Urban and Regional Studies
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Smart Cities in Asia
Edited by Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon Tan
At a time when Asia is rapidly growing in global influence, this much-needed and insightful book bridges two major current policy topics in order to offer a unique study of the latest smart city archetypes emerging throughout Asia. Highl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Productivity Perspectives
Edited by Philip McCann, Tim Vorley
Productivity Perspectives offers a timely and stimulating social science view on the productivity debate, drawing on the work of the ESRC funded Productivity Insights Network. The book examines the drivers and inhibitors of UK productivi...eBook:Find out more$46.36
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Planners in Politics
Edited by Louis Albrechts
In this innovative book, ten executive politicians with backgrounds in planning from around the world dissect their own political careers. Reflecting on the often structural impact of their work in political decision-making, they also co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Transport and Urban Transformation in China
Edited by Chia-Lin Chen, Haixiao Pan, Qing Shen, James J. Wang
Since 1978, when China embarked on a new period of economic reforms and introduced open door policies, it has experienced a great urban transformation. The role of transport has proved indispensable in this unprecedented rapid urbanisati...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Infrastructured State
Colin Turner
At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization and Spatial Mobilities
Aharon Kellerman
Presenting a comparative examination of five major voluntary global movements: commodities, people, capital, information and technology, this book traces and develops discussions of globalization and spatial mobility. The book further co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience
Edited by Gillian Bristow, Adrian Healy
This Handbook provides a collection of high quality contributions on the state of the art in current debates around the concept of regional economic resilience. It provides critical contributions from leading authors in the field, and ca...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Local Resources, Territorial Development and Well-being
Edited by Jean-Christophe Dissart, Natacha Seigneuret
Using empirical evidence, this book argues for a more comprehensive view of the diversity of local resources and well-being from a territorial perspective. The first part of the book addresses the contrasting nature of local resources: i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories
Edited by Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, Martin Jones
This new international Handbook provides the reader with the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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The Economics of Agglomeration
Edited by William C. Strange
This inspiring collection compiles the most essential papers encompassing agglomeration economies. Agglomeration economies are manifested in cities and industry clusters shaping the neighborhoods and the regions that contain them. The li... -
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Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Aging
Edited by Mikaela Backman, Charlie Karlsson, Orsa Kekezi
Many developed countries are facing a demographic change with an increasing share of older individuals, yet little is known about how older workers will impact regional and national economies in terms of labor market dynamics. This Handb...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era
Edited by Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi
Examining 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 ...eBook:Find out more$40.00