By María Carrizosa
May 24, 2023
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic working from home became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively understudied practice. But in informal settlements, the definition of ‘home’ and ‘employment’ is completely intertwined, which is why there is so much to learn from ...
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By Gábor Sonkoly
April 17, 2023
Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion. Any aspect of urban life and experience can become heritage and this heritage is then continuously re-interpreted and exploited as a source not only for a city’s ...
By Amrutha Mary Varkey
April 10, 2023
Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other, thus reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban land markets, with a special...
By Katarzyna Sadowy
February 24, 2023
Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this monograph explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes ...
By Biljana Mickov
February 01, 2023
The cultural sector plays an important role in sustainable economic development and creates economic activities, opportunities for entrepreneurship and jobs, adding to the attractiveness of cities and contributing to the development of tourism. The Cultural Sector and Sustainable Economic ...
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By Rodrigo Basco, Roger Stough, Lech Suwala
January 09, 2023
This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and...
By Valentina Cattivelli
January 01, 2023
In recent years, new definitions of cities and countries and the regions within them have emerged. In particular, how a region comes to be considered as ‘rural’ or ‘urban’ or somewhere in between has been a subject of some debate. This has led to a drive to seek new territorial classification ...
By Alexander Styhre
November 23, 2022
The economic system of competitive capitalism has proven to be both resilient and flexible over time and has contributed to the economic welfare of citizens in liberal and coordinated market economies in diverse regions and countries. At the same time, over the entire post-World War II period, ...
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By Evgeniya Lupova-Henry, Nicola Francesco Dotti
November 10, 2022
Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development conceptualises the role of organised clusters in the transition towards sustainability. It introduces a novel perspective on these clusters, viewing them as deliberate collective actors within their environments that can become the driving force for ...
By David López-García
October 24, 2022
This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility ...
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By Simonetta Armondi, Alessandro Balducci, Martina Bovo, Beatrice Galimberti
October 10, 2022
COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting ...
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By Jacek Purchla
October 10, 2022
The changes that Central European cities have undergone since 1989 deserve a complex, interdisciplinary analysis that offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region. This book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków, ...
