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21. Managing Complex Governance Systems

    Edited by Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Lasse M. Gerrits

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

    Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear. Complex systems are subject to system pressures, system shocks, chance events, path-dependency and...

    Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
22. The Globalization of Advertising

    Agencies, Cities and Spaces of Creativity

    By James R. Faulconbridge, Peter Taylor, Corinne Nativel, Jonathan Beaverstock

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound up with processes of contemporary globalization. At centre of the advertising industry are the global advertising agencies which have an important role in developing global brands both...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
23. Handbook of Local and Regional Development

    Edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney

    The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and...

    Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
24. Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy

    By Willem van Winden, Leo van den Berg, Luis Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacturing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable...

    Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
25. Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning

    Knowledge and policy development in an enlarged EU

    Edited by Neil Adams, Giancarlo Cotella, Richard Nunes

    Series: Regions and Cities

    This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process. Focusing on the experiences on Central and Eastern...

    Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
26. Migration in the 21st Century

    Rights, Outcomes, and Policy

    Edited by Thomas N. Maloney, Kim Korinek

    Series: Regions and Cities

    In this volume, we examine the challenges and opportunities created by global migration at the start of the 21st century. Our focus extends beyond economic impact to questions of international law, human rights, and social and political incorporation. We examine immigrant outcomes and policy...

    Published August 23rd 2010 by Routledge
27. The New Economy of the Inner City

    Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

    By Thomas A. Hutton

    Series: Routledge Studies in Economic Geography

    Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and...

    Published April 11th 2010 by Routledge
28. Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness

    Theory, Policy, Practice

    By Gillian Bristow

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means, how it might be achieved, whether and how it can be measured,...

    Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge
29. Spaces of Vernacular Creativity

    Rethinking the Cultural Economy

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington, Norma Rantisi

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to...

    Published October 19th 2009 by Routledge
30. The Integration Debate

    Competing Futures For American Cities

    Edited by Chester Hartman, Gregory Squires

    Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the United States, with some of the most heated debates taking place among long-standing advocates of racial equality. Today, many nonwhites express what has been referred to as "...

    Published July 7th 2009 by Routledge