Cities, Regions and Flows

ISBN-13: 9780415682190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Peter V. Hall; Peter Hesse

Opis

This title presents a theoretical framework for understanding the changing relationship between places and movement. It analyses the significance of flows of goods for urban and regional development and emphasizes the twin processes of integration and disintegration that result from goods movement within urban space.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction  1. Reconciling Cities and Flows in Geography and Regional Studies  Part II: Theoretical Concepts, Research Questions  2. Economic Structure, Technological Change and Location Theory: The Evolution of Models Explaining the Link Between Cities and Flows  3. The Integration of Virtual Flows into Material Movements within the Global Economy  4. Supply Chain Management, Logistics Changes and the Concept of Friction  5. Goods Movement and Metropolitan Inequality: Global Restructuring, Commodity Flows, and Metropolitan Development  Part III: Empirical Cases  6. The Paris Region: Operating and Planning Freight at Multiple Scales in a European City  7. From Hinterland to Distribution Center: The Chicago Region’s Shifting Gateway Function  8. Amazon Shipping, Commodity Flows and Urban Economic Development: The Case of Belém and Manaus  9. The Flight of Icarus? Incheon’s Transformation From Port Gateway to Global City 10. From Time Definite to Time Critical? Challenges Facing Airfreight and Port Growth in Durban  Part IV: Challenges For Policy and Planning  11. Contested Trade and Policy Responses in Southern California  12. Infrastructure and Environmental Policy on Regulating Road Vehicle Emissions: From Top-Down Policy Directives to the Local Level  13. Freight, Land and Local Economic Development  Part V: Conclusion  14. Cities, Flows and Scale: Policy Responses to the Challenges of Integration and Disintegration

O autorze

Peter V. Hall is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Geography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Trained as a city and regional planner, his research examines the connections between shipping and logistics chains, transport sector employment and the development of port cities. Markus Hesse is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Luxembourg. He has an academic background in human geography and spatial planning and his research interests include urban and regional development; economic networks, mobilities and flows; metropolitan governance, policy and planning.