This book addresses the economic history and future of small cities and towns across the country, as they have and will continue to see dramatic shifts in the roles they play in the extant larger economies. The book addresses the difficult questions asked by these communities as they face an...

1. The urban context and the need for economic-strategic planning -- 2. The literature on urban competitiveness and strategic-economic planning -- 3. The economic and geographic analysis of urban competitiveness -- 4. The ten cities and their planning at the outset of the 1990s -- 5. How these...

"Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common...

Das Projekt "Die Zukunft Internationaler Bauausstellungen" betrachtet in zwei Forschungsbausteinen die Rahmenbedingungen der künftigen IBA-Entwicklung in Deutschland. Dieses geschieht vor dem Hintergrund einer stetig zunehmenden Anzahl von Bauausstellungen und dem gleichzeitig durch die...