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Book SynopsisThe Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help city leaders make even more informed decisions. Maker City Playbook Chapter 1: Introduction and a Call to Action Chapter 2: The Maker movement and Cities Chapter 3: The Maker City as Open Ecosystem Chapter 4: Education and Learning in the Maker City Chapter 5: Workforce Development in the Maker City Chapter 6: Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chain inside the Maker City Chapter 7: Real Estate Matters in the Maker City Chapter 8: Civic Engagement in the Maker City Chapter 9: The Future of the Maker City Maker City Project is a collaboration between the Kauffman Foundation, the Gray Area for the Arts, and Maker Media.

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Book SynopsisAs the economy and society of China has become more diversified, so have its urban neighborhoods. The last decade has witnessed a surge in collective action by homeowners in China against the infringement of their rights. Research on neighborhood governance is sparse and limited, so this book fills a vital gap in the literature and understanding.The authors reveal how the Chinese authorities have themselves become increasingly sensitive to the potential risk of collective actions becoming destabilizing forces in urban arenas. This thought-provoking book looks at both the theoretical and empirical underpinning of the self-governance of homeowners and their collective action, as well as control mechanisms in neighborhood governance. The book offers a window through which contending issues, such as changing state-society relations, rights-based social movements and the emergence of civil society, can be further explored.Neighborhood governance is a multifaceted concept that cuts across academic disciplines and intersects an array of policy areas. Therefore this book will find a wide audience amongst public and social policy academics, particularly those with an interest in urban studies, governance and Asian cities, as well as politics.Contributors: W. Breitung, H. Chai, J. Chen, L. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. Gui, S. Guo, R. Huang, Y. Jiang, W. Ma, B.L. Read, X. Sun, J. Tang, J. Wang, Y.Wu, N.-M. YipTrade Review‘This book is timely, coming as it does at a time when interest in China’s urban growth remains high (for example, Ren, 2013), and neighbourhood/community governance is increasingly emphasised in many countries, particularly the UK (cf. the 2011 Localism Act). However, as Chapter 2 of the book, written by Benjamin Read, acknowl-edges, Western theories around neighbour-hood governance ‘were created against the backdrop of a pluralist model of societal organization’ (p. 30), with more-or-less independent grassroots activity. That model, certainly in recent years, is not directly trans-ferable to the Chinese context, so this book makes a valuable contribution to developing our knowledge of neighbourhood gover-nance in a specific setting.’ -- John Sturzaker, Town Planning Review‘The editor did a fine job of bringing together a rare collection of research works that demonstrate an excellent understanding of the overall climate of urban governance in China. The book is eloquently presented and should attract a wide audience among the public and social policy researchers interested in China.’ -- Miao Zhang, Institutions and EconomiesTable of ContentsContents Preface 1. Introduction: Neighbourhood Governance in Context Ngai-Ming Yip PART I THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS 2. Theoretical Approaches to Neighbourhood Governance: Searching for Lost Treasure and Comparative Frameworks Benjamin L. Read 3. Neighbourhood Governance and the Creation of Urban Commons in China Limei Chen PART II STATE SOCIETY INTERACTION AT THE GRASSROOTS 4. The Institutionalization of Neighbourhood Governance - Dilemma and Political Hurdles Yong Gui and Weihong Ma 5. Are Residents’ Committees Able to Contain Homeowner Resistance? The Interaction between Residents’ Committees and Homeowners’ Associations Ronggui Huang 6. Loyalist-activist Networks and Institutional Identification in Urban Neighbourhoods Shengli Guo and Xiaoyi Sun PART III INSTITUTIONAL SETUP OF HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS 7. Institutional Innovations in Homeowner Self-governance: Case Study of Beijing Youhong Chen 8. Homeowner Self-governance and its Sustainability: Case Study of A Residential Neighbourhood in Shenzhen Juan Tang, Jianjun Wang and Hongxia Chan PART IV AGENTS OF CHANGE IN THE EMERGING CIVIL SOCIETY 9. Differentiated Neighbourhood Governance in Transitional Urban China: Comparative Study of Two Housing Estates in Guangzhou Werner Breitung 10. The Constructive Significance of Homeowners’ Rightful Protest in China Ying Wu, and Junhua Chen 11. Altering the Rules: Homeowners’ Participation in Legislation Yihong Jiang Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a fascinating perspective on why China will very likely continue to play a major role in world export at a time when it is losing its comparative advantage in labor-intensive manufacturing products as a result of rapidly rising labor cost and appreciation of its currency-the secret lies in the fact that China (as the most populous nation) can benefit from increasing returns to scale. However, the author also clearly outlines the enormous challenges ahead of China: to urbanize and integrate most of its rural population as a precondition for China to explore its potential advantage in scale economy through agglomeration effects.'- Guanzhong James Wen, Trinity College, US and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China'This is an original reading by a Chinese economist on the grand topic of China's urbanization. Through gathering a vast amount of raw materials available in Chinese, the book deliberately maintains its indigenous flavour and introduces rich and timely information to the outside world, on topical issues such as household registration (Hukou) reform, fairness of land acquisition, housing price control, forced demolition, urban poverty, traffic congestion and many other topics. The attempt to consider the implications for the world economy, especially on issues such as energy and material consumption, is extremely valuable and much needed.'- Fulong Wu, University College London, UKThis innovative book places China's urbanization within a broader global context, including a detailed estimate of China's total domestic market and its impact on the world economy.Urbanization has become a new driving force in China's development. Through China's urbanization process, China's role in the world economy will change from the world's major workshop to one of the world s central markets. The increase in demand triggered by urbanization has created a tremendous impact in the international market, changing China's international trade patterns, foreign investment and exchange rate. The success of China's urbanization depends on a group of intertwined economic and political reforms, the vision and determinedness of the leadership, cooperation and opposition of the local government, and the attitude of society. This book focuses on the logic and contradictions of China's urbanization and its future, its impact on the world economy, and the policy tradeoffs the Chinese leadership face.Economists, policymakers, academics and students interested in urban policy, international studies, Asian studies and the impact of China's urbanization on the world economy will all have much to learn in this groundbreaking book.Contents: Preface Prologue Part I: China s Urbanization 1. China's Urbanization: History and Facts 2. The Road Map and Logic of China's Urbanization 3. Industrialization and Urban Development 4. Labor Migration 5. Land and Local Government Finance 6. Infrastructure and Housing Construction 7. Social Aspects of Urbanization 8. Other Problems with Urbanization 9. The System of the Cities Part II: China's Impacts on the World Market 10. Overall Estimates and Assumptions 11. Raw Materials and Capital Goods 12. Consumer Market 13. Relocation of Factors: Labor and Capital 14. Macroeconomic Impacts Part III: Choices of China and the World 15. China's Choices 16. The Choices of the Rest of the World Conclusions Reference IndexTrade Review‘This book provides a fascinating perspective on why China will very likely continue to play a major role in world export at a time when it is losing its comparative advantage in labor-intensive manufacturing products as a result of rapidly rising labor cost and appreciation of its currency—the secret lies in the fact that China (as the most populous nation) can benefit from increasing returns to scale. However, the author also clearly outlines the enormous challenges ahead of China: to urbanize and integrate most of its rural population as a precondition for China to explore its potential advantage in scale economy through agglomeration effects.’ -- Guanzhong James Wen, Trinity College, US and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China‘This is an original reading by a Chinese economist on the grand topic of China’s urbanization. Through gathering a vast amount of raw materials available in Chinese, the book deliberately maintains its indigenous flavour and introduces rich and timely information to the outside world, on topical issues such as household registration (Hukou) reform, fairness of land acquisition, housing price control, forced demolition, urban poverty, traffic congestion and many other topics. The attempt to consider the implications for the world economy, especially on issues such as energy and material consumption, is extremely valuable and much needed.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Prologue Part I: China’s Urbanization 1. China’s Urbanization: History and Facts 2. The Road Map and Logic of China’s Urbanization 3. Industrialization and Urban Development 4. Labor Migration 5. Land and Local Government Finance 6. Infrastructure and Housing Construction 7. Social Aspects of Urbanization 8. Other Problems with Urbanization 9. The System of the Cities Part II: China’s Impacts on the World Market 10. Overall Estimates and Assumptions 11. Raw Materials and Capital Goods 12. Consumer Market 13. Relocation of Factors: Labor and Capital 14. Macroeconomic Impacts Part III: Choices of China and the World 15. China’s Choices 16. The Choices of the Rest of the World Conclusions Reference Index

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Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of today?s climate of economic globalization and the rapid development of information, this timely book explores the complex concept of competitiveness between cities. The expert contributors illustrate that innovation is a prerequisite for increasing urban competitiveness, and highlight the various ways that urban innovation-based competitiveness can be approached. Themes explored include:? industrial clusters? competitiveness between major cities ? local policy and competition enhancement? governance to combat global climate change? innovation in urban policy and collaboration between cities? cluster theory and cluster-based economic development policy ? the strategic shift towards domestic markets and service enhancement.Scholars and policymakers in the fields of economics, public sector economics, innovation, technology and urban competitiveness will find this book to be an enlightening read.Trade Review‘Social science researchers interested in urban evolution will be interested in this book. City decision-makers will also ?nd the book’s insights into approaches for address-ing city challenges useful. . . The authors succeed in providing valuable analyses based on a set of indexes, case studies, and other methods. The book is especially useful for providing a rich set of details about the progress that cities are making to inform policy through evidence-based analysis.’ -- Stephanie S. Shipp, Science & Public PolicyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Ni Pengfei and Zheng Qiongjie PART I: URBAN COMPETITIVENESS 2. Chinese Cities and Global Urban Competitiveness Pengfei Ni, Wei Shaokun, Liu Kai and Zheng Qiongjie 3. Better Cities, Better Planet: Examples of Governing Against climate change from OECD Countries Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Margo Cointreau 4. The Strategic Shift Toward Domestic Market, Service Enhancement, and Urban Competitiveness in China François Gipouloux PART II: URBAN COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION 5. Enhancing the Innovation Based Urban Competitiveness Guido Ferrari 6. Enhancing Urban Competitiveness through Innovative Growth Clusters Leo Van Den Berg, Erik Braun and Wiliem Van Winden 7. Innovation in Urban Policy; Collaboration Rather than Competition between Cities William F. Lever 8. What Can Cities Do to Enhance Competitiveness? Local Policies and Actions for Innovation Zhang Ming PART III: WORLD CITIES 9. Competition and Cooperation between Cities in Globalization Peter Taylor 10. Global Power City Index-Comprehensive Power of Cities to Enhance their Competitiveness Hiroo Ichikawa 11. Urban Development in Hong Kong and its Regional Integration with Pearl River Delta 1978–2009 Shen Jianfa PART IV: URBAN COMPETITIVENESS AND INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS 12. A Development Officer’s Guide to Clusters Peter Karl Kresl 13. Cultural Policies and Local Development Strategies: The Cultural District of Caserta, Italy Stefano Mollica 14. Economic Competitiveness, Clusters, and Cluster-Based Development Hal Wolman 15. Urban Competitiveness and Industrial Clusters in Mexico Janime Sobrino Afterwords

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Book Synopsis'This book, although relatively short, is a tour de force. The book is elegantly written, offering a persuasive narrative in which the arguments and the prose flow smoothly from one theme to another. The reader is pulled along various lines of argument running parallel, but ultimately these are brought back together in a concluding synthesis. This is a superb book. I know of no other recent volume with a similar broad scope, internal cohesion, and argumentative rigour, as well as persuasive writing style. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in global economic transformations and the expanded role of global city regions.'- Larry S. Bourne, Canadian Studies in PopulationThis innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and altering the processes of urbanization.Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism s increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation.Professors and students in areas such as geography, urban planning, sociology, and economics will find much to admire in this pioneering volume, as will journalists, policy-makers, and other professionals with an interest in urban studies.Trade Review'This is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour d horizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading.' --Peter Hall, University College London, UK'In this book, Allen Scott enriches his longstanding research into the ways in which city-regions function as the main economic engines of global capitalism. The end result is a seminal synthesis of how city-regions are increasingly enchained with one another in intensifying relations of competition and cooperation, and is a must-read for students and scholars alike.' --Ben Derudder, Monash University, Australia and Ghent University, Belgium'Scott's book is a remarkable treatment of the emerging global economy, weaving together the frontiers of technology and the ways in which labor is managed and surplus created with the cities of tomorrow. His book challenges conventional notions of the 'global city' to provide a more nuanced account of the ways in which the emerging cultural-cognitive economy of the 21st century is producing urban landscapes. His conception of the city of tomorrow is informed by deep knowledge of the contemporary city around the world and provides the reader with the conceptual building blocks to re-frame how we think about urbanization now and in the future.' --Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A Brief Historical Geography of Capitalism 2. On Urbanization and Urban Theory 3. Toward a New Economy: Technology, Labor, Globalization 4. Economic Geography and the World System 5. Emerging Cities of the Third Wave 6. Human Capital and the Urban Hierarchy 7. Symbolic Analysts and the Service Underclass 8. Social Milieu and Built Form of the City 9. Interstitial Geographies: The Cultural Economy of Landscape 10. Cosmopolis 11. Brave New World? References 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'This collection of essays provides a rich assortment of methods used to investigate the complex economic, social, environmental, demographic and political systems in cities throughout the world. It gives researchers, lecturers and students a useful taste of the different ways of studying these phenomena in diverse urban settings.'