Examines the urban development and the policy and planning processes that have resulted from the socio-economic, political, and institutional transformations characterizing the move to markets and democracy. This book illustrates the urban phenomena with case studies, sensitive to historical...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Street Vendors in the Urban Economy -- Chapter 2: The Field: Profile of the Cities -- Chapter 3: Why do Street Vendors Need Finance? -- Chapter 4: Sources of Finance -- Chapter 5: How Can Financial Institutions Help Out? -- Chapter 6: Recommendations and Conclusion.

Demonstrates that the processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, both regionally within countries and internationally between countries. This book also aims to broaden our understanding of the innovation process and the process of network formation

The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role. This class of externalities can be divided into three categories: (1) externalities...

In August 2005, a small but important conference took place at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. The Chuo Meeting on Economics of Time and Space 2005 (Chuo METS 05) aimed to enrich the respective disciplines of the economics of time (dynamic economics) and the economics of space (spatial...

Globalization affects regional economies in a broad spectrum of aspects, from labor market conditions and development policies to climate change. This volume, written by an international cast of eminent regional scientists, provides new tools for analyzing the enormous changes in regional...