URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS

When the automobile was first introduced, few Americans predicted its fundamental impact, not only on how people would travel, but on the American landscape itself. Instead of reducing the amount of wheeled transport on public roads, the advent of mass-produced cars caused congestion, at the curb and in the right-of-way, from small midwestern farm towns to New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Lots of Parking examines a neglected aspect of this rise of the automobile: the impact on America not of cars in motion but of cars at rest. While most studies have tended to focus on highway construction and engineering improvements to accommodate increasing flow and the desire for speed, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle examine a fundamental feature of the urban, and suburban, scene--the parking lot. Their lively and exhaustive exploration traces the history of parking from the curbside to the rise of public and commercial parking lots and garages and the concomitant demolition of the old pedestrian-oriented,urban infrastructure. In an accessible style enhanced by a range of interesting and unusual illustrations, Jakle and Sculle discuss the role of parking in downtown revitalization efforts and, by contrast, its role in the promotion of outlying suburban shopping districts and its incorporation into our neighborhoods and residences. Like Jakle and Sculle's earlier works on car culture, Lots of Parking will delight and fascinate professional planners, landscape designers, geographers, environmental historians, and interested citizens alike.

Sprawl Repair Manual Galina Tachieva 1 Resenha Island Press, 2010 - 304 páginas There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl elements. The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and resource-efficient patterns, from the region and the community to the block and the individual building. As Galina Tachieva asserts in this exceptionally useful book, sprawl repair will require a proactive and aggressive approach, focused on design, regulation and incentives. The Sprawl Repair Manual is a much-needed, single-volume reference for fixing sprawl, incorporating changes into the regulatory system, and implementing repairs through incentives and permitting strategies. This manual specifies the expertise that's needed and details the techniques and algorithms of sprawl repair within the context of reducing the financial and ecological footprint of urban growth.   The Sprawl Repair Manual draws on more than two decades of practical experience in the field of repairing and building communities to analyze the current pattern of sprawl development, disassemble it into its elemental components, and present a process for transforming them into human-scale, sustainable elements. The techniques are illustrated both two- and three-dimensionally, providing users with clear methodologies for the sprawl repair interventions, some of which are radical, but all of which will produce positive results

Urban and Regional Resilience - A New Catchword or a Consistent Concept for Research and Practice? Remarks Concerning the International Debate and the German Discussion Bernhard Müller Download PDF (483.3 KB)Permissions & Reprints Look Inside Book Series Search Within This Book Browse This Book Look Inside Contents ESM i-xiii Front matter 1-13 Urban and Regional Resilience - A New Catchword or a Consistent Concept for Research and Practice? Remarks Concerning the International Debate and the German Discussion 15-24 Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory - A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies? 25-33 Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can Urban Resilience be Attained at All? 35-48 Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy Concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management 49-58 Urban Restructuring - Making 'More' from 'Less' 59-68 Accomodating Creative Knowledge Workers? Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central and Eastern Europe 69-78 A Strategy for Dealing with Change: Regional Development in Switzerland in the Context of Social Capital 79-88 Path Dependency and Resilience - The Example of Landscape Regions 89-100 Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts - Approaches to Analysis and Evaluation 101-111 Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resilience in the Context of Natural Hazards 113-119 Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective 121-125 Adaptability of Regional Planning in Lower Saxony to Climate Change 127-129 Dealing with Climate Change - The Opportunities and Conflicts of Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation 131-136 Regional Climate Adaptation Research - The Implementation of an Integrative Regional Approach in the Dresden Model Region 137-141 River Landscapes - Reference Areas for Regionally Specific Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change 143-146 Strate

ERMAN ANNUAL OF SPATIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY 2010 German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy, 2011, 113-119, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12785-4_11 Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective Heiderose Kilper and Torsten Thurmann Download PDF (406.6 KB)Permissions & Reprints Look Inside Book Series Search Within This Book Browse This Book Look Inside Contents ESM i-xiii Front matter 1-13 Urban and Regional Resilience - A New Catchword or a Consistent Concept for Research and Practice? Remarks Concerning the International Debate and the German Discussion 15-24 Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory - A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies? 25-33 Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can Urban Resilience be Attained at All? 35-48 Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy Concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management 49-58 Urban Restructuring - Making 'More' from 'Less' 59-68 Accomodating Creative Knowledge Workers? Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central and Eastern Europe 69-78 A Strategy for Dealing with Change: Regional Development in Switzerland in the Context of Social Capital 79-88 Path Dependency and Resilience - The Example of Landscape Regions 89-100 Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts - Approaches to Analysis and Evaluation 101-111 Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resilience in the Context of Natural Hazards 113-119 Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective 121-125 Adaptability of Regional Planning in Lower Saxony to Climate Change 127-129 Dealing with Climate Change - The Opportunities and Conflicts of Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation 131-136 Regional Climate Adaptation Research - The Implementation of an Integrative Regional Approach in the Dresden Model Region 137-141 River Landscapes - Referen

German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010 Urban Regional Resilience: How Do Cities and Regions Deal with Change? Bernhard Müller

Vecteur d'une consommation débridée, peu soucieux des conditions sociales et écologiques de la production, le commerce passe pour un fossoyeur du développement durable. Après avoir interrogé les imperfections conceptuelles du développement durable et la pertinence d'un regard sectoriel, cet ouvrage propose une exploration réflexive sous l'angle des mobilités, du paysage, de la régulation et des filières d'approvisionnement. Il revient sur certaines assertions qui encombrent le chantier largement ouvert des modalités d'une consommation durable.

