Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better...

Introduction -- Implementation of MGNREGA: A Study of two Gram Panchayats in Jhalawar, Rajasthan -- ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ intervention for a semi-urban village through ‘Public-People-Private’ partnership -- Making the Connection between Informal Self-employment and Temporary...

Wei Manske-Wang analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Urbanisierung im Rahmen der Stadtentwicklung und der zentralisierten Energieversorgungsstruktur in chinesischen Megastädten anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung, die auf Daten der vergangenen 35 Jahre zurückgreift. Aus den Ergebnissen...

Part 1 New Wars: Conflicts Between People and Place -- Urbanization and New-type Urbanization -- Urban Cultural Landscape -- Locality, Place Identity, and Sustainability -- Part 2 New Strategies: Locality Preservation and Development in Urbanization Processes -- Strategies to Preserve Locality...

This book challenges the common perception that significant regional disparities do not exist in small countries. As small developed countries become increasingly competitive and their economic structures resemble those of the large, a re-assessment of the regional consequences of these changes...

Diese Festschrift enthält Beiträge zur empirischen Regionalforschung, die für die Regionalpolitik von hoher Relevanz sind. Dabei wird ein breites Methodenspektrum verwendet, wie es für die moderne Regionalforschung heute kennzeichnend ist. Thematisch erstrecken sich die Beiträge von der...

Interpretative Models of Urban Intervention -- Impact of the General Model on Specific Case Studies -- Participation and the Socio-Political Foundations of the Management of Urban Redevelopments -- Case Studies -- Conclusion

‘Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy. Readers will be in good hands.’ -Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, USA, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics ‘This is perhaps the best and most scholarly contribution to...

This book analyzes issues related to economic challenges for Japan’s regional revitalization. Japan’s responses to such challenges and to the problem of an aging population are of deep interest to the nations outside of Japan. This book brings together 19 articles contributed by Japan’s...

Basic Situation of Carrying Capacity of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province and Development Countermeasures -- Studies on Population Carrying Capacity of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei -- Studies on Land Carrying Capacity of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province -- Studies on Carrying Capacity of...