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Title The rise of the city : spatial dynamics in the urban century / edited by Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Roger R. Stough
Published Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015
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Description 1 online resource
Series New Horizons in regional science
New horizons in regional science
Contents PART I URBAN CREATIVITY AND GROWTH -- 1. Complexity, Scientific Creativity and Clustering / Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson, Björn Hårsman and Zara Daghbashyan -- 2. Agglomeration Economies and Smart Cities / Ana Maria Bonomi Barufi and Karima Kourtit -- 3. Smart Specialization Strategies and Smart Cities: An Evidence-Based Assessment of EU policies / Andrea Caragliu and Chiara F. Del Bo -- 4. Agglomeration Economies in Large vs. Small Cities: Similar Laws, High Specifities / Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Andrea Caragliu -- PART II CITIES, INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5. Multi-Actor Analysis of Metropolitan Performance Analysis / Karima Kourtit, Miruna Mazurencu and Peter Nijkamp -- 6. Entrepreneurial Governance for Local Growth / Amy Rader Olsson, Hans Westlund and Johan P. Larsson -- 7. Cities as Seedbeds of Responsible Innovation / Marina van Geenhuizen and Qing Ye -- 8. Innovation Capacity, Workforce Diversity and Intra-industrial Externalities: A Study on German Establishments Stephan Brunow and Valentina Miersch PART III URBAN SYSTEMS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 9. Exploring Surface Transportation Impact on Economic Output: A Panel Granger Causality Test / Zhenhua Chen and Kingsley E. Haynes -- 10. An Accessibility Index for the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo / Renato S. Vieira and Eduardo A. Haddad -- 11. Urbanization and Quality of Life: An Overview of Health Impacts of Urban and Rural Residential Patterns / Noriko Ishikawa, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp -- 12. Dynamic Analysis of the Energy Rebound Effects in Megacities: Evidence from Beijing and Shanghai, China (1990-2011) / Yuyuan Wen -- 13. How Should Cities Manage Economic Development? Highlights from Theory and Practice / Marlon G. Boarnet and Richard K. Green
Summary Cities and city regions are growing throughout the world and this trend is forecast to continue well into the 21st century. The authors of The Rise of the City see the next 100 years as being the "Urban Century". In this book they examine urban growth and the dynamics that are transforming the city and city regions, focusing specifically on the spatial aspects of this process. Forces that are driving city growth include agglomeration spillovers, concentration of innovation and entrepreneurship, diversity of information and knowledge resources, better amenities and higher wages. These benefits produce a positive reinforcing system that attracts more people with new ideas and information, fuelling innovation, new products and services and more high-wage jobs, thereby attracting more people. Such growth also produces undesirable effects such as air and water pollution, poverty, congestion and crowding. These combined factors both impact and change the geography and spatial dynamics of the city. These transformations and the public policies that may be critical to the quality of life, both today and in the future, are the substance of this book. Providing a more informed synthesis of the city and its dynamics in the new century than any other volume, as well as a set of specific analyses and questions on the changing nature of the city, this book will be indispensible to scholars and students of regional science and urban studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2015)
Subject Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning -- Environmental aspects
Urbanization.
Urbanization
urban environments.
urbanization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning -- Environmental aspects
Sustainable urban development
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Form Electronic book
Author Kourtit, Karima, editor
Nijkamp, Peter, editor
Stough, Roger R., editor
LC no. 2015935893
ISBN 9781783475360
1783475366
1783475358
9781783475353