- Ivan Turok, University of Glasgow, UKIn this timely Handbook, more than 17 renowned contributors from Asia, the Americas and Europe provide chapters that deal with some of the most intriguing and important aspects of research methodologies on cities and urban economies.The Handbook comprises five parts: methodology, continental distinctions, positioning cities, planning for the future, and urban structures. The 'methodologies' section includes interviews, empirical and theoretical approaches whilst 'continental distinctions' offers contributions on China, North America, Europe, Latin America and South Africa. 'Positioning' treats cities in the international context and relates them to economic and administrative spaces whilst 'planning' includes general strategic economic planning, as well as the experience of individual cities. Finally, the 'structures' section refers to contextual and situational aspects of urban development.Providing a comprehensive study of urban development and competitiveness, this Handbook will strongly appeal to students wishing to gain a deeper understanding of research methods in urban economics, urban studies and planning.Contributors: J.A. Annema, D. Arribas-Bel, A. Battaglia, R. Boix, J.M.P. da Cunha, J. Duminy, E.H. Fry, V. Galletto, K. Kourtit, P.K. Kresl, W.F. Lever, J.L. Lezama, Q. Li, J.F. McDonald, P. Ni, P. Nijkamp, N. Odendaal, I. Orihuela, A. Otgaar, H. Priemus, S. Ronda, C. Salone, J. Sobrino, D.-G. Tremblay, J. Trullén, V. Ugalde, L. van den Berg, B. van Wee, V. WatsonTrade ReviewIt is obvious that cities have long been the focus if analysis by the scholars and practitioners whose writings published in the Kresl-Sobrino Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies. The depth and excellence of the numerous topics examined reflects effective networking between the scholars involved, their analyses of approaches, problems and potentials of cities on the numerous continents, and the continuing role of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project in encouraging the development of methodologies and data helpful in understanding the hard and soft determinants of the growth and decline of cities. --Pierre-Paul Proulx, Universite de Montreal, CanadaI highly recommend students, teachers and researchers to enjoy reading this set of excellent papers. --Boris Graizbord, El Colegio de MexicoTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: BASIC METHODOLOGIES FOR RESEARCHING CITIES 1. City Makers, Federal Interventions and Territorial Organization: The Case of Mexico Vincente Ugalde and Stéphanie Ronda 2. Empirical Approaches to Urban Competitiveness Analysis Peter Karl Kresl 3. Comparative Urban Studies in Europe: An Introduction to the Euricur Method Alexander Otgaar and Leo van den Berg PART II: CONTINENTAL DISTINCTIONS 4. Analysis of Urban Well-being and its Influencing Factors in the Spatial Distribution in China Ni Pengfei, Qingbin Li and Chao Li 5. A Comparative Approach to Doing Research on Cities: Comparing North American Cities to Others Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Angélo Battaglia 6. Questions and Challenges in Studies on Latin-American Cities José Marcos Pinto da Cunha 7. Doing Research in African Cities: The Case Study Method James Duminy, Vanessa Watson and Nancy Odendaal PART III: POSITIONING CITIES 8. Relating Cities to their International Context Earl H. Fry 9. Defining the Urban Economic and Administrative Spaces Carlo Salone 10. An Insight on the Unit of Analysis in Urban Research Joan Trullén, Raphael Boix and Vittorio Galletto PART IV: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURES 11. Evaluation of Strategic Planning Exercises Peter Karl Kresl 12. Imagining the Future of an Individual City John F. McDonald 13. The Limits of Environmental Management in the Mexico Megacity: The Air Pollution Case José Luis Lezama PART V: URBAN STRUCTURES 14. Urban Demographic Growth: The Case of Megacities Jaime Sobrino 15. Evaluating the Urban Milieu of an Individual City William F. Lever 16. Analysing Internal Migration Pathways in Mexico Jaime Sobrino 17. Model Building for Infrastructure Initiatives Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema and Hugo Priemus 18. Local Public–Private Relationships for Economic Development in Mexico: A Qualitative Analysis Isela Orihuela 19. The Creative Urban Diaspora Economy: A Disparity Analysis Among Migrant Entrepreneurs Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Daniel Arribas-Bel Index

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Book SynopsisnullTrade Review'Iammarino and McCann bring together their own wide-ranging research into multinationals, as well as industrial clusters, the shed light into how firms are developing new strategies aimed at gaining access to strategic knowledge and technology in particular subnational locations, typically world cities that are linked into global innovation networks.' -- David W. Edgington, Economic Geography‘This book on multinationals and economic geography by two world leading economic geographers is a landmark that provides an integrated and dynamic perspective on the economic geography of the multinational enterprise. . . This book is an absolute “must-read” for any scholar and any student that is interested in multinationals and their location.’ -- Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden'...the authors adopt a rigorous textbook approach, with a particularly detailed coverage of relevant empirical studies and findings of recent trends and phenomena...The convergence of ideas and arguments between IB and economic geography, the combination of which is intended to jointly develop a more holistic understanding of economic activity dispersed across space, has de?nitely taken off, and this book most certainly constitutes an invaluable toolkit for anyone wishing to contribute to this emerging and vibrant area of IB scholarship.' -- Lucia Piscitello, Journal of International Business Studies‘. . . the authors must be highly credited as being among the few economic geographers and regional scientists next to scholars from the international business and management fields responsible for building sustainable bridges across various disciplines with regards to developing a spatial MNE research. Therefore, the book offers an exceptional read and a brilliant conceptual and empirical analysis based on two decades of the authors’ own work with manifold astonishing examples framed by illustrative and informative boxes and features with current data useful for application to everyone interested in MNE in general, and to a wide array of academic scholars from economics, organisational studies, management science as well as international business and economic geography in particular. Ultimately, the book presents an important milestone towards a more balanced three-legged stool of MNE research with reference to the location dimension.’ -- Lech Suwala, Regional Studies‘The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and economic geography by two world leading economic geographers is a landmark that provides an integrated and dynamic perspective on the economic geography of the multinational enterprise. To fully understand this process of globalization, the book explains forcefully and persuasively that one needs a dynamic perspective on multinational enterprises that brings together disparate literatures on economic geography, knowledge and innovation, global network cities, and international business and management. Embedding it in modern theory of innovation and geography, the book provides not only a state-of-the-art of theories and empirics on the location of multinationals, but goes far beyond that. This book is an absolute “must-read” for any scholar and any student that is interested in multinationals and their location.’ -- Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden‘Despite often playing second fiddle to clusters in the economic geography literature, multinationals are fundamental drivers of economic development. As generators and diffusers of knowledge they have played an essential role in shaping the new world economic order. No book captures this better than Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann’s Multinationals and Economic Geography, a must read for anyone eager to fully understand the new economic geography of globalisation.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Multinational Enterprises, Innovation and Geography in Todays’ Globalized World Part I: Multinationals, Location and Innovation: Foundations and Extensions 2. Old and New(er) Theories of Multinational Enterprises: Selected Perspectives and the Search for Location 3. Firm Location Behaviour in Theory: Extensions to Multiplant and Multinational Firms 4. The Sources of Innovation: The Firm and the Local System Part II: Multinationals and the Changing Economic Geography of Globalization 5. Multinationals, Variety of Geographies and Evolution 6. Globalization and Multinationals in a Historical Process 7. Multinationals, Connectivity and Global Cities 8. Multinationals, Emerging Economies and the Changing Economic Geography 9. Conclusions: Review of the Arguments and Implications for Future Research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisnullTrade Review'Iammarino and McCann bring together their own wide-ranging research into multinationals, as well as industrial clusters, the shed light into how firms are developing new strategies aimed at gaining access to strategic knowledge and technology in particular subnational locations, typically world cities that are linked into global innovation networks.' -- David W. Edgington, Economic Geography‘This book on multinationals and economic geography by two world leading economic geographers is a landmark that provides an integrated and dynamic perspective on the economic geography of the multinational enterprise. . . This book is an absolute “must-read” for any scholar and any student that is interested in multinationals and their location.’ -- Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden'...the authors adopt a rigorous textbook approach, with a particularly detailed coverage of relevant empirical studies and findings of recent trends and phenomena...The convergence of ideas and arguments between IB and economic geography, the combination of which is intended to jointly develop a more holistic understanding of economic activity dispersed across space, has de?nitely taken off, and this book most certainly constitutes an invaluable toolkit for anyone wishing to contribute to this emerging and vibrant area of IB scholarship.' -- Lucia Piscitello, Journal of International Business Studies‘. . . the authors must be highly credited as being among the few economic geographers and regional scientists next to scholars from the international business and management fields responsible for building sustainable bridges across various disciplines with regards to developing a spatial MNE research. Therefore, the book offers an exceptional read and a brilliant conceptual and empirical analysis based on two decades of the authors’ own work with manifold astonishing examples framed by illustrative and informative boxes and features with current data useful for application to everyone interested in MNE in general, and to a wide array of academic scholars from economics, organisational studies, management science as well as international business and economic geography in particular. Ultimately, the book presents an important milestone towards a more balanced three-legged stool of MNE research with reference to the location dimension.’ -- Lech Suwala, Regional Studies‘The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and economic geography by two world leading economic geographers is a landmark that provides an integrated and dynamic perspective on the economic geography of the multinational enterprise. To fully understand this process of globalization, the book explains forcefully and persuasively that one needs a dynamic perspective on multinational enterprises that brings together disparate literatures on economic geography, knowledge and innovation, global network cities, and international business and management. Embedding it in modern theory of innovation and geography, the book provides not only a state-of-the-art of theories and empirics on the location of multinationals, but goes far beyond that. This book is an absolute “must-read” for any scholar and any student that is interested in multinationals and their location.’ -- Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden‘Despite often playing second fiddle to clusters in the economic geography literature, multinationals are fundamental drivers of economic development. As generators and diffusers of knowledge they have played an essential role in shaping the new world economic order. No book captures this better than Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann’s Multinationals and Economic Geography, a must read for anyone eager to fully understand the new economic geography of globalisation.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Multinational Enterprises, Innovation and Geography in Todays’ Globalized World Part I: Multinationals, Location and Innovation: Foundations and Extensions 2. Old and New(er) Theories of Multinational Enterprises: Selected Perspectives and the Search for Location 3. Firm Location Behaviour in Theory: Extensions to Multiplant and Multinational Firms 4. The Sources of Innovation: The Firm and the Local System Part II: Multinationals and the Changing Economic Geography of Globalization 5. Multinationals, Variety of Geographies and Evolution 6. Globalization and Multinationals in a Historical Process 7. Multinationals, Connectivity and Global Cities 8. Multinationals, Emerging Economies and the Changing Economic Geography 9. Conclusions: Review of the Arguments and Implications for Future Research Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'This book, although relatively short, is a tour de force. The book is elegantly written, offering a persuasive narrative in which the arguments and the prose flow smoothly from one theme to another. The reader is pulled along various lines of argument running parallel, but ultimately these are brought back together in a concluding synthesis. This is a superb book. I know of no other recent volume with a similar broad scope, internal cohesion, and argumentative rigour, as well as persuasive writing style. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in global economic transformations and the expanded role of global city regions.'- Larry S. Bourne, Canadian Studies in PopulationThis innovative volume offers an in-depth analysis of the many ways in which new forms of capitalism in the 21st century are affecting and altering the processes of urbanization.Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism s increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation.Professors and students in areas such as geography, urban planning, sociology, and economics will find much to admire in this pioneering volume, as will journalists, policy-makers, and other professionals with an interest in urban studies.Trade Review'This is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour d horizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading.' --Peter Hall, University College London, UK'In this book, Allen Scott enriches his longstanding research into the ways in which city-regions function as the main economic engines of global capitalism. The end result is a seminal synthesis of how city-regions are increasingly enchained with one another in intensifying relations of competition and cooperation, and is a must-read for students and scholars alike.' --Ben Derudder, Monash University, Australia and Ghent University, Belgium'Scott's book is a remarkable treatment of the emerging global economy, weaving together the frontiers of technology and the ways in which labor is managed and surplus created with the cities of tomorrow. His book challenges conventional notions of the 'global city' to provide a more nuanced account of the ways in which the emerging cultural-cognitive economy of the 21st century is producing urban landscapes. His conception of the city of tomorrow is informed by deep knowledge of the contemporary city around the world and provides the reader with the conceptual building blocks to re-frame how we think about urbanization now and in the future.' --Gordon L. Clark, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A Brief Historical Geography of Capitalism 2. On Urbanization and Urban Theory 3. Toward a New Economy: Technology, Labor, Globalization 4. Economic Geography and the World System 5. Emerging Cities of the Third Wave 6. Human Capital and the Urban Hierarchy 7. Symbolic Analysts and the Service Underclass 8. Social Milieu and Built Form of the City 9. Interstitial Geographies: The Cultural Economy of Landscape 10. Cosmopolis 11. Brave New World? References Index

