URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS

Look inside International Handbook Of Urban Policy, Volume 3 Issues in the Developing World H. S. Geyer Edited by H.S. Geyer, Director, Centre for Regional and Urban Innovation and Statistical Exploration (CRUISE), Stellenbosch University, South Africa 2011 328 pp Hardback 978 1 84720 460 8 Hardback £115.00 on-line price £103.50 Qty Series: Elgar original reference This book is also available as an ebook  978 0 85793 710 0 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization - that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed themselves properly. Yet, compared to rural poverty, urban poverty is widely regarded as the lesser of the two evils. Contents Contributors: R. Behrens, D.P. Cilliers, S.S. Cilliers, H. de Zeeuw, J.E. Drewes, M.J. Du Toit, M. Dubbeling, H.S. Geyer, A. Golub, B. Graizbord, J.J. Klink, K. Landman, D. Mookherjee, S. Mukherji, M. Pacione, J. Pantelic, P. Salazar Ferro, H. Schalekamp, B. Srdanovic, A.S. Steyn, V. Watson, P. Wilkinson Further information This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization - that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed themselves properly. Yet, compared to rural poverty, urban poverty is widely regarded as the lesser of the two evils. H.S. Geyer and his contributors highlight the enormous challenges posed by urbanization to decision-makers at all levels of government. This final volume, in a series of three original reference works, covers four broad themes including:

CreaM - Creativity and Motivations CreaM is an economic centre for theoretical and applied research. Its focus is on the economic and extra-economic motivations of choices, with particular reference to those choices that are linked to the consumption and production of creative goods and activities. The Centre is at Cassino University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economic Sciences. The Centre develops interpretative models and provides empirical support for the study of different topics such as: Consumption of creative and cultural activities and goods; Entrepreneurship: preference formation and measures of entrepreneurial human capital; Labour choices: self-identity and motivations; Time use: relationship between leisure, consumption, and labour; Relationship between income and well-being; Policy implications: tax policies, education, urban development. The Centre is engaged in the following activities: establishing relationships of scientific and teaching cooperation with other Italian and foreign Universities, scientific institutions, cultural and research centre; organizing conferences and seminars; coordinating national and international scientific research; producing and diffusing scientific publication; offering consulting services and research data to private and public institution; Particular attention will be devoted to collaboration with local firms and institutions. Empirical research and data collection on education systems and labor markets will be realized in collaboration with the University of Cassino.

Dialogues in urban and regional planning, Volume 1 Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson 0 Resenhas Routledge, 11/01/2005 - 355 páginas Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning scholarship communities. The papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. Readers will find this collection valuable in opening new avenues for exploration. This book has been put together by the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN). The nine member associations of GPEAN are: the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS), the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in USA, the Association of Canadian University Planning Programs (ACUPP), the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), the Association of Latin American Schools of Urban Planning (ALEUP), the National Association of Urban and Regional Post graduate and Research Programs (ANPUR)in Brazil, the Australia and New ZealandAssociation of Planning Schools (ANZAPS), the Association for the Development of Planning Education and Research (APERAU), and the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA). « Menos

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.

Governance of Europe's city regions: planning, policy and politics Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman 0 Resenhas Routledge, 2002 - 233 páginas This work considers the changing role of the European Union in regional issues, explores how national governments have become increasingly involved at the regional scale and examines the constitutional and political contexts in which regional and local governments operate. Detailed case studies of regions in Germany and England, illustrate contrasts in European approaches to the scale of government, and the complex interactions of international, national, regional and local scales of policy intervention.

