Books in the Regions and Cities series

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.

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relational spaces which may generate opportunities for economic development, while redefining the political and economic meaning of national borders. This book is based on a number of key case studies which are crucial to understanding the complex web of political, economic and cultural factors that shape the heterogeneous picture of Europe¿s new geography.

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing countries have not yet received the same attention ¿ this book fills that gap. An international team of academics have compiled a comprehensive study of the competitiveness of cities in the developing world.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, govern urban life, and to drive local and regional economies. This book, through a range of international case studies, suggests social, political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities.

This book looks at the economy of Scotland from every angle ¿ from the oil and gas sector to the labour market and education; from the country¿s financial sector to inequality and poverty, bringing together a team of experts in their fields to provide an assessment of the current state of the nation.

The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the West, and one of the largest of such programmes anywhere in the world. The reforms to the Policy contain many different elements each of which interlink in order to provide a cohesive overall framework. This volume provides important insights into some of the key elements of the EU Cohesion Policy covering some of the key challenges for the implementation of policy reforms in the coming years.

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 examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration.

This book, divided into five parts, examines in detail the changes and the challenge for policy makers.

Regional studies are at a vibrant conjuncture. 'Regions' provide a conceptual and analytical focus for often overlapping concerns with economic, social, political, cultural and ecological change. This book features important voices in regional studies.

An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography.

The analysis of clusters and industrial districts has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been under-evaluated. This book offers insights into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning.

Explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisation of systems of innovation. This book combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual/intelligent environments.

Drawing on international evidence, this book explores the meaning and consequences of the 'new economy' and debates the efficacy of this widely used concept.

Focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity process within regions in the knowledge economy. This work demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and shows how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

Integrating theoretical and practical research, this work covers economic, social and territorial issues aspects of EU intervention. It provides a systematic view of the various stages of the policy cycle, looking at: the evolution of the problems; the design of the policy system; the implementation in practice; and the evaluation of effects.

This book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries.

This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century.

Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring.

Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth, this book explores the literature of this area.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.

This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context.

Provides an overview and critical perspective on the impact of devolution on regionalism in the UK since 1999, taking a research-based look at issues central to the development of regionalism: politics, governance and planning.

Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across Europe.

This book is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades.

This book address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies.

This edited volume examines how Industrial Policy can rebalance economies, help support sustainable development and catalyse new technologies and innovations whilst learning lessons from past experience and debate. It was originally published as a special issue of Policy Studies.

Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to `re-frame¿ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography; emergence theory; and resilience theory. From below, they address the four major crises creating a `perfect storm¿ for societies and economics involving: the climate change crisis; the energy crisis; the banking and financial crisis; and the global economic crisis.