growth and development excellence? This book focuses on the major challenges that world cities are facing in such key areas … essays brings together some of the top academics, professionals and policymakers from the world over and presents their views … development and urban economic planning. Sample Chapter(s). About the Contributors (31 KB). Chapter 1: Introduction: World Cities …

theoretical and empirical work. In contrast to earlier research, theoretical studies are often much more strongly focused on real-world … book shows that the European experience provides a rich laboratory of real-world data which still waits to be explored …

specifications and introducing different measures for agglomeration at country level, especially urbanization and urban concentration …

; urbanization …