Regions and cities face unceasing pressures to adapt in response to processes of
globalization, changes in industrial production, and new patterns of migration and trade. At …

The role of institutions in the promotion (or hindrance) of regional development has attracted
increasing attention from scholars and policy-makers. This paper reviews recent …

R odríguez-P ose A. Do institutions matter for regional development?, Regional Studies.
This paper discusses whether institutions matter for regional development and how to …

Scholarship abounds on the importance of city‐regions to regional and national prosperity,
and to the wider global economy. But little is known about their capacity to function as …

This title was first published in 2001. The hierarchical approach of regional planning
institutions is facing crisis. In an era of globalization, the conditions of urban growth …

Governance, institutions, and resource extraction Recent developments in political economy
have highlighted the institutional nature of economic processes. Researchers using urban …

One of the most striking features of the late twentieth century world is the rise of cities and
regions as important spaces and as actors in national and global politics. This is all the more …

This chapter develops an historical institutionalist approach to municipal governance,
infrastructure, and property institutions, suggesting that these dense matrices of institutions …

This article explores the question of how locally based administration can be refitted for the
next millennium. We use global trends to formulate a new ecology based on open markets …

Economic geographers have drawn upon concepts from institutional economics and
economic sociology in recent years to understand processes of regional development within …