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hanks to everyone who has shared links and leads to webinars and other programs! To clarify. I will post the final list of FREE webinars and other distance learning programs late next week. I will also post separate lists of FOR-FEE online degree programs, certification programs, and fee-based distance learning programs. Examples of these include Ryerson University's Certificate in Food Security and Green Mountain College's new Masters in Sustainable Food Systems. So, please do continue to send me examples of all of the above! Cheers, Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group [mailto:SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU] On Behalf Of Duncan Hilchey Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:59 PM To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU Subject: [SANET-MG] Food System Webinar Compilation Dear SANET List, Below is what I've collected so far toward a compilation of free webinars and distance learning programs of potential interest to food system and agricultural development professionals.  I do not believe this is exhaustive by any means. However, this is based on what folks (on COMFOOD, SANET, and FOOD PLANNING lists) led me to and what I was able to glean on my own from the Internet. I excluded some recommendations which I felt were too limited in scope. On the whole, the sustainable/organic agriculture and "good food" communities seems to have done an excellent job getting comprehensive programs online. I was less successful in identifying webinars and distance learning programs on food security. I do not know if there's a niche to produce these or whether I was simply not looking in the right place. In any case, please continue to send me links and leads-as well as corrections (I did this rather hastily). I will post the final compilation in the next few weeks-once your suggestions are exhausted. I would eventually like to see a one stop shopping clearing house created where e

On the 'Nobel Prize in Economics' and the monopoly of neoclassical theory at university departments of economics February 12, 2010pesodLeave a commentGo to comments from Peter Söderbaum,  peter.soderbaum@mdh.se Early in October 2009 a journalist from a French business journal, Challenge, called me to discuss the so called Nobel Prize in Economics. He referred to a translated version of my critical article in Dagens Nyheter from 2004. I hope that the result from the interview was meaningful but at the same time I felt that I need to consider once more where I stand in relation to these issues. In what follows, there is a 'socially constructed' interview with myself in both roles; the person asking questions and the one responding. I hope this will clarify my position. At the final stage of writing these pages I heard of the new winners of the Economics Prize, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. A short comment on this is made as a postscript. Is economics a science as you understand it? I have nothing against thinking of economics as a science. Economics is one of the social sciences, such as political science, sociology, psychology, management science. There are also important relationships to the humanities, such as a possible focus on individuals as actors and their subjectivity. I am skeptical to the attempt to emphasize similarities between economics on the one hand and physics, chemistry, medicine on the other. The latter disciplines are too limited to positivism as a theory of science (standing outside, watching ecosystems and nature, looking for regularities in a value neutral way, making experiments etc.) You are skeptical to, if not against a Nobel Prize in economics; why is this so?For me, it is the combination of two states of affairs or facts that make me question the economics prize in its present form:  There is a dominance and monopoly for one kind of economics, 'neoclassical economics' at university departments of economics in

Alain Bertaud 阿兰 .柏图 A web page dedicated to the study of urban spatial structures It is necessary to bridge the gap between the 50 years of progress in urban economic research and the intellectual stagnation typically found in operational urban planning. It is unfortunate that the main audience of most urban economists are other urban economists rather than urban practitioners. Urban planners, meanwhile, are most of the time working without any reference to a theoretical framework. However, urban planners are taking day to day decisions that affect the lives and livelihood of millions of people. As an urban planner, my goal is to translate the theories (and sometime the jargon) and equations of urban economists into approaches and methods which can lead to concrete decision making in the everyday world of an urban planning office. The following reports and papers, always produced at the request of a municipality or of an urban investor (mostly the World Bank), illustrate these new approaches and methods. This is only a beginning. I am currently working on a book titled "Order without design". This book will use a data base developed over 35 years of urban planning work around the world. The book will aims at providing a theoretical framework for operational planning based on current urban economic research. Alain Bertaud' s Reports and papers that can be downloaded from this site: Click icon above for an enlarged image of average built-up densities in 49 cities. Urban Spatial Structures and City Planning Comparative Urban structures Asian Cities African Cities European cities North, Central and South American Cities Land Use and Financial Models (AKA "Bertaud Model") Links ab A. Urban Spatial Structures and City Planning "The Spatial Organization of cities" (PDF file; 3.9 Meg) " Urban Planning and Air Pollution in South Asia" (PDF; 0.3 Meg) "Efficiency in Land Use and Infrastruct

