This paper considers the cases of urban redevelopment at waterfront and brownfield sites in
Copenhagen (Denmark) and Hamburg (Germany) to explore how two municipal …

'New'regionalism privileges social communication over political'coercion'as a means to
motivate intermunicipal, interagency and multiactor co-operation in metropolitan regions …

It is widely accepted that neoliberalism is intensified in times of crisis, and Jamie Peck has
argued that 'austerity urbanism'has been implemented at the urban scale since the 2008 …

Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and
urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as …

This paper critically explores the 'politics of becoming'in a 'wannabe'creative city in the
United States. It shows how, in Baltimore's policy sphere, Richard Florida's theory has …

New 'sustainable'urban imaginaries are increasingly taking root in cities and regions around
the world. Some notable representative examples of these include: new urbanism …

This article critically investigates the global trend toward urban innovation districts, a
distinctly 21st-century spatial form. Innovation districts are a place-based, economic …

This article examines the ways in which business improvement districts are being introduced
into UK cities. In advancing this analysis, the focus here is on the means through which one …

This paper assesses the mutating role of the state in today's flourishing technology hubs in
major cities and metropolitan areas across the globe through a comparative lens …

Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse. Places
have a strong and vigorous concern with and stake in generating a stronger economic …