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CALL FOR PAPERS RETHINKING URBAN INCLUSION: SPACES, MOBILISATIONS, INTERVENTIONS to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, 28-30 June 2012 With almost half the world's population living in cities, questioning the urban dimension of social inclusion and exclusion is imperative. Urban inclusion is increasingly influenced - and often constrained - by intertwined processes of economic globalization, state re-articulation, polarization and diversification of (local) populations and the political practices they add to the city. Educational, health and environmental inequalities, segregation, unemployment, lack of political participation, discrimination and the inability to deal with different forms of participation are all phenomena of exclusion with a local dimension but a multi-scalar nature. At the same time, acting towards social inclusion is developed around ideas, knowledge(s), experiences, resources and capacities which are (dis)located across an array of arenas and distributed among different actors. While traditional concepts and practices of urban inclusion centered on institutions and top-down decision-making seem inadequate to tackle this complexity, new ones are often in their infancy and may be in tension with more established policies. Contesting the centrality of the state and market pervasiveness, a new variety of counter-hegemonic positions and projects, and alternative visions of urban democracy and justice that inform bottom-up and participatory approaches to urban inclusion, have become popular in the Global South, while their transposition to cities in the Global North have met resistance or hardly gone beyond theorization.  The Conference aims to understand and ultimately rethink social inclusion at the urban scale, as the product of broader dynamics and the interaction of different actors and languages. How can we trace, define, and challenge the new subtle forms of social and territorial exclusion, trying to reinvent urban in

Rethinking regional innovation and change: path dependency or regional breakthrough Gerhard Fuchs, Philip Shapira 0 Resenhas Springer, 2005 - 321 páginas Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional innovation capacity. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy. " Taken as a whole, the volume offers a broad and up-to-date perspective on the inheritance aspect of an area's future. Without exception, the chapters are insightful, interesting and a pleasure to read. Let us hope that this excellent work will find its way to the desks of authorities in charge for regional policy. If anything, the book still urges policy makers to start from the simple piece of wisdom that regions tend to go from where they are coming. Paradoxically, it is from this very notion of path dependency that most regional breakthroughs can be expected. " (Gert-Jan Hospers, Regions, Volume 256, April 2005)

Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism Lessons from South Africa Imprint: Ashgate Illustrations: Includes 168 b&w illustrations Published: July 2004 Format: 234 x 156 mm Extent: 180 pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7546-4169-8 Price : £60.00 » Website price: £54.00 BL Reference: 388.4'0968 LoC Control No: 2003063936   Print friendly information sheet Send to a friend David Dewar and Fabio Todeschini, University of Cape Town, South Africa Series : Transport and Mobility For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific 'silos'. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies. Contents: Defining the problem: the objectives of this book; Setting the scene; Approaches to settlement-making: locating the concepts of structure and space; Movement as an element of urban structure and urban space; Movement in urban structure: the case of South Africa; Movement as an element of urban space; Movement in space: the case of South Africa; Conclusion; References; Appendix A: excerpt from the Transport Planning Act; Appendix B: further readings consulted. About the Author: Both at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, David Dewar is Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and is registered with the South African Council of Town and Regional Planners; Fabio Todeschini is Professor and Convenor of the

New Horizons in Regional Science series Series editor: Philip McCann, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and University of Waikato, New Zealand Regional science analyses important issues surrounding the growth and development of urban and regional systems and is emerging as a major social science discipline. This new series will provide an invaluable forum for the publication of high quality scholarly work on urban and regional studies, industrial location economics, transport systems, economic geography and networks. New Horizons in Regional Science aims to publish the best work by economists, geographers, urban and regional planners and other researchers from throughout the world. It is intended to serve a wide readership including academics, students and policymakers. For submissions in this series please contact our commissioning editor - http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/proposal.lasso The Regional Economics Of Knowledge And Talent Karlsson, C. Johansson, B. Stough, R.R. 'The Regional Economics of Knowledge and Talent, edited by Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger R. Stough brings together a wide range of cutting edge studies and research on the role of talent... read more... Hardback c$160.00 on-line price c$144.00   Qty Innovation, Global Change And Territorial Resilience Cooke, P. Parrilli, M.D. Curbelo, J.L. 'Innovation, Global Change and Territorial Resilience is indeed a timely contribution addressing the challenges that the global economy poses for local, regional and national economies. In the current... read more... Hardback c$210.00 on-line price c$189.00   Qty Creative Knowledge Cities van Geenhuizen, M. Nijkamp, P. This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding poten... read more... Hardback $205.00 on-line price $184.50   Qty Societies In Motion Frenkel, A. Nijka

