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This book will provide some ideas to help any region reinvent itself. It shows how effective leaders are needed to help stimulate more creative activity and coordinate the necessary resources to turn creative ideas into innovations.

This book examines real cases of smart city management across Asia and Europe. It covers regions such as Iceland, Estonia, Poland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam to systemise the knowledge in the field.

This book is a novel contribution, combining recent theoretical developments and empirical contributions, as well as the recent and latest trends and challenges on the issue of Forgotten Spaces. It fills a gap in current research, adding empirical evidence about these places, as well as about the role of their actors.

This book addresses regional development theories and policies, with a special focus on forgotten places, and raises emerging questions about recent theoretical advances, as well as trends and challenges in the field.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this monograph explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises.

Clusters and Sustainable Regional Development conceptualises the role of organised clusters in the transition towards sustainability. It introduces a novel perspective on these clusters, viewing them as deliberate collective actors within their environments that can become the driving force for transformation in their regions or nations.

This book points at both the causes and the consequences of the shortage of affordable housing and provides an integrated economic and legal view of how housing production is dependent on housing finance, which in turn means that legal conditions and the sovereign state play an active role.

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the Policy Interactions Framework is developed and applied to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City.

Focusing on the changes taking place in Central Europe since 1989, this book presents a multidimensional and cross-disciplinary case study of Kraków and offers deep insight into the specific nature of the transformation taking place in the region.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of long-term changes in the car market of an emerging economy, with a focus on its spatial and temporal dimensions. Poland, the case study in question, represents a unique "laboratory of automobile revolution" during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

This book is about how cities and territories, within a Continental European context, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and examines their respective level of preparedness or unpreparedness. It proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons.

The book opens by developing a theoretical framework and then presents a range of international case studies, exploring the experiences of the service hub cities of Dublin, Bratislava, Budapest, Prague and Cracow.

This is an experience-derived and evidence-based analysis of how sustainable development impacts the transformation of the economy and how the business environment influences economic transformation in the light of the sustainable development principles.

This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development.

The book opens by developing a theoretical framework and then presents a range of international case studies, exploring the experiences of the service hub cities of Dublin, Bratislava, Budapest, Prague and Cracow.

This book discusses the contribution of ageing population as a productive and creative force towards urban design particularly in high-density urban contexts, as observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing Asian cities.

Big data is increasingly regarded as a new approach for understanding urban informatics and complex systems. This book will exploit new sources of data such as social media, web mapping and information services, alongside traditional sources such as statistical agency surveys.