Urban Geography

This book explores globalization processes under neoliberalism and their impacts on sociospatial dynamics in North American global port cities since the mid-1970s, shedding new light on the relationship between urbanization and globalization processes and the development of port cities as a reflecti..

This book explores globalization processes under neoliberalism and their impacts on sociospatial dynamics in North American global port cities since the mid-1970s, shedding new light on the relationship between urbanization and globalization processes and the development of port cities as a reflecti..

This book focuses on the material city and its institutions and shows that, without recourse to a big new theory, urban leaders have devised mechanisms of ordinary government. They have done so through the resolution of practical and essential problems: providing electricity, drinking water, sanitat..

This book critically re-evaluates the fundamental premise of the New Regionalism, which is that regional problems can be solved without regional/higher government. More specifically, this research concentrates on the effect of bottom-up, state-mandated and functional collaboration, the moderating ro..

This book critically re-evaluates the fundamental premise of the New Regionalism, which is that regional problems can be solved without regional/higher government. More specifically, this research concentrates on the effect of bottom-up, state-mandated and functional collaboration, the moderating ro..

This book is about the environment of innovation, and the major models for creating an environment supporting technology, innovation, learning, and knowledge based development...

This book is about the environment of innovation, and the major models for creating an environment supporting technology, innovation, learning, and knowledge based development...

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of u..

This book underlines the growing importance of knowledge for the competitiveness of cities and their regions. Examining the role of knowledge - in its economic, socio-cultural, spatial and institutional forms - for urban and regional development, identifying the preconditions for innovative use of u..

Originally published in 1987. The Consumption Theory of Land Rent or CTLR is a comprehensive model of the urban landscape developed by Grant Ian Thrall. Thrall’s methodology for the analysis of land rent and land use in a significant research accomplishment and a major analytical tool for students a..

Drawing from scholars with extensive, and very recent, fieldwork experience, this volume covers seventeen cities in thirteen countries across a belt stretching east from Latin America, to Africa and the Middle East, and into Asia. The volume advances our understanding of this process by drawing atte..

Drawing from scholars with extensive, and very recent, fieldwork experience, this volume covers seventeen cities in thirteen countries across a belt stretching east from Latin America, to Africa and the Middle East, and into Asia. The volume advances our understanding of this process by drawing atte..