The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life.
It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable …

Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and
well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an …

Economic geography has, over the past decade or so, drawn upon ideas from evolutionary
economics in trying to understand processes of regional growth and change. Recently …

Amid the near frenzied exaltation of economic globalization and a purported decline of the
nation state, a range of subnational regional economies and urban metropoles are …

Throughout western Europe, metropolitan governance is back on the agenda. Since the
early 1990s, new forms of city-suburban cooperation, regional coordination, regionwide …

First published in 1999, this volume combines the theory and practice of regional economic
policy in Europe. Six main topics are covered as follows: theory of regional economic …

In recent debates on the regulation and governance of contemporary capitalism and its
territorial form, there is an emerging consensus that successful economic development is …

This paper begins from the premise that a number of now fashionable institutionally focused
accounts of urban and regional political economy often begin at a point that is analytically …

Abstract B irch K., M ac K innon D. and C umbers A. Old industrial regions in Europe: a
comparative assessment of economic performance, Regional Studies. Recent academic …