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