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Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge
By Ali Madanipour
Many consider knowledge economy to be a follow up to industrial economy. The capitalist industrial economy reshaped cities and regions in several major waves of development and redevelopment, producing its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies....
August 2011 | 978-0-415-55895-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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New Models of Regional Innovation: Transversality
By Philip Cooke
Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-60375-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Recession and Beyond: Local Authority Responses to the Downturn
Edited by David Bailey, Caroline Chapain
Due to their proximity to economic actors, local authorities are often at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of recession on people and places, and have been charged with powers to promote the well-being of their population in economic, social and environmental terms. With the shift from...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-59034-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Global China
By Lash Scott, Michael Keith, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker
Dominant theorists of globalization take on the assumptions of a 'Washington Consensus' which presumes the centrality of neo-liberal American individualism. For them America's globalization is at stake. Scott Lash and his colleagues argue that there is a new global driving force: a new logic...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-49706-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Port-Cities and their Hinterlands: Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the early seventeenth-century to 1939
Edited by Robert Lee
Port cities played a critical role in urban development, whether in Europe, North America, or the developing world. Even in the pre-industrial period, trade was an important factor which affected the pattern of urban expansion and ports, after capital cities, often registered the greatest growth...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-58052-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities
Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Bas van Heur
The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-58950-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Location Behaviour and Relationship Stability in International Business Networks: Evidence from the Automotive Industry
By Bart Kamp
This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple buyers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view. Bart Kamp presents a framework that reveals what business-to-business (b2b)...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59828-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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A New Economic Geography of Russia
By Michael J. Bradshaw
This book, based on extensive original research, surveys the impact of globalization, economic transition, economic restructuring, and regional economic change on the Russian Federation. The author employs the methodological and theoretical approaches of both 'old' and 'new' economic...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-32481-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Regional Development: Diversities and Disparities
By Ulrich Hilpert
In identifying the key elements of regional culture that impact upon socio-economic development, this informative text concentrates on three main factors: the Socio-Industrial Culture that is concerned with the knowledge, beliefs and values associated with production. A particular contrast is...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-37341-8 | Hardback (Routledge)