This paper is concerned with the evolution of place-shaping over the past decade or so and its potential future direction, specifically relating to a UK context but with varying aspects of resonance internationally. The methodological approach and empirical originality is derived from practitioner encounters synthesised with theory. Three 'waves' of place-shaping are discernible: renaissance, recession mitigation and recovery. By conceptualising and examining the changing face of place-shaping practice, some broad place-quality trends are identified. Asserting that renaissance interventions were heavily skewed towards enhancing the material aspects of city spaces, it is suggested that recessions provide a useful intersection to reflect on past practice, rethink future policies and sharpen skills. It is within such a climate that innovatory practice can flourish as (public, private and community) actors are challenged to seek alternative ways of working. Questioning the wisdom of cuts in quality, the paper calls for new ways of capturing place quality.

The cost of auto orientation MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2012 | CHARLES MAROHN In the United States we've proceeded for sixty years with reconfiguring our public spaces to accommodate the automobile. The built in assumption of this approach, especially when it comes to commercial property, is that the more cars driving by the better. What we've overlooked in our haste to "modernize" is the lower return on investment we get from this approach, even under ideal conditions. Today we need the humility to acknowledge that our ancestors -- who built in the traditional style -- may have known what they were doing after all. After a nice break, we want to welcome everyone back and wish you all a fantastic 2012. We're still dedicated to publishing this blog at least three days a week (typically Monday, Wednesday and Friday) as well as releasing a podcast every week or two. We've got one other channel here we'll be starting next week, so stay tuned. If you'd like to stay informed with what's going on with the Strong Towns movement, sign up for our newsletter. We don't share your address and we don't spam. We do bite though, at least rhetorically. Highway 210 runs east/west through downtown Brainerd. In the hierarchical road system, it is the top of the pyramid and would be classified in most places as a "major arterial". It is designed as a STROAD (a street/road hybrid), attempting to apply highway design standards to what otherwise would be an urban street. In doing so, it has dramatically transformed the land use pattern of the area. The picture below highlights two blocks that front the highway corridor. The one on the left, which we've labeled "old and blighted", is a block that has retained its traditional development pattern. To the right we have identified the "shiny and new" area, the block that has recently been transformed to an auto-oriented development style, to the glee of city officials and local economic development advocates. In between is a hybrid of the two; part

What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina Edited by Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields Cutting-edge thinking on contemporary urban spaces Reviews "Steinberg and Shields have assembled a sparkling collection of theoretically provocative and conceptually innovative essays. These not only expose the distinctive social, spatial and cultural characteristics of pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans which, with delayed federal intervention, turned the hurricane's assault into a 'racially differentiated disaster,' but extend their comments into a critique of contemporary urban theory. Addressing such wide-ranging topics as automobility, the significance of memory, creole urbanism, and New Orleans mythology, this original and interdisciplinary collection will appeal to all urbanists, whether scholars, students, or practitioners, and also to those with interests in disaster relief and climate change." -Anthony D. King, Emeritus Professor of Art History and of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton "What Is a City? offers sensitive and nuanced explorations of the urban approached through themes of nature, mobility, community, and memory. The contributors present a thorough, insightful, and revealing portrait of one city's experience at a pivotal moment in its historical trajectory. This is a technically adept, keenly observed, and emotionally gripping work, standing at the cutting edge of urban analysis, interpretive method, and geographic conceptualization." -Robert W. Lake, author of Locational Conflict More / Hide Description The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee system failure has forced urban theorists to revisit the fundamental question of urban geography and planning: What is a city? Is it a place of memory embedded in architecture, a location in regional and global networks, or an arena wherein communities form and reproduce themselves? Planners, architects, policymakers, and geogra

