This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...

"This book explores wide-ranging experiences in industrial policy and urban policy transformations that identify methodologies related to decision-making, risk, and uncertainty, and design and development on industrial and urban policy substantive and procedural topics. It also discusses the...

"The recent COVID-19 pandemic has arguably caused some of the most noticeable and influential societal and economic changes since World War Two. This path-breaking book investigates these changes and the subsequent responses of urban policy makers. Chapters offer keen insights into the methods...

There is a pressing need for discussing and clearly defining issues surrounding sustainable action, regional economic cycles, and, first and foremost, the city as an independent source of knowledge and raw materials. Taking the city of Delitzsch as an example, this study illustrates the elements...

This review of Chile's urban policy finds that Chile has undergone significant transformation in the past three decades, including growth in GDP, population levels and urbanisation. This growth has been a key factor in Chile’s success in reaching an improved quality of life. However, Chile...