RSA EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 2012 Networked regions and cities in times of fragmentation: Developing smart, sustainable and inclusive places Date: 13th - 16th May 2012 Venue: Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Call for Papers Abstract Submission Guidelines Plenary Speakers Biographies Accommodation Introduction to the City of Delft Map of Delft and Hotels Travelling to Delft

The City: Analyzing Contemporary Transformations and Structures University of Bielefeld, Germany - Workshop March 9-10, 2012 Abstracts: October 1, 2011 Today, we focus on different aspects of urbanity when we talk about characteristics of and challenges for contemporary societies and their built environment. Depending on the respective point of view, demographic changes, the anticipated climate change potentially altering human behavior, the different appreciation of knowledge and information or transformations in production patterns are taken as factors affecting the appearance, the characteristics and the functions of the places of societies - and therewith also of cities. Social sciences dealing with urban phenomena generally ask for the interrelations of the social and the physical/spatial. Urban structures, understood as results of social processes, are in focus.But there are different thematic traditions: In Germany, social inequality in cities, resulting in social and spatial segregation, has long been a topic of great importance. In the Anglo-American context, housing and racial differences have been major research areas for several decades. In addition to these specific traditions of studying the city, phenomena themselves show regionally differing characteristics, greatly visible in the cases of shrinking cities and mega cities. And processes of urban transformation have always had transnational, maybe even global facets, too, as it can be seen in the case of global cities. The workshop asks for both urban transformations and urban structures that can be analyzed by social scientists. What are recent developments and transformations of cities? What are the specific challenges researchers are confronted with in these cities? How can we adequately analyze and analytically formulate contemporary urban phenomena? In what respect do cities possess features that are specific for the late 20th and beginning 21st century, i.e. what are typical structur

SFI's focus area on Cities, Scaling, and Sustainability will attempt to create an interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis of organizational and dynamical aspects of human social organizations, with an emphasis on cities. Different disciplinary perspectives will be integrated in terms of the search for similar dependences of urban indicators on population size - scaling analysis - and other variables that characterize the system as a whole. A particularly important focus of this research area is to develop theoretical insights about cities that can inform quantitative analyses of their long term sustainability in terms of the interplay between innovation, resource appropriation and consumption and the make up o their social and economic activity. This focus area will bring together urban planners, economists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and complex system theorists with the aim of generating an integrated and quantitative understanding of cities. Outstanding areas of research include the identification of general scaling patterns in urban infrastructure and dynamics around the world, the quantification of resource distribution networks in cities and their interplay with the city's socioeconomic fabric, issues of temporal acceleration and spatial density and the long term dynamics of urban systems.  These pages will showcase publications, meetings, discussions, and videos of the participants in this area. Please see our ad for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantitative Research on Urban Scaling

CITIES, SCALING AND SUSTAINABILITY Organizers: Luis Bettencourt, Geoffrey West SFI's focus area on Cities, Scaling, and Sustainability will attempt to create an interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis of organizational and dynamical aspects of human social organizations, with an emphasis on cities. Different disciplinary perspectives will be integrated in terms of the search for similar dependences of urban indicators on population size - scaling analysis - and other variables that characterize the system as a whole. A particularly important focus of this research area  is to develop theoretical insights about cities that can inform quantitative analyses of their long term sustainability in terms of the interplay between innovation, resource appropriation and consumption and the make up o their social and economic activity. This focus area will bring together urban planners, economists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and complex system theorists with the aim of generating an integrated and quantitative understanding of cities. Outstanding areas of research include the identification of general scaling patterns in urban infrastructure and dynamics around the world, the quantification of resource distribution networks in cities and their interplay with the city's socioeconomic fabric, issues of temporal acceleration and spatial density and the long term dynamics of urban systems. To see more information click HERE.

There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and regional borders. EU policies in areas such as environment, transport, agriculture or regional policy have far-reaching effects on spatial development patterns and planning procedures. Planners in the EU are now routinely engaged in cooperation across national borders to share and devise effective ways of intervening in the way our cities, towns and rural areas develop. In short, the EU has become an important framework for planning practice, research and teaching. Spatial planning in Europe is being 'Europeanized', with corresponding changes for the role of planners. Written for students, academics, practitioners and researchers of spatial planning and related disciplines, this book is essential reading for everybody interested in engaging with the European dimension of spatial planning and territorial governance. It explores: spatial development trends and their influence on planning the nature, institutions and actors of the European Union from a planning perspective the history of spatial planning at the transnational scale the planning tools, perspectives, visions and programmes supporting European cooperation on spatial planning the territorial impacts of the Community's sector policies the outcomes of European spatial planning in practice.