Editorial Statement Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on May 21, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 169; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq017 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Betsy Donald, Meric Gertler, Mia Gray, and Linda Lobao Re-regionalizing the food system? Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on June 2, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 171-175; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq020 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Articles Moya Kneafsey The region in food-important or irrelevant? Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on May 7, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 177-190; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Nathan McClintock Why farm the city? Theorizing urban agriculture through a lens of metabolic rift Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on March 25, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 191-207; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino The urban foodscape: world cities and the new food equation Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on March 10, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 209-224; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Terry Marsden Mobilizing the regional eco-economy: evolving webs of agri-food and rural development in the UK Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on May 14, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 225-244; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Jill K. Clark, Darla K. Munroe, and Becky Mansfield What counts as farming: how classification limits regionalization of the food system Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the 1960s is due not to the emergence of an 'underclass', but to the joint withdrawal of market and state fostered by public policies of racial separation and urban abandonment. In European cities, by contrast, the spread of districts of 'exclusion' does not herald the formation of ghettos. It stems from the decomposition of working-class territories under the press of mass unemployment, the casualization of work and the ethnic mixing of populations hitherto segregated, spawning urban formations akin to 'anti-ghettos'. Comparing the US 'Black Belt' with the French 'Red Belt' demonstrates that state structures and policies play a decisive role in the articulation of class, race and place on both sides of the Atlantic. It also reveals the crystallization of a new regime of marginality fuelled by the fragmentation of wage labour, the retrenchment of the social state and the concentration of dispossessed categories in stigmatized areas bereft of a collective idiom of identity and claims-making. These defamed districts are not just the residual 'sinkholes' of a bygone economic era, but also the incubators of the precarious proletariat emerging under neoliberal capitalism. Urban Outcasts sheds new light on the explosive mix of mounting misery, stupendous affluence and festering street violence resurging in the big cities of the First World. By specifying the different causal paths and experiential forms assumed by relegation in the American and the French metropolis, this book offers indispensable tools for rethinking urban marginality and for reinvigorating the public debate over socia

In this engaging and provocative book, which ranges effortlessly between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, Cassano offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterranean and the so-called Global Souths.Cassano's rethinking of the South seeks to reverse the North-South relationship: "not to think of the South in light of modernity, but rather to think of modernity in light of the South." In this work, the South is no longer a belated, imperfect, incomplete, and not-yet North but the space of a differential, autonomous identity to be recovered and rediscovered. Thus, Southern Thought not only exemplifies a brilliant critique of Occidentalism but represents a valiant attempt to restore agency and dignity to the heritage and legacies of Southern civilizations and cultures. Four additional essays supplement this English translation of the original Italian book.

Since the classic work of Castells (1972), the 'urban question' has been a focal point for debate among critical urban researchers. Against the background of contemporary debates on globalization and urban restructuring, this article argues that the urban question is currently being redefined as a scale question. The first part of the essay reconstructs the diverse scalar assumptions that were implicit within earlier rounds ofdebate on the urban question and argues that, since the early 1990s, urban researchers have confronted questions of scale with an unprecedented methodological self-reflexivity. Under contemporary conditions of 'glocalization' scholars are systematically rethinking the relations between urban spaces and supraurban processes of capital accumulation, political regulation and social struggle. The second part of the article explores the urban question as a scale question through the lens of Henri Lefebvre's writings on space, scale and state power. The author argues that three aspectsof Lefebvre's work are particularly relevant to the task of reconceptualizing the urban question as a scale question in the current period: (1) his notion of an 'implosion-explosion' of urbanization; (2) his theorization of state spatiality; and (3) his analysis of the politics of scale. The urban remains a fundamental arena of capitalist spatiality, but its social, political and economic dynamics hinge increasingly upon its relations to a wide range of supraurban geographical scales. Lefebvre's approach to sociospatial theory provides a particularly useful source of methodological insights for decoding the scalar dimensions of the urban question in the current era of global, national and local restructuring.

Totnes is the UK's first Transition Initiative. By this we mean a community in a process of imagining and creating a future that addresses the twin challenges of diminishing oil and gas supplies and climate change, and creates the kind of community that we would all want to be part of. The challenges presented to us today by global warming and peak oil (and gas) are perhaps the greatest that humanity has faced. This time brings a great opportunity for rethinking the way we live and making conscious choices about what kind of community and world we would like to live in. Change is coming whether we like it or not - and a planned response to the change will leave us in a much stronger position than if we wait until change is upon us.

nnovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy Series: Economics of Science, Technology and Innovation, Vol. 23 Feldman, M.P.; Link, Albert N. (Eds.) 2001, 472 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7296-7 Ships in 3 - 5 business days $259.00 ABOUT THIS BOOK Scholars in the science and technology field have not collectively questioned, much less proposed, an agenda for policy makers. Now is an appropriate time for such an undertaking. First, there is a growing belief that the U.S. national research and development system, like that of many industrial nations, is changing due to global competitive pressures and advancements in information technology and electronic commerce. Second, industry's R&D relationship with the academic research community is changing not only because of the global competition but also because of alterations in the level of government support of fundamental research. As a result, policy makers will need to rethink their approaches to science and technology issues. This volume is a collection of essays by scholars about innovative policy in the knowledge-based economy. By knowledge-based economy we mean one for which economic growth is based on the creation, distribution, and use of technology. As such, innovation policy in such an economy must enhance the creation, distribution, and use of knowledge that leads to the creation, distribution, and use of technology. This volume considers elements of an innovation policy: innovation policy and academic research, innovation policy in electronic commerce, and innovation policy and globalization issues. Content Level » Research Related subjects » Economic Growth - Economic Policy - Political Science TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements. 1. Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy; M.P. Feldman, A.N. Link. 2. A Brief Data-Informed History of Science and Technology Policy; J.E. Jankowski. 3. R&D Policy Models and Data Needs; G. Tassey. 4. Technology Innovation Indicators; J.A. Hansen. 5. Trends in C

