Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts - on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores these impacts and in the process seeks to expose the extent to which universities are just in the city, or part ofthe city and actively contributing to its development.
The precise expression of the emerging relationship between universities and...
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant l...
The more advanced the processes of innovation-led entrepreneurship are, the more important become highly skilled scientific, engineering, professional and university trained personnel. This book analyses these processes with a concentration on the regionalisation of innovative laabour markets.
The more advanced the processes of innovation-led entrepreneurship are, the more important become highly skilled scientific, engineering, professional...
After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase. At the same time, IP has been seen as a catalyst for designing economic recovery strategies at regional, national and international levels, as well as being a concerted strategy to develop new 'clean-tech' industries to tackle environmental challenges. If anything, the recent global recession...
After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over comp...
Promoting the local knowledge economy is a preoccupation of urban and regional policymakers the world over and it is generally recognised that knowledge has become a prime source of economic growth and development.
This book analyzes one increasingly popular type of urban knowledge policy: the creation of knowledge locations. This term, as we use it, includes science parks, technology parks, open innovation campuses, creative districts, media hubs and other groupings.
The book is based on a large international comparative study of the development of such locations in five European...
Promoting the local knowledge economy is a preoccupation of urban and regional policymakers the world over and it is generally recognised that know...
This work analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It studies the origins and course of urban development process.
This work analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon...
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. This book explains the logic behind the interactions and cooperative attitudes in regions and cities.
Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. This book explains th...
The development of the information technology (IT) industry in the Asia Pacific region faces two challenges. Firstly, can its established physical, technical, regional and governance infrastructures be adapted to meet the challenges embedded in the set of products and processes created by the IT industry? Secondly, as this adaptation evolves, which cities and regions will be best suited to connect to or lead global responses to these challenges?
The chapters in this book have set out to explore these questions, providing details of change in a range of aspects of the IT industry such as...
The development of the information technology (IT) industry in the Asia Pacific region faces two challenges. Firstly, can its established physical,...
This text lays out a set of methods which can further enhance the experience of transnational learning, starting from the sociological ideas promoted by Charles Sabel of learning through monitoring, and by Marie Laure Djelic and others of the 'translation' of experiences between different countries.
This text lays out a set of methods which can further enhance the experience of transnational learning, starting from the sociological ideas promoted ...
The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002, and his subsequent book entitled The Flight of the Creative Class has helped to maintain a decade-long explosion of interest in the field. While these two books examine the creative class in the context of the United States, research has emerged which investigates the creative class worldwide.
This book brings together detailed studies of the creative class in cities across the globe, examining the impact of the creative class on growth and...
The whole landscape of research in urban studies was revolutionized by the publication of Richard Florida s The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002,...
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards.
The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale - from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed...
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fer...