RSA Annual International Conference 2011 17th - 20th April 2011, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Academic Papers Author(s) Title of Paper/Presentation Cristina Aragón, Mari Jose Aranguren, Maria Angeles Diez, Cristina Iturrioz and James R. Wilson Creating cooperation for clusters? Lessons from the implementation of a participatory policy evaluation process Jānis Balodis Polieconomics of African Civil Wars: Period 1950. - 2010 - Military Geographical Distribution Professor Andrew Beer Subversive Leadership: Hegemony, Contestation and the Future of Regions Professor Andrew Beer and Dr Selina Tually The Drivers of Regional Housing Markets in Australia: Evidence and Implications for Future Growth Paul Benneworth and Roel Rutten Territorial Innovation Models beyond the Learning Regions Bianchi P. and Labory S. Industrial Policy after the Crisis: the Case of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy Michail Biniakos The changing politics of Local and Regional Development and Governance in Romania Ph.D. Luis Felipe Martí Borbolla Business and social responsibility Petter Boye (Econ. Dr.) The changing role of OECD Territorial Reviews in policy conception and regional development David L. Brown, Benjamin C. Bolender, Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Nina Glasgow and Scott Sanders Inter-County Variability of Net Migration at Older Ages as a Path Dependent Process Dr Ignazio Cabras Community Cohesion in Rural UK: The Case of Rural Co-operatives and their Potential for Local Communities H. Caraveli and M. Tsionas Regional Inequalities in Greece: Determining factors, trends and perspectives Tony Champion and Alan Townsend British City Regions' Economies into Recession Anastassios Chardas Exploring the differential enforcement of the EU's Cohesion Policy added value: Administrative and institutional adjustments in Greece and Ireland. Nick Clifton, Phil Cooke and Høgni Kalsø Hansen Creative Knowledge Workers across 'Varieties of Capitalism': evidence from Sweden and the UK Joa

Major Report Series 1974-95 1. A. Rose, Citizen Participation in Urban Renewal, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1974, (Part V, National Housing Act, CMHC), 319 pp. 2. L. Curry and R. D. MacKinnon, Aggregative Dynamic Urban Models Oriented Towards Policy, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1974, (Ministry of State for Urban Affairs CMHC), 419 pp. 3. L. W. Kennedy, Adapting To New Environments Residential Mobility From The Mover's Point of View, Centre for Urban and Community Studies and Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 1975, 199 pp. 4. W. Michelson, Time-Budgets and Social Activity - Volume 1, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, (Statistics Canada), 207 pp. 5. F.G. Schliewinsky, A Systems Approach to Neighborhood Change: Metropolitan Toronto 1951-1971, Centre for Urban and Community Studies and Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Toronto, 1975, (Cadillac-Fairview Corporation), 133 pp. 6. H.F. Andrews and H.J. Breslauer, User Satisfaction And Participation: Preliminary Findings from a Case Study of Cooperative Housing, March 1975, (Ministry of State for Urban Affairs), 331 pp. 7. C.M. Biernacki, Housing Stock Trends: A Summary. Canada, Ontario and Toronto, May 1976, (Connaught Fund), 87 pp. 8. P. Brown, Some Perspectives on the Toronto Housing Market, 63 pp. 9. S.M. McKinnon, Traditional Rural Architecture in Quebec 1600-1800, Centre for Urban and Community Studies and Centre for Medieval Studies, April 1976, (Cadillac-Fairview Corporation), 113 pp. 10. P.S. Morrison, Data Sources on Residential Change And the Housing Market. A Guide To Contemporary Sources and Tests of Bias in Residential Property Data in Metropolitan Toronto, March 1977, 76 pp. 11. C.M. Biernacki, Temporal Perspectives on the Toronto Housing Market: Descriptive Indices and Time Series, June 1977, Urban Housing Markets Program, 96 pp. 12. C.M. Biernacki, Tests of the Temporal Sensitivity of The Toronto Housing Market, July 1977, 61 pp.

