The creative class approach (Florida, 2002b) has led to many developments. Therefore, measurement of creativity (Chantelot, 2010), economic influence of creative people in urban (Marlet & Van Woerkens, 2007) and rural (McGranahan & Wojan, 2007) environments, or creative people geography...

Since some years Richard Florida's ideas on the creative class have attracted a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are the driving force of regional economic...

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among...

By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can...

Europe is a continent which has a boundary with Asia. Europe has the Council of Europe which aims to protect human rights and democracy, promote European culture and traditions. Among the continent, there is a Union which unites many countries. Most of the countries in Europe are members of the...

Die Tagung des Jungen Forums der ARL vom 6. bis 8. Juni 2012 in Hannover setzte sich mit dem Leitgedanken „Raumentwicklung 3.0 – Gemeinsam die Zukunft der räumlichen Planung gestalten“ auseinander. Ziel war es, Perspektiven für die Zukunft der räumlichen Planung aufzuzeigen. Der...

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre haben sich die deutschen Arbeitsmarktregionen sehr heterogen entwickelt. So existieren Regionen, die neben einer Steigerung ihrer Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zusätzlich einen Erwerbstätigenzuwachs verzeichnen konnten. Daneben sind Regionen zu finden, deren...

Mit dem Aktionsprogramm regionale Daseinsvorsorge unterstützte das Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI) von Dezember 2011 bis Ende 2015 21 Modellregionen dabei, eigenständig eine Regionalstrategie Daseinsvorsorge zu erarbeiten und damit strategische Grundlagen für...