This paper draws the attention to the use of urban land use as a promising and new playground for urban green space design, including viable small-scale agricultural activities. First, an overview of urban green space planning is given, followed by a typology of approaches to evaluate urban...

This paper offers a concise and selective overview of regional development theories. Starting from traditional regional growth theory, it introduces next findings from location and agglomeration theory, including infrastructure and network modeling. Next, innovation, entrepreneurship and...

The future of Europe’s rural peripheries as well as the future of rural societies is an important development and planning issue in the EU. Several typologies of rural areas and different rural indicators have been developed by researchers and international organizations such as OECD and EU to...

The rationale of this paper is to identity the causes of low performance companies that are operating in the information technology sector, which is seen as a key driver of the Romanian economy. A model is designed to extract the productivity distribution of the sector’s companies based on a...

The past decades have shown a remarkable growth in entrepreneurship among migrants. Recent studies on ethnic entrepreneurship have pointed at an increasing share of migrants in urban small- and medium-sized entrepreneurial businesses. These migrant activities are crucial to the urban economy in...

This chapter offers a review on modern entrepreneurship analysis, against the background of regional development. After a conceptual discussion on the importance and the measurement of entrepreneurship, the contribution discusses success factors and determinants of entrepreneurships. Next, focus...

When we examine urban growth we often consider the dual relationship between variables that induce growth and variables that halt it. In this paper, we assume a mutual dependence between transportation costs and urban form, and by applying the morphogenetic algorithm, we determine the dynamic...

In recent years, self-employment among migrant minorities has increased significantly in the Netherlands. The phenomenon of ‘migrant entrepreneurship’ (ME) refers to business activities undertaken by migrants with a specific socio-cultural and ethnic background or migrant origin. ME...

The creative industry has in recent years drawn much attention from the side of both scientists and policy-makers in the area of urban planning and industrial policy. The question is however, whether the assumed innovative and successful potential offered by firms in the creative industry is...