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The City and Quality of Life
Peter K. Kresl
‘Under the challenge of global and regional economic restructuring, cities have to achieve high quality of life to attract skilled people and companies in the evolving new economy. This book is a systematic study on the concept of qualit... -
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Cities and Regions in Crisis
Martin Jones
Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer interventi...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Edited by Peter K. Kresl
‘This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development
Edited by Raymond E. Levitt, W. R. Scott, Michael J. Garvin
‘This is the book on infrastructure development that researchers and practitioners have been waiting for. It brings together some of the world’s leading scholars – several based in the Global Project Center at Stanford University – to pr...eBook:Find out more$44.00
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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney
‘All in all, this is an insightful volume that makes substantial progress in scientific research into one of the most critical urban problems of present-day societies, and will be of interest to those engaged in the discussion and analys...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Rachel Mulhall
‘This important text meaningfully advances our understanding of the complex relations between city regions and regeneration economies across the globe. Bryson, Andres and Mulhall masterfully assemble leading voices in the social sciences...eBook:Find out more$31.96
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Regions and Innovation Policies in Europe
Edited by Manuel González-López, Bjørn T. Asheim
Offering a novel contribution within the growing field of regional innovation policies, this book combines recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, with a particular focus on non-core regions. Leading academics in the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories
Edited by Roberta Capello, Peter Nijkamp
‘Capello and Nijkamp’s significantly extended and updated Handbook is a tour de force of the best scholars in regional science. It is a complete guide to the theories, methodologies and literature of the field, and should be on the desk ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Resilience and Urban Disasters
Edited by Kamila Borsekova, Peter Nijkamp
This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
‘Varieties of Capital Cities provides a thorough and sweeping assessment of the ways four leading capital cities struggle to control their economic destinies through public locational policies. In a trenchant analysis of the economic, go...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cities and Sustainable Technology Transitions
Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, J. Adam Holbrook, Mozhdeh Taheri
This enlightening book elucidates the leadership challenges of various cities in emerging transitions towards higher levels of sustainability. It examines elements of three socio-technical systems, energy, transport and healthcare, while...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Urban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson, Iréne Bernhard
‘By identifying the ways in which open innovation influences the ability of incumbents and potential entrepreneurs to innovate and to appropriate the benefits of innovation, this book elegantly presents modern innovation models, highligh...eBook:Find out more$40.00