Bøger i Regions and Cities serien

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? What positive and negative experiences have there been? This book describes and analyzes the extent to which cultural investments at local and regional levels have stimulated development and led to essential processes of change for the community in general.

Examines the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century. This book places particular emphasis on the growth of immigration to the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s and also provides insights on the complex relationships between federal and state politics and regulation.

Analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions, working from the perspective of uneven development, and drawing on the tradition of regional geography. This book looks at how this regional structure has arisen, and the theories that can be used to analyze it. It devotes a chapter to each English region.

Examines how high growth regions in East Asia are effectively plugged into the global economy via complex production networks and strategic policy initiatives.

Looks at the impact of manufacturing - notably automotive - plant closures in the UK (Birmingham) and Australia (Adelaide) and policy responses to those closures. This book attempts to tease out differences in policy response and effectiveness.

This important book examines the ways in which community economic development can contribute to local and regional regeneration. It presents a unique overview of the state of contemporary British practice in this important policy area.

Offers a look at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. This book analyses and documents a variety of local urban strategies in European cities and their impact on wider urban socio-economic and political restructuring processes.

A critical assessment of the 'cluster model', underlining the need for proper theoretical analysis of its form, use and implications. Written by a panel of eminent scholars in the field, this book poses challenging and thought-provoking questions.

How has the recession impacted on firms, people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD countries. The volume makes a fresh contribution to understanding local economic development and governance by providing a unique perspective and original data on the way local authorities have dealt with the recent economic shock across countries.

Examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

This book provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions of the problem throughout Europe.

This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s.

Regional studies are at a vibrant conjuncture. 'Regions' provide a conceptual and analytical focus for often overlapping concerns with economic, social, political, cultural and ecological change. This book features important voices in regional studies.

China and Europe address the challenges for the cities and regions of Europe that may be the consequences of such development trends. Contributions by policy-makers and academic observers will prepare the ground for debating the dimensions 'economy', 'knowledge and culture', 'environment and mobility', 'quality of life', and 'governance' of this challenge.

The analysis of clusters and industrial districts has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been under-evaluated. This book offers insights into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning.

Focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity process within regions in the knowledge economy. This work demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and shows how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

Drawing on international evidence, this book explores the meaning and consequences of the 'new economy' and debates the efficacy of this widely used concept.

This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century.

This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context.

Provides an overview and critical perspective on the impact of devolution on regionalism in the UK since 1999, taking a research-based look at issues central to the development of regionalism: politics, governance and planning.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.