About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Framework for analyzing secondary capital cities -- Setting the scene -- The economic geography of secondary capital cities -- Innovation policies -- Conclusion: deal with it : ten recommendations to ensure SCCs thrive --...

"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The...

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...

Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to forms of...

The complexity of and challenges in the emergence of megacities -- The rise of megacities : an empirical overview of the demographic changes in the world economy and an introduction to an integral theory of megacities / Jerzy Kleer and Katarzyna A. Nawrot -- Megacities : devastation of the...