Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction. Cities and Regions in the Twenty-First Century: Why Do They Develop and Change? -- Part I. The Economic Context of City and Regional Development -- 2. Workshops of the World Economy: People, Jobs, and Places -- 3. The Motor of Urban...

The Forest City project in Johor, Malaysia is part of a larger plan to elevate Johor to development success, similar to Shenzhen's evolution from Hong Kong's backwaters to being a modern metropolis. However the project was embroiled in controversy from the beginning. The mixed development was...

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Deutschland entwickelt sich zum Einwanderungsland. Angesichts des vermehrten Zuzugs von Flüchtlingen stellt sich mehr denn je die Frage nach ihrer menschenwürdigen Unterbringung. Müssen wir daher schnell und billig bauen, Klimaschutzziele aufgeben und neue Massensiedlungen errichten? Daniel...