Research Papers 220)     Cowen, Deborah and Vanessa Parlette Inner Suburbs at Stake: Investing in Social Infrastructure in Scarborough, June 2011, 86pp. ISSN 0316-0068; ISBN 978-0-7727-1482-4. 219)     Jim Simmons, Larry Bourne, and Shizue Kamikihara, The Changing Economy of Urban Neighbourhoods: An Exploration of Place of Work Data for the Greater Toronto Region, December 2009, 44 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1477-0 218)     Greg Suttor, Rental Paths from Postwar to Present: Canada Compared, December 2009, 59 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1476-3 217)     Michael Noble, Lovely Spaces in Unknown Places: Creative City Building in Toronto's Inner Suburbs, March 2009, 50 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1474-9 216)     Jason Hackworth, Habitat for Humanity and the Neoliberal Media: A Comparison of News Coverage in Canada and the United States, March 2009, 39 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1473-2 215)     David Wachsmuth, From Abandonment to Affordable Housing: Policy Options for Addressing Toronto's Abandonment Problem, November 2008, 48 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1472-5 214)     Katharine N. Rankin, with the assistance of Jim Delaney, Courtney Hood, Justin Ngan and Sabin Ninglekhu, Commercial Change in Toronto's West-Central Neighbourhoods, September 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-7727-1471-8 213)     Emily Paradis, Sylvia Novac, Monica Sarty, J. David Hulchanski, Better Off in a Shelter? A Year of Homelessness and Housing among Status Immigrant, Non-Status Migrant, and Canadian-Born Families, July 2008, 89 pp. ISBN-13 978-0-7727-1469-5 212)     Duncan Maclennan, Housing for the Toronto Economy, July 2008, 72 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1468-8 211)     R. Alan Walks and Richard Maaranen, The Timing, Patterning, & Forms of Gentrification & Neighbourhood Change in Montreal, Toronto, & Vancouver, 1961 to 2001, May 2008, 109 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-1465-7 210)     Jason Hackworth, Neoliberalism, Social Welfare, and the Politics of Faith in the United States, June 2007, 36 pp. ISBN 978-0-7727-145

Market economy and urban change: impacts in the developing world Roger Zetter, Mohammed Hamza 0 Resenhas Earthscan, 2004 - 210 páginas This book explores and evaluates urban sector and development policies in the context of market enablement. By articulating the linkages between this neoliberal development paradigm and the way different actors in the urban sector enact policy responses, the book provides an understanding of both the factors driving this policy framework and the impacts of these policies on urban sector policies and programs. In particular, the book focuses on the implications of the shift from welfare to market economies on different aspects of urban development policies and practices, particularly with regard to land, shelter, and related sectoral policies for poverty alleviation. By linking policy to practice, the book seeks to inform governments, donors, and implementing agencies of the impact of shifts in the development debate on urban sector strategies.

