Smart Transitions in City Regionalism: Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9780367666941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Tassilo Herrschel; Yonn Dierwechter

Opis

In recent years "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterise novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around what "smart" actually means have emerged within urban and regional studies. This book explores changes in discourse, rationality and responses of smartness through the theme of ‘transition’.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. The Smart Turn: Tracing Transitions to City-Regional Smartness, 2. Economic Factors in Shaping City Regionalism and ‘Smartness’, 3. Political Factors in Shaping City Regionalism and ‘Smartness’, 4. Going for ‘smartness’: reframing city-regionalism, 5. Beyond Post-Fordist Regimes: Smart City-Regionalism in North America and Western Europe, 6. Beyond Post-Authoritarian Regimes: Smart City-Regionalism in Eastern Europe and South Africa, 7. Conclusions: Smart transitions in city-regionalism

O autorze

Tassilo Herrschel is a Reader in Urban and Regional Governance in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK, and Associate Research Fellow at the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Yonn Dierwechter is Professor in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA