The Shrinking City -- The Geography of Shrinkage and Slow Growth -- Industry Shapes a Nation -- Canada’s Most Persistent Shrinking City -- Temporary Decline or a New Era -- Rightsizing and Smart Decline -- Local Perceptions of Urban Shrinkage.

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...

This book enlightens the concepts and challenges of knowledge management for both urban environments and entire regions, enhancing the expertise and knowledge of scholars, researchers, practitioners, managers and urban developers in the development of successful knowledge-based development...

Our bush heritage helped to define our identity, but today Australia is a nation of cities. A higher proportion of Australians live in cities than almost any other country, and most of our national wealth is generated in them. For most of the twentieth century, our cities gave us some of the...

Obwohl es ein weitverbreitetes Bewusstsein dafür gibt, dass Zeit(politik) ein expliziter Bestandteil städtischer Politik sein sollte, ist die Implementierung in die Praxis – trotz aller impliziten Bedeutung von zeitrelevanten Politiken – noch nicht sehr weit entwickelt. Das Thema...

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...