P. de Bruijn (2010). The spatial industrial organization of innovation. Date of news: 24 August 2010 This thesis can be seen as a step to arrive at a theory of spatial industrial organization. As theoretical building blocks of spatial industrial organization, use is made of spatial interpretations of two schools in industrial organization: transaction cost theory and the competence-based approach. It is argued that these spatial interpretations may provide a solution to points of criticism made in relation to cluster theory and territorial innovation models. Pieter de Bruijn conducted his PhD research at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, in the Department of Spatial Planning. He is now senior advisor Innovation Intelligence at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. He defends his PhD on 23 Sept. 2010.

Varró (2010): After resurgent regions, resurgent cities? Date of news: 1 January 2011 Motivated by an interest in the purported 'resurgence' of (city-)regions in Europe, this PhD thesis offers a new perspective on the shifting geographies of statehood under neoliberal globalization. It proposes a new perspective - labelled the 'Politics of Space Approach' - as a critique of structuralist and economistic accounts of state spatial restructuring processes. The Politics of Space Approach emphasizes that these processes always entail the broader reconfiguration of political space: a process in which the nation becomes re-imagined as a community at multiple scales, subdivided in different territories, and in which not only economic, but socio-cultural and political relations become rescaled and reterritorialized as well. Krisztina Varró conducted her PhD research at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Currently she is working at the same department as a post-doc researcher on the project entitled 'Cross-border spatial development in the Dutch borderlands'. She graduated on 5 November 2010 'Cum Laude'.

Urbes inteligentes: ¿puedes mejorar la ciudad con tu smartphone? Escrito por Unblogenred.es * el 31 de enero del 2012 * Categoría: Blogosfera y Sociedad en Red, Destacado ¿El futuro de las ciudades? por Jeanne Masar Uno de los aspectos de la cotidianidad que ha mejorado ostensiblemente gracias a las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación es la vida en las urbes. Las TIC han provocado el nacimiento de un nuevo concepto: el de las ciudades inteligentes. A lo mejor ya vives en una y no lo sabes. Vamos a intentar explicarte en qué consisten. La ciudad inteligente aparece por dos motivos: las concentraciones urbanas son cada vez más extensas, por tanto la gestión de sus servicios es más complicada, y sus habitantes exigen cada vez en mayor medida participar activamente en su desarrollo. Por ello, las administraciones aprovechan los recursos que les ofrecen las TIC para crear espacios adaptados a las nuevas necesidades de la ciudadanía. Por ejemplo, gracias a las TIC se han producido mejoras en las áreas de medio ambiente, con el control de la polución del aire, de ahorro energético, con la optimización de la iluminación pública, en información turística o de tráfico, o en la relación entre administraciones y ciudadanos, con gestiones que se pueden resolver a través de Internet. Además, para complementar todo esto, se han lanzado aplicaciones como ReparaCiudad, desarrollada por Open Data Cities, que permite que cualquiera que posea un smartphone pueda informar de incidencias en la vía pública, para que la administración correspondiente se encargue de solucionarla. Sin duda, gracias a las TIC nuestras ciudades pueden ser mucho mejores. Una de las medidas principales incluidas en el Plan Avanza2 es la utilización de recursos públicos para la consecución de los objetivos de impulso de la Sociedad de la Información que posibiliten la prestación de Servicios Públicos Digitales a ciudadanos y empresas. Así nació, por ejemplo,