Policymaking and Learning Actors, or Is A 'Double Movement' In Cognition Possible? Anno: 2005 Autore/i: Paolo Ramazzotti (University of Macerata) Abstract:   One of the key issues in K. Polanyi's (1944, 1957) work is that capitalist markets may be inconsistent with societal values. This (external) inconsistency eventually leads to a reaction against the rationale of the market, what Polanyi refers to with the notion of the double movement. The double movement, in turn, may disrupt the (internal) consistency of the market, thereby leading to dramatic consequences for society, as was the case with fascism and nazism. A crucial question therefore is how to achieve a protective response without undermining society. The paper contends that the two types of (in)consistency basically depend on the shared knowledge available in a given society. It therefore discusses how that knowledge arises and how actors may favor or prevent change by acting on learning processes. The aim is to stress that a policy for change not only requires a scientific perspective that is not restricted within disciplinary boundaries, it also requires a dialogue between social scientists, policy-makers and all those sections of society who can be affected by a change in the status quo. Published in in Journal of Economic Issues, settembre 2007 File: QDief26-2005.pdf (504.0 kB)

Il marketing urbano-territorale. Il marketing per città, aree urbane e metropolitane, organismi territorali Antonio Foglio 0 Resenhas FrancoAngeli, 2006

Linguistics professor George Lakoff at the Free Speech Movement Café. (BAP photos) Framing the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics By Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter | 27 October 2003 BERKELEY - With Republicans controlling the Senate, the House, and the White House and enjoying a large margin of victory for California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's clear that the Democratic Party is in crisis. George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics and cognitive science, thinks he knows why. Conservatives have spent decades defining their ideas, carefully choosing the language with which to present them, and building an infrastructure to communicate them, says Lakoff. The work has paid off: by dictating the terms of national debate, conservatives have put progressives firmly on the defensive. George Lakoff dissects "war on terror" and other conservative catchphrases Read the August 26, 2004, follow-up interview In 2000 Lakoff and seven other faculty members from Berkeley and UC Davis joined together to found the Rockridge Institute, one of the few progressive think tanks in existence in the U.S. The institute offers its expertise and research on a nonpartisan basis to help progressives understand how best to get their messages across. The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the College of Letters & Science, Lakoff is the author of "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," first published in 1997 and reissued in 2002, as well as several other books on how language affects our lives. He is taking a sabbatical this year to write three books - none about politics - and to work on several Rockridge Institute research projects. In a long conversation over coffee at the Free Speech Movement Café, he told the NewsCenter's Bonnie Azab Powell why the Democrats "just don't get it," why Schwarzenegger won the recall election, and why conservatives will continue t

Taylor & Francis FNAC Livraria Cultura Livraria Nobel Livraria Saraiva Submarino   Encontrar livrarias locais Todos os vendedores » Minha biblioteca Meu histórico Google eBookstore Governance and planning of mega-city regions: an international comparative perspective Jiang Xu, Anthony G. O. Yeh 0 Resenhas Taylor & Francis, 17/09/2010 - 272 páginas Neoliberalism's market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political fragmentation through innovative governance and planning, little has been done to reveal such practices through an international comparative perspective. Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regionsprovides a comparative treatment and examination of how new approaches in governance and planning are reshaping mega-city regions around the world. The contributors highlight how European mega-city regions are evolving and how strategic intervention is being redefined to enable the integration of urban qualities in a multi-level governance environment; how traditional federal countries in North America and Australia see the promise of major policies and development initiatives finally moving ahead to herald a more strategic intervention at national and regional scales; and how transitional economies in China witness the rise of state strategies to control the articulation of scales and to reassert the functional importance of state in a growing diffused power context. This book offers case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives by world leading scholars. It will appeal to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and policymakers interested in urban and regional planning, geography, sociology, public administrations and development studies.