L'interrégionalité s'inscrit dans la réflexion actuelle en géographie sur les rapports entre échelle et territoire. Elle apparaît d'abord, comme un échelon supplémentaire entre régions, nations et Europe, en recouvrant des types d'espace très divers. Elle désigne autant une interrégionalité de proximité, entre des régions proches, qu'une interrégionalité élargie, désignant de vastes ensembles regroupant plusieurs régions, parfois éloignées les unes des autres. En France, cette interrégionalité est fortement associée à la politique de décentralisation. Elle témoigne des recompositions territoriales actuelles et de la formation de nouveaux territoires dans un contexte de renforcement des compétences régionales et européennes. Associer interrégionalité et réseaux de transport invite donc à s'interroger sur les articulations scalaires entre réseaux et territoires, en tenant compte des effets de distance, de la structure des réseaux, des mobilités et de l'évolution des réglementations liées à de nouvelles répartitions des compétences territoriales, des jeux des acteurs et des modes de gouvernante des territoires. Ce rapport entre interrégionalité et réseaux de transport est ainsi à mettre en relation avec les dynamiques actuelles des systèmes territoriaux, qu'ils s'inscrivent dans le cadre de politiques publiques ou qu'ils soient le fait de logiques spatiales engendrées par la mondialisation. Ainsi, l'interrégionalité est autant considérée en terme de crises liées à des transferts difficiles de responsabilité (transport interrégional ou national) qu'en terme de développement permettant la constitution de nouveaux réseaux. La question du rapport entre ces recompositions territoriales et les dynamiques des réseaux de transports a été divisée entre cinq axes de réflexion : première partie - interrégionalité, continuité et discontinuité territoriale. Deuxième partie - interrégionalité, continuité et di

In the globalisation age, cities are the drivers of economic growth. However, sustainable economic growth demands considerable investment in infrastructure. South African cities face a triple challenge of eradicating historical infrastructure backlogs inherited from the Apartheid era, servicing and maintaining existing infrastructure and providing new infrastructure to stimulate economic growth. In the South African context, the provision of municipal infrastructure plays a critical role in eradicating sociospatial inequalities as part of an overall poverty reduction strategy. This places a huge burden on local governments in South Africa in particular as they face capacity constraints and challenges in terms of raising sufficient own revenue in order to finance infrastructure projects. This paper argues that in light of the South African government's current infrastructure drive and the significant amount of public resources being spent on transport infrastructure upgrades, it is an opportune time to consider the impact of transport infrastructure investment in particular on land value and how this value can be captured to finance the provision of infrastructure at local level. The paper cautions though that any programme aimed at capturing betterment needs to be based on sound research and needs to take cognisance of the legislative, policy and economic context in South Africa. Keywords  Infrastructure - Growth - Betterment - Betterment taxes - Land value

Planning Policy and Retail Property Investment in the UKC Jackson… - Urban Studies, 2011... Although the interviewees were asked to focus mainly on investment decisions in relation tohigh street shops, they often dis- cussed practice by contrasting the approach to that usedwhen analysing out-of-town shops, retail parks and retail warehouses. ...  The territorial dynamics of fast-growing regions: Unsustainable land use change and future policy challenges in Madrid, SpainR Hewitt… - Applied Geography, 2011... Madrid's new residential areas tend to be lower density and more widely dispersed thanat any time previously, and shopping and leisure activities are increasingly focusedaround out of town retail parks which are accessible only by car. ... 

