authors illustrate the ways an aging population can have a positive impact on urban centers, including the move by large numbers of seniors from the suburbs to the city, where their disproportionate consumption of education and the arts helps rejuvenate city centers. Given this, the authors conclude that a large and active senior population has the potential to assist a city in the achievement of its strategic economic objectives. The book includes analyses of the effects of population aging on best practices in 40 cities in the US and EU, with surprising results, as well as interviews with city officials and leaders.Academics, researchers and public officials in the areas of urban development, public policy and aging will find much in this original approach to interest and provoke debate.Trade Review‘The authors deserve credit for “rowing against the stream” and asking our attention for the possible contributions of seniors to the urban economy. Hopefully their book will inspire researchers and students to continue exploring this issue in more detail. It may also serve as an eye-opener in urban policy circles as it pays attention to a segment of society that may have been overlooked in this age of “creative city” and “knowledge city” strategies.’ -- Marco Bontje, International Journal of Housing PolicyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. An Aging Population – Good News for Cities? 2. The Demographic Situation in the US and in the EU 3. The Consequences for National and Sub-national Governments 4. The Consequences for Urban Economies 5. Urban Economies in the US 6. Urban Economies in the EU (ex Italy) 7. An Examination of Italian Urban Economies 8. A Look to the Future for Policy Makers: Best Practices 9. Final Thoughts References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity interact with economic growth and development. The contributors provide valuable insight into how diverse cities should best be governed and made sustainable, and explore the concept of diversity in relation to sustainability. Building on segregation, assimilation and integration policies, the book indicates the need to develop policies that can govern diversity in a dynamic, nonlinear and spatio-temporal complex way. Case studies of eight culturally diverse cities (Stockholm, Baroda, Banska Bystrica, Chicago, London, Dortmund, Rome and Antwerp) clearly illustrate the relationship between diversity and development, identifying the conditions under which diversity leads to economic performance. These studies are underpinned by an econometric analysis of the relationship between diversity and development across European regions.This unique book will prove a fascinating read to both academics and policymakers with a specific interest in public policy, regional and urban studies, and more generally in economics, the environment and ecology.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: SUSTAINABLE DIVERCITIES 1. Sustainable DiverCities Patrizia Zanoni and Maddy Janssens 2. Facilitating Intercultural Encounters within a Global Context: Towards Processual Conditions Maddy Janssens and Patrizia Zanoni 3. Diversity, Cities and Economic Development Elena Bellini, Dino Pinelli and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano PART II: CASE STUDIES Introduction to Part II 4. Constructing Cultural Identity for the ‘Good’ Life: The Case of Blin Culture Community in Stockholm Kiflemariam Hamde 5. Cultural Diversity and Conflict in Multicultural Cities: The Case of Baroda Alaknanda Patel 6. Post-Socialist City on the Way to Diversity: The Case of Banská- Bystrica Alexandra Bitusiková 7. Chicago: A Story of Diversity Richard C. Longworth 8. London. Demonstrating ‘Good’ Diversity: Option and Choice in the Local System Sandra Wallman 9. Diversity, Deprivation and Space: A Comparison of Immigrant Neighbourhoods in Germany, Denmark and Britain David M. May 10. Rome. Electing Foreign Representatives to the City Government: Governance Strategies Raffaele Bracalenti and Kristine M. Crane 11. Integration of Non-natives into the Regular Labour Market: The Paradox Project in the City of Antwerp Dafne C. Reymen 12. Coordinating Diversities for Prospering DiverCities Dafne C. Reymen Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an up-to-date study of public infrastructure in terms of the selection, procurement and delivery of projects. There is widespread acceptance that infrastructure is vital and needs increasing, yet less agreement about how it should be funded and procured. This book assesses in detail the features of various procurement options while also providing a framework for comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Drawing on international experiences and case studies, Darrin Grimsey and Mervyn Lewis consider some of the best and worst examples of public-private partnerships, new funding methods and infrastructure megaprojects. By offering a conceptual basis for infrastructure decision-making, the authors identify ways to improve infrastructure procurement processes. Focusing on urbanization as a driver of innovation in infrastructure, both the historical context and the future prospects of public infrastructure are analysed. Significantly, the book also examines China's ambitious plans to create a 'high-speed rail economy' and its Belt and Road Initiative across Asia that offers an interesting contrast to infrastructure developments in the United States and other advanced economies. Global Developments in Public Infrastructure Procurement is an essential source of reference for academics and students of economics, public sector finance and urban infrastructure.Trade Review'The trajectories of infrastructure investment in China and the West are going in different directions. That is the focus of both the first and last chapters of this important book exploring the options available for the procurement of public infrastructures. During that discussion, Grimsey and Lewis address important questions: does public investment lead or follow economic development? What are the contributions of China's megaprojects to its fast-growing economic power? What can public-private partnerships do or not do when used in the procurement of public infrastructures? How do PPPs compare to other models of infrastructure procurement? In an ever-increasingly urbanized world, there are few more important discussions than how governments can pay for the infrastructures that make urban life possible. Grimsey and Lewis have made an important contribution to that discussion.' --Richard E. Hanley, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, New York City College of Technology, US'Today there is more public debate than ever about the state of public infrastructure and the wisdom of selecting particular options for significant investments. This timely publication by Grimsey and Lewis, building upon their earlier key contributions to this debate, is one of the very few publications to place infrastructure investment within the wider contextual financial framework in which these projects exist. The key drivers and barriers to current infrastructure investment are clearly and expertly presented and these principles are illustrated by considering the position in China and the US at opposite ends of the investment spectrum. The informed consideration of public-private partnerships, (PPPs), is welcomed. This excellent publication cuts through the emotional arguments associated with private finance for public infrastructure and demonstrates that, while not a panacea, the PPPs in certain locations, for certain projects and by certain procurement routes do have a clear role to play in infrastructure and service investment.' --Nigel Smith, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Infrastructure provision 2. Why is infrastructure of such significance? 3. The evolution of infrastructure services 4. The promise of public private partnerships 5. Implementing a partnership agenda 6. Risk analysis in procurement 7. Comparing public infrastructure procurement models 8. Choosing amongst infrastructure procurement approaches 9. The problems of large (mega) projects 10. Funding of infrastructure 11. Conclusions Index

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