International Handbook On The Economics Of Mega Sporting Events Wolfgang Maennig , Andrew Zimbalist Edited by Wolfgang Maennig, Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany and Andrew Zimbalist, Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics, Smith College, US April 2012 c 416 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 026 2 Hardback c£125.00 on-line price c£112.50 Qty Series: Elgar original reference Description From the Olympics to the World Cup, mega sporting events are a source of enjoyment for millions, but can also be a source of intense debate and controversy. In this insightful new Handbook, expert contributors address a number of central questions, including: How are host cities selected and under what economic conditions? How are these events organized, and how is local resistance overcome? Based on historical and empirical experience, what are the pitfalls for the organizers of these events? What are the potential economic benefits, including any international image effects? How can the costs be minimized and the benefits maximized for host cities and countries? How do these mega events impact the challenges of globalization and what is their environmental legacy? Contents Contributors include: G. Ahlfeldt, G. Andranovich, W. Andreff, R. Baade, O. Bass, R. Baumann, U. Bob, D. Brown, M. Burbank, R. Burton, A. Cartwright, A. Ceballos, D.M. Chin, D. Coates, L. de Melo, S. du Plessis, N. Eber, B. Engelhardt, A. Feddersen, R. Flores, D. Forrest, Y. Guo, C. Heying, Y. Hou, B. Humphreys, G. Kavetsos, S. Kesenne, R. Koning, J. Long, W. Maennig, B. Majumdar, V. Matheson, I. McHale, N. Mehta, M. Ölschläger, N. O'Reilly, P.K. Porter, A.R. Sanderson, I. Sanz, J. Schokkaert, B. Seguin, S. Shmanske, E. Sterken, B. Suessmuth, K. Swart, J. Swinnen, S. Szymanski, J.D. Tena, R. Tomlinson, H. van Egteren, T. Vandemoortele, C. Zhou, A. Zimbalist Further information From the Olympics to the World Cup, mega sporting events are a source of enjoyment for millions, but can also be

Project Community Publications Report One PART I, A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF WEST SIDE PARK West Side Park Revitalization Plan, May 1, 1998 Principal Investigators: Alexandre Bradford, Julie Burkley, Mark Feild, Manuel Maysonet, John Van Decker, Jia Wei Faculty Advisors: Stephen Finn, Lisa J. Servon Report Two PART II, A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR COMMERCIAL REVITALIZATION West Side Park Revitalization Plan, May 1, 1998 Principal Investigators: Josephine T. Jover, Helena Soprano, Nina Richardson, Henrietta Owusu, Jacob Avidon, Betsy Wallace Faculty Advisors: Stephen Finn, Lisa J. Servon Report Three PART III, COMMERCIAL REVITALIZATION PLAN FOR SPRINGFIELD AND SOUTH ORANGE AVES West Side Park Revitalization Plan, May 11, 1998 Principal Investigators: Jacob E. Avidon, Julie Burkley Faculty Advisors: Stephen Finn, Lisa J. Servon Report Four VOLUME I: ISLANDS OF STRENGTH, REASONS FOR HOPE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SPRINGFIELD AVENUE COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS Strategic Revitalization Plan for the West Side Community of Newark, NJ, May 12, 1997 Principal Investigators and Authors: John D. Fussa, David A. Lewis, Zofia Nowakowski, Allie Ries Faculty Advisors: Norman Glickman (Ph.D.), Renee Sieber (Instructor), Project Manager & Editor: Stephen Finn Report Five VOLUME II: SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Strategic Revitalization Plan for the West Side Community of Newark, NJ, May 12, 1997 Principal Investigators and Authors: Michele Alonso, Melina Patterson, Michael Cummings Faculty Advisors: Norman Glickman (Ph.D.), Renee Seiber (Instructor) Project Manager & Editor: Stephen Finn (M.S.W.) Report Six VOLUME III: MARKETS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELPOMENTS Strategic Revitalization Plan for the West Side Community of Newark, NJ, May 12, 1997 Principal Investigators and Authors: Laura V. Arce, Timothy S. Doherty, Brenda Gilbert, Toshiko Nagazumi Faculty Advisors: Norman Glickman (Ph.D.), Renee Sieber (Instructor) Project Manager & Editor:

Property rights and the public realm: gates, green belts and gemeinschaft Webster, CJ Discussions about gated communities, shopping malls, and industrial parks -- proprietary developments produced by entrepreneurs -- frequently espouse overly simplistic notions of private and public realms, viewing the encroachment of the latter by the former as a threat. In this essay I develop the thesis that, in reality, cities naturally fragment into many small publics, each of which may be thought of as a collective consumption club. The club realm may, therefore, be a more useful -- and theoretically more powerful -- idea than the public realm. I argue that proprietary communities are a particular case of urban consumption club -- one in which legal property rights over neighbourhood public goods are assigned by property-market institutions. In other respects, the club realms that they create are not dissimilar from club realms created by other urban governance institutions. Government, the markets, and voluntary community action can all effectively assign property rights over shared neighbourhood goods, and in so doing create a set of included 'members' and a set of excluded 'nonmembers'. In contextualising the discussions of gated communities in this way, I draw connections between three interrelated concepts: public goods, the public domain, and the public realm. Environment and Planning B, Volume 29(3), 397-412, (2002)

Think of a bumblebee. With its overly heavy body and little wings, supposedly it should not be able to fly--but it does.... This is how so-called analysts view the Swedish economy. We 'defy gravity.' We have high taxes and a large public sector, and yet, Sweden reaches new heights. We are still flying, so well that many envy us for it today. --Goran Persson, Swedish Prime Minister, March 10, 2000 (1) Many mainstream economists have been predicting the demise of the Swedish model of social democratic capitalism for decades. But the Swedish welfare state, while slightly smaller in scope than it once was, is still largely intact. Furthermore, the Swedish economy has outperformed that of the United States and most OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries for the past decade (see Table 1). So the question arises, why is the Swedish bumblebee still flying? Indeed, why is it soaring despite the opinions of so many observers that it is doomed to fail? The argument that the Swedish model was doomed to failure rested on two ideological artifices. The first was a simplistic application of the theory of comparative advantage. This theory implies that exogenously determined resource endowments and factor costs are the primary determinants of trade flows and the location of production. Second, critics tended to assume that government intervention is inherently inefficient relative to the wonders of the market system, and in an era of globalization, countries must reduce the size and scope of government to compete internationally. The Swedish resurgence in the last decade indicates that there are serious flaws with this analysis. A more sophisticated explanation of the forces determining the location of production can be provided by the theory of comparative institutional advantage. This theory seeks to go beyond standard analysis to consider the institutional factors that better explain trade patterns. Part of this explanation includes the fact that

Regional Knowledge Economies Markets, Clusters and Innovation Philip Cooke, University Research Professor in Regional Development and Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, Carla De Laurentis, Researcher, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, Franz Tödtling, Professor and Head, Institute for Regional Development and Environment, WU Wien, University of Economics and Business, Austria and Michaela Trippl, Researcher, Institute for Regional Development and Environment, WU Wien, University of Economics and Business, Austria 2007 336 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 529 6 £79.95 on-line discount £71.96 2009 336 pp Paperback 978 1 84844 524 6 £35.00 on-line discount £28.00     This book is also available as an ebook 978 1 84720 693 0 'This volume represents an important information source for a broad range of disciplines - regional and development economics, public policy, economic geography and industrial studies. It will interest teachers, researchers, students and policymakers within these fields.' - Economic Outlook and Business Review Contents: Preface Part I: Conceptual Issues 1. Introduction: Aims of the Book 2. The Emergent Knowledge Economy: Concepts and Evidence 3. Knowledge-based Sectors: Key Drivers of Innovation and Modes of Knowledge Exchange 4. Local Clusters and Global Networks 5. Varieties of Business System and Innovation Part II: Empirical Findings 6. Introduction to Key Research Results 7. UK ICT and Biotechnology Performance: The Significance of Collaboration and Clustering 8. Austrian Catch-up in Knowledge-based Sectors: Research Exploitation, Spatial Clustering and Knowledge Links 9. Comparing the Cases and Lessons for Knowledge-based Sector Policy 10. Reflections on the Research and Conclusions for Policy Index

Creative regions: technology, culture and knowledge entrepreneurship Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz 0 Resenhas Routledge, 2007 - 294 páginas This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of oppositional approaches and take account of multi-level interactions in economy and policy. The variety of papers presented looks at: how regions can be creative and competitive how research and development is outsourced and the scientific knowledge and technology transferred what types of technology based cultural activities can operate the relevant financing and development of knowledge entrepreneurship. Whilst many of these aspects are driven by market forces Creative Regions demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and is essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market.