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

Model Cities: the Construction of Urban Exemplarity 20 May 2011 * Geography Institute * University of Neuchâtel City governments, planners and policy-makers are increasingly modeling their urban policies on successful 'best practices' borrowed from elsewhere. Some cities have thus become 'model cities', to such an extent that their name resonates with urban policy-makers all over the world. Expressions such as 'Vancouverism', or the 'Barcelona model', have become global references of exemplarity among urban practitioners and researchers. Yet, while there is a growing body of literature on the circulation and reproduction of urban models in diverse locations, we still have a limited understanding of the ways in which model cities acquire paradigmatic status. The workshop will try to deepen our grasp of this phenomenon by examining the historical and political processes behind the construction of urban exemplarity, and by analysing the 'careers' and trajectories of model cities. Guest speakers Shane Ewen, Leeds Metropolitan University: From the Megalopolis to the City of Bits: Approaches Towards the History of the Model City Jennifer Robinson, University College London and MOVE Network-UNINE: The Topological Spaces of Policy Learning: how Urban Policy Ideas Circulate Kevin Ward, Manchester University: Relational Comparisons: the Assembling of Cleveland's Waterfront Plan Andy Thornley, London School of Economics: Olympic Model Meets Real Cities Emeline Bailly, Université Paris-Est: Cross-cultural Urbanism The workshop is organised by Prof. Ola Söderström, Prof. Francisco Klauser and Dr. Laurence Crot, Geography Institute, University of Neuchâtel. A detailed programme will be posted on the Geography Institute's website starting 1st May 2011 (http://www2.unine.ch/inst_geographie). Attendance of the workshop is free and open to all but requires pre-registration. For registration and practical information (travel, accommodation, meals) pl

Cities as Net Sources of CO2: Review of Atmospheric CO2 Exchange in Urban Environments Measured by Eddy Covariance Technique (pages 1238-1259) Erik Velasco and Matthias Roth Article first published online: 1 SEP 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00384.x AbstractFull Article (HTML)PDF(1370K)References

Abstract This paper contributes to a burgeoning body of literature which seeks to highlight the importance of studying small cities. Dissatisfaction with urban theory dominated by study of 'the city' defined in terms of a small number of 'global' cities has led theorists to consider what is lost as a consequence of this bias. Although there is long way to go to challenge the orthodoxies of urban theory dominated by study of the 'biggest and best', here we focus on an area of small cities research where progress has been made towards developing a more inclusive agenda. This study reviews research into the cultural economy of small cities and highlights a growing body of rich and detailed literature. Despite this progress, however, we argue that a coherent and clear research agenda is yet to emerge. To this end, we signpost ways in which bolder theoretical and empirical questions can be developed that can begin to make more of a significant impact on urban theory.

t This article provides a comparative insight of two theoretical frameworks: the 'Evolutionary Turn' of Evolutionary Economic Geography (EEG) developed notably by Ron Boschma, Ron Martin and Peter Sunley, and the new works of the GREMI1 group, developed notably by Roberto Camagni, Denis Maillat and Andrée Matteaccioli. EEG assets that the economic landscape is influenced by 'path dependence' and witnesses a strong capacity of evolution and adaptation. The GREMI, on the other hand, has recently been focusing on natural and cultural resources that are able to generate new forms of local development in the long term. These 'territorial resources' are exploited by an innovative 'milieu' that plays a key role in coordinating this process. By studying the competitive cluster of perfumes, aromas, flavors and fragrances in Provence (France) that develops a relatively new industry built on historical and territorial specificities of place and landscape, we will argue that these two approaches are complementary. After highlighting the main contributions of both theories, we will then present the historical framework of old industries like soap of Marseilles. Next, we will focus on the ideological turn that occurred in the 1970s with the emergent notion of authenticity and the capacity of the local milieu to convert latent resources into active resources. The concluding section will emphasize the role played by regional actors in setting these new trajectories in motion, without underestimating the persistent or new deadlocks, and it will also draw lessons and perspectives from this research.

American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require developers to provide ample off-street parking for every new building. The resulting cost? Today we see sprawling cities that are better suited to cars than people and a nationwide fleet of motor vehicles that consume one-eighth of the world's total oil production. Donald Shoup contends in The High Cost of Free Parking that parking is sorely misunderstood and mismanaged by planners, architects, and politicians. He proposes new ways for cities to regulate parking so that Americans can stop paying for free parking's hidden costs.

Spatial Planning and Urban Development Critical Perspectives Series: Urban and Landscape Perspectives, Vol. 10 Palermo, Pier Carlo, Ponzini, Davide 1st Edition., 2010, XII, 159 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8869-7 Ships in 3 - 5 business days $129.00 ABOUT THIS BOOK Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The hypothesis of this book is that the attempts of founding an autonomous planning theory are inadequate if they do not explore two interconnected fields: architecture and public policies.The book critically reviews a selected set of current practices and theoretical founding works of modern and contemporary urban planning by highlighting the continuous search for the epistemic legitimization of a large variety of experiences. The distinctive contribution of this book is a documented critique to the eclecticism and abstraction of the main international trends in current planning theory. The dialogic relationship with the traditions of architecture and public policy is proposed here in order to critically review planning theory and practice. The outcome is the proposal of a paradigmatic framework that, in the authors' opinion, can adequately guide reflections and actions. A pragmatic and interpretative heritage and the project-orientated approach are the basis of this new spatial planning paradigm. Pier Carlo Palermo is Dean of the School of Architecture and Society at the Politecnico di Milano, where he founded and directed the Department of Architecture and Planning. His main research interests concern the theory and history of urbanism, urban studies, spatial planning and policy design. He has worked as planning consultant on programmes of national and international interest (EU Programmes, Italian Minis