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This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.

In recent years, European societies and territories have witnessed the spatial impacts of a severe financial and socio-economic crisis. This book builds on the current debate concerning how cities and urban regions and their citizens deal with the consequences of the recent financial and socio-economic crisis.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, govern urban life, and to drive local and regional economies. This book, through a range of international case studies, suggests social, political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, govern urban life, and to drive local and regional economies. This book, through a range of international case studies, suggests social, political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities.

The growth of urban real estate development has been a key recent facet of the globalization of Asian economies. This book compares and analyses how the aspirations of Asian states have been reflected in the course of (re-)writing the urban landscape, and considers the role of scalar politics. The contributors argue that mega-projects embody the dynamics of the multi-scalar strategic relations that determine the process and outcome of urbanization. Bringing together a range of urbanization experiences from South Korea, Taiwan, India, Turkey, Hong Kong SAR, Mainland China and Indonesia, the book explores the role of specific political and economic interests in shaping cities, and the role of local communities, nascent advocacy groups and popular struggles in contesting the state-led mega-projects.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions. Workers who are attracted to the sector tend to have strong preferences when it comes to the neighbourhoods they want to live in, with factors such as job availability and urban amenities playing a large part in their decision. Skills and Cities analyses these factors and looks at the implications for urban and regional policy across a range of European cities.

Higher Education and the Creative Economy critically engages with the complex interconnections between higher education, geography, cultural policy and the creative economy. While it has a strong UK component, it also includes international perspectives, specifically from Australia, Singapore, Europe and the USA.

A map which shows where innovation is clustered worldwide is also a map of the location of the highly skilled and talented labour. New technologies, their creative applications or synergy across different areas of scientific research or technology development always create opportunities for the employment of particularly creative labour. This book explores the kinds of institutions and structures which need to exist to make sure that such skills are both offered and employed in particular `islands of innovation¿.

This book contains a collection of cutting-edge empirical research on the regional level determinants of new business formation and its effect on regional welfare and growth. This book was published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. This book is a multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates.

This book conveys how forces of structural change shape the urban landscape. One important subject covered, in addition to the spatial and economic forces that shape our regions, cities, and neighbourhoods, is the social, cultural, ecological, and psychological aspects which are also critically involved. Additionally, the urban transformation occurring throughout cities is thoroughly discussed. Written by today¿s leading experts in urban studies, this book discusses subjects from different theoretical standpoints, as well as various methodological approaches and perspectives; this is alongside the challenges and new solutions for cities and regions in an interconnected world of global economies.

The book discusses the opportunities and challenges for regional development arising from the extraordinary challenges of stalled globalization and political uncertainty now confronting the world. It was originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

This book provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions of the problem throughout Europe.

Data and the City looks at the creation of real-time cities and data-driven urbanism and considers the relationships at play. By taking an ontological, political, practical and technical approach to urban data, the authors analyse the ways in which data are produced and framed within socio-technical systems.

This book highlights some recent methodological advances for the analysis of localized innovation dynamics and it shows their implications for the renewal of public policies rationale and evaluation at the regional level.

In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Governing Smart Specialisation contributes to the emerging debate about the role of the `entrepreneurial discovery process¿ (EDP), which is at the heart of smart specialisation strategies for regional economic transformation. Particular focus in placed on what methods, procedures and institutional conditions are necessary in order to generate information that helps buttress policy decisions.

The new EU Cohesion Policy is one of the largest integrated development policies in the West, and one of the largest of such programmes anywhere in the world. The reforms to the Policy contain many different elements each of which interlink in order to provide a cohesive overall framework. This volume provides important insights into some of the key elements of the EU Cohesion Policy covering some of the key challenges for the implementation of policy reforms in the coming years.

How have international skilled migratory flows been formed, sustained, and transformed over multiple spaces and scales? How have these processes affected cities and regions? And how have multiple stakeholders responded to these processes? The contributors to this book bring together perspectives from economic, social, urban, and population geography in order to analyse these questions from a myriad of angles. Empirical case studies of regions illuminate the multi-scaled processes of international skilled migration.