City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000 University Press of Kansas, 2001 In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into physical redevelopment, then watched as the market collapsed before booming again in the 1990s. In this extensively revised edition of her highly regarded The City Builders, Susan Fainstein examines major redevelopment efforts in New York and London to uncover the forces behind these investment cycles and the role that public policy can play in moderating market instability. Fainstein chronicles the progress of three development projects in New York (Times Square, downtown Brooklyn, and Battery Park City) and three in London (King's Cross, Spitalfields, and Docklands). Analyzing the political and economic processes underlying physical changes in these two cities during the last two decades, she uncovers the role played by developers' perceptions and strategies in their interactions with both public policy-makers and property markets. This new edition follows each development effort to the present and places the discussion in a newly strengthened theoretical framework. In her investigation of the convergence between London and New York during the 1980s and then the divergence that began in the 1990s, Fainstein traces similarities and differences in the effects of globalization, ideology, and institutional structure in each city's experience. This comparative framework also sheds considerable light on the contributing roles of structure and agency in creating final outcomes. Fainstein concludes by assessing the impact of "theme park" development on the urban fabric and recommending a set of realistic strategies to both redevelop cities and improve the lives of urban residents. This book is part of the Studies in Government and Public Policy series. Table of Contents List

he Social Region Beyond the Territorial Dynamics of the Learning Economy Frank Moulaert University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and IFRESI-CNRS, France, frank.moulaert@ncl.ac.uk Jacques Nussbaumer IFRESI-CLERSÉ-CNRS and University of Lille I, France The purpose of this paper is to launch a debate on a broader meaning of the term 'innovation' and its significance for local and regional development. Innovation and related economic and social categories have been at the centre of policy discussions on the future of the European economy and society. Reflections on the innovative and learning region (Territorial Innovation Models; TIMs) have underpinned regional and local development policies. Yet dissatisfaction with the technologist and market-competition-led development concept of the TIMs is growing and today its shortcomings are well known. But to formulate an alternative based on a different ontology requires a multidimensional reflection on the pillars of territorial development. The first section briefly refers to the critical evaluations of the literature on regional innovation and the so-called Territorial Innovation Models. The second section returns to basic questions about the meaning of regional economic development and innovation. It puts forward community development based on social innovation as an alternative to market-led territorial development. The third section examines the consequences of the community ontology for the definition of a number of basic concepts. Categories such as capital, knowledge, learning, evolution, culture and so on receive a different meaning in a model where the economic is only one dimension of the overall dynamics of community development. The fourth section integrates the role of power relations and the articulation between various spatial scales and institutional settings into the community-development approach. The final section dwells on the consequences of this community-oriented territorial approach for contem

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm's geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When and how is society made better or worse off as a result? This book uses dozens of locational models to address aspects of these three questions. Classical location problems considered include Greenhut-Manne, Hitchcock-Koopmans, and Weber-Launhardt. The book reinterprets competitive location theory, focusing on the linkages between Walrasian price equilibrium and the localization of firms. It also demonstrates that competitive location theory offers diverse ideas about the nature of market equilibrium in geographic space and its implications for a broad range of public policies, including free trade, industrial policy, regional development, and investment in infrastructure. With an extensive bibliography and fresh, interdisciplinary approach, the book will be an invaluable reference for academics and researchers with an interest in regional science, economi