It has become common to say that social cohesion and economic competitiveness go together, indeed to claim that cohesion actually promotes prosperity. This is a reversal of the …
EJ Meijers, MJ Burger - Environment and planning A, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent concepts such as 'megaregions' and 'polycentric urban regions' emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but are shared among a …
Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to …
A new conventional wisdom, spanning academic and policy communities, sees a combination of economic competitiveness, social cohesion and responsive governance as …
I Turok - Regional Competitiveness, 2012 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Turok I.(2004) Cities, regions and competitiveness, Regional Studies 38, 1061–1075. Competitiveness is a complex concept used in a variety of ways and contexts. The paper …
MJ Burger, B Van Der Knaap… - European Planning Studies, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Empirical studies on polycentric urban regions (PURs) tend to analyse their spatial organization by examining only one type of functional linkage between cities. However, it …
This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its …
M Scott - European Planning Studies, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Since the publication of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), a growing body of literature has emerged related to European spatial planning. Much of this literature …
E Meijers - Urban studies, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The paper explores whether a polycentric urban region can reap the advantages of its combined urban size to a similar extent as a similar-sized monocentric city-region. This …