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Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned.
The articles in this book are selected from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.
The Randstad metropolitan region in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a successful polycentric metropolis. This book will provide explanations of the place of complex city regions in the globalisation process, a critical analysis of the Randstad and lessons for strategic planning in other metropolitan regions.
This book engages with current debates on 'planetary urbanization' and the nature of urban political theory, but notably, considers the implications of illiberalism on space, territory, and power. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Territory, Politics, Governance.
This book presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces, both formal and informal, such as co-working spaces, maker spaces, Fab labs, public libraries and coffeeshops, and their role during and post-Covid-19.
In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained recognition from national and regional governments. Increasingly, governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries.
This book presents a reconceptualision of universities' role in regional engagement and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities' "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections with regional partners.
This book examines Latin American metropolitan governance by focusing on the issue of public service provision and comparatively examining five of the largest and most complex urban agglomerations in the region: Buenos Aires, Bogota, Lima, Mexico City and Santiago.
Addresses the crucial role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world. Offers a roadmap for territorial development theories and strategic policy guidelines, by providing evidence-based narratives of how border regions have been stimulating regional development.
Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned.
The aim of this book is firstly to highlight major recent methodological advances in the Geography of Innovation, particularly concerning the measurement of spatial knowledge externalities and their impact on agglomeration effects.
Innovation varies fundamentally between countries - and public policies can be determined according to different societies' needs (e.g. energy technology, environmental technologies). This comparison between countries and continents featuring a range of world experts helps develop a fuller picture of innovations and their social basis.
The articles in this book are selected from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.
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