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Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and social cohesion

Janssens, Madeleine (contributor) - 2009

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...

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Handbook of creative cities

Mellander, Chorlotta (contributor); … - 2011

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...

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The economics of agglomeration

Strange, William C. (ed.) - 2019

-42 -- 4. Michael Greenstone, Richard Hornbeck and Enrico Moretti (2010), 'Identifying agglomeration spillovers: evidence from … (2012), 'The productivity advantages of large cities: distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection', Econometrica, 80 (6 … agglomeration', Review of economics and statistics, 85 (2), May, 377-93 -- 7. Mohammad Arzaghi and J. Vernon Henderson (2008 …

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Regional economies as knowledge laboratories

Piccaluga, Andrea (contributor); … - 2004

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis--utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and...

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Emerging clusters : theoretical, empirical and political perspectives on the initial stage of cluster evolution

Fornahl, Dirk (contributor); Menzel, Max-Peter (contributor) - 2010

This book rigorously explores the critical, initial stage of cluster emergence in which the seeds for further growth are sown. Whether economic growth actually occurs, however, ultimately depends on various regional conditions and the processes in place

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Media clusters : spatial agglomeration and content capabilities

Karlsson, Charlie (contributor); … - 2011

pt. 1. Clusters and agglomeration -- pt. 2. Media cluster studies -- pt. 3. Conclusion …

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Innovation, agglomeration and regional competition

Johansson, Börje (contributor); … - 2009

pt. 1. Innovation, agglomeration and location -- pt. 2. Regional competition …

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Local enterprises in the global economy : issues of governance and upgrading

Schmitz, Hubert (contributor) - 2004

This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and...

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Clusters and globalisation : the development of urban and regional economies

Pitelis, Christos (contributor); … - 2006

Clusters and Globalisation brings together scholars with different perspectives and theoretical groundings, and from different disciplines, to consider conceptual arguments and case study material. In doing so the volume identifies key characteristics and requirements of the forms of cluster...

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Handbook of regional growth and development theories

Nijkamp, Peter (contributor); Capello, Roberta (contributor) - 2009

Regional economics - an established discipline for several decades - has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology has shown surprising development. This volume brings together contributions looking at new...

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