Publications 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 2010 Gregory Spencer, Tara Vinodrai, Meric Gertler, and David Wolfe, "Do Clusters Make a Difference: Defining and Assessing their Economic Performance", Regional Studies, 44:6 (July, 2010): 697-715. David A. Wolfe, "The Strategic Management of Core Cities: Path Dependency and Economic Adjustment in Resilient Regions", special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3:1 (March, 2010): 139-52. 2009 David A. Wolfe, "21st Century Cities in Canada: The Geography of Innovation," the 2009 CIBC Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, (Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada, 2009). David A. Wolfe, "Universities and Knowledge Transfer: Powering Local Economic and Cluster Development," in G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney, eds, Research and Innovation Policy: Changing Federal Government-University Relations, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009): 265-287. David A. Wolfe, "Social Dynamics of Innovation and Civic Engagement in City Regions," special issue on Social Innovation and Territorial Development, Canadian Journal of Regional Science 32:1 (Spring, 2009): 59-72. David A. Wolfe, "The Waterloo ICT Cluster," in Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: International Comparisons, eds Jonathan Potter and Gabriela Miranda (Paris: OECD, 2009): 193-216. David Arthurs, Erin Cassidy, Charles Davis and David A. Wolfe, "Indicators to Support Innovation Cluster Policy," International Journal of Technology Management 45:3/4 (2009): 263-279. David A. Wolfe, "Introduction: Embedded Clusters in a Global Economy," European Planning Studies, 17:2 (Feb. 2009): 179-87. Matthew Lucas, Anita Sands and David A. Wolfe, "Regional Clusters in a Global Industry: ICT Clusters in Canada," European Planning Studies 17:2 (February 2009): 189-209. John N. H. Britton, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Richard Smith, "Contrasts in Cluster

THE NEW URBAN QUESTION Urbanism beyond Neo-Liberalism Conference Themes | The New Urban Question | The New Urban Economy | The Urbanized Society | Urban Technologies and Sustainability | | The Transformation of Urban Form | The Design of the New Urban Space | The New Metropolitan Region | | New Approaches of Urban Governance | Changing Planning Cultures | [ Click here to download all papers at once] Table of contents Introduction Jürgen Rosemann The New Urban Question Beyond The Crisis: Towards a New Urban Paradigm Laura Burkhalter and Manuel Castells Bridging the Ecologies of Cities and of Nature Saskia Sassen Looking Forward to Architecture of the New Millennium Wu Liangyong Fibercity as a Paradigm Shift of Urban Design Hidetoshi Ohno Dutch Spatial Planning and Hierarchy: Making Differences, Think-do-act, and Renewed Re-activism Henk W.J. Ovink The Formation of the West Coast Metropolitan Region of Taiwan in the Network Society Chu-Joe Hsia ^ back to top The New Urban Economy Full papers Studies on Asian Mixed Use Urban Blocks and Their Applications on the Mono-functional Office Districts in the Netherlands Tsaijer Cheng, Changfang Luo Mega-event Strategy As a Tool of Urban Transformation: Sydney's Experience Yawei Chen, Marjolein Spaans The Strength of Connections: Innovation Engines in Creative Industries A.P. Drogendijk, M. J. W. van Twist Tracing the Roots of Cultural Industries: Employment Trends in Cultural Industries in Dutch Cities Since 1899 Michaël Deinema and Robert Kloosterman Tourism and Urban Economy: Branding Cities and Producing Contradictory Spaces of Consumption L. Girardi, P. F. Meliani The Decline of The Industrial City: the Limits of Neoliberal Urban Regeneration Tahl Kaminer The Mall in the Online Shopping Era Cristian Suau, Margarita Munar Bauzá Macau's Urban Image Production - Before and After the Credit Crunch Hendrik Tieben Global Capitals Role in the (De)Structuration of Urban Space Nikolaos T