INTELIGENCIA Y SEGURIDAD: REVISTA DE ANÁLISIS Y PROSPECTIVA. Nº 11 AUTORES Fernando Velasco , Diego Navarro Bonilla FICHA TÉCNICA Colección: Inteligencia y Seguridad Materia: Cultura de Inteligencia ISBN: 1887-293X-n11 Tamaño: 16.5 x 23 cms Páginas: 248 Año: Enero 2012 P.V.P.: 16,50 euros  Iniciar compra SINOPSIS Uno de nuestros principales objetivos dentro de la cultura de inteligencia es la internacionalización. Y es así con una doble finalidad: por un lado, aprender y compartir experiencias con los países de mayor tradición y sus expertos; y, por otro lado, crear una cultura de inteligencia ajustada a nuestras sociedades europeas. En esta ocasión se ha querido reforzar el carácter internacional de nuestra Revista, incluyendo varios trabajos que ofrecen análisis y estudios sobre Indonesia, Afganistán y América Latina. De gran importancia para nosotros ha supuesto contar con una colaboración especial de Giovanni De Gennaro, Director General del DIS italiano. Desde el primer número de la Revista estamos trabajando tanto en la sustentación teórica de los trabajos relacionados con la inteligencia como en el estudio de los servicios de inteligencia en nuestra sociedad. Para lo primero, contamos en esta ocasión con dos interesantes trabajos, mientras que para lo segundo son tres los artículos que estudian el sistema español de inteligencia y la imagen que los Servicios tienen en la sociedad. ÍNDICE () SOBRE LOS AUTORES () PRESENTACIÓN () LIBROS RELACIONADOS INTELIGENCIA Y SEGURIDAD: REVISTA DE ANÁLISIS Y PROSPECTIVA. Nº 10 Fernando Velasco Diego Navarro Bonilla INTELIGENCIA Y SEGURIDAD: REVISTA DE ANÁLISIS Y PROSPECTIVA. Nº 6 Fernando Velasco Diego Navarro Bonilla INTELIGENCIA Y SEGURIDAD: REVISTA DE ANÁLISIS Y PROSPECTIVA. Nº 7 Fernando Velasco Diego Navarro Bonilla INTELIGENCIA Y SEGURIDAD: REVISTA DE ANÁLISIS Y

CITIES This old house: Why fixing up old homes is greener than building new ones 19

URBAN AGRICULTURE Lexicon of Sustainability: Food sovereignty 4 BY LEXICON OF SUSTAINABILITY 20 JAN 2012 9:04 AM

SPRAWL Sick of the suburbs: How badly designed communities trash our health 21 BY SCOTT CARLSON 23 JAN 2012 7:36 AM Richard Jackson, from the PBS miniseries, Designing Healthy Communities. This story is excerpted from a longer piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Researchers can have revelatory moments in remarkable places - the African savannah, an ancient library, or the ruins of a lost civilization. But Richard J. Jackson's epiphany occurred in 1999 in a banal American landscape: a dismal stretch of the car-choked Buford Highway, near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Jackson, who was then the head of the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC, was rushing to get to a meeting where leading epidemiologists would discuss the major health threats of the 21st century. On the side of the road he saw an elderly woman walking, bent with a load of shopping bags. It was a blisteringly hot day, and there was little hope that she would find public transportation. ((At that moment, Jackson says, "I realized that the major threat was how we had built America." His center had already been dealing with problems that he suspected had origins in the built environment - asthma caused by particulates from cars and trucks, lead poisoning from contaminated houses and soil, and obesity, heart conditions, and depression exacerbated by lack of access to fresh food, stressful living conditions, long commutes, and isolating, car-oriented communities. Treatments could come in the form of pills, inhalers, and insulin shots, but real solutions had bigger implications. "More and more, I came to the conclusion that this is about how we build the world that we live in," he says. Jackson, who is now a professor and chair of environmental health sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles' School of Public Health, has since become one of the leading voices calling for better urban design for the sake

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