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Boomburbs
The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "cities" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people...
Urban Renewal in India
Theory, Initiatives and Spatial Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Urban Renewal in India is a comprehensive presentation of the theoretical, strategic and technical aspects of urban renewal. The term ‘urban renewal’ implies redevelopment of urban areas to ensure growth of infrastructure, promotion of tourism and better quality of life. It has been identified...
Old Industrial Cities Seeking New Road of Industrialization
Models of Revitalizing Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies. Over the years, China's “economic miracle” has been mainly attributed to rapid development in its coastal region, where the majority of research into the country's development has originated...
Global Monitoring Report 2013
Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Global Monitoring Report 2013: Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals examines rural-urban disparities in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how urbanization, if managed well, can contribute to the attainment of these goals. The report provides information...
Land Privatization in Mexico
Urbanization, Formation of Regions and Globalization in Ejidos
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
This book analyzes [ejido] land as space of urbanization and location of economic activities and capital and land privatization as a redistributive process with local, urban, regional and global consequences.
Beyond Territory
Dynamic Geographies of Innovation and Knowledge Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two trends seem quite dominant: rigid territorial models of innovation, and localized configurations of innovative activities. The book brings together...
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Between Local and Global
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated...
Creative Industry Districts
An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently...
by F.W. Porrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Most of the research incorporated in this monograph was initially undertaken as part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University. The research was funded through a Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing...
Global Modernization Review
New Discoveries and Theories Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economies, societies and cultures, but also all human development and protection of the natural...
National Intellectual Capital
A Comparison of 40 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Over the past decade, knowledge assets and intellectual capital have been attracting an increasing amount of attention, not only from academics and CEOs, but also from national policy makers. To date, most studies of intellectual capital have focused at the organizational level, with an emphasis on...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Despite the radical transformation of society associated with globalisation, shifting patterns of demography and the revolution in information and communication technologies over the last two decades, we remain profoundly attached to place in economic, social, cultural and emotional terms. The idea...
European Socio-Economic Integration
Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Economic integration is one of the most noteworthy issues in international economic policy at the end of the twentieth century. The recent examples of the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) have raised important questions about the economic integration process...
Measuring National Innovation Performance
The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book provides a critical re-examination of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as the main tool used by the European Commission and other policy-making bodies to measure national innovation capacity. Given that contemporary societies and economies are to a great extent characterised by the...