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Book SynopsisIn a world which increasingly requires place-based approaches to economic development, Regional Competitiveness and Smart Specialization in Europe offers a new methodology and a framework in order to promote the smart specialization of territories. Rich in examples and evidence, the book is an essential tool for the design of sound development strategies and a must read for policy-makers and development practitioners.'- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UKRegions economically differ from each other - they compete in different products and geographical spaces, exhibit different strengths and weaknesses, and provide different possibilities for growth and development. What fosters growth in one region may hamper it in another. This highly original book presents an accessible methodology for identifying competitors and their particular circumstances in Europe, discusses regional competitiveness from a conceptual perspective and explores both past and future regional development policies in Europe.The authors illustrate that for the concept of regional competition to be valued correctly it should not solely be identified by the structural asset characteristics of cities and regions. They therefore present a unique applied analytic framework that takes into account economically valued network relations between places of (mobile) production factors and traded goods. Underpinned with thorough analysis and theory, the framework uses actual networks of competing and economically valued relations between regions to help develop smart specialization strategies that are central in the place-based policy initiatives of the new European cohesion policy.This path-breaking book presents a crucial contribution to the current academic discussion on regional competitiveness and the policy debate on smart specialization, place-based development and cohesion policy in the European Union. As such it will prove an invaluable read for academics, researchers, students and policy-makers with an interest in economics - particularly applied regional economics, European studies and regional studies.Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Smart Specialization, Regional Innovation Systems and EU Cohesion Policy by Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés 3. Regional Economic Development and Competitiveness 4. Clustering and Specialization in European Regions 5. Revealed Competition in European Regions 6. Dynamics in Revealed Regional Competition between Firms in Europe 7. A Smart Specialization Strategy: Locational and Network Determinants of International Competitiveness 8. Conclusion: One Size Fits Only One in Place-based Regional Policy Appendix: European Regional Trade Flows Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘In a world which increasingly requires place-based approaches to economic development, Regional Competitiveness and Smart Specialization in Europe offers a new methodology and a framework in order to promote the smart specialization of territories. Rich in examples and evidence, the book is an essential tool for the design of sound development strategies and a must read for policy-makers and development practitioners.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Smart Specialization, Regional Innovation Systems and EU Cohesion Policy by Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés 3. Regional Economic Development and Competitiveness 4. Clustering and Specialization in European Regions 5. Revealed Competition in European Regions 6. Dynamics in Revealed Regional Competition between Firms in Europe 7. A Smart Specialization Strategy: Locational and Network Determinants of International Competitiveness 8. Conclusion: One Size Fits Only One in Place-based Regional Policy Appendix: European Regional Trade Flows Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive view of global urban competitiveness, offers a useful methodology for its comparative study in different socioeconomic and territorial contexts, and is supplemented with reflections and case studies from around the world. Reading it is highly recommended to understand contemporary patterns in industrial and services location among cities, and the effects of such spatial concentration in the urban labor markets and in the quality of life of the urban population.'- Jaime Sobrino, El Colegio de México'Theoretically informed contributions to this empirically rich text introduce a timely critical perspective to the urban competitiveness literature, emphasizing that the notion of competitiveness applied in economic analysis cannot be conferred simplistically on city relations. A range of environmental, cohesion, technological innovation, cultural diversity and governance alongside business and GDP empirics presented in the book points to the complexity of contemporary cities and the diversity of processes that define their distinctive roles in global networks and circuits. The book illustrates the danger of competitive interpretations of global rankings, paving the way for new research agendas focusing on fine-grained city relational analyses.'- Kathy Pain, University of Reading, UKAcclaim for previous edition:'If you believe that the world economy is composed of cities vying with one another for capital investment, creative individuals, and high-performance firms, then you might be curios about which cities are most successful. To find out, you will need to consult this book. . . This reference work is thorough in its coverage.'- R.A. Beauregard, ChoiceThe Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2013 is an empirical study and evaluation of the sustainable competitiveness of 500 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives. This one-of-a-kind resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed, and involve urban economics, geography, urban studies, regional economics and many other fields. Using a sophisticated methodology and a team of 100 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasury of information with regard to the strengths and weaknesses of each city in relation to each other.Included is a full discussion on the structure, trends and determinants of global urban development, prosperity and competitiveness, and comments on the policies and initiatives that are adopted by the most competitive cities. Chapters written by eminent scholars and researchers from organizations such as the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, World Bank and OECD analyze key problems in sustainable urban competitiveness. The research shows how global cities can improve their competitiveness and the analysis reveals that global urban competitiveness has increased overall, the highlight being emerging economy cities. The comprehensive and concise index system and valuation method, and stable and reliable data, provide an accurate reflection on many aspects of a city and its competitiveness.Scholars and researchers in the areas of urban economics, planning, geography and regional economics will find the information invaluable, as will local authorities, decision-makers and economic planners in cities throughout the world.Contributors include: M. Cointreau, L. Kamal-Chaoui, P.K. Kresl, C. Li, M. Li, Q. Li, K. Liu, W. Liu, P. Ni, B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, S. Sassen, P.J. Taylor, X. Wang, J. Wei, S. Wei, J. Yang, X. Yang, A. ZhangTrade Review‘This book provides a comprehensive view of global urban competitiveness, offers a useful methodology for its comparative study in different socioeconomic and territorial contexts, and is supplemented with reflections and case studies from around the world. Reading it is highly recommended to understand contemporary patterns in industrial and services location among cities, and the effects of such spatial concentration in the urban labor markets and in the quality of life of the urban population.’ -- Jaime Sobrino, El Colegio de México‘Theoretically informed contributions to this empirically rich text introduce a timely critical perspective to the urban competitiveness literature, emphasizing that the notion of competitiveness applied in economic analysis cannot be conferred simplistically on city relations. A range of environmental, cohesion, technological innovation, cultural diversity and governance alongside business and GDP empirics presented in the book points to the complexity of contemporary cities and the diversity of processes that define their distinctive roles in global networks and circuits. The book illustrates the danger of competitive interpretations of global rankings, paving the way for new research agendas focusing on fine-grained city relational analyses.’ -- Kathy Pain, University of Reading, UK‘In this report the authors present the ranking concerning the sustainable competitiveness performance in 2013 of 500 cities from all over the world.‘This book is an updated assessment of the urban competitiveness of 500 cities in the world, based on seven indicators supported by data from the most authoritative sources. It is a valuable resource for comparing the positions of various cities in the league table of global urban competitiveness. The chapters in Part II written by leading experts of urban competitiveness and urban studies, make this book a valuable reference on the recent conceptual and methodological advancements in urban competitiveness studies.’ -- Jianfa Shen, The Chinese University of Hong KongAcclaim for previous edition:‘If you believe that the world economy is composed of cities vying with one another for capital investment, creative individuals, and high-performance firms, then you might be curios about which cities are most successful. To find out, you will need to consult this book. . . This reference work is thorough in its coverage.’ -- R.A. Beauregard, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents PART I GENERAL ANALYSIS 1. Conceptual Framework and Analytical Methods Pengfei Ni, Xiaolan Yang and Peter Karl Kresl 2. Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness Index Wei Liu, Mian Li, Jie Yang and Shaokun Wei 3. Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness: A Comprehensive Analysis Jie Wei and Pengfei Ni 4. Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness: A Regional Analysis Jie Yang and Kai Liu 5. Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness and Urban GDP Per Capita Anquan Zhang 6. Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness and Urban Population Size Chao Li 7. Global Urban Sustainable Competitiveness: Characteristics of Functional Centers Qingbin Li PART II SPECIALIZED ANALYSIS 8. The Specialized Differences: One Key Vector in Urban Competitiveness Saskia Sassen 9. Social and Technological Innovations in the Competitiveness of Cities Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka 10. Green Cities: Examples of Governing for Green Growth from OECD Countries Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Margo Cointreau and Xiao Wang 11. Institutions and Urban Competitiveness – a Doing Business Perspective Doing Business Group in the World Bank 12. The Challenge of World City Network Pattern Changes on the World City Network Analysis Peter J. Taylor 13. Population Aging and Urban Competitiveness Peter Karl Kresl 14. Driving Factors of Urban Prosperity: An Empirical Analysis of Global Cities Pengfei Ni 15. Patterns of the Global Cities: Present and Future Pengfei Ni PART III INDEX REPORT 16. The State of Sustainable Competitiveness of 500 Cities Global Urban Competitiveness Assessment Team Index

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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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