The Change of Support Problem (COSP) reflects a possibility that the outcome of an urban analysis may depend critically on the researcher's choice of territorial units. To verify this assumption, the present study examines the association between population growth and population size of...

Der EU-Wirtschaftsraum ist heute von einer ""Metropolisierung"" der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungs- und Innovationspotenziale geprägt, d.h. der selektiven Konzentration von wissensintensiven Wirtschaftsaktivitäten in den Großstadtregionen und Metropolräumen Europas. Zugleich fungieren die...

This report is organized in four sections. Section one provides an overview of the context in which many ECA cities consolidated. This section includes a review of the key factors that shaped the urban systems of ECA, including a discussion of the implication of urbanizing under planned...

The volume begins with an Introduction, followed by a set of three papers in Part Two examining European urban competitiveness from the standpoints of measurement and policy. This section also provides a case study of the cities of one country - Italy - from which the reader can gain an...

One of the most notable features of literature about "new economic geography" is a close association between theoretical and empirical work. In contrast to earlier research, theoretical studies are often much more strongly focused on real-world phenomena. At the same time, empirical work is...