This paper addresses the performance of creative firms from the perspective of complex spatial systems. Based on an extensive high-dimensional database on both the attributes of individual creative firms in the Netherlands and a series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors...

This Manifesto provides a joint proposal to create a Regional Science Academy as a think-tank support platform for a strategic development of the spatial sciences. The Regional Science Academy is a strategic spatial knowledge catalyst: it acts as a global intellectual powerhouse for new...

Chapter 1. Geodemographics and urban planning analysis: an historical review -- Chapter 2. When is Competition Between Cities for Members of the Creative Class Efficient? -- Chapter 3. Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market -- Chapter 4. Analysis of spatial...

The concept of resilience, which was first introduced during the 1970s in the field of ecology, has since been used and analysed in many different disciplinary fields. Even though the resilience concept is not a new one, it still attracts attention in various scholarly domains and disciplines,...

Chapter 1. Challenges for a Liveable Urban World (Luigi Fusco Girard) -- Part I. Spotlights on Liveable Cities -- Chapter 2. Livable Cities: A Conceptual Modelling Approach (Dani Broitman) -- Chapter 3. Defining Indicator Systems for Liveable Cities (Rudolf Giffinger) -- Chapter 4. Three...

The New Economic Geography (NEG) has over the past decades become a leading paradigm in regional science and geography. This paper seeks to provide a retrospective and prospective look into its achievements and current challenges. Clearly, regions are not oases of tranquility. Uncertainty and...