Regions and Cities

Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes

Technopoles of the world revisited

Edited by Julie Tian Miao, Paul Benneworth, Nicholas A. Phelps

Series: Regions and Cities

The world has changed profoundly since the publication of the influential book Technopoles of the World. As policy-makers and practitioners attempt to harness science, technology and innovation to create dynamic and vibrant cities many wonder how relevant Manuel Castells and Peter Hall's messages...

Published May 19th 2015 by Routledge

Soft Spaces in Europe

Re-negotiating governance, boundaries and borders

Edited by Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton, Jörg Knieling, Frank Othengrafen

Series: Regions and Cities

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that...

Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge

Regional Worlds: Advancing the Geography of Regions

Edited by Martin Jones, Anssi Paasi

Series: Regions and Cities

A key concern in the debate and empirical research on the geography of regions is the evolution of the conceptualizations and practical uses of the idea of ‘region’. This idea prioritises both the intellectual and the practical development of regional studies. This book drives the discussion...

Published April 15th 2015 by Routledge

Knowledge, Networks and Policy

Regional Studies in Postwar Britain and Beyond

By James Hopkins

Series: Regions and Cities

‘The region’ has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century – the nation state. Its influence can be seen in multiple social science disciplines and in public policy across the globe. But how was this knowledge...

Published January 29th 2015 by Routledge

Place-making and Urban Development

New challenges for contemporary planning and design

By Pier Carlo Palermo, Davide Ponzini

Series: Regions and Cities

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that...

Published December 12th 2014 by Routledge

The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development

A Scandinavian Perspective

Edited by Lisbeth Lindeborg, Lars Lindkvist

Series: Regions and Cities

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? And what positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the...

Published November 19th 2014 by Routledge

Dynamics of Economic Spaces in the Global Knowledge-based Economy

Theory and East Asian Cases

By Sam Ock Park

Series: Regions and Cities

This book addresses how economic spaces dynamically change within the context of the global knowledge-based economy. Specifically, it centers the discussion on integrated views of understanding and conceptualizing dynamic changes of global economy under the global megatrends of globalization,...

Published September 26th 2014 by Routledge

Urban Competitiveness

Theory and Practice

By Peter Kresl, Daniele Ietri

Series: Regions and Cities

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governments have increasingly been focused on staving off fiscal collapse. Mayors and local administrations have become very creative and active in looking after...

Published September 16th 2014 by Routledge

The Age of Intelligent Cities

Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies

By Nicos Komninos

Series: Regions and Cities

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and...

Published September 9th 2014 by Routledge

Smart Specialisation

Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Innovation Policy

By Dominique Foray

Series: Regions and Cities

This is the first book on a new policy approach that has been widely adopted in Europe and beyond. It analyses the concept of smart specialisation and discuss the need for smart specialisation strategies, explains why the approach is new and different from more standard policy processes and...

Published August 11